Our friends from Mobispine have managed to get “inside” 3neXt portal. Run by Hutchinson Whampoa’s 3 network, 3neXt is an online community for customers of 3 that allows them to leave comments, rate software, write reviews and more. Plus, it’s also a catalog of useful and cool mobile apps. Back to Mobispine… If you still…
Archives for 2007
With 0.09% share, iPhone rules web usage on mobile phones
Users of the Apple’s handset surf the web more than any other device owners. According to ComputerWorld, iPhone’s Safari has grabbed a 0.09% share, which might not seem like much but when you put it in perspective – it actually is. Apparently, web browsing on any Windows Mobile powered device accounts for only 0.06%, while…
PayMate’s coming to America; Ready to compete with Obopay, PayPal?
Well folks, even though mobile payment industry still doesn’t have impressive numbers to report, we all know it’s the way of the future. Following PayPal, consumers in the U.S. will soon be able to use yet another mobile payment provider – PayMate. PayMate is an India-based company and their solution is currently being used by…
Half the top selling books are written on mobile phones in Japan
While we all know when it comes to mobile technology, Japan is THE most advanced market on the planet, we were shocked to learn that half of the top ten selling works of fiction in H1 2007 were composed on mobile phones. Now you may be thinking we’re talking about 10 books in total, but…
Vito Technology releases GoodWin; Makes HTC Touch look even more like an iPhone
Although I don’t own a Windows Mobile device, I do admire Vito Technology’s efforts to add some of that “iPhone charm” to smartphones and PDAs running the Microsoft’s mobile OS. Naturally, the mobile software developer primarily targets touchscreen-equipped device (HTC Touch) owners, who may want to improve the overall usability of their respective devices. Earlier…
MetroPCS announces the Samsung R410
Free unlimited calling plans are MetroPCS’s forte, but they just don’t have any youth-oriented messaging phones. As such, MetroPCS has announced that they are picking up the horizontally-sliding Samsung R410 to boost their wireless stable. What’s with the horizontal slider, you ask? Why, it reveals a full QWERTY keyboard for the text-messaging set. Unfortunately, when…
Virgin Mobile IPO earnings shrouded in scandal; sparks lawsuit
So, remember when Virgin Mobile went public and reported incredible earnings on their IPO? You know, the IPO where Virgin Mobile banked $412.5 million. Well, it seems that Virgin Mobile’s IPO performance was based on some slightly fudged information. And, by slightly fudged, we mean they misreported their Q3 earnings – which have been revised…
Qualcomm unveils new 3G chip with 700Mhz frequency support – works on all networks
Qualcomm just keeps pumping out mobile chipsets like they’re going out of style. Following on their recently announced Snapdragon chip, 45-nm 3G chip, and the recently announced dual-mode 3G chip technology, Qualcomm has unveiled their newest 3G technology with the soon-to-be-opened 700Mhz frequency spectrum. It’s widely understood that the upcoming 700Mhz spectrum auction by the…
AT&T plans to kill pay phones – we want lower-cost pre-paid wireless plans!
To the disappointment of lower-income residents in AT&T’s 13-state pay-phone coverage area – including Texas and California – AT&T has announced that they will be shutting down their pay-phone service by the end of 2008. The pay-phone side of the business has been a money-loser for AT&T and it looks like they’ve had just about…
Nokia patent application hints at N-series slider with 8 megapixel camera
Patent applications, be they from Apple, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Microsoft, etc., all have one thing in common – they employ hand-sketched, incredibly vague images that outline their ideas. Well, Nokia’s breaking rank with their newest patent application filing. The image you see below isn’t some poor-quality spy-shot of an N-series slider in Nokia’s pipeline, rather,…