Following on Sprint’s launch of their employee-only WiMAX/XOHM trial network, the struggling national wireless carrier has announced their plans to roll-out NFC (Near Field Communication) trials in the San Francisco Bay Area. NFC technology basically allows users to pay for goods and services with a simple swipe of the handset near an NFC-enabled payment terminal.…
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Hack your Sprint Motorola Q9c to improve GPS performance – GPS + aGPS = awesome
Sprint’s Motorola Q9c features a fully open GPS receiver – the first Windows Mobile smartphone to rock integrated GPS on Sprint’s network. The Moto Q9c’s “open” GPS means that the receiver’s COM ports are visible and accessible to external programs – not just the programs (like navigation software) that the carrier wants you to use.…
Nokia leak hints at Nokia N95 8GB North American Version, N82 8GB
What’s this? Another N95 release? That’s right. In the tradition of Motorola’s re-released-to-death RAZR lineup, Nokia has let it slip that the Noka N95 8GB will be tweaked and re-released to play nice on those funky US 3G frequencies that make America so great. It makes sense for Nokia to release a US-spec Nokia N95…
BlackBerry 9000/9XXX specs confirmed
We’ve been waiting on somone to leak some of the juicy details on RIM’s upcoming BlackBerry 9000/9XXX iPhone-fighting smartphone, and it looks like the blogosphere’s been blessed with a bit of BlackBerry 9000 news. The BlackBerry 9000 has been speculated to be bringing US 3G support and a powerful processor to the touchscreen-battle, but whispers…
Sony Ericsson Z310 Agatha Ruiz de la Prada special edition
I guess in an effort to refresh one of its aging models, Sony Ericsson has teamed up with the Spanish designer Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada to release the Z310 special edition. As far as we know, the phone remains the same in terms of specs, with only difference in the face plate design and…
StarContact adds iPhone-like contact list to your Sony Ericsson Symbian UIQ3 based smartphone
Yes folks, the iPhone like scrolling of your contacts is possible on Sony Ericsson Symbian UIQ3 based smartphones. As you can see from the image on the left and much better from the short demo video after the jump, the application is quite neat and easy to use. Best of all, it goes beyond scrolling,…
Samsung SGH-i640v coming to Vodafone UK soon
Even though we’ve already seen a demo video of the Samsung i640v and even heard Vodafone saying it will launch the device as part of its Christmas collection, the Windows Mobile powered slider is still not available for purchase. As a matter of fact, it keeps occupying space on the “Coming soon” section of Vodafone’s…
Quickoffice Premier 5.0 released; Brings Office 2007 file support to S60
Certainly the single most-popular mobile office solution for Symbian S60 based smartphones has been recently upgraded. Beside improving the overall speed and stability of the package, the new version of Quickoffice adds native support for Microsoft’s Office 2007 XML-based files. This translates into ability to open, view, edit and create Word and Excel 2007 in…
iPhone Lyrics helps you prepare for Karaoke night
In case your New Year celebration involves a Karaoke party and you’re an iPhone or iPod Touch owner, here’s a site that will help you prepare better for the crazy night. It’s simply called iPhone Lyrics and, as the name suggests, provides you with the quick access to many of the popular songs’ lyrics. As…
Apple to announce 5 million iPhones sold at MacWorld Expo?
Well, if 9to5mac is on point with this latest speculation, then Apple is poised to announce that they’ve pushed 5 million iPhone handsets onto the smartphone market. We’re looking for Steve Jobs to announce the blistering sales numbers during his keynote at MacWorld Expo on January 15th. The iPhone just recently broke through the 1…