Alltel just announced the launch of its location based service, WHERE. The location based finder application helps Alltel customers find all the “detailed and customized information” their hearts could desire, “including maps and directions for thousands of locations, directly to Alltel phones.” Subscribers can expect to find “gas stations, shops, restaurants, hotels, parks, golf courses,…
Archives for 2007
GoTV Latin Music channel launches on AT&T, planned for Sprint
GoTV has just signed on to provide mobile video content for AT&T, adding to the carrier’s mobile content offerings. The latin music channel, ES Música will serve up made-for-mobile video content in snippets that offer video countdowns, tour documentaries, and artist profiles – as well as a variety of latin music. Reuters reports that “A…
cCam – free Symbian S60 3rd ed. app that transforms your phone into a spy cam
In case you wanted to snap fast photos without anyone noticing it, keep reading as we’ve found a new application for Symbian S60 3rd edition based devices which allows you to do that. With cCam (pronounced see-cam) you can take photos with no shutter sound and no flash light. In addition you can set the…
New version of Jaiku S60 client released; One of the most polished S60 apps?
New version of Jaiku for Symbian S60 based devices had been released. Beside fixing many of the known bugs, the new manual and improving the overall usability of the application, the new version also packs many new features. The main push of this release is to let you bring the rich conversation to the mobile…
ZAGAT.mobi launched; Helps you eat, drink, stay and play around the globe
Zagat Survey, the popular “burgundy bible” has launched a new ad-supported mobile website to help mobile phone users around the world find where to eat, drink, stay and play. Located at zagat.mobi, the new site works on any web-enabled phone, even though Zagat’s press release contains the image of the site running on the an…
Photo duel of the fashionable sliders: Samsung U600 vs Sony Ericsson W910
Talk about the good lookin’ phones — here are two non-smartphone sliders from a higher end of the spectrum. With its 3.2 MP auto-focus camera, the Samsung U600 certainly wins on the camera front — the Sony Ericsson W910 has a 2 MP camera. Plus, Samsung’s device looks way more stylish (especially the keyboard) than…
Sprint’s 2007 and 2008 product roadmap leaked – details on Sprint Touch, Palm Treo 800w, and the Palm Centro/Gryphon
Here we go with the leaked product roadmaps again. It’s great when the carrier actually leaks this kind of information, because it tends to be fairly accurate (assuming this is all legit, of course). Phone News‘ sources are saying that the upcoming product roadmap for the rest of 2007 and part of 2008 will cement…
Fido adds Nokia 5200
If you’ve been waiting for Nokia 5200 for some time, now may be your chance to get it. While it won’t pack all the features of Nokia’s high-end smartphone, for mere $25 on a way-too-long three year contract, you’ll get an easy to use music phone. On the other hand, if you don’t want to…
Philips 9@9W thin metal candybar
We haven’t heard anything new from Philips for some time. Is that about to change? It’s hard to tell at this stage, but their latest 9@9W model looks promising. No, it won’t bring some revolutionary features, except the Xenium-like high capacity battery. There’s also the 1.9″ 220×176 screen, dual sim card slots (very cool), stereo…
CHT 9110 Windows Mobile 6 smartphone
What you’ve just saw is the product of cooperation between Chinese Telecommunication, Microsoft and Dopod. The all-touchscreen CHT 9110 hides lots of goodies under the hood – including quad-band GSM radio, EDGE, HSDPA, Bluetooth, WiFi, 256MB Flash ROM, 64MB SDRAM, and microSD expansion slot — all relying on Samsung’s 500MHz CPU. Naturally, Windows Mobile 6…