We live in an age where mobile phones have converged enough technology to replace wide-range of consumer electronics – like the casual video camera. And, when you can bring your seemingly innocuous video recording mobile phone into a movie premier, the opportunity to pirate the movie and distribute it on the internet rears its ugly…
Archives for 2007
Alltel to offer Voice-to-Text voicemail service – SpinVox
One of the biggest hassles with voicemail is that you have to actually check each one and listen to every single one, even if you don’t want to – this wastes precious wireless minutes and even more previous patience. Of course, if you have an iPhone, the Visual Voicemail feature helps mitigate this annoyance. For…
FCC releases details, rules for upcoming 700Mhz frequency spectrum auction – $10 billion reserve price
The hottest piece of wireless spectrum real estate is up for auction – and it has the potential to transform the US wireless market. With the 700Mhz frequency’s unequalled ability to penetrate buildings and the possibility of a truly next-gen, high-speed wireless network in the US, it’s not surprising that everyone from Google to Verizon…
O2 set to sell BBC mobile content through O2 Active mobile portal
Everybody wants a piece of the burgeoning mobile video market, and O2 is the newest wireless carrier to jump on the bandwagon. The German, UK, and Irish wireless carrier recently inked a deal with BBC Worldwide to distribute its mobile content through the O2 Active mobile portal. The deal will allow O2 to sell the…
Sony Ericsson 5 megapixel Cybershot with Xenon flash- unannounced Sony Ericsson successor to K850i
We love getting live pics of unannounced mobile phones. The newest spy pics come from a Chinese website and show what is presumably the successor to the Sony Ericsson K850i. This sleek and svelte Sony Ericsson Cybershot-branded phone rocks the legendary 5 megapixel Cybershot optics and Xenon flash – a la the Nokia N82…
Get $100 off on your iPhone purchase – Apple certified refurbished iPhones save you some serious cash
Money doesn’t grow on trees. We wish it did. Seriously, that would be nice. Alas, we all have to earn our money the old-fashioned way – by working. If the thought of dropping $600 on a new 8GB iPhone just makes you think of all the time and elbow grease that it took you to…
Everun Raon Digital, the perfect UMPC?
Usually, we refer from writing about Ultra-Mobile PCs. However, with the recently announced Everun Raon Digital, things might change a bit. And that’s not only Everun’s device packs an HSDPA radio, but because this kind of devices are getting more portable than ever. In some sense, this is the new kind of UMPCs. It’s quite…
AAA Mobile bundles GPS navigation with more location-based services
AAA is releasing AAA Mobile, a mobile software suite which combines turn-by-turn GPS navigation with other location based services. For instance, users of the AAA Mobile will be able to access AAA’s Diamond Ratings for information about hotels and restaurants, as well as find various points of interest in their TourBook guide. In addition, the…
Sony Ericsson T650 now available
Sony Ericsson T650, the one with kinda strange keyboard, has been released. Just as we expected, it hit the street in August and is currently retailing for about $550 in Hong Kong, though you could get it for just a bit less on eBay. I would suggest waiting just a little bit more, when the…
Mobile video telephony and messaging services to exceed $17 billion by 2012
Naturally, there’s a reason why carriers around the world are increasing their video messaging and telephony services. According to the new study from ABI Research, this market will grow from $1 billion this year to over $17 billion by 2012! The problem is that not all people will be able to afford the access to…