It seems the higher-ups at Samsung and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) heard us whining about not having those trick mobile phone charging stations at our local Burger King restaurants. In collaboration with airport advertising contractor JCDecaux, Samsung and LAX have rolled out more than 50 charging stations in all terminals at the international airport…
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Connext PSP Phone Concept flexes and reconfigures keyboard
Now this is one cool concept. The touch-sensitive keyboard/keypad on this flexy, bendy PSP Phone concept, from Connext, is actually a pair of touch-displays that reconfigure according to what feature is being used. And, with a bendable form-factor, the phone could serve as a high-tech bracelet, albeit an extremely bulky one. But, as concepts go,…
Oceanside, California plans to turn cell tower into “work of art”
Cell towers are an eye-sore, that’s a given – and suburbia has this thing against anything that might scar the pristine landscape. So, it makes sense to give cell towers the camouflage treatment – disguised as everything from trees to being hidden in church steeples. Now, the town of Oceanside, in San Diego, CA., has…
Use any Cingular/AT&T SIM card to activate your iPhone with iASign
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again. Those intrepid hackers over at fusion.osx86.hu/#iphone are some amazing dudes. They brought us their iPhoneInterface and took control of the iPhone console. Now, they’ve done it again! With the new iASign activation tool, anyone can pick up an iPhone and activate it with any Cingular/AT&T SIM…
AT&T probably kicking Apple back some serious change as part of iPhone revenue sharing deal
With Apple’s rumored negotiation breakdowns with Vodafone over revenue sharing demands, we all kinda figured that Apple had something worked out with AT&T as well. We even suspected the revenue sharing deal prior to the iPhone launch. And, now Piper Jaffrey analyst Gene Muster states that, “While we do not know the exact details of…
Iran: we’re not using “Western” words like SMS, they threaten our existence
America, at the same time a bastion of democratic power and lure for global animosity, has done it again. With the Yankee hammer looming over head of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is trying to rid the country of any US influence. “Western” words (or, really, acronyms) like SMS are being banned by…
O2 Germany announces Windows Mobile 6.0 upgrade for XDA Trion
O2 sure is making good by its customers recently. Hot on the heels of the release of their Windows Mobile 6.0 upgrade for the XDA Zinc, the company has opened up the upgrade for its German XDA Trion (HTC TyTn / Hermes) customers. It’s nice to see O2 actually keeping its word on device upgrades,…
Sprint and Clearwire team up for US WiMAX network – 4G in 2008
US wireless subscribers have traditionally been behind the times when it comes to network technologies. It’s like everyone else gets all the good toys and we get the little brother hand-me-downs. Well, Sprint is looking to shake things up a bit. The company is gearing up to make 4G wireless data a commercial viability in…
Video: The Smartphone Show 38; iPhone vs Nokia E61i vs Sony Ericsson W950i
In the latest episode of the UK smash hit Smartphones Show Steve Litchfield gets himself an Apple iPhone and compares it to the Nokia E61i and Sony Ericsson W950i. Who is the winner? Nokia easily runs laps around the iPhone, but surprisingly Steve doesn’t even consider the iPhone a smartphone in the first place. I…
Telus launches Samsung SCH-m620 aka UpStage
Telus in Canada is walking the Sprint’s way with the introduction of Samsung SCH-m620, also known as the UpStage in the United States. And just like Sprint, Telus will emphasize the music aspect of Samsung’s dual faced device, even touting it as “business in the front, party in the back.” The Samsung SCH-m620 is already…