T-mobile will be updating their Sidekick 3 to include its popular new service, myFaves. The changes will be painless and easy and done “over the air” through firmware updates broadcast over their networks. Users will not only get myFaves support, which allows unlimited calling to any 5 numbers in the U.S., but will now be…
Archives for 2007
New Thin Film Battery To Revolutionize EVERYTHING!
Everyone knows what a battery looks like. Even though they come in a variety of shapes and sizes, they all have one thing in common – bulk. That is, until this new battery was announced. This new power source is super thin and flexible, and can recharge in 60 seconds! The polymer-based “organic radical” battery…
Symbian 9.5 will be released on Monday, but what happened to 9.4?
Rafe must know a guy who knows a guy because this press release is dated Monday March 26, 2007: Symbian Ltd. today announced Symbian OS v9.5, the latest evolution of the world’s leading operating system for smartphones. Symbian OS v9.5 brings high performance features designed for richer consumer and enterprise experiences as well as significant…
Symbian 9.5 will be announced on Monday
In case you’ve been wondering what’s that clock on Symbian’s site, we have the answer. On Monday, during the CTIA Wireless, Symbian will announce version 9.5 of their mobile OS. Symbian is a developer of Symbian OS, the leading operating system for mobile phones.
Video: John shows me Twitter and PocketCaster on his Nokia N93
Thanks John, but I still think people update their status way too much. Way way way too much. It can be useful as a micro blog, but not when you’re telling me what you’re doing every hour on the hour. As a medium for communication … why not call, IM or text me? Am I…
Free VOIP On Your Mobile Phone
A European company, started by a former Nokia president, wants to give all mobile phones access to free Voice Over IP services on their planned network. Well, nothing is really free in life, and neither is this service. The VOIP service will be “free” as long as you are willing to have advertising thrown at…
Samsung SCH-B500 Gets New Colors, Nothing Else
Taking a page from Motorola and its Moto Q, Samsung will try to breathe fresh new life into a tried and true platform by changing its colors. The Samsung SCH-B500 slider phone will get a makeover with “magic brown” and “magic gold” color scheme options, but nothing else will change. Same “old” 2 megapixel camera,…
Motorola Announces Moto Q Amp’d Edition
Motorola announces their intention to push another variant of their venerable Moto Q. This time it will be a version carried by Amp’d Mobile. This youth and multimedia oriented phone will be marketed to the young, hip, business minded demographic. The Amp’d Moto Q will sport all the same features as the current Verizon Moto…
Video: Rhapsody on the Nokia N800
Jonathan Greene, video review master, shows off a very early in development prototype of the Rhapsody music service working on the Nokia N800: I can only imagine how nice it must be to lay down in bed and listen to my favorite online radio station.
Will there be a Nokia N95 with 1900 MHz 3G?
Jonathan Greene found this little tidbit: Guidewire Connection has just learned via a trusted source within Nokia that the new N95 Smartphone, which is just now beginning to be released across the pond in Europe, is also being produced with a 1900-MHz model – the band that HSDPA runs on here in the USA. Long…