Thanks to the always highly informed Boy Genius, we have a glimpse of AT&T’s mobile offering for the upcoming Black Friday. As you’re about to see, they’re not kidding when it comes to “great deals.” Without further ado, here’s the list: Samsung a737 for $24.99 Sony Ericsson w580i for $24.99 BlackBerry Curve 8310 for $99.99…
Archives for 2007
Vodafone InsideOut arrives in Second Life
It’s all about social networking nowadays. Both carriers and handset makers are eagerly adding support for various social services to their offerings/phones. And now, we have Vodafone introducing a new service called “InsideOut,” allowing users to interact with characters from Second Life right from their mobile phones. Just like with most of the modern services,…
Kyocera KPC680 EV-DO Rev. A ExpressCard lands on Verizon
Verizon just launched the new Kyocera KPC680 ExpressCard allowing interested parties to access the carrier’s fast EV-DO Rev. A network and take their Internet work/play with them, wherever they are. According to the official release — which follows after the jump — BroadbandAccess users can expect average download speeds of 600kbps to 1.4Mbps, and upload…
Google launches SMS search In China
Google may be the leader in the western world, but in China it still lags behind Baidu. And of course the search giant — like any other big company — bets heavily on the ever-growing Chinese market. That being said, they’ve just launched a new service – SMS Search, allowing people in China to search…
Deal (or not): Palm T|X with wireless keyboard for $199, E2 with hard case for $149!
In case you’re craving for the pure “old school” like PDA device, this one’s for you. As part of its Thanksgiving and Christmas promotion, Palm has slashed the prices of its flagship PDA – T|X. Boasting the built-in WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity and also the large 320×480 color touchscreen – the T|X is ideal to…
ShoZu adds MMS uploading; Social network users rejoice
We’ve already posted that ShoZu supports file uploads to popular social networking services like nowadays everyone’s favorite – Facebook. But now they went one step further allowing upload of photos via MMS along with the mass publishing ability, allowing users that for a cost of a single MMS sent, instantly upload their photos to all…
MasterGear ported to work on Symbian UIQ3 based smartphones
Following iNES, Marat Fayzullin – author of the popular gaming system emulator apps, have also ported MasterGear to Symbian UIQ3 platform, allowing Sony Ericsson and Motorola Z8 smartphone owners to revive the old memories while on-the-go. MasterGear for UIQ (and for S60 for that matter) will run SEGA Master System, GameGear, and SG1000 cartridge files…
iPhone to run Java apps and games next year?
According to the technical evangelist for the Java mobile and embedded community at Sun, Terrence Barr, with the release of the so-much-needed SDK in February 2008, iPhone users may be able to play and use Java games and apps. Barr argues the open-source phoneME platform could be converted to run on the iPhone, hence opening…
O2 picks up HTC Kaiser as O2 Xda Stellar
The promotional graphic might indicate otherwise, but it looks like O2 will be picking up the heralded HTC Kaiser as the O2 Xda Stellar. We can’t imagine how the advertising drones let the “Stella” typo slip through the cracks, but it’s still nice to see O2 finally getting with the game and offering the “holy…
Helio brings business-class power to the Helio Ocean
The Helio Ocean has traditionally been marketed towards the younger, hipper set, but it looks like Helio is turning up the enterprise appeal on the Helio Ocean. In an effort to make the Helio Ocean an enterprise-class handset, Helio has made available a couple new software packages that should help mobilize office duties. The new…