No, you can’t use the recently increased SMS text message rates to cancel your plan sans Early Termination Fee (ETF), but starting in 2008, Sprint customers will be able to take advantage of pro-rated ETFs. Like Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and T-Mobile before it, Sprint will only charge ETFs commensurate with the remainder of the customer’s…
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Deutsche Telekom posts 8.6% revenue growth for T-Mobile, 42% data revenue growth
T-Mobile sure is doing well for themselves. Deutsche Telekom, parent company to T-Mobile, has posted a quarter of positive growth in their mobile venture. T-Mobile has seen a 8.6% year-on-year revenue growth to 8,875 million euros (US$13 billion), with data revenue increasing 42%. Interestingly, it seems that T-Mobile’s German subscriber-base was the only market to…
Confirmed: Apple launching iPhone v1.1.2 firmware with European iPhone launch
Beware, dear iPhone user. Apple has confirmed to PocketLint that US iPhone users can expect to see an iPhone v1.1.2 update become available tomorrow, Friday, November 9 – concurrently with the European iPhone launch in the UK and Germany (on O2 and T-Mobile, respectively). We already know that the v1.1.2 firmware will bring enhanced language…
Mobispine available on 3 Denmark’s Planet 3 mobile portal
Mobispine, the company behind the popular Java ME-based mobile news reader, has just landed an important deal with Hutchinson’s 3 network in Denmark. Under the agreement, the carrier will include Mobispine’s free client on its Planet 3 mobile portal, allowing its customers to quickly get their daily dose of news directly from their handsets. Commenting…
ShoZu goes beyond media uploading; Enables Flickr photo, top YouTube video sharing directly to handsets
I’m sure most of smartphone users have heard about ShoZu, the mobile image and video uploading application. Well, they’ve realized there’s more than uploading in the mobile Web 2.0 space, hence their latest update enables users to have friends’ latest Flickr photos as well as the top YouTube videos sent directly to their handsets. To…
More Nokia N82 pictures leak, this time from France
Bonjour, todays pictures are from MobiFrance who just shot me an email with their very own Nokia N82 pictures. Just looking at that huge Xenon flash gives me the chills. Something tells me this camera phone Multimedia Computer will be Nokia’s best, but we have to put it through the Stefan test first. Quick recap…
Gamevil launches Art of War, mobile real-time strategy
Russian studio Gear Games has developed a new game called Art of War, which seems inspired by the Sun Tzu’s popular war guide. Apparently, it is designed as a real-time strategy and features some very impressive 3D graphics, 3 levels of difficulty, and 6 missions to complete. The game is taking place in a world…
FCC approves the Nokia E51
Nokia’s newcomer device to the ESeries line, E51, has been spotted passing the FCC hurdle. Apart from that information, we’ve no idea when or even whether it will ever hit the U.S. soil. If you’re really interested, you can already import it from Europe, grab it at Buy.com, or wait until it hits one of…
LG Shine 8700 goes gold on Telus
There’s no doubt Telus, just like any other carrier around the world, is preparing for the hot Christmas season. Lately, we’ve spotted them adding the gold LG Shine 8700 to their portfolio. The device is practically the same as the original Shine, which we saw introduced on Telus back in September, it’s just… well gold…
OtterBox releases two semi-rugged cases for BlackBerry Pearl, Curve
OtterBox, the folks behind popular semi-rugged and fully-interactive cases, has just announced the addition of two new cases to their Defender Series line to support the popular RIM’s devices – BlackBerry Pearl and Curve. Both OtterBox 1934 for the BlackBerry Pearl and the OtterBox 1935 for the BlackBerry Curve enable complete usability of the trackball…