Broadcom, an American company that doesn’t make wireless chips, but instead designs them and sells their blueprints to practically all the handset manufacturers, including Apple, has agreed to buy femtocell designer Percello for a cool $86 million. Femtocells, which I covered in great detail in an earlier article detailing how there are now more femtocells…
Archives for 2010
Opera State of the Mobile Web September 2010: 71.2 million users, up 100% year on year
Opera’s published their latest State of the Mobile report, this time for the month of September, and numbers don’t lie. People love Opera Mini, the application that takes the websites you want to read and compresses them on some far away server in the tiny country of Norway before pumping it back down to your…
T-Mobile HTC HD7 available for pre-order on Amazon ($169) and Wirefly ($149)
We know T-Mobile USA will launch the HTC HD7 on November 8th asking for no less than $199 for the all-touchscreen Windows Phone 7 device. The good news is that you can grab it for less if you hurry and pre-order your unit today. Two online retailers, Amazon and Wirefly, have started accepting pre-orders and…
Best Buy to exclusive sell Boost Mobile’s red-colored Samsung Seek
Boost Mobile, which as you know is a Sprint-owned company, is teaming up with Best Buy to offer the Samsung Seek (M350) in “Candy Apple Red.” The device will be exclusively sold through Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile specialty stores where interested folks will be able to grab it for $149.99. As a reminder,…
Fotopedia Heritage 2.0 adds slideshow, shuffle and wallpapers
Fotonauts, makers of Fotopedia.com, announced new version of its Fotopedia Heritage mobile app for the iOS-powered devices. Version 2.0 packs few cool features, including: Slideshow – feature that effectively transforms the iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone into a photo frame. Shuffle – Simple shake the device to access a random photo (destination). Wallpaper – Now…
The iPhone Soap that Smells Like Grilled Sausages (Seriously)
I bet you’ve often asked yourself, ‘I wonder when someone is going to make a bar of soap that looks like an iPhone and smells like grilled sausage?’ Admit it, you’ve asked yourself that very question to yourself, haven’t you? It’s OK, you can confess! I won’t tell! Etsy user twoeggplants had obviously pondered the…
Dutch Ambiance Technology announces first European Windows 7 tablet device – AT Tablet
A company called Dutch Ambiance Technology announced the 10-inch AT Tablet, saying it’s the first such European product, running Windows 7 Home Premium. The press release obviously praises the product emphasizing it’s a fully-functional PC that allows users to run all of their familiar apps. Ambiance Technology’s managing director Eric Schouten said that Microsoft even…
Spice Mobile M-67 3D is a cheap dual-SIM phone with 3D display for India
We know few companies are working on the 3D mobile display technology and we’ve also seen the Samsung W960 sporting such a screen. Now we have another vendor joining the “3D race” – India’s Spice Mobile. The model name is M-67 3D and it comes with a 2.4-inch auto-stereoscopic 3D QVGA (240×320 pixels) display. In…
Telmap announces navigation product for Windows Phone 7
Telmap wants its share of the Windows Phone 7 market, too. The leader in mobile location solutions is gearing toward launching its navigation solution for Microsoft’s brand-new mobile platform and has already booked a first customer – Singapore’s SingTel. As that’s the case with Telmap for other platforms, Windows Phone 7 version will also allow…
Bharti to launch 3G in India this year, too
India’s Bharti Airtel will join Tata DoCoMo and launch its 3G network by year-end, too. According to the company’s announcement, the new HSPA-based network will be “the best in world in terms of technology and will enable high peak user throughputs.” Folks in 13 telecom circles around the country will be able to connect, including…