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Remember the Bell LG Rumour Plus? You know, the next-gen in the ‘Rumour’ line, with full QWERTY keyboard, 2.4″ display (240 x 320), 2 megapixel camera and more. That one. The last I heard, it was due out on the 11th of August. With the projected launch date right in front of us, and no…
The successor to the original Motorola Droid, the highly anticipated Motorola DROID 2, will be bringing Android 2.2 Froyo to Verizon on August 12th. Verizon has official announced today that the DROID 2 goes up for pre-sale tomorrow, August 11, with sales kicking off the very next day. Get excited! The Droid 2 is faster…
In its five-year fiscal report for the top wireless carriers in the US, IE Market Research predicted that AT&T will overtake Verizon Wireless as the nation’s largest wireless carrier. The report cites AT&T’s increasing growth rate and Verizon’s falling growth rate for this leadership change which is expected to occur in 2011. Much of this…
Golf fans, it’s time to load up a must-have iPhone app… One that will make your PGA Championship week that much more enjoyable. The PGA has just announced that an enhanced PGA Championship App for iPhone and iPod Touch has been released, and it provides a whole whackload of golf goodness for you to take…
Hey Manitoba, I’ve got some more mobile news for you, thanks to your local carrier, MTS. You may recall the other day that MTS went live with the HTC 6250, thus adding the first Android-powered device to their lineup. Now, it looks like some more BlackBerry love is coming to the local carrier. The BlackBerry…
Filed under “obvious things like this really need a law?” we’ve got the story of California Senate bill 525, which penalizes people dumb enough to try and sneak a mobile phone into prison. We covered this story back in April 2009 when SB525 was nothing more but a concept in the minds of legislators. As…
Peter Skillman isn’t a household name, but he’s been with Palm for 11 years and is credited with the design of the Pre. Today we find out he’s leaving the sinking ship, and we’ve got no idea where he’s heading next. It makes sense in the grand scheme of things for Peter to do this.…
Nokia have out done themselves this time by leaking one of their very own unannounced handsets. We don’t have any specifications, price points, or release dates. Just the image above. I’m going to make several assumptions based on what we do know, the model number. It’s a 5250, so you know it’s a low end…
Mobile telecommunications have been heralded by many as a way for improvised nations to escape the clutches of their poverty by improving many aspects of daily life for the people who don’t know what YouTube or Facebook are. The question Isaac Mbiti from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas and Jenny Aker from Tufts University…
Squeezing every last bit of efficiency out of the limited amount of spectrum operators can afford to buy from the government in whatever country they’re operating is a goal that has driven technological progress in the infrastructure market since the infrastructure market was born. Forget about the latency benefits or speed gains that come with…