Apple iPhone owners may think AT&T has a huge percentage of dropped calls but the nation’s second-largest carrier said it drops less than 2% of calls nationwide. In response to a recent ChangeWave study, AT&T said: Statistically valid drive test shows the AT&T network continues to deliver the nation’s fastest 3G network and near best-in-class…
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Apple iPhone Rumored to Hit T-Mobile This Fall
If your head is already spinning with iPhone rumors, most of which never pan out, and which carriers Apple plans on partnering with in the future, forgive me. This latest rumor is hot off the press and this time, it’s not a Verizon one! Instead, the iPhone is apparently going to hit T-Mobile, again, this…
Apple iPhone thief caught with GPS-tracking app
Directly out of the “stupid files,” we have the tale of an Apple iPhone thief who snatched the phone out of the hand of an unsuspecting victim. Little did the thief know that the person was in the middle of demonstrating an iPhone app that provides real-time tracking of the device. The police nabbed the…
Windows Phone 7 Hardware Partners Confirmed by Microsoft: LG, Samsung, Dell, Asus and HTC
Windows Phone 7 is coming very soon, especially since Microsoft recently announced the fact that it hit a major internal milestone – its technical preview completion. Now the software companies have confirmed what we mostly already knew, its hardware partners. LG, Samsung, Dell, Asus and HTC will be building out any number of the three…
RIM shows off multimedia aspects of BlackBerry 6
Research In Motion knows it has a lot riding on the upcoming BlackBerry 6 and the smartphone maker wants you to know this won’t be the same old stodgy BlackBerry. RIM recently showed off some of the multimedia capabilities of its next operating system and these actually look pretty cool. On its blog, the BlackBerry…
T-Mobile Samsung Vibrant (Galaxy S) GPS issues fix [Tutorial]
I haven’t even had the T-Mobile Samsung Vibrant – which is T-Mobile’s variant of the Galaxy S – for two days, and one of the issues I’ve seen with it so far is that the GPS is just horrible. The Vibrant takes forever to lock onto a GPS signal and when it does, it sometimes…
DIY iPhone 4 steadycam rig is simple, awesome, cheap
So, say you’re stoked on your new iPhone 4 and the integrated 5-megapixel camera’s ability to shoot really high quality 720p HD video, but you just can’t seem to steady your caffeine-and-sugar fueled hands enough to record a decently smooth video clip. What do you do? Well, you can either buy an expensive steadycam rig…
Overclock your HTC HD2 with an app
The HTC HD2 is already a beast of a smartphone with a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor but an app will let you extract even more power out of the Windows Mobile handset. The Leo Auto CPU app lets you overclock the HD2 and bring it to higher levels. The latest version also includes auto-apply at…
Apple responds to Nokia’s antenna claims by putting N97 Mini on ‘Antennagate’ webpage
And the iPhone 4 “antennagate” back-and-forth between Apple and competing smartphone makers keeps heating up – this time, it’s Apple that’s shooting a shot across Nokia’s bow. In a seemingly tongue-in-cheek response to Nokia’s claim that they have more experience in making smartphones and have prioritized antenna performance over design for years, Apple has posted…
Verizon says Motorola Droid X screen issues not widespread
We touched upon this yesterday but felt it warranted some more time because we don’t want you to freak out about your new Motorola Droid X. Verizon said the screen issues that are making its way around the Interwebs are not widespread, so don’t trip, potato chip. “Verizon Wireless and Motorola are aware of a…







