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Our worst fears have been realized now that there is word that AT&T is capping upload data speeds in certain cities. According to one user in NYC, upload speeds had been perfect, even allegedly better than his home broadband connection, until recently. Upload speeds in the New York City area were usually around 300-400kbps, but…
If you’ve been waiting to jailbreak and unlock your shiny new iPhone 4 to use with any GSM carrier you damn well please, you’re wait is almost over – so says the iPhone Dev Team’s @MuscleNerd on Twitter today. In less than 140 characters, @MuscleNerd confirmed to the Twitter-sphere that the Dev Team is indeed…
Building on its initial release, the Firefox Mobile project (a.k.a. Fennec) has advanced to version 1.1 today, giving Maemo handsets (i.e. the Nokia N900) a few new browsing features. Firefox lets you browse in landscape and portrait mode Volume rocker lets you zoom in and out Personalized Start page helps you pick up where you…
The HTC Desire and Samsung Galaxy S are pretty evenly matched on paper – both have 1 GHz processors, run Android 2.1, WVGA touchscreens of similar size (3.7″ versus 4″), and about the same memory (576 MB versus 512 MB). One would argue that if you were to run a Quake 2 demo on both…
Looks like the good folks at SHAPE Services have been working hard on IM+ for BlackBerry yet again. They’ve just released an update for the all-in-one messaging app for BlackBerry. The update brings us up to version 8.5, and besides the usual box full of slight modifications and bug fixes, the developers have added a…
BMW is working on a way to sideload large scale mapping data (like parking structures) to enable a new breed of micro-navigation. The project, Pathfinder, is still in the works, but is being prototyped on BMW 3 Series vehicles, presumably through ConnectedDrive. When punching in a route, the appropriate micro-maps (if available) are sent to…
If you’re in the market for a mid to low-end featurephone, Rogers has picked up the Nokia 7020. The device is now readily available on big red for only $9.99 on a 3-year contract. Other pricing options include $59.99 on a 2-year, $99.99 for 1-year and $149.99 for the device only. There’s not too much…
There are no doubts in my mind Nokia will move quite a few C5 units. It’s an entry-level smartphone with an impressive feature set for the price. And now it’s hitting India where interested folks could grab it for 8,200 INR, which is about $175. Bare in mind that’s the price of an unlocked device…
This is just a quick little rumor for those of you packing webOS powered devices. Yes, the Palm Pre and Pixi on Sprint could be getting new webOS goodness real soon. At least, that’s the rumor I’ve heard from my buds at PreCentral. Apparently, one of their forum members ‘leprecub’ is a Sprint employee. He…
Popular social network Foursquare announced that it secured $20 million in Series B round with Union Square Ventures, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and new investor, Andreessen Horowitz, which is backed by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. The company will use the new money to expand the organization to supplement the core team, as well as to…