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MetroPCS is adding the Huawei Ascend to its line-up of phones for a pretty affordable price given the usual cost of smartphones for pre-paid carriers. The Android 2.1 device will set you back just $179, which isn’t half bad, with smartphone plans that start at just $50 per month. And best of all, as is…
This is what you get when you mix together an LG and a T-Mobile employee who really enjoy their work with a bit of love and refusal to fragment. I’m not sure that I could put any corporate logo, however adorable, onto my wedding cake, but good on these guys for loving their phones as…
There was a bit of a false start with Google’s location-sharing service last week, but today Latitude for iPhone is now available to download for free. Google Latitude is a service typically bundled in with their mobile Maps app that uses a smartphone’s GPS unit to share your location with a set of trusted friends.…
While students in North American schools are using their mobile phones to ignore what the teacher standing at the front of the class is saying, that and trying to successfully score enough alcohol for the party on Saturday, something different is happening in South Africa. The government asked Nokia in 2008 if they could help…
As part of its Ping social networking service, Apple has reportedly started using iTun.es domain for link shortening. According to MacRumors, the Cupertino-based company registered the domain in December 2006, and now it begun using it for compact Twitter updates. “iTun.es” is an internal Apple thing with links being created automatically. Users can’t access the…
Nortel, once upon a time a telecommunications giant, but due to an unfortunate series of events was split up and is now seeing their formerly vast empire being sold off chunk by chunk, has around 4,000 patents that are estimated to be worth over $1 billion. Earlier this year we saw Nokia Siemens Networks successfully…
Juniper Research said that key brands and agencies are embracing the mobile channel, following the increase in mobile application usage in key markets and the growing penetration of smartphones with location aware and augmented reality capabilities. In that sense, the research company predicts that global advertising expenditure on mobile delivery channels will exceed $11 billion…
We may doubt the prospects of the bada platform, but Samsung is one stubborn company and that could be a good thing after all. As a matter of fact, they said the plan to sell 5 million bada-powered devices this year is going just fine. The first bada smartphone, Samsung Wave, was announced during this…
Special K is launching a mobile application for the iOS and Android-powered devices. Available as a free download, myPlan offers people a new way to take the Special K Challenge and stay on track with weight loss goals, whether they [goals] include shedding unwanted holiday pounds or becoming more fit in the New Year. In…
Nimbuzz has updated its Android application with… (drums please)… high definition (HD) quality voice calls. The company is relying on a new peer-to-peer calling system, which combined with HD voice codec from Global IP Solutions (GIPS), makes HD quality calls possible. As a result, calls are connected faster, providing crystal clear quality and fewer dropped…