With multiple Indian carriers now set to roll out 3G service, I was wondering how long it’d take for the Peark 9100, aka the BlackBerry Pearl 3G to make its appearance in the country. Turns out it didn’t take as long as I thought. RIM has made it official via press release that the Pearl…
Archives for 2010
Indian BWA auctions end: Infotel, Aircel, Bharti and Qualcomm among winners
India’s Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) spectrum auctions closed after 16 days and 117 rounds of bidding, making about 257 billion INR ($5.5 billion) for the government. Among the winners we find: Infotel – which paid 128.48 billion INR for licenses in all 22 of India’s service areas Aircel – which paid 34.38 INR billion for…
Earloomz unveils Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics themed Bluetooth headsets
Earloomz is now accepting pre-orders for headsets featuring the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics NBA teams graphics. Specs wise, we’re talking about identical products, both of which are Bluetooth 2.1+EDR compliant, featuring noise cancellation, mic noise reduction, lower power consumption, voice prompt, last number redial, call-waiting feature, 16-bit resolution (enhances audio quality), and easy…
Garminfone Apparently Worthy of its Own Commercial
The T-Mobile Garminfone is cool and all, it’s a pretty nifty Android device and a great GPS device, but I’m a little surprised to see that it got its own commercial spot. Of course, there are plenty of folks out there who do a lot of traveling, or just plain get lost almost everywhere they…
Nokia Unveils the 8GB X6 and X5 Slider, Slips Further Into the Past
The Nokia Connections event just kicked off in Singapore, and the Finnish company got things started by unveiling the Xseries X5 slider – a square, QWERTY keyboard slider handset. The styling for the X5 is a bit of an odd choice, and seems a little bit stuck in the past, but then again there are…
AT&T Apologizes to iPad 3G Owners for Security Failure
Remember the massive security breach that plagued iPad 3G owners on the AT&T network just last week? The one where 114,000 e-mail addresses and ICC-IDs were compromised? The security issue where even the FBI got involved and to see if there was any wrongdoing? Yeah, that’s the one. Apparently, AT&T decided it would be appropriate…
Uh Oh, HTC EVO 4G Already Plagued with Glass Issues?
Nothing breaks our hearts more than hearing about a sexy new device like the HTC EVO 4G already suffering hardware issues. According to multiple reports and Android and HTC forums across the web, the glass on the EVO 4G is beginning to separate from the device. Apparently, the glue that binds the two together is…
HTC EVO 4G hacked to work with Palm Touchstone
If you ditched your Palm Pre for the EVO 4G and still have the Touchstone charger around, you may be able to some cool, if somewhat impractical, things. Thanks to a neat mod, you can now let your 4G handset use the wireless charger. There aren’t too many details about the actual mod, but it…
HTC Legend in Canada: Available Now on Virgin Mobile, Coming June 16th to Bell
Happy Sunday all! I just had to do a quick update on the HTC Legend for all of the Canadian mobile junkies out there. You may recall a few days ago I mentioned the Virgin Mobile HTC Legend was available. While the new Android 2.1 (Eclair) powered device wasn’t available online at the time, it…
Fallen Earth MMO Launches Android and iPhone Companion App
Back in December, post-apocalyptic massively multiplayer game Fallen Earth announced that they would have a companion iPhone app, which is available today and offers a bunch of features. Check in-game mail Interact with clan members and online friends Visit the auction house to browse bids and keep tabs on auctions View available crafting recipes and…