Things are bad in Haiti, but help is coming from a group of independent iPhone developers who are banding together to donate app sales to help relief efforts. The devs will be giving revenue from their iPhone apps to charities that are working to help relief efforts on the ground in Haiti. It’s called the…
AT&T spending ‘billions’ on wireless infrastructure improvements in 2009
AT&T’s been under some heavy fire from rival carriers and iPhone customers alike. On one side, the carrier is dealing with Verizon’s onslaught of TV commercials that point out AT&T’s spotty 3G coverage maps. On the other side, AT&T is feeling the heat from iPhone customers in SF and NYC who are complaining about service…
HTC Opal specifications leaked – HTC Touch replacement
In the mobile phone biz, product cycles are measured in months. On that scale, it’s easy to see how one of the hottest handsets to launch last year is struggling to stay relevant among the big-hitting smartphones that have surfaced recently. HTC managed to ship over 2 million of their HTC Touch smartphones with less…
Palm updates Palm Treo 800w with USB and battery fixes
If you’re the proud owner of a new Palm Treo 800w, then you might be feeling a bit let down at this point. Aside from the fact that the Palm Treo Pro has just surfaced as the latest must-have Palm Treo smartphone, Palm has acknowledged problems with the software controlling the Palm Treo 800w’s USB…
Hot Deal: US Spec Red Nokia N95 for $504.99 at Amazon!
If you have been wanting to get your paws around a Nokia N95-3 but you couldn’t come up with the cash, this deal is for you. Amazon has dropped their price on the red Nokia N95-3 to $504.99! The N93-3 denotes the US version (with support for US 3G frequencies), while the European version is the…
Motorola launches two new “TrueComfort” Bluetooth headsets – H680 and H375
Motorola pumps out Bluetooth headsets like it’s nobody’s business. The newest additions to the Moto Bluetooth headsets rock a “new” feature called “TrueComfort.” Both the Motorola H680 and H375 Bluetooth headsets were designed to be comfortably worn for extended periods – intense studies on the anatomy of the human ear were conducted to ensure that…
Barcodes on mobile phones will make airline boarding-pass obsolete
The days of printing out a paper boarding-pass are soon to be a thing of the past. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) just approved a barcode standard that will replace the paper-boarding pass with your mobile phone. The idea is so simple it’s surprising that it hasn’t already been implemented – but then again,…