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AT&T announced that it is launching a new feature that lets customers make unlimited calls to other mobile numbers regardless of the wireless carrier. So yeah, all you AT&T iPhone owners can call your Verizon counterparts without using any of your metered minutes. The feature is available to AT&T customers with an unlimited messaging plan…
HP kicked off its foray into the world of webOS with three new devices including the HP TouchPad, a luxuriously sized 9.7-inch tablet. The TouchPad will include a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor from Qualcomm, a capacitive touchscreen display with 1024×768 resolution, 512MB RAM, 1.3-megapixel webcam, WiFi 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth, 3.5 mm headphone jack, 16 or 32 GB…
AT&T confirmed that the HTC Freestyle will debut on February 13th. The feature phone will be the first quick messaging phone to include HTC’s Sense interface. Similar to Samsung’s Touchwiz interface which appears on its smartphone and feature phones, a variant of HTC’s popular Sense UI will grace the user interface of the Freestyle. The…
A tip sent into skatter tech suggests the BlackBerry PlayBook may land at Verizon Wireless. The tipster sent in the URL for a website that is apparently a registration page for a beta program to demo the PlayBook on Verizon’s network. The portal landing page confirms the beta program is closed and contains links to a…
Amazon’s website has a product page for the HTC Thunderbolt that points to a February 14th release date. The placeholder page lets you sign up to be notified when this handset become available. Underneath this notification is a blurb that states “The HTC ThunderBolt 4G will be available for purchase starting 2/14.” This is not the…
An event calendar for the Moscone Convention Center suggests Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer’s conference will be held in early June. The calendar has a reservation for an unnamed meeting in Moscone West that is listed as a convention/tradeshow. Apple has held WWDC in Moscone West in the past. The calendar listing is a five day…
HTC is reportedly investing in OnLive, a U.S.-based online gaming service. According to a filing placed with the Taiwan Stock Exchange, the mobile handset manufacturer intends to purchase 5.33 million shares in OnLive. Each share is available for $7.50 each and the total transaction could cost an estimated $40 million USD. This investment comes hot…
In classic style, iFixit took apart a Verizon iPhone and studied what makes it tick. While most of the report was standard fare, the teardown analysis does reveal a few surprises, including the presence of a Qualcomm MDM6600 baseband chip. It is a Verizon smartphone and a Qualcomm CDMA chip was expected, but the presence…
Best Buy confirmed that it will begin a pre-sale of the HTC Thunderbolt starting today. The Thunderbolt will launch in Mid-February as Best Buy exclusive. The retailer failed to announce an exact availability date but prevailing rumors point to a February 24th launch. The Thunderbolt will be one of the first LTE handsets to land…
On Monday, Alcatel-Lucent introduced lightRadio, a new architecture for cellular hardware that promises to lower energy costs, improve bandwidth capabilities and simplify the process of building out a cellular network. Currently, each cell phone tower includes a set of large antennas at the top of the tower and a trailer at the base of the…