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Sprint is still serving up low-end phones with its latest, the Sanyo Vero. Many folks don’t need all the flash and pizzazz of a fancy smartphone like the carrier’s HTC EVO 4G or the Samsung Epic 4G – some just need a phone that makes calls and does text messages with a few extras here…
Nokia and AT&T have just given a huge incentive for developers to get coding: $10 million in cash and prizes. Both of the companies will be selecting the top mobile applications for prizes and cash, along with consumers who will help pick winners. This also gives me the feeling that the Nokia N8 might be…
Fans and owners of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 have some gloomy news to wake up to this morning: the Android 2.1, or Eclair, update has been delayed. This means your smartphone will continue rocking an antiquated version of the Google platform for another month or so. Yes, I know you’re upset but you did…
Anyone who has ever said that the Apple iPad isn’t meant for doing work is, well, mostly right. But that doesn’t mean you can’t get stuff done with the tablet computer as long as you have apps like Keynote, Pages an Numbers, or the iWork suite for iPad. You can work on spreadsheets (fun!), create…
Batteries are the necessary evil for our love affair with our mobile toys. Unfortunately, batteries aren’t very environmentally friendly, which is why you should send them off for proper disposal instead of just tossing them in your trash can. Moreover, even the best little lithium-ion batteries today don’t last for as long as we’d like…
If you’ve written off Sony Ericsson this past year due to the underwhelming Xperia 10 and the mini versions that followed, it might be worth waiting to see what the company has in store. CEO Bert Nordberg was asked about how he would compare SE products with BlackBerry and iPhone, and while Nordberg was candid…
The CDMA iPhone for Apple is just a rumor that will never die, and it’s also one we’ll keep hearing regularly until it happens – or if we’re left to find that it doesn’t. This time Analyst Jeffrey Fidacaro with Susquehanna Financial Group says that suppliers are pointing to December of this year for the…
Sprint customers packing the HTC EVO 4G who have been relishing Android 2.2, or Froyo, can look forward to another minor firmware update. Perhaps the biggest change of note is that pesky video limitation on the EVO, the 30fps video output limitation, so we’ll see what happens with that. Other bugs that will be fixed…
Remember that little bit of Apple corporate espionage we heard about last month? Where Apple supply manager Paul Shin Devine was arrested for money laundering, wire fraud and kickbacks when he was accused of selling iPhone and iPod trade secrets? Well, it looks like Devine is working on posting bail and getting out of jail…
Sprint is loved by heavy data users, especially those who have access to both its 3G and 4G or WiMax networks. Where some carriers place caps on their “unlimited” plans, or offered tiered data packages like AT&T, Sprint as been, in my experience, truly unlimited. However, with the competition moving towards caps and metered pricing,…