If you haven’t heard about Mobile Voice System 5, don’t feel too bad because it’s a calling service aimed at big businesses. What’s important for us desk jockeys is that the latest version will enable full desktop phone features on your BlackBerry, including making calls over WiFi. The service integrates with your company’s PBX calling…
BlackBerry Bold 9650 hitting Sprint for $199
We have confirmation from Sprint that the new-fangled BlackBerry Bold 9650 will hit the streets May 23 for $199 with a new, two-year contract. It’s about the price we expected and for that $200 you’ll be a getting an above average, if unspectacular machine. The handset has that big, beautiful full QWERTY keyboard to shoot…
RIM’s Pearl 3G is first BlackBerry to support 802.11n WiFi
Well, looks like we were kind of right with the BlackBerry Striker/Stratus rumors, as Research In Motion introduced Monday the Pearl 3G and it will include multiple form factors to accommodate whatever type of keyboard you want. Another added bonus is that this handset will be the first BlackBerry to support the super-fast 802.11n WiFi…
The mobile roundup – An iPhone walks into a bar edition
So, you may have heard that there was that next-generation iPhone leak this week but there was also some really cool stuff from Dell (of all companies!), Research In Motion, and HTC. Hop over past the jump for a thorough breakdown of this week in mobile technology.
Police investigating iPhone 4G leak
Remember how that fourth-generation iPhone leaked earlier this week? Well, it looks like the police are going to get involved to see if there were any laws broken. This is the supposed story: An Apple baseband engineer was testing a prototype next-gen iPhone out in the wild and then he had some delicious German beer…
Samsung may release a Symbian phone later this year
All you Symbian fans should be happy to hear that Samsung is reportedly planning to make a handset with that operating system by the end of the year. There have been some rumblings that the world’s second-biggest handset maker would ditch Symbian because it already supports Android, bada and Windows Phone 7 but that doesn’t…
Palm CEO bullish on its prospects for absolutely no reason
Look, if you’re the CEO of an ailing company, you have to spew some bullshit, but Palm’s leader just doesn’t seem to be in touch with reality. CEO Jon Rubinstein had a grand vision for Palm’s phoenix-like resurrection: introduce some bad-ass software that’s tightly integrated with some hot hardware and then watch the money pile…
Twitter buys Cloudhopper to handle SMS
It’s easy to forget that Twitter’s roots are in SMS – that’s why there’s the 140-character limit – but the company has just acquired the messaging infrastructure company Cloudhopper to help it manage the billions of text messages it handles. “To help us further grow and scale our SMS service, we are happy to announce…
Google Nexus One gets 802.11n!
If you watch the video above, you’ll see that some enterprising tinkerers have been able to utilize 802.11n WiFi on the Nexus One. The Broadcom wireless chip inside Google’s “superphone” has always been capable of 802.11n but updated drivers released by Google and the chip maker have enabled some to utilize this quicker connection. How?…
Google not bringing Maps Navigator to iPhone, yet
There was a lot of excitement yesterday when Google brought Maps Navigation to the UK and Ireland because reports surfaced that the search giant would be bringing it to the iPhone. Immediately, you had to think TomTom and its expensive services would be destroyed because Google’s offering provides pretty good turn-by-turn audible navigation for free.…