The best Android device on the market right now, and this is debatable, but many are saying it’s the Sprint EVO 4G. Frankly, you’d have to pay me to use one since it’s beyond massive. It’s colossal. That and the battery life stinks, and this coming from reviewers who have been using a Nexus One…
Google Navigation works in 11 new countries, including Canada and Western Europe
Google Navigation is awesome. There’s no other way to put it. If you have a friend with a Nexus One or a Motorola Droid, or that new Sprint EVO 4G, then have them give you a demo. I’m furious, beyond livid, that I don’t have that application anymore since I’m in Finland. When I was…
Brief: Google Search by Voice now works in French, German, Italian, and Spanish
Google Voice Search’s ability to transcribe what you say after you tap the little microphone icon on your home screen and speak for several seconds, is beyond a shadow of a doubt one of the coolest abilities of Android. In Android 2.1 they even baked the ability to speak into any text field. Literally, any…
Infonetics Research: Half of operators planning to deploy LTE will first upgrade to HSPA+
Between today’s 3G networks and the next generation LTE and WiMAX networks that are going to start turning on over the next few years, there is a middle ground technology that provides users with the increased bandwidth users want, and at the same time is attractive to operators since in most cases it requires a…
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invests $10 million to help Haiti start using mobile money
Bill Gates, a name we’re all familiar with, took the truck loads of money he made off personal computers and is now investing it into things that actually matter. His goal was to get a PC on every desk, and for the most part he’s done that in countries that are fairly well off. Now…
Guy who invented Palm’s webOS notifications becomes Senior User Interface Designer at Apple
Rich Dellinger, who according to his LinkedIn profile was the “User Interface Design Architect” at Palm between July 2006 and May 2010 (3 years 11 months) and whose roles included: Acted as visual designer, interaction designer, and engineer on Palm webOS. Co-developed the Application Framework used by webOS. Created the CSS structure and defined HTML…
Verizon introduces “Group Communication”, brings back the once popular party lines
Verizon today introduced two “Group Communication” plans. For $4.99/month a Verizon customer under a family plan can get a number that once called or texted will call or text everyone in that group. You’re allowed to have only 1 non-Verizon member in that group. For $6.99/month and per line you can get a group number…
Brief: EU courts tell British operators to stick to the EU mandated roaming price caps
A long time ago, 2007 I think, the EU got tired of hearing consumers complaining about bill shock and roaming prices, so they imposed several pricing caps that would get lower and lower until 2011 when the price would settle at 0.35 EUR per minute. For Britain, an island nation that has lots of cheap…
LTE Update: Swedes get LTE phones early next year, Chinese have LTE on trains, Japan goes LTE
Next generation networks are going live all around the world, promising increased bandwidth, increased capacity, and lower latency. Sweden and Norway were the first two countries to get LTE, courtesy of TeliaSonera. By the end of this month they’re going to be deploying USB modems that can also use the “old” 3G network, whereas right…
Video (slideshow really): People in Indonesia go crazy at the Nokia C3 launch
With the GDP per capita of a person in Indonesia hovering around $2,250, are you surprised to hear that the locals queued up for the ultra cheap Nokia C3 in much the same way as Americans camped in front of Apple stores overnight for an iPhone? The C3, for those who forgot, is one of…