Nokia’s always on the cutting edge of mobile technology. They may not have the most usable or eye-catching user interfaces in the mobile space, but Nokia’s usually good for having some really high-technology packed into their handsets. The latest high-tech wizardry is Nokia’s Braille Reader that helps vision-impaired users read SMS text messages. Braille Reader…
AT&T’s 3G Microcell bringing GSM femtocell to market soon!
Ever since AT&T announced their 3G femtocell solution, confusingly dubbed the “3G Microcell,” signal-seeking AT&T customers have been waiting for Big Blue to go live with their wireless signal booster. That wait may soon come to an end. Reports have crossed the wires, indicating that AT&T is finally preparing to launch their 3G Microcell in…
Kaput: Palm’s relationship with Windows Mobile
Sprint’s all-new Palm Pre is just about the greatest thing to come out of Palm in quite some time. The compact QWERTY slider features a 3.2-megapixel camera, GPS, WiFi, finger-friendly interface, sleek styling and responsive capacitance-based touchscreen. That all adds up to one impressive smartphone – and it’s mostly thanks to the intuitive and fun…
JD Power declares T-Mobile customer care tops, again!
T-Mobile’s 3G network may be sparse and their indoor reception lacking, but if there’s one thing T-Mobile USA always delivers, it’s high-performance customer service. J.D. Power and Associates have just released the second volume of their 2009 Wireless Retail Sales Satisfaction Study, and the results give T-Mobile USA top billing as the nation’s most satisfying…
Sony Ericsson’s Android-powered XPERIA X3 launching in January?
We’ve barely gotten used to the possibility that Sony Ericsson’s upcoming XPERIA X2 will command a whopping $850+ dollars at retail, and now we’re hearing that the X2’s sequential successor, the XPERIA X3, will be going live in January of 2010. Mobile Crunch is reporting on an as-yet unconfirmed rumor that Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA X3…
Sony Ericsson rumored to unveil auto-play headset on September 21st
Sony Ericsson has something big coming to market on September 21st. Just yesterday, Stefan mentioned that Sony Ericsson was preparing to “change the way you listen to music forever.” He speculated that the announcement would involve a new phone and an innovative new headset. Turns out, at least according to whispers and rumors, he may…
This is your iPhone 3GS on x-ray
What happens when you combine the iPhone 3GS with a gratuitous dose of x-rays? You get an intriguing look at the inside of an iPhone 3GS. We’ve seen the iPhone 3GS’s innards splayed across the internets for all to see, but the x-ray video below gives us a look at the iPhone 3GS internals as…
iPhone Dev Team cracks iPhone 3.1 OS, except for iPhone 3GS
iPhone and iPhone 3G owners still waiting to update their jailbroken smartphone to the iPhone 3.1 OS are in luck today. The iPhone Dev Team has just released their latest PwnageTool update! With the new PwnageTool utility, iPhone users can update to jailbroken iPhone 3.1 OS firmware without worrying about losing the jailbreak (which allows…
Opera unveils next-generation Opera Mini 5 – We talk with Opera’s CEO about Mini
I recently got a chance to take a sneak-peak at Opera’s Opera Mini 5 beta last week, and it basically blew me out of the water. Opera asked that I keep the launch of Mini 5 on the hush until they were ready to go live. Today, Opera took the wraps off its all-new Opera…
US getting Nokia N900 on September 27th?
The Nokia N900 is Nokia’s first Maemo-powered device to sport smartphone functionality. The N900 comes from the same lineage that gave birth to the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, but it transcends the “Internet Tablet” segment with true phone features – quad-band GSM/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900Mhz) support, 5.0-megapixel camera and GPS (just to name a few). With the…