Here’s a bit of good news for text message power-users out there on a budget. The texting-friendly QWERTY slider LG Rumor2 is now available from prepaid carrier Virgin Mobile USA. Sprint already offers the LG Rumor2, and now that it plans to acquire Virgin Mobile USA, the two carriers will give customers a choice when…
Napster’s streaming music iPhone app put on ice
With Spotify having announced that their streaming music iPhone app has been approved for the iPhone AppStore, we were expecting to see Napster’s own streaming music app launching on the iPhone in the near future. But, according to the Best Buy-owned music subscription service, the Napster iPhone app has been put on ice. Napster says…
ODROID Android gaming handheld packs iPhone 3GS processor, boatloads of fugly
What happens when a little-known manufacturer tries their hand at creating an Android-powered handheld gaming device? You get the ODROID Android “entertainment device” from Hardkernel. You also get a handheld device that not even its mother could love – because it’s so fugly (just to be clear). On the bright side, the feature-set is decent…
Global wireless infrastructure market retracts, despite strong 3G growth
Growth in the mobile infrastructure market has been declining in 2009, despite strong growth in the 3G (WCDMA) market. The decline in growth of the 2G (GSM) wireless market has caused sales of wireless infrastructure equipment (cellular towers and base stations) to decline some 12% in the second quarter, compared to Q2 2008. China and…
Palm looking to push location-specific advertising to WebOS?
When it was made public that Palm’s WebOS was periodically phoning home to update Palm and its affiliates with Palm Pre user location data, there was a lot of talk about “Big Brother” and concerns for privacy. Today, BGR has uncovered a patent application that might take the WebOS’s location-tracking technology even further into your…
AT&T offers WiFi HotSpot access to Windows Mobile smartphones
If you’ve been feeling a bit burned by AT&T’s decision to give iPhone customers free access to its network of 20,000 WiFi hotspots across the US, today is a good day for you. AT&T has announced that it will be giving its Windows Mobile smartphone customers the same access to AT&T WiFi HotSpots in the…
Cancel Your T-Mobile Contract Without an Early Termination Fee (ETF)!
From time to time, US carriers decide to change the terms of their contracts. The changes usually involve increases in some sort of fee. When carriers do this, customers can sometimes get out of their wireless contracts without having to pay early termination fees (ETFs). T-Mobile has just made one of those contract changes. According…
Button: The iPhone game about one addictive button
I have to admit, when my blogger buddy Greg from MobileCrunch told me he had an iPhone game that was based on a single button that lights up every now and again, I was skeptical. But, I figured I owed it to him to check out the game – hell, it’s free. But, I’m glad…
Did AT&T get the short end of the iPhone-stick?
If you thought AT&T has been taking their Apple iPhone exclusivity deal to the bank for the past couple years, you’d be wrong. But, it’s okay, AT&T was thinking the same thing. A new WSJ article points out that AT&T may have been getting the short end of the iPhone stick all this time. Apple,…
Android Market sales sadly pathetic
Just the other day, we reported on AdMob’s estimation that the AppStore moved some $2.4 billion every year in iPhone app purchases. Developers have since come out against that estimation, saying that the number is grossly inflated. But, then, AdMob’s numbers for the Android Market are also likely inflated. Turns out, Android developers are seeing…