The Nuvifone G60 and M20 navigation-oriented smartphones have been delayed time and time again, but it seems the Garmin-ASUS duo is still intent on launching the devices before the end of the decade. In fact, if the latest rumblings along the mobile grapevine pan out, we’ll see Garmin-ASUS launching the Nuvifone G60 and Nuvifone M20…
HTC Hero: Unboxing the HTC Hero pics and vid
Behold the HTC Hero! We’ve got the teflon-coated HTC Hero in the house, and we thought we’d share the love. The HTC Hero’s custom-made HTC Sense UI did for Android what the HTC TouchFLO 3D UI did for Windows Mobile. In this case, Android needed way less work on its UI than the menu-heavy Windows…
Groups protest bill for jamming mobile phones in prison
Jamming cell phone signals in prison sounds like a good idea, on the surface. But, dig a little deeper, and you’ll quickly realize that the government-mandated wireless jamming bill is full of pit-falls and dangerous loopholes. The plan to jam cellular signals in prisons is so controversial that public interest groups have taken action with…
Abilene students face $15 fine for cell phones in school
Economic rough waters have prompted Texas schools in Abilene, TX to institute a district-wide cell phone fine. A new initiative will allow educators to confiscate any and all mobile phones, allowing them to hold the handset for a $15 ransom. After the first offense, students will have to ask a parent to come in and…
iPhone Dev: Limited WebOS SDK hinders serious app, game development
The WebOS might be as easy on the eyes as it is on your fingers, but the newest mobile operating system from Palm has a way to go before it can compete with the iPhone in graphics-heavy WebOS apps. The problem, apparently, is that WebOS Mojo SDK just isn’t robust enough for games or applications…
Verizon Wireless commits to maximum 6-month exclusivity deals
Wireless carriers get a lot of flack. Everyone’s always putting them on blast for their exclusivity contracts, crippled handsets and questionable rate hikes. Today, Verizon Wireless has taken the first step in changing its image as an anti-competitive wireless carrier. Big Red has officially committed itself to limiting any future handset exclusivity agreements to no…
Control your Comcast Cable services with the new Comcast iPhone app
AT&T has already done it (iTunes link). DirecTV is all about it. Now, Comcast has thrown their own iPhone app into the mix. The digital cable television, phone and high-speed internet provider has just launched a new iPhone app that allows customers to control their Cable, Voice and Data services from the palm of their…
HTC posts Bluetooth vulnerability patch for HTC Touch Diamond/Pro/HD
HTC Touch Diamond, Touch Pro and Touch HD users worried that their Windows Mobile smartphones are open to Bluetooth hacking can now rest easy. HTC has posted a Bluetooth patch that promises to close a security hole that allows nefarious Blue-hackers to gain access to your HTC WinMo handset’s file-system. Once hackers have access to…
Hands-on the Toshiba TG01 @ Mobile Beat 2009
If there’s one super-model-thin mobile phone I can’t get enough of, it’s the Toshiba TG01 Windows Mobile smartphone. Measuring an impossibly thin 9.9mm thick and packed with a 1Ghz Snapdragon processor (with a second processing core dedicated to handling all communications) from Qualcomm, the Toshiba TG01 is just about the slickest Windows Mobile smartphone on…
Find FREE iPhone apps through Twitter!
Not that there’s anything wrong with paying for iPhone apps in the AppStore, but there’s just something way cooler about getting premium apps for FREE. The good folks at 148apps have put together a Twitter account that tracks premium (for pay) iPhone apps in the AppStore and notifies all followers when any applications are offered…