Samsung is apparently embracing the Windows Mobile development community with a new virtual device laboratory, appropriately dubbed Lab.dev, through the company’s Samsung Mobile Innovator development portal. Lab.dev’s goal is to give Windows Mobile developers a virtual testing environment where they can install and test WinMo apps on any Windows Mobile-powered Samsung smartphone – all over…
The Verizon Wireless Palm Pre… kinda, sorta
The Palm Pre’s success is only being held back by Sprint’s exclusivity deal on the WebOS-powered smartphone. Both Verizon Wireless and AT&T have made it known that the Palm Pre is most certainly on their radar (although, Sprint isn’t shy about reaffirming their own exclusivity deal), but we’ve yet to even see either carrier officially…
T-Mobile Touch Pro2 unboxing pics
The HTC Touch Pro2 is pretty much the baddest side-sliding enterprise smartphone available today. We even pitted the Pro2 against Nokia’s N97 in heated battle, and the Pro2 came out on top. So, it’s no wonder T-Mobile decided to offer the Touch Pro2 in the US. Now, we get a glimpse of the T-Mobile Touch…
Cell towers as early flash flood warning system
No, it’s not just an idea. It’s been proven through field testing that cellular towers can be used to help predict flash floods with enough early-warning leeway to give flood-plain dwellers a chance to get our of harm’s way. Thanks to the research of Prof. Pinhas Alpert, a geophysicist and head of the Porter School…
HTC Hero coming to T-Mobile UK as G2 Touch
T-Mobile UK has confirmed today that they’ve decided to go a slightly different route with the soon-to-be-released T-Mobile G1 Touch. The Android-powered HTC Hero was recently unveiled to much fanfare in the UK, and was initially expected to be known as the T-Mobile G1 Touch. Now, it seems T-Mobile’s UK arm is going with the…
AT&T may get Sony Ericsson C905a 8MP cameraphone on July 19th?
AT&T might soon find themselves catching up with T-Mobile in the 8-megapixel cameraphone game. According to one of Boy Genius Report’s tipsters, AT&T may go live with the Sony Ericsson C905a cameraphone later this month. If the rumor pans out, we could see the SE C905a hitting AT&T on July 19th! We’ve mentioned the C905…
Palm cooking up WebOS 1.1 update with added Exchange features and more apps
Palm isn’t just looking to capture a slice of the consumer smartphone market, they’ve got their sights set on pushing the Palm Pre onto business users as well. Word on the street has Palm preparing a WebOS 1.1 update that will bring added Exchange Active Sync features. The 1.1 update is also expected to launch…
Apple iPhone demand on the up and up!
RIM may still be the market leader when it comes to smartphones, but Waterloo had better watch its back. The iPhone, she’s catching up! The latest survey results from ChangeWave seem to suggest that short-term demand for the iPhone is far outpacing RIM’s BlackBerry offerings – that bodes well for Apple significantly increasing their smartphone…
Apple iPhone patent applications hint at live object identification and loads of other cool features
Apple’s published patent applications always makes for interesting reading. The iPhone maker’s latest patent applications hint at some really cool features possibly coming down the pipeline – chief among them, a live object identification technology that will allow you to point your iPhone camera at a real-world object to pull up information about that object.…
Accelerometers expected to penetrate 1/3 of mobile phones by 2010
Accelerometers in mobile phones weren’t anything new when the iPhone first launched, but the iPhone sure as hell made integrated G-sensors popular. So popular in fact, that just about every higher-end smartphone to hit market in recent months has some sort of integrated accelerometer hardware. Now, a new report shows that the penetration rate of…