Best Buy may not be getting too many Palm Pre units on launch day, but if you’re lucky enough to have a Best Buy Mobile in your area, you’re in for a treat. Best Buy Mobile will apparently be selling the Palm Pre for $199.99 without any kind of mail-in rebate, as long as you…
Nokia offers unused patents to Finnish tech companies
Nokia has just made itself one of the most socially responsible corporations in the mobile space, maybe even in the tech industry as a whole. In a move aimed at boosting the local Finnish economy, Nokia has announced that they’ll be making available their hoard of unused patents to select technology companies in Finland. As…
Not surprising: iPhone doubles global smartphone market share!
A lot of things have changed in the past year. Least surprising among them is the iPhone’s rise to global popularity. From the first quarter of 2008 through Q1 2009, the iPhone’s global market share has more than doubled. Mirroring the smartphone market’s resilient growth, the iPhone has managed to buck the trend of declining…
‘Design The Future’ and win $10,000, just do it soon!
Think you have what it takes to “design the future” for the mobile space? If you’ve ever thought you could design a mobile phone to better suit your needs and style, you’ll want to check out LG’s “Design The Future” mobile phone design competition. As if a chance to have your design concepts used in…
Nokia N86 8MP passes through FCC with 8-megapixel camera
We’ve been waiting to put Nokia’s next-generation cameraphone in our pockets since we first put hands on the 8-megapixel monster in Barcelona, and that wait may soon be over. The FCC has just approved the Nokia N86 8MP for US GSM networks! The Nokia N86 sports an 8-megapixel Carl Zeiss camera with all kinds of…
HTC Touch Pro battery shows blue jeans who’s boss
Perhaps we’ve all become a little too used to carrying around tiny little plastic boxes packed with potentially unstable chemicals. The Li-ion battery that powers most cellphones today can be a reliable power source, making for hours upon hours of mobile fun. But when things go awry inside the battery, they tend to get real…
Toshiba post record loss, pulls plug on Japanese mobile phone production
An unfortunate decline in Japanese mobile phone demand has squeezed Toshiba out of its home country. Toshiba has announced that economic pressures have forced the company to pull the plug on the production of mobile phones in Japan. That means, come this October, Toshiba’s Japanese cellphone production operations will cease. The decision to stop manufacturing…
Microsoft working on Windows Mobile 7’s answer to Pre’s Synergy?
The Palm Pre is as innovative as it is sleekly designed. One of the Pre’s many headlining features is its “Synergy” contact management software. As part of the Palm Pre’s WebOS operating system, Synergy automatically aggregates contact information from all your social networks – essentially making manual updates to your address book obsolete. And, by…
Yet another study confirms cellphone sales down, smartphone growth still strong
Here we go again. It seems research firms are all catching on to the fact that the smartphone revolution is in full swing. While the rest of the mobile market seems to be faltering, yet another study confirms that the smartphone market is showing robust growth. Gartner says that smartphone shipments increased 12.7% to 36…
Your smartphone is killing the Earth
Aside from the potentially toxic chemicals and environmentally-unfriendly plastics used in the manufacturing of cellphones, the power-hungry smartphone in your pocket may be helping to kill our beautiful planet. Chemicals can be reformulated and plastics can be recycled, but the battery power that keeps your smartphone chugging along has to come from somewhere – a…