These days, it’s night impossible to find a wireless subscriber without some sort of SMS text messaging bundle tacked onto their rate plan. But, for those of you Rogers subscribers that are still living in the “olden days,” (when voice calls were still novel) not having a text messaging plan is about to get more…
RIM CEO: BlackBerry Storm 2 coming soon!
RIM is pushing hard to knock Apple and the iPhone off its pedestal as the most sought-after smartphone in the US. But, if it wants its iPhone-fighting BlackBerry Storm to unseat the iPhone as the gotta-have touchscreen smartphone on the market, RIM is going to need something more than the awkward first-generation SurePress click-screen technology.…
Boost Mobile’s popularity is a double-edged sword
Boost Mobile’s recently launched $50 unlimited calling plan was a significant reason that Sprint’s Q1 2009 financial results weren’t any worse than a $594 million could possibly be. While parent Sprint saw 1.25 million post-paid subscribers walk out the door, Boost saw 764,000 pre-paid subscribers coming hither. Unfortunately, Boost’s recent success with their flat-rate calling…
Verizon preparing $100 Novatel MiFi 2200 Portable HotSpot?
The credit card-sized Novatel MiFi Portable 3G HotSpot might very well change the way mobile road-warriors work from the, well, road. Unfortunately, we really have little clue as to when the MiFi is going to launch in the US. Amid talk of Sprint and Verizon picking up the Novatel MiFi in CDMA-guise, Engadget Mobile is…
Sprint reports $594M worth of red ink, loses 1.25M customers
As the world waits for the Palm Pre to rejuvenate Palm and reinvigorate Sprint’s shrinking US wireless network, the No. 3 US wireless network is struggling to hold on to their most valuable market-segment – the post-paid wireless subscriber. Rival carriers have been pulling customers away with high-profile smartphones like the Verizon BlackBerry Storm and…
PreBerry – Palm Pre theme for BlackBerry Storm
Is that “new OS” feeling starting to wear off of your BlackBerry Storm? Worry not, a new WebOS theme is now available to give your BlackBerry Storm a bit of Palm Pre-mojo. The new WebOS theme, appropriately named PreBerry, emulates the look and feel of the Palm Pre’s all-new mobile operating system. Following on the…
Microsoft teases with Windows Marketplace sneak-peek
Microsoft is apparently in the final stages of polishing off their Windows Mobile 6.5 OS update for public release. That means Microsoft’s Windows Marketplace mobile application store is almost ready to launch. As Microsoft’s answer to the success of the Apple iPhone App Store, the Windows Marketplace is expected to make its global debut with…
BlackBerry Curve tops iPhone 3G as most popular US smartphone
It seems that the venerable iPhone 3G has been overtaken by the RIM BlackBerry Curve (in all of its “83xx” variants) in the first quarter of the 2009 US smartphone popularity contest. According to NPD, RIM’s US smartphone market share increased some 15% to give the BlackBerry-maker a 50% smartphone market share, knocking the iPhone…
Google Location Services built into Firefox Mobile (Fennec)
Firefox Mobile, codenamed “Fennec,” is expected to bring all the browsing goodness of Mozilla’s desktop Firefox browser to the mobile space. Fennec is loaded with all kinds of new features that may just change the way we think about how a web browser will work. One of Firefox Mobile’s newly discovered features is its integration…
Verizon Wireless to announce BlackBerry 9630 Tour (Niagara) at WES?
Devoted BlackBerry users on the Verizon Wireless network have been waiting eagerly for the 3G-capable BlackBerry 9630 Niagara, also known as the BlackBerry Tour. With a dual-mode GSM/CDMA radio that supports 3G on EVDO Rev. A and UMTS networks, the BlackBerry Tour (Niagara) is the world-roaming counterpart to the GSM BlackBerry Bold. And, for Verizon…