Sometimes you just need a good laugh. If now is one of those times, go ahead and take a gander at the video below. What you’ll see is likely one of the worst handset unboxing videos of all time – in other words, worst…video…EVAR! The cellphone unboxing ritual is a sacred thing. Mobile enthusiasts can…
Bluetooth 3.0+HS spec goes live!
Today is the day that Bluetooth changes forever. As expected, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has gone official with their latest Bluetooth 3.0+High Speed spec, ushering in a new age of Bluetooth-connected devices transferring data at an impressive 24Mbps. The new Bluetooth 3.0+HS standard allows for devices, namely smartphones, to quickly pair with other…
Verizon unveils online User Review ratings for handsets
Verizon wants you, the customer, to learn everything you can about their mobile lineup so that you can make a more informed decision. As long as they control the information you’re reading. Today, Verizon has taken the wraps off their new online “handset review” system that lets Verizon customers sound off on what they liked…
Mt. Everest set to get dedicated cell service this year!
Making a phone call from the top of the most formidable mountain in the world is no small feat. But, once Nepal Telecom (NT) sets up a permanent cell-tower near Mt. Everest, the hardest thing about making a cellphone call from the top will be the climb. The extension of NT’s cellular network to the…
Microsoft Exchange 2010 will synchronize and archive WM 6.5 SMS text messages!
Microsoft is apparently looking to integrate Windows Mobile more tightly with the Windows computing experience. The newly available Exchange Server 2010 beta has shed some light on an upcoming Windows Mobile 6.5 feature – the ability to synchronize and archive all SMS text messages on the Exchange Server! Never again will you have to worry…
US DoE awards Sprint $7.3M for hydrogen fuel-cell research
Quick! What’s the first thing that pops into your mind when you think government-funded research? Words like “university,” “NASA,” “military” or something along those lines are likely your top-picks. US wireless carrier Sprint is pretty much the last entity we’d expect to score a research grant from the US Department of Energy (DoE). And yet,…
Windows Mobile 6.5 to support custom themes and ‘Titanium’ homescreen plug-ins
What is this “Titanium” gibberish that keeps popping up around mentions of Windows Mobile? Well, “Titanium” refers to the sliding-panel homescreen interface first debuted with Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard and now integrated into Windows Mobile 6.5. And, it looks like the upcoming WinMo 6.5 platform will be much more customizable in terms of UI aesthetics…
T-Mobile Sidekick LX 2009 video capability details
T-Mobile may not have let loose the details (or at least not the nitty gritty details) of their T-Mobile Sidekick LX 2009, or rather the Sidekick LX, but that doesn’t mean we don’t already have the juicy down-low on the upcoming HipTop’s video capabilities. Thanks to a little tech-sleuthing by MobileCrunch, we now know that…
AT&T upgrading 3G network with 7.2Mbps HSDPA for new iPhone
It’s becoming a tradition. Every year, just as the world builds up frenzied hype about Apple’s new impending iPhone launch, AT&T announces that it is upgrading its wireless network. When we saw the first Apple iPhone go live in 2007, AT&T announced that it would be upgrading its entire EDGE network (remember, the original iPhone…
Sprint goes all-out with $264,000 Palm Pre advertisement
Both Palm and Sprint need the Palm Pre to be more than just “popular,” they need the Palm Pre to be a block-busting success. In that search for mobile-glory, Sprint recently took out a full-page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal – total cost, $264,000. If there were any doubts that Sprint is going all-out…