It’s not enough for Palm to be the first manufacturer to integrate wireless charging (magnetic induction) technology into a mobile phone. Palm’s Touchstone charger for the Palm Pre is apparently just the first wireless thinagmajig in a line of Touchstone products. The reference to the Touchstone product line slipped loose during a Palm Pre product…
Samsung Omnia i910 GPS unlocked by new ROM!
If you’ve been scouring the interwebs for an easy way to unlock your Samsung i910 Omnia’s GPS hardware to work outside Verizon’s premium VZ Navigator service, you’ve probably found yourself up a certain creek without a certain paddle.Until now. Rejoice, ye Verizon customer! A new “unofficial” Windows Mobile ROM for the Verizon Samsung Omnia promises…
Sprint vacation freeze locks Palm Pre launch in for May!
When wireless carriers go around freezing employees’ vacation times for an entire month, you can be pretty sure that said carrier is planning to launch a headlining handset sometime in that month. This time around, we’re hearing that Sprint has frozen employees out of taking any vacation time during the month of May. Seeing as…
HTC Cedar variant spotted at FCC
The always eagle-eyed boys over at Engadget Mobile have spotted what looks like a second-variant of the recently-leaked HTC Cedar being put through its paces in the FCC’s test labs. The “CEDA200” has already cleared the FCC, making room for this “CEDA100.” The HTC Cedar was confirmed through a Bluetooth SIG leak, and this latest…
HTC Touch Pro, BlackBerry 8220 Pearl Flip, others coming to US Cellular’s network
In this super-connected world we live in today, the little guys aren’t so little anymore. The smaller, regional carriers throughout the US are working hard to offer their customers the same hardware lineup that bigger national carriers have the pleasure of launching. It makes sense, customers aren’t blind to new product launches just because their…
Taiwan getting HTC Touch Diamond2 in mid-April?
It would make sense that Taiwan-based HTC would launch one of their latest Touch handsets in their home-country first. We’re hearing from DigiTimes that HTC is getting set to launch the HTC Touch Diamond2 in Taiwan later this month. The Touch Diamond2 (TD2) is slated to go live in Taiwan in the second half of…
AT&T launches LG GR500 Xenon for messaging fans
If you’re into the new-fangled text messaging and mobile social networking craze, AT&T’s wants to make all that tap-tapping a little easier on your thumbs. AT&T is continuing its push to expand its messaging-oriented handset lineup with the new LG GR500 Xenon. With a 2.8-inch touchscreen that slides sideways to reveal a QWERTY keyboard, a…
T-Mobile set to announce European BlackBerry collaboration on April 22
Just yesterday we speculated that T-Mobile was getting ready to launch something new in NYC on April 21. Today, we’re hearing that T-Mobile’s European operations are also gearing up for some sort of “BlackBerry collaboration” announcement in London on April 22. That happens to coincide with the April 21 event in NYC, time zones being…
AT&T launches rugged candybar Samsung a657
Whether you’re the outdoorsy, adventurous type or an accident-prone corporate employee, there’s nothing like a little military-grade rugged cellphone to do your bidding. It’s nice knowing that your mobile phone meets military-spec standards for dust, shock, vibration, rain, humidity, solar radiation, altitude and temperature extremes. The latest military-touch handset to hit AT&T is the new…
Apple: Almost 1 Billion iPhone Apps Served, and counting…
If you had any doubts about the iPhone AppStore’s furious success over the past year, you should know that Apple is well on its way to its 1 billionth iPhone application download. Apple is making a big deal, as it should, about its 1 billion iPhone app downloads. In fact, Apple will be celebrating its…