HTC’s latest messaging handset, the HTC Snap, made waves at CTIA Wireless 2009 as one of the slickest mid-range smartphones to rock Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard in quite some time. Before that, HTC launched the HTC Touch Pro2, at Mobile World Congress 2009, as the company’s flagship Windows Mobile Professional handset. Now, word has it…
iPhone OS 3.0 gets jailbroken, but not unlocked
We’re all eagerly awaiting Apple’s mid-year launch of the iPhone 3.0 OS. With new features like copy/paste support and stereo Bluetooth in tow, the next iPhone OS iteration is expected to make a big splash. And, it looks like the iPhone OS 3.0 firmware has already been jailbroken. Thanks to Russian iPhone developer Vortex, iPhone…
Sony Ericsson Booth Tour – Live from CTIA Wireless 2009
First off, the headline might be a little misleading. Sony Ericsson, for whatever reason, didn’t have an official exhibitor booth on the CTIA Wireless 2009 showfloor. The Japanese-Swedish phone maker has been going through a bit of a rough financial-patch recently. How that plays into the company’s decision to forgo any physical presence in the…
Samsung Mondi video walk-through
Despite WiMAX’s slow roll-out in the US, Samsung is committed to supporting the WiMAX revolution. The South Korean cellphone giant used the world-stage at CTIA Wireless 2009 to announce their first WiMAX device – the Samsung Mondi. The Samsung Mondi is headed to Clearwire’s WiMAX-based Clear network with WiMAX and WiFi connectivity, boasting a massive…
Samsung Booth Tour – Live from CTIA Wireless 2009
One of the gems of the CTIA Wireless 2009 show is Samsung. There’s a surprising lack of manufacturer and carrier presence in the Las Vegas Convention Center, and that plays to Samsung’s advantage. The Samsung booth, as always, sprawled across the showfloor and offered passersby a glimpse of the latest and greatest from Samsung Mobile.…
Nokia E71x video quickie
It’s the end of the week and we’re slowly wrapping up our live coverage of CTIA Wireless 2009. One of the bigger product announcements at the show was AT&T’s Nokia E71x. The E71x is essentially the same as the Nokia E71, only the E71x supports the 3G frequency bands that AT&T uses. As the first…
Video: Palm Pre’s new WebOS applications from Sprint
The Palm Pre is just about the hottest ticket in the mobile arena at the moment. With hype building behind the WebOS and the Palm Pre’s high-end hardware, Sprint and Palm are preparing to hit this one out of the park. And, in preparing to bring the Palm Pre to its network, Sprint has already…
LG GD900 Style – Up close and personal with the ‘transparent’ phone
First of all, the LG GD900 Style isn’t really a transparent phone. LG is touting it as the world’s first transparent phone, but really it’s just the slide-out keypad that’s transparent. Still, it’s an interesting “feature” (maybe more of a gimmick). As expected, LG brought the LG GD900 Style to CTIA Wireless 2009. We had…
Hands-on with the HTC Snap
The HTC Maple that we saw leaked not too long ago has finally hit market as the BlackBerry-fighting HTC Snap. Boasting a full-QWERTY keyboard and a BlackBerry-esque trackball, the HTC Snap isn’t just a productivity tool, it’s also a (social) communications device. And, with the new “Inner Circle” email management feature, the HTC Snap puts…
Adobe working with TI to bring Flash, AIR to OMAP platform
In their push to bring Adobe Flash support to the OMAP-wielding handsets of the world, Adobe as announced at CTIA Wireless 2009 Las Vegas that they will be collaborating with Texas Instruments (TI) to optimize the Adobe® Flash® Player and Adobe AIR® components of Adobe’s Flash platform for use with TI’s OMAP-based mobile processors. With…