Watchmen is, without a doubt, one of the most anticipated movie releases of 2009. Legions of fans have been waiting to put eyes on the graphic novel-turned-movie since last year, and the hype is building to a frenzy. So, it’s befitting that the much-hyped Watchmen movie is getting a little positive PR from the likewise-hyped…
LG unveils LG Renoir 8GB Black
Touchscreen? Check. High-end camera? Check. Loads of on-board storage? Not so much. The LG KC910 Renoir launched late last year as the 8-megapixel cameraphone to rule them all. LG has been locked in a fierce battle for cameraphone supremacy with the likes of Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Nokia in recent months, and we can’t see…
Proof of concept: Multi-touch on Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
What would make Nokia’s first S60-powered (S60 5th Edition, that is) touchscreen handset better than it already is? Well, for starters, we’d love to see the US fleet of Nokia 5800 XpressMusic handsets actually working with 3G frequencies in the US. Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait for Nokia to get the bugs worked out on…
Global cellphone penetration reaches new milestone – 60% of globe now mobile
The world is changing. And, fueled by spectacular growth in the mobile space, the world is changing faster than ever. At the turn of the millennium, around the year 2002, only 15% of the globe was wirelessly connected. A new United Nations report shows just how far we’ve come – a whopping 60% of the…
Mac OS 7 running on an iPhone!
Just how powerful are our mobile phones these days? Powerful enough to run a desktop-class operating system from just a dozen, or so, years ago. This time around, the iPhone is being used as a surrogate computer for the Apple computer OS known to harder-core Mac enthusiasts as Mac OS 7, or System 7. A…
Motorola co-CEO fesses to corporate blunders, looks to brighter future
Motorola has seen better days. Since the mobile-pioneer led the world as the largest maker of cellphones in the early 1990’s, Motorola has seen its market share, profits and influence sliding by the day. Motorola has been bleeding from its mobile phone division for too long – the company recently posted 2008 operating losses of…
iPhone blows away competition with 66% of all mobile web traffic!
When it comes to using the mobile web, you’ll be hard-pressed to find anyone that denies the iPhone’s multi-touch web browsing experience as anything less than top-notch. The mobile world scurried to bring their own touchscreen competitors to market when the iPhone blew up the scene with its inaugural launch in 2007, but no other…
Nokia pulls 3G-defective 5800 XpressMusic NAM handsets from flagship stores
It’s official. After a couple days of speculation and WTF-ery from miffed Nokia 5800 XpressMusic owners unable to get a reliable 3G data connection on their new smartphones, Nokia has come out and officially acknowledged the problem. Nokia has pulled all 5800 XpressMusic NAM models from the shelves in its New York and Chicago flagship…
T-Mobile USA offers unlimited $50 calling plan nationwide!
As many carriers tend to do with new services and rate-plan pricing, T-Mobile launched their $50 unlimited calling plan as a pilot program in San Francisco. With no other national wireless carrier able to match the $50 all-you-can-eat wireless rate plans, T-Mobile has no doubt seen some good response from loyal T-Mobile subscribers that were…
All that and a bag of potato chips… and a cellphone!
No, there are no potato chip vendors (that we know of, anyway) that are offering free cellphones with purchase of a bag of ‘tater chips. But, what would you do if you happened to find an ancient Nokia mobile phone inside your favorite bag of chips? Wisconsiner Emma Schweiger recently faced that exact same predicament…