We certainly had no idea. The iPhone and iPhone 3G’s meager allotment of 2-million pixels on its image sensor leaves a lot to be desired. In a day and age where even business-oriented smartphones are sporting high-quality 3.2-megapixel cameras, the iPhone’s 2-megapixel shooter seems woefully inadequate. But, these latest set of artsy pics shows off…
Nokia E55 spotted in Red!
There’s not much in the way of details here (not like we really need them), but it looks like the Nokia E55 will be made available in a full-bodied Red variant that we see in these latest hands-on pictures. The Nokia E55 was recently unveiled at Mobile World Congress as a more pocketable business phone.…
10 Ways to make SMS text messages work for you!
The SMS text message is almost as ubiquitous these days as air pollution and high gas prices. But, we’d argue that most of the 2 trillion (with a “T”) SMS text messages sent around the world last year were of the vanilla variety – short text communications between friends, family and co-workers. The overwhelming majority…
FEMA taps AT&T and Verizon Wireless for emergency communications providers
It sure is good to see the federal-response agency nightmare we call the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) doing something to actually prepare for an emergency. You know, instead of waiting until an emergency hits and then scrambling to figure out how to get water to catastrophe victims. With the new Obama administration cleaning up…
Man catches fish that ate his cellphone!
Man loses cellphone in water. Big fish eats his cellphone (we know, just keep reading). Fisherman catches said thieving fish. Man gets cellphone back! We don’t know how the fish even managed to get its slimy mouth around a Nokia cellphone (we’re no fish experts), or why a fish would even find a mobile phone…
Photo PhoneBook – Sync your iPhone contacts photo with Facebook!
It’s nice and all being able to assign profile pictures to your iPhone contacts, but there’s a steep price to pay if you’d like to have all, or even most, of your contacts assigned to their profile pictures. The time that you have to invest to ensure that all your contacts are pictured-up is enough…
Novatel puts the ‘intelligent’ in MiFi Portable Intelligent HotSpot!
At first glance, the Novatel MiFi Portable Intelligent HotSpot shows no signs of being intelligent. To the casual observer, the CDMA and GSM MiFi Portable HotSpots are nothing more than portable WiFi routers. And, those casual observers would be wrong. Sure, the Novatel MiFi HotSpots provide up to 5 continuous hours of WiFi connectivity (using…
Palm posts WebOS MOJO SDK tutorial – Proves WebOS development is easy
Following on Palm’s WebOS MOJO SDK development book announcement, it seems Palm has finally gone super official with their Palm Pre-powering MOJO SDK. Palm has posted a new video tutorial that walks us through the WebOS’s development specifics. The video is just a few minutes shy of an hour, and outlines the structure of the…
First-run Nokia 5800 XpressMusic handsets have defective speakers!
The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is now available in the US with North American 3G frequency support (read: AT&T 3G support)! Good news for Symbian touchscreen fans with an itch for all things music, to be sure, but there’s something you should know about early-production Nokia 5800 XpressMusic handsets. According to Nokia, all 5800 XpressMusic cellphones…
CBS brings FREE streaming TV to iPhone with TV.com application!
Want some FREE, streaming TV on your iPhone? Of course you do. As the first major US network broadcaster to embrace the iPhone and its media-consuming customer-base, CBS has released their new iPhone application, appropriately named TV.com, that pulls down streams of full-length CBS TV shows. Better yet, the application serves up episodes over WiFi…