With a little luck, we’ll see the Finnish cellphone giant pushing a new lineup of touchscreen smartphones on the Fira de Barcelona show-floor at Mobile World Congress next week. In a video interview with the Nokia N97 designer, Nokia shows off a couple new touchscreen smartphones with impressive feature-sets. The two new finger-friendly Nokia handsets…
Cellphones with 30x battery life and 7x performance on the horizon?
These days, mobile phones have more processing power than full-fledged computers of the last decade. Unfortunately, these powerful CPUs require a lot of power. And, as these processors become ever more powerful, they’ll draw even more power. Or do they? A breakthrough in chip design has led to a revolutionary new processor, dubbed the PCMOS…
R.I.P Palm OS: 1996-2008
That’s it, Palm CEO Ed Colligan has just sounded the death-knell for the Palm OS. Hold on to those old Palm OS-powered Palm Treo and Centro smartphones, they’ll be worth more in a few years as a collector’s item! Of course, we’re just kidding, but wouldn’t it be nice if the mobile world worked like…
Take a tour of Verizon’s national testing labs!
Ever wonder what exactly our wireless carriers are doing in hardware tests before launching new mobile phones? Well, wonder no more. PocketNow was lucky enough to get an inside look at Verizon’s national testing laboratories, and they’ve got the video to prove it. The video tour takes us inside the actual Verizon Wireless testing labs,…
Clearwire WiMAX infrastructure expansion hung up on funds-shortage
Chalk up another delay for Clearwire and Sprint’s national WiMAX network. In its push to bring WiMAX coverage to half of the US population by 2010, Clearwire sought investments from industry heavy-weights like Intel, Google and Time Warner. Unfortunately, the $3.2 billion already invested into the WiMAX network isn’t enough to meet Clearwire’s goals. Bloomberg…
Samsung to revolutionze cellphones with programmable CDMA/GSM/WiMAX/LTE radios!
The consuming public is quick to latch on to more high-profile technologies and features in new mobile phones. Things like Visual Voicemail, multi-touch support, integrated GPS, and overall handset performance usually draw more than their fair share of the lime-light. But, there’s a lot to be said for more behind-the-scenes developments in mobile technology –…
Proof of BlackBerry Visual Voicemail in AT&T’s online account management webpage
If you had any doubts that Visual Voicemail functionality was en route to your BlackBerry, let this latest find put that uncertainty to rest. Boy Genius Report has found that the BlackBerry Visual Voicemail option is now visible on AT&T’s online account management web page. The appearance of Visual Voicemail in AT&T’s own internal BlackBerry…
Chinese cellphone battery cleared of fault, man’s death blamed on homemade gun
Looks like we were all too quick to blame the Chinese cellphone battery as the culprit responsible for a Chinese man’s death last week. As you’ll probably remember, the man was shopping at a Lenovo store in China when shoppers reported hearing a loud “bang” and seeing the man fall to the ground. It seems…
Firefox Mobile (Fennec) goes live on HTC Touch Pro!
Welp, it’s finally happened. The long wait for Mozilla’s answer to the third-party mobile browsers from Skyfire and Opera has finally come to a head with the release of Firefox Mobile (codename: Fennec), in pre-release form, on the HTC Touch Pro! We had expected the Fennec team to go live with their milestone release of…
Sony Ericsson C903 Cybershot cameraphone shows off its colorful side
Now that Sony Ericsson has officially unveiled their latest Cybershot cameraphones in the run-up to the Mobile World Congress, the Japanese-Swedish cellphone maker is giving their product lineup a longer leash with with to roam the internets. The latest images of the Sony Ericsson C903 “Frances” Cybershot cameraphone shows off the handset’s slick design, trick…