As T-Mobile gears up to bring the 8-megapixel Samsung Memoir cameraphone to its burgeoning 3G network, we’re bound to see the Samsung Memoir (aka Leica) popping up around the web. We’ve seen the Samsung Memoir hanging out in-the-wild, but today we get our first up-close look at the 8-megapixel cameraphone. A new T-Mobile internal flier…
Verizon jumping on femtocell bandwagon with Network Extender femtocell
Femtocells have been gaining traction as a signal-boosting alternative to moving homes or switching wireless carriers. Sprint recently launched their Sprint Airave femtocell, giving signal-hungry Sprint customers the option to put a pint-sized cellular tower in their living rooms. Not to be outdone by their rival CDMA network, Verizon Wireless has launched their own Network…
Motorola shutters Windows Mobile development in Florida
Times are tough. Especially so for once-giant phone maker Motorola. Facing economic slowdowns and a softening mobile phone market, Motorola previously announced that the company is preparing to lay off some 4,000 employees in 2009. The company is apparently kicking things off with the announcement that 77 employees at Motorola’s Plantation, Florida development facility will…
Verizon finally rolls out Windows Mobile 6.1 update for Verizon XV6900 (Touch)
Well lookey here. Verizon Wireless has finally gotten around to releasing the almost irrelevant Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM update for customers using the Verizon XV6900 (Verizon’s version of the HTC Touch). Of course, most HTC Touch owners unfortunate enough to find themselves under Verizon’s thumb have likely already upgraded their Verizon XV6900 with the Windows…
Best Buy offers Palm Treo Pro on pre-order
If you just can’t get the Palm Treo Pro out of your head and bumped off your gotta-have list, no matter how much Palm Pre-ogling you do, w’eve got some good news for you. The Palm Treo Pro, all gussied up in Sprint attire, is now available on pre-order through Best Buy’s online storefront! The…
Last.fm brings streaming internet radio to Android and T-Mobile G1
While the iPhone 3G and the App Store might have the upper-hand when it comes down to application breadth and shear volume of downloadable apps, the Android OS is steadily gaining ground. Popular services already ported to the iPhone OS have started to pop up in the Android Market for downloading with any Android-powered smartphone…
Motorola i9 iDEN hadnset coming soon to Boost Mobile
It looks like Boost Mobile is sweetening the deal for anyone considering the carrier’s new industry-leading $50 unlimited everything plan. And hey, why not? Boost Mobile has done well in the face of uncertain economic conditions. On top of offering unlimited calling and texting for just $50 a month, Boost Mobile is apparently preparing to…
Sony Ericsson ‘Frances’ to launch as Sony Ericsson C903?
If the latest rumors coming out of SEMC Blog are on point, we may see the unannounced Sony Ericsson “Frances” launching under as the Sony Ericsson C903. The 5 megapixel Cybershot cameraphone that you see in the picture below is obviously not the real deal, but it could very well be a somewhat accurate depiction…
Palm nixed microSD on Palm Pre for all the right reasons
It’s not often that we actually we condone a phone manufacturer purposefully leaving particular features by the wayside. Actually, we don’t condone the lack of a microSD card slot in the Palm Pre, but the reasoning behind Palm’s decision to nix the expansion card slot makes sense enough. Palm apparently needed to ensure that their…
Windows Mobile 6.5 on the HTC Touch Pro… kinda
There’s just something cool about running an as-yet-unreleased mobile operating system on your still-new smartphone. Last we saw, the upcoming Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM had been allegedly hacked and ported to some seriously old HTC hardware. We have to admit, we were a bit disappointed with what we saw in Windows mobile 6.5’s UI design,…