There’s nothing like a bit of upcoming mobile OS speculation to get our juices flowing. When Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha dropped a hint that there would be a Windows Mobile 6.5 coming down Microsoft’s mobile OS pipeline, we scrambled to make sense of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile strategy in light of Windows Mobile 7. The industry…
Official AT&T iPhone tethering solution coming soon, says AT&T CEO
Motion blur FTW. While it’s nothing like a solid (or even vague) launch window, AT&T’s CEO Ralph De La Vega was quoted as saying that AT&T would be offering an official iPhone tethering solution “soon.” While unofficial iPhone tethering solutions have been available on jailbroken iPhones for some time now, and there was even an…
It’s always hottest before the storm – BlackBerry Storm searches on fire!
Remember when the iPhone was the hottest thing rolling through the blogosphere? Remember how “iPhone” was the most searched for term on the web after Apple launched its original iPhone? Well, the new hotness on the block is apparently BlackBerry’s first-ever touchscreen handset – the BlackBerry 9500 Storm. Web search statistics from Hitwise show that…
T-Mobile passes on HSPA Evolution (HSPA+) in favor of 4G LTE networks
As it stands, T-Mobile is the last major carrier-holdout on the 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) front. Or at least, T-Mobile was the last holdout in the wireless market. T-Mobile’s Chief technology officer Joachim Horn recently stated that his company wouldn’t be rolling out the hardware upgrades necessary to enable HSPA Evolution (HSPA+) data speeds…
Palm makes it rain, breaks the bank
Like so many club-scene aficionados blowing their Friday paycheck in a bid to “make it rain” dollar-dollar-bills-ya’ll, it seems that Palm is burning through their cash reserves. Unlike those ghetto-rific clubbers, however, Palm doesn’t have a bottle of “Dom P” or the prospect of a romantic tryst to blame for their fiscal promiscuity. A recent…
JD Power: iPhone is tops among business users
When the iPhone launched, the world scoffed at the first-ever Apple mobile phone’s lack of physical keyboard or any real enterprise support. Business users around the world brushed aside the iPhone as a casual fad that would never amount to any real significance in the mobile space. Lo and behold, the iPhone 3G brought serious…
HTC Touch HD now available in the UK!
In a move that has the rest of us Yankees sobbing tears of jealous envy, it looks like HTC is blessing the United Kingdom with the almost unbelievable 3.8-inch WVGA (800 x 480) touchscreen goodness that is the HTC Touch HD. With that ridiculously large, high-resolution display, 3G data connectivity, GPS, WiFi, and a 5…
FCC OKs White Space Spectrum usage and Sprint-Clearwire merger
The FCC sure has been busy recently. Not only did the FCC beat their own deadline to deliver a decision Verizon’s bid to buy-out Alltel, the FCC has also been considering their position on the use of White Space Spectrum for mobile broadband as well as the Sprint-Clearwire merger. The former, which would allow the…
iPhone gets external keyboard!
Settle down there, sport. We know you’ve been waiting forever for someone to finally bring an external QWERTY keyboard solution to the iPhone and iPhone 3G. And, now that one intrepid iPhone jailbreak developer has developed his own home-grown external iPhone keyboard, that wait is over… almost. The jailbroken iPhone you see here is connected…
Use your T-Mobile G1 as a wireless modem – T-Mobile G1 tethering solution is live
What good is all that 3G goodness on T-Mobile’s 1700Mhz AWS network when all it does is serve up wireless data on your T-Mobile G1? Okay, sure, the T-Mobile G1 hums along quite nicely with its 3G data connection, but wouldn’t it be nice to share that 3G-love with your laptop? Of course if would.…