We’ve been waiting on pins and needles for AT&T to go live with their own-branded variant of the highly acclaimed HTC Touch Pro. With that beautiful full-VGA touchscreen display, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 3.2 megapixel camera, GPS, WiFi, and 3G data connection, the HTC Touch Pro is definitely the premier Windows Mobile smartphone in the US.…
FCC blesses Verizon-Alltel deal – Verizon cleared to purchase Alltel!
Well that certainly didn’t take too long. The FCC has just made good on their promise to deliver a decision on the Verizon-Alltel merger deal before the end of 2008. Verizon Wireless has just been given the go-ahead to acquire fellow CDMA wireless carrier Alltel in a merger deal that would give Verizon the subscriber-base…
Sprint targeted in $1 billion class-action lawsuit over Early Termination Fees
Here we go again with another class-action lawsuit seeking to recover illegally levied Early Termination Fees (ETF) from wireless carriers. Sprint, still reeling from a previous court order that had the struggling US wireless carrier refunding some $73 million to ex-customers that were charged ETF fees, has been hit with another federal class-action lawsuit in…
Sprint refocusing efforts on Nextel network
Sprint’s money-pit acquisition of Nextel a few years ago proved to be a bigger drain on Sprint’s finances than they had expected. With the iDEN-based Nextel network dragging down Sprint’s bottom line, the No. 3 US wireless carrier has recently started courting potential investors to take the Nextel network off its hands. Alas, the Nextel…
New MacBook and MacBook Pro breaks iPhone Jailbreak – Pwnage Tool pwned by MacBook
The new MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops take Apple’s penchant for marrying high-technology with high-style to a whole new level. We won’t get into how cool the solid aluminum casing is, nor how much more productive the huge all-glass trackpad allows us to be – that’s not our niche, so we’ll steer clear. What we…
Deutsche Telekom found to be violating foreign ownership limits with T-Mobile USA
The FCC, in seeking to preserve homegrown competition, has reportedly found that T-Mobile USA is in violation of federal regulations that limit foreign ownership of US-based companies to 20% or less. Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile’s parent company, has been served with a notice from the FCC informing them that “T-Mobile USA’s level of foreign ownership through…
Nokia feels the pain of market slowdown, hands out 600 pink slips
It was only a matter of time before the slowdown in global mobile growth hit the big-boys where it hurts the most – their bottom line. As the global economy threatens a planet-wide recession that likely further dampen growth in mobile phone sales, it’s hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel.…
Palm rolls out minor update for Verizon Palm Centro
With Palm just about ready to ditch their aging Palm OS platform for the Linux-based goodness of the Access Linux Platform (ALP) 3.0, Palm customers with older handsets might be feeling a bit left behind. Palm has all but declared their Palm OS dead in the water, and we can’t imagine that there will be…
Motorola thwarting eBay sales of Motorola AURA luxury phone?
Can any company force you to forego your natural right to sell your used mobile phones through second-hand channels like eBay? Word on the street has it that Motorola might be trying to do just that with their Motorola AURA. A “source close to [Motorola]” has apparently told Register Hardware that Motorola will require any…
Verizon Samsung U940 Glyde problems fixed, software update on the way
Just days after Verizon halted sales of its Samsung U940 Glyde, citing some mysterious “issues,” Big Red has gone and fixed the apparently critical Samsung Glyde problem. Engadget Mobile cites a Verizon source as saying that the Verizon Samsung Glyde is due to recieve a software update that should resolve the problems that temporarily took…