Remember when Samsung started showing off their Samsung i780 Windows Mobile smartphone? Remember how the mobile world was split on whether that optical trackpad/mouse was a good fit with the touchscreen handset? Right, well Samsung has finally gone live with the first smartphone to feature a built-in optical mouse. Following on the FCC’s approval of…
Apple iPhone NDA termination spurs open-source iPhone development
Despite Apple’s play to keep the iPhone development ecosystem under lock down with their iPhone SDK NDA, iPhone developers flourished and seeded the iPhone AppStore with all manner of quirky and useful iPhone applications. And, now that the iPhone NDA (non-disclosure agreement – which keeps developers from talking to anyone about their work) has been…
iPhone WiFi Router – PDA Net makes iPhone 3G tethering easier than ever
iPhone and iPhone 3G owners with the warranty-voiding fortitude to open up their handset to unofficial third-party applications – the process known as the “jailbreak” – have enjoyed the option to use their iPhone 3G as a wireless modem. By “tethering” an iPhone 3G to a laptop, users with jailbroken iPhone 3G’s could take full…
Qik to bring live video-streaming to iPhone AppStore?
Just when we thought it would never happen, Digg founder Kevin Rose gets up on his speculation-soapbox and proclaims that the live video streaming iPhone application is due to hit the iPhone AppStore in the near future. Rose isn’t exactly the go-to source for reliable iPhone rumors, but being the founder of Digg does give…
Successor to the T-Mobile G1 – This is the T-Mobile G2!
Or, rather, this is the T-Mobile G2 mockup! The T-Mobile G1 has barely started to hit retail channels, and we’re already seeing mockups of the next-generation Android smartphone from T-Mobile. The mockup you see here is supposed to be the successor to the T-Mobile G1, logically dubbed the T-Mobile G2. The mockup is more of…
Palm Treo Pro 850 spotted surfing Sprint’s CDMA network
Remember a couple months back when we heard that the Palm Treo Pro 850 would be hitting CDMA networks in “the future?” Right, well it looks like we’ve done and caught up with that future. Thanks to a bit of sleuthing by WMExperts, we now have what looks like evidence that a CDMA variant of…
BlackBerry 9000 Bold slated for October 27 launch on AT&T?
With all this waiting and hoping for AT&T and RIM to get their act together and finally launch the long-awaited BlackBerry 9000 Bold in the US, we’re glad to hear that internal AT&T documents hint at a Bold launch date (pun intended?) on October 27. Of course, the BlackBerry Bold should have already been launched…
No guts, no glory – BlackBerry 8220 Pearl tear-down
You know what they say – “No guts, no glory.” Or was it “don’t hate the playa, hate the game?” Whatever the appropriate saying might be, there’s no denying that a hot new handset isn’t officially inaugurated into the mobile world without a proper hardware tear-down. The BlackBerry 8220 Pearl, the first BlackBerry flip-phone, is…
BlackBerry 8220 Pearl flips out on Future Shop, available soon
The first BlackBerry flip-phone from RIM has apparently made an appearance at the Future Shop! Even before the handset’s official announcement on Rogers’ network, it seems that Future Shop is offering the BlackBerry 8220 Pearl clamshell at an expected $50 price-point. Of course, a 3 year service contract with Rogers is required, and you’ll have…
IntoMobile – Now with 100% more “fresh”
Nope, it’s not your eyes. What you’re seeing is IntoMobile’s new design. The IntoMobile team has been toiling away behind the scenes to bring you a refreshed look, and it’s a bang-up job, if we do say so ourselves. Take a gander at our new navigation structure and you’ll notice that there are some new…