With all this talk of high-end smartphones forcing themselves into the limelight recently, it’s easy to forget that the bulk of the mobile market is comprised of feature-based handsets (dumbphones, if you will) with a focus on usability and affordability. LG, however, hasn’t forgotten that their bread-and-butter market lies in the mid- and low-range markets.…
Turn your HTC Touch Diamond or HTC Touch Pro into a wireless remote/mouse
We all know how great the HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch Pro Windows Mobile smartphones have proven to be. With plenty of processing power and system memory under the hood and that 2.8-inch VGA display making sure everything from websites to videos look amazing, the HTC Touch Pro and HTC Touch Diamond are surefire…
ASUS P565 – A VGA Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone from ASUS?
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. The current evolution in the mobile world is the move to higher-resolution displays. For too long, mobile phone consumers have been forced to pick from handsets with woefully-limited pixel counts. The days of high-end smartphones being limited to lesser resolutions is coming to an end. And,…
Skyfire announces Skyfire 0.8 beta Flash-friendly mobile web browser
When it comes to mobile web browsing, mobile phone manufacturers and mobile web browser developers are all about telling us that their platform brings the desktop web browsing experience to the mobile space. But, that’s never entirely true. The problem is that the full-desktop version of that new-fangled communications-medium they call the I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T is usually…
FCC greenlights HTC Touch HD for US duty!
The HTC Touch HD is just about the most compelling device to come out of HTC’s Taiwanese manufacturing plants, and with that disgustingly huge (in a good way) 3.8-inch WVGA touchscreen display dominating its front-face, it’s not hard to see that HTC is going for smartphone-gold with the HTC Touch HD. The range-topping HTC Touch…
Timberland offers $7 million text message spam settlement
Mobile consumers these days aren’t going to take text message spam lying down. The precedent has been set, forcing spammy text message senders to pay heft sums to angry mobile users. In that light, shoemaker and clothier Timberland has offered to settle a class-action lawsuit filed against itself and GSI Commerce by mobile customers complaining…
T-Mobile throttling 3G data speeds after 1GB soft-cap
We’re not surprised to hear that T-Mobile is enforcing a 1GB soft-cap on 3G data transfers. Afterall, big-dog carriers like AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint have all jumped on-board the bandwidth throttling train – it makes sense for T-Mobile to keep as much of their 3G pipeline as traffic-free as possible. It’s not something we like…
T-Mobile HTC G1 (Dream) specifications and features – How good is this Google Phone?
T-Mobile’s announcement of the Android-powered T-Mobile G1 smartphone (made by HTC – the HTC Dream) has finally given us an outlet for our pent-up anxiety in the form of Android/HTC Dream G1/T-Mobile G1 posts. All the pictures and videos floating around the interwebs paint quite a pretty picture of the T-Mobile G1, but just how…
T-Mobile goes live with T-Mobile G1 web portal
T-Mobile and HTC just took the proverbial wraps off of their highly-anticipated T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream). We’re still trying to come to terms with the prospect of actually being able to put hands on the gPhone (Google Phone) in the near future, and we’re already saving up for a T-Mobile G1 of our very own.…
T-Mobile adds 3G footprint to network coverage map
With T-Mobile making a serious push to bring their rapidly growing 1700Mhz AWS 3G network up and running across the nation in anticipation of the HTC Dream hitting T-Mobile’s network as the Android-powered T-Mobile G1, it makes sense that T-Mobile would want to show customers just how extensive their 3G network really is. The once-mythical…