HTC’s on its way to US smartphone market glory with its new lineup of HTC Touch handsets. From the HTC Touch Diamond to the HTC Touch HD, the Taiwanese Windows Mobile smartphone maker is preparing to blitz our Yankee market with all manner of smartphones aimed at different price-points. The HTC Touch Viva is basically…
Palm Treo Pro coming to AT&T later this year?
Keep your fingers crossed. Following on the leaked AT&T product roadmap, Palm has just confirmed that they will be bringing the Palm Treo Pro to a US carrier. We’re going to go ahead and assume AT&T will be picking up the GSM handset, but pricing and availability information are still unclear. AT&T’s delays in getting…
Sprint still looking to sell iDEN network
With Sprint’s EVDO Rev. A-based QChat push-to-talk service eating in to its iDEN network’s instant PTT communications strength, it would make sense to offload the iDEN that they inherited with the acquisition of Nextel in 2005. And, Sprint’s CEO Dan Hesse confirmed today that the company is still looking to sell the iDEN network, pending…
Apple recalls iPhone 3G power adapter cube
Apple’s tiny little cube-shaped AC power adapter that comes bundled with all new iPhone 3G’s apparently has a bit of design flaw. The metal prongs extending from the iPhone 3G wall-charger cube are reportedly an electrical hazard. Apple cites rare and scattered reports of some “Ultra Compact USB Power Adapter” metal prongs breaking off and…
Verizon Motorola Q9c gets Windows Mobile 6.1 update
Verizon customers still waiting on the Windows Mobile 6.1 update for their Motorola Q9c can finally get their aging smartphone up to speed with the rest fo the Windows Mobile 6.1-using world. Motorola has released the Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM for the Motorola Q9c on their software update support portal! The WM6.1 ROM update brings…
HTC Dream bringing Android to T-Mobile as T-Mobile G1
The HTC Dream has been gaining some serious media-traction over the past couple weeks as we countdown to the Android-powered HTC Dream’s launch on T-Mobile’s burgeoning 3G network next week. T-Mobile has posted up a pre-registration page on their website, referring to the HTC Dream as the T-Mobile G1. T-Mobile is apparently giving T-Mobile customers…
IntoMobile – #1 and loving it!
It’s been one helluva ride since IntoMobile got its blogging-legs and started exploring the mobile blogosphere. We’ve grown up quite a bit since last year, and it’s all because of you, our readers. Kudos to all of you for making IntoMobile one of the premier online resources for mobile phone content. You may have noticed…
T-Mobile to double 3G network coverage ahead of Android-powered HTC Dream G1’s arrival
The expected arrival of the Android-powered HTC Dream G1 on T-Mobile’s network next month has the blogosphere worked up in a frenzied froth of handset-lust. The HTC Dream G1 will be the first-ever handset to rock the newest mobile OS from Google – for the uninitiated out there, we’re talking about the Android OS. T-Mobile’s…
Study: 20% US homes to shun wireline phones by 2009
In an increasingly more connected and wireless world, it just doesn’t make sense to pay for wireline service. Free weekend and night minutes, free mobile to mobile calling (albeit within the same network), and relatively cheap wireless minutes are making landline telephones increasingly less essential to the average household. The numbers back up that notion.…
iPhone 3G vs HTC Touch HD – UI vs Hardware
It was inevitable. With a 3.8-inch WVGA display that completely dominates the entire front-face, and a form-factor that seems to at least have been inspired by the iPhone 3G, the HTC Touch HD was bound to be compared to the iPhone 3G. And, now we have side-by-side picture comparisons to see just how the iPhone…