It looks like cellphone users – law-biding and nefarious types alike – may soon have legal precedent backing up their cellphone privacy rights. A federal judge ruled this past Wednesday that authorities need probable cause and a warrant in order to get at a cellphone user’s historical cell-tower location data. The case, involving a drug…
Windows Mobile 6.1 comes to ASUS P527
As CTIA comes to a close, ASUS has finally made available the Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM for the ASUS P527 on their downloads website. Owners of the ASUS P527 can now update their smartphone to the latest that Microsoft has to offer in the mobile world. In addition to the improvements bundled with the Windows…
BlackBerry Booth Tour – CTIA San Francisco 2008
BlackBerry banner at CTIA San Francisco 2008 One of CTIA San Francisco 2008’s redeeming booths was most definitely RIM’s BlackBerry booth. The push email handset manufacturer from Waterloo currently commands a significant portion of the smartphone market and the RIM is looking to heat things up with their first 3G-capable BlackBerry handset – the BlackBerry…
Qualcomm Booth Tour – CTIA San Francisco 2008
Qualcomm isn’t exactly in the consumer hardware game, but that didn’t stop them from showing off a few of their new products at CTIA San Francisco 2008. Qualcomm’s Mirasol displays dramatically cut down on power consumption by using passive display technology that reflects ambient light rather than using a power-hungry LCD backlight. The Mirasol displays…
Motorola Booth Tour – CTIA San Francisco 2008
Motorola came to the Moscone Center to show off their latest wares at CTIA San Francisco 2008. We have to hand it to Motorola for their booth presence. Standing proudly amidst smaller, less impressive booths, Motorola had their well-designed and commanding booth displaying all their most impressive handsets. Unfortunately, Motorola didn’t have any new products…
Nokia Booth Tour – CTIA San Francisco 2008
Nokia came to the Moscone Center to show off their latest Eseries and Nseries handsets during CTIA San Francisco 2008. And, with rumors circling the company’s upcoming release of the Comes With Music subscription-based, unlimited download service, Nokia wanted to show convention-goers how the Comes With Music service integrates with their computer and handsets. More…
Microsoft Booth Tour – CTIA San Francisco 2008
CTIA San Francisco 2008 is coming to a close and we’re not all that sad to see it end. CTIA SF 2008, held in San Francisco’s Moscone Center, lacked the “oomph” that we had hoped to see. But, it is what it is. So, what better way to close CTIA SF 2008 than to walk…
Skyfire gives us the low-down at CTIA San Francisco 2008
Skyfire has made some headway in the mobile web browser game since we last touched base with them. The lightweight and super-fast mobile web browser uses servers on the back-end to handle all the data-processing to make sure that full-featured webpages are delivered to your mobile phone in just a fraction of the time it…
Sprint’s LG Lotus at CTIA San Francisco 2008
When fashion meets technology, you get a wonderful synergy of high-style and high-tech features. The LG Lotus is the latest Sprint handset to bring both good-looks and decent feature-set to the table. The LG Lotus boasts a stylized front-face that flips open to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard underneath. And, the LG Lotus’s small stature…
HTC shows off HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch Pro at CTIA San Francisco 2008
CTIA San Francisco 2008 isn’t exactly the hardware bonanza that we’d prefer it to be, but that doesn’t mean mobile phone manufacturers aren’t out to show off their newest technology. And, it just so happens that our favorite Windows Mobile smartphone manufacturer wanted to show the world just how cool their HTC Touch Diamond and…