Nokia’s road to establishing an open-source Symbian Foundation has just been cemented with Samsung’s reported acceptance of Nokia’s offer to buy-out Samsung’s shares in Symbian. Samsung is the last remaining share-holder in Symbian that stands between Nokia and their Symbian Foundation initiative. With their offer accepted by Samsung, Nokia will have ownership rights to the…
Even Steve Wozniak jailbreaks his iPhones
The latest evidence that Apple has to seriously give more thought to its iPhone SDK development guidelines comes to us in the form of Steve Wozniak’s “pwned” iPhone. The picture you see below shows Woz holding an iPhone that bears the telltale boot-logo of a jailbroken, “pwned” to be more precise, Apple handset. With Pwnage…
2008 Olympics’ Water Cube-themed mobile phone is what it is
Can’t get enough of the 2008 Olympics’ Water Cube? No worries, the land of media censorship and propaganda has turned out yet another low-end handset designed to evoke images of the Beijing National Aquatics Center, otherwise known a the Water Cube. The handset bears an exterior design reminiscent of the Water Cube’s glowing bubble-wrap-like architecture.…
Motorola Q11 set to succeed Q9?
It looks like Motorola is setting up its Motorola Q11 as the Windows Mobile 6.1-powered successor to the Motorola Q9. A product filing from the Bluetooth SIG describes with little detail a new Motorola handset bearing the Motorola Q11 moniker and apparently running Windows Mobile 6.1. The Bluetooth SIG is rarely good for more than…
Nortel and LG testing 4G LTE handover at highway speeds
Sure, 100Mbps worth of downstream data is something we’d all like to see in the near future. Imagine cruising the wireless airwaves at speeds faster than we see with wireline broadband services. Yup, the 4G LTE networks of the future are most definitely going to be fun. Getting 100Mbps data speeds from a particular cellular…
AT&T sees massive data network outage on East Coast
AT&T has been struggling to keep up with demand on its data network since the launch of the iPhone 3G. Tests and speculation have all but absolved the iPhone 3G of any inherent defect as the root of sluggish data network performance on AT&T’s 3G network. At this point, AT&T’s recently upgraded 3G network is…
Sprint’s HTC Touch Diamond, HTC Touch Pro launch details leaked
It looks like Sprint’s move to bring the HTC Touch Diamond and its sliding keyboard sibling, the HTC Touch Pro, to its CDMA network will finally bear some fruit this month. We’re hearing that Sprint and Bluefish are now taking down names and emails of interested customers that want to be notified when the HTC…
Sprint XOHM website reveals WiMAX details
There’s nothing like a little website-leak to get our juices flowing. Engadget Mobile got their hands on some juicy details for Sprint’s upcoming WiMAX-based XOHM Mobile Broadband service and we’re rearin’ to get a chance to test the high-speed wireless service! We’ve been waiting for Sprint to go live with their XOHM service for ages…
BlackBerry Curve 8320 with BlackBerry OS 4.5 hitting AT&T soon
Leave it to Boy Genius to get their hands on internal documentation from AT&T that gives us insight in to the BlackBerry Curve 8320’s future on AT&T’s network. The WiFi-toting BlackBerry Curve 8320 has already hit T-Mobile as a globe-trotting handset, so it only stands to reason that AT&T get their own, Sapphire Blue-colored variant…
Sony Ericsson: Still on track for Q4 delivery of Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1
Following on “confirmed” reports that had the ballyhooed and highly-anticipated Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 Windows Mobile smartphone delayed until possibly January of next year, Sony Ericsson has come out with a statement pointing towards a Q4 2008 delivery window for the XPERIA X1. The company is rebuffing any claims that the next-generation high-end flagship will…