Proud of that hot, new ride you just bought yourself? Sure you are. But, whether you’re just mashing the throttle in a straight line or carving up the twisties, sawing the wheel back and forth in search of grip, you’re probably wondering just how fast you’re actually moving. Well, iPhone owners need wonder no more.…
Nokia N96 slated for October 1 debut in UK!
Nokia recently announced that they would be launching their Nokia N96 flagship successor alongside the Nokia E71 and Nokia E66 businessphones in the third quarter. The Finns made good on their promise to bring the much-anticipated enterprise handsets to market in Q3 2008, so now we turn our attention to Nokia’s new hotness – the…
New iPhone 2.1 OS SDK beta brings background notification tools to developers – Push background notification coming soon
Forget multi-tasking, push background notification is where it’s at. With the limited resources available to mobile devices, running multiple applications in the background can tax the CPU, drain the battery faster, and lead to system instability as multiple applications fight for memory allottment and CPU cycles. Apple has seeded a new iPhone 2.1 OS SDK…
Nokia: We’re slashing prices on our phones!
Nokia isn’t going to idly sit by while handset manufacturers the world over try to catch up to the Finnish handset vendor’s industry-leading market share. Nokia has been cutting prices on their media-centric handsets by up to 10% – particularly their Nokia 5310 and 5610 music phones and the Nokia N81 8GB. While other handset…
Motorola squeezes out profit despite struggling handset business
There’s no doubt that Motorola’s handset manufacturing business is on the ropes. Following on quarter after quarter of multi-million dollar losses and sliding global market share, Motorola has been trying to shore up its mobile phone division in an effort to gussy it up for a potential investor to come in and sweep it off…
T-Mobile Sidekick 2008 review
The T-Mobile Sidekick 2008 is ready to bring swappable shells and customizable graphics to the entry-level HipTop market – especially for all your creative types looking to change up your Sidekick’s look with the changing of the seasons (or months, or days, depending on how much you want to spend on new shells). With video…
BlackBerry KickStart 8220 video demonstration
For those of you waiting on RIM’s very first clamshell BlackBerry offering, the BlackBerry KickStart is no doubt high on your list of gotta-have handsets. But, written reviews of the device can only do so much. So, to better demonstrate the BlackBerry KickStart 8220’s SureType keyboard, BlackBerry OS 4.6, and more deeply inset trackball, and…
AT&T rolls out Text Accessibility Plan (TAP) for iPhone 3G
It’s happening all over again. Just as we saw with the original iPhone, AT&T is offering their hard-of-hearing customers the option to use their new iPhone 3G as a text-messaging communications device with none of the voice-call costs. The Text Accessibility Plan (TAP) has come to the iPhone 3G. AT&T isn’t going to make their…
No more BlackBerry Connect for Nokia E-series – Nokia Email emphasized
That’s it. Nokia’s had enough of RIM’s encroachment on their business-phone segment. Rather than allowing Nokia E-series customers to eat from both sides of the pond, to butcher a few metaphors, Nokia has announced that they’ll no longer support BlackBerry Connect support on their business-oriented Eseries handsets. RIM is apparently doing well enough for themselves…
Official AT&T Motorola Q9h Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM leaked!
Feeling a bit down about having to deal with your already-old Motorola Q9h on AT&T’s network? Buck-up, sport. At least you can update your aging AT&T Motorola Q9h (codename: Norman) to the freshest Windows Mobile OS available. As far as being frustrated at the maddening pace of handset development (and subsequent obsolescence), you’ll just have…