What’s a struggling mobile phone manufacturer that just can’t seem to reclaim its once-glory in the mobile industry left to do after repeated quarters of miserable performance? Cut more jobs, of course. In another move to help stave off mounting losses from its handset business, Motorola has announced that it will be cutting 20% of…
AT&T iPhone trade-in/trade-up rumors
Okay, so there are some rumors swirling the intertubes that indicate AT&T’s intention to allow current iPhone customers to trade-in or trade-up their first-generation iPhone in exchange for the subsdized, lower $200 (or $300 for the 16GB variant) price-point for the iPhone 3G. I just wanted to give our readers a heads-up (and reiterate my…
Vidcasting on iPhone: Qik and Flixwagon go iPhone – live video streaming for iPhone is go
Who says the iPhone can’t do video recording? Well, actually, it technically can’t record video with the current firmware, but that hasn’t stopped iPhone developers from Qik and Flixwagon from bringing live video streaming to the iPhone. Flixwagon is demonstrating their video-casting application on a jailbroken iPhone, which bodes well for an official application launch…
Apple setting iPhone application size and price limits for AppStore
The Apple AppStore is poised brings iPhone users a whole new level of completely integrated and hassle-free application access/downloads. With Apple’s announcement that the AppStore will launch in “early July,” the consensus seems to be that the iPhone’s application store will launch alongside the iPhone 3G on July 11. In fact, the AppStore defaults an…
AT&T Motorola Q9h to get Windows Mobile 6.1 update
Chalk up another carrier-branded handset to get some Windows Mobile 6.1 OS update love. Following on the recent revelation that the Sprint Motorola Q9c would be blessed with the latest mobile OS from Microsoft’s Windows Mobile camp, AT&T has announced that subscribers with Motorola Q9h smartphones will be getting a Windows Mobile 6.1 update in…
Nielson: 9 million have used mobile phone to pay for goods and services in US
It’s not an incredibly large proportion of the US population that has done so, but it seems that more than 9 million Americans (9.2M, to be exact) have used their mobile phones to pay for goods or services in the past. And, more encouraging is the statistic that 49% of data users plan to give…
iPhone SDK reveals video playlists and portrait-mode video viewing
Well, look what the iPhone SDK-birdy just dropped on our laps? No, not that kind of dropping. It seems that the latest iPhone SDK build has revealed video playlists and portrait-mode video playback. While portrait-view video playback has been possible with Quicktime embedded videos through the iPhone Safari browser, it seems that the iPhone v2.0…
Sprint Nextel nixes free incoming minutes on new plans
We’ve long suspected that Sprint Nextel’s “Free Incoming” call offer could be eating in to the struggling US wireless carrier’s ARPU, what with subscribers likely opting for lower-priced monthly plans with fewer allotted minutes. And, it seems that Sprint Nextel has caught on to that trend and wised up. Sprint Nextel has announced new family-oriented…
ASUS ZX1 gets the ASUS Glide UI treatment
What good is a flagship handset sporting a quad-band (850/900/1800/1900Mhz) GSM radio, tri-band (850/1900/2100Mhz) UMTS/HSDPA radio, WiFi, and integrated GPS if it doesn’t sport the latest eye-candy available? Well, actually, it’s still a damn good range-topping handset, but there’s always room for improvement. The ASUS Glide UI that we showed you the other day has…
NXP PNX6910 is world’s fastest wireless modem
What’s this fascination we have with getting having ever faster wireless data connections? First it was 2G, then there was WiFi on handsets, then 3G came along, and now we’re looking forward to 4G technologies like LTE to deliver true broadband-like data speeds over the air. Not that downloading entire firmware updates or even movies…