Who doesn’t use the iPhone on the crapper? I used to occupy my time on the toilet with a magazine or newspaper, but now all I bring with me is my iPhone. News sites, RSS, emails – there’s nothing I like more than a satisfying BM and a great web browser paired with a huge…
WebKit gets perfect score on Acid3 web standards – iPhone Safari and S60 web browsers will be even better
Webkit’s developers have been working to make their little darling of a rendering engine the fastest and most standards compliant solution available. And, it looks like the investment has paid off. Webkit has announced that their Webkit core scored a perfect 100/100 score on the Acid3 web browser standards compliance tests. For the purposes of…
UK Office of Communications to allow in-flight cellphone calls – OfCom plan allows voice calls
We’ve been hearing a lot about all the data service offerings that will allow airline passengers to get their data-fix while in-flight, so it’s refreshing to here of some developments regarding in-flight voice calls. Following on Norwegian Air’s plan to offer in-flight voice calls and internet services through its Call Norwegian venture, the Office of…
Panasonic Link To Cell base station routes cellular calls to home phone handsets
T-Mobile’s push to rid the planet of landlines with their T-Mobile HotSpot @Home UMA program has started to catch on. The idea of dropping your traditional landline in favor of using your wireless minutes at home is getting more and more traction around the world. I personally haven’t used a landline (although I subscribe to…
Motorola insider: Zander and Brown to blame for Motorola handset division’s failure
Motorola’s up and split itself into two distinct entities. We now have the Motorola Mobile Devices division and the Motorola Broadband & Mobility Solutions division running as stand-alone companies. The breakup of the company follows a string of problems and setbacks related to losses in the mobile phone sector. Perhaps the splitting up of Motorola…
Windows Mobile 6.1 gets new UI tweaks, integration with Windows Live
Boy Genius Reports is always getting the juicy scoop on upcoming handsets, and it looks like they’ve come through again. Their latest handset, a Motorola Q9, not only came to BGR toting a WiFi radio, but also boasts a verified Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard operating system running the show. And, the Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard…
NTT DoCoMo achieves 250Mbps on Super 3G LTE network test
LTE is really starting to stretch its legs as the high-speed mobile broadband standard that we knew it could always be. NTT DoCoMo reportedly just achieved “a downlink transmission rate of 250Mbps over a high-speed wireless network in an outdoor test of an experimental Super 3G system.” Super 3G, also known as LTE (Long Term…
Gartner: Apple places 10 million iPhone unit order – Apple preparing for 3G iPhone
There’s another round of hyped-up buzz starting to build surrounding the imminent launch of the next-generation iPhone. The first hardware revision of the Apple iPhone will hit the US market with a 3G radio in tow, among other features – which should appease the masses that have lamented the iPhone’s lack of true high-speed data…
Microsoft mulls iPhone application development – MS Office and voice recognition for iPhone
Microsoft may not have cashed in on the initial iPhone hype, but that doesn’t mean the behemoth tech company doesn’t have plans to milk the cash cow from Cupertino. Upon reviewing the recently released Apple iPhone SDK and Apple’s announced support for Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft says it is seriously considering a push into developing applications…
MWg to start selling re-branded UBiQUiOS Windows Mobile 6.0 handsets
If the MWg handset you see here rings a proverbial bell, that’s probably because you’ve seen it before. This particular MWg-branded handset is basically a TechFaith Wireless-sourced UBiQUiOS 503G with an MWg logo slapped on the front. Coming off parent company O2 Asia’s demise, MWg is prepping to offer a new pair of QWERTY-toting Windows…