Canadian BlackBerry-fans may just have reason to celebrate in the near future. We’re hearing that the GPS-toting RIM BlackBerry Pearl 8110 could be hitting Rogers Wireless’s network in the near-term. As the GSM counterpart to the CDMA-based BlackBerry 8130 Pearl, the BlackBerry 8110 Pearl features an integrated GPS receiver. The updated GSM BlackBerry Pearl should…
AT&T to raise SMS and MMS messaging rates
Weren’t we just talking about how wireless carriers are gouging customers on SMS text message and MMS picture/video messaging rates? Yea, well, it looks like AT&T’s turning up the heat and raising their messaging rates for the pay-per-use set…again. Customers without messaging bundles will be seeing their SMS text message-costs rise to $0.20 (20 cents)…
AT&T releases Pink Sony Ericsson W580i
Just in time for the commercially-crafted pseudo-holiday that is Valentine’s Day, AT&T has gone live with a chick-friendly Sony Ericsson W580i. We hear the ladies love that Pink-color, and AT&T is banking moving a handful of these Pink Sony Ericsson W580i music-centric handsets come Valentine’s Day. Actually, at $80, the Pink Sony Ericsson W580i is…
Skyfire browser turns up the heat – desktop-like mobile web-browser with Flash support
Full desktop-like web browsing on a mobile phone has been just beyond the grasp of many enthusiasts for quite some time. Sure, there are mobile browsers out there that offer an almost desktop-like browsing experience and combine it with a good dose of usability (ahem, iPhone Safari), but the lack of integrated Flash support keeps…
T-Mobile Germany chime in on iPhone sales – 70,000 iPhones sold so far
Following on iPhone sales figures from Apple, T-Mobile Germany has finally chimed in on their own sales numbers. T-Mobile Germany has apparently sold about 70,000 iPhones in its 11 weeks of sales. If you’ll recall, the iPhone hit the German market in November of last year, and has been selling at an average rate of…
Firm awarded patent on smartphones – Apple, Nokia, RIM, HTC, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, AT&T, Sprint, everyone gets sued
Did that title just spike your blood pressure? Well it damn sure almost gave us a freakin’ stroke. It seems that the USPTO, in all their patent approving wisdom, has awarded a patent holding firm a patent on a “mobile entertainment and communication device.” Okay, the patent title sounds inconspicuous enough, but the patent covers…
iPhone development reading material – iPhone Open Application Development
Leave it up to the iPhone development community to release an instructional iPhone application programming book before Apple even releases the official iPhone SDK to the public. Jonathan Zdziarski, a prominent iPhone developer and one of the team members that helped craft the recently released iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak (against the team’s wishes), has already gone…
Possible new Palm 800w details
For a company that pioneered the PDA industry and essentially ushered in an age of smartphones, Palm looks to be circling the drain to a slow demise. In the early days, innovations like Graffiti were enough to keep the PDA-maker at the top of the game. Now, after more years than we care to remember,…
Nate True leaked iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak, kicked off iPhone Dev Team
All iPhone users waiting on a viable iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak method are incredibly indebted to Nate True’s for making the jailbreak solution available last night. But, it turns out that he did so at the cost of his membership in the inner-circles of iPhone hackers – the iPhone Dev Team has apparently kicked him out…
Motorola patent application shows foldable/rollable display/keyboard
Flexible displays and devices are the future. Rollable e-ink newspapers, flexible displays, we’ll be seeing a lot of them in the coming years. And, following on that READIUS foldable mobile device from Polymer Vision, an older Motorola patent application regarding a flexible display/keyboard has surfaced. Motorola’s taking the whole “flexible” idea to the next level.…