Our favorite Windows Mobile smartphone manufacturer has landed itself in a bit of hot water. We can’t imagine that this class-action lawsuit will have little more effect than to convince HTC to release some updated firmwares, but it’s still a bit off-putting to see our dear HTC in legal trouble. You see, there’s this class-action…
iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak gets easier, still not released to public
Well, that didn’t take too long. It feels like we were just talking about the iPhone development community having cooked up a rather complicated jailbreak solution for the iPhone v1.1.3. Unfortunately, the jailbreak method wasn’t ready for prime-time because us mere mortals apparently didn’t have the mental facilities to deal with the jailbreaking minutiae. Anyway,…
Downgrade your iPhone v1.1.3 to v1.1.1
That iPhone v1.1.3 firmware not meeting your expectations? Is multiple-contact SMS text message support, Google Maps with “My Location,” WebClips, and homescreen customization proving to not be worth sacrificing your third-party applications? Well, you’re in luck. If the iPhone v1.1.3 firmware isn’t as great as you expected it to be, then you’re more than welcome…
Qualcomm’s 2007 MediaFLO finances show greater losses
The ugly-duckling of Mobile TV standards definitely didn’t get off to a good start in 2007. MediaFLO, wholly owned by lawsuit-loving Qualcomm, has shown that 2007 wasn’t a great year for profits. MediaFlo’s 2007 statement-filing with the SEC details yet another year of red-ink. Qualcomm’s Mobile TV initiative has posted losses of $240 million for…
DirecTV’s new mobile site lets you control your DirecTV DVR through your mobile phone
Imagine that, DirecTV is banking that the mobile-space is the next-step in DVR control. The satellite-TV company has rolled out a new mobile-website that its DVR-customers are going to find fairly (hopefully) useful. The new website allows DirecTV customers to log-in and schedule DVR recordings right from their mobile phone. A Macenstein reader reports that…
Virgin Mobile USA sued over shady pre-IPO financial statements
It’s hard to believe that the Virgin Mobile USA has finally been hit with class-action lawsuit related to their shady financial fibbing prior to the IPO. Oh wait, it’s not hard at all to see how this could happen. The Pennsylvania-based Law Offices of Howard G. Smith has filed a class-action lawsuit claiming that Virgin…
FCC shows Samsung Z400 – Samsung’s first Direct-Connect handset for Sprint
The FCC is always good for getting the down-low on un-announced, un-released handsets. It looks like Samsung is getting into the DirectConnect game. How Sprint managed to convince Samsung to hop on-board its struggling CDMA-based DirectConnect bandwagon is beyond us – although, it’s a better wagon to hop aboard than Nextel’s dying iDEN network. The…
O2 UK moves 190,000 iPhones in first 8 weeks of sales
All those European-iPhone naysayers are sure to love this little tidbit coming out of the UK. The Financial Times is reporting that “people familiar with the situation” have indicated that O2 UK, Apple’s British iPhone partner, has moved something like 190,000 iPhones out its doors in the first two months of iPhone-sales – which is…
Samsung t819 hits T-Mobile with 1700Mhz 3G
Following on the FCC’s green-lighting of the Samsung t819 3G slider last month, Samsung and T-Mobile have made the Samsung t819 officially official for T-Mobile’s US subscriber-base. Now, we’re calling this Samsung t819 a “3G slider” because (1) it’s a slider and (2) it supports T-Mobile USA’s own special flavor of 3G spectrum (the 1700Mhz…
AT&T rolls out Apple iPhone for corporate and business customers
All you corporate-types that have been waiting to apply your corporate/business account discounts toward a shiny, new iPhone can finally breathe easy. As we previously reported, the rumors about AT&T’s plan to bring the iPhone to corporate and business customers have come to fruition. Today, AT&T has made the iPhone available to all corporate accounts…