What’s this? Another N95 release? That’s right. In the tradition of Motorola’s re-released-to-death RAZR lineup, Nokia has let it slip that the Noka N95 8GB will be tweaked and re-released to play nice on those funky US 3G frequencies that make America so great. It makes sense for Nokia to release a US-spec Nokia N95…
BlackBerry 9000/9XXX specs confirmed
We’ve been waiting on somone to leak some of the juicy details on RIM’s upcoming BlackBerry 9000/9XXX iPhone-fighting smartphone, and it looks like the blogosphere’s been blessed with a bit of BlackBerry 9000 news. The BlackBerry 9000 has been speculated to be bringing US 3G support and a powerful processor to the touchscreen-battle, but whispers…
Apple to announce 5 million iPhones sold at MacWorld Expo?
Well, if 9to5mac is on point with this latest speculation, then Apple is poised to announce that they’ve pushed 5 million iPhone handsets onto the smartphone market. We’re looking for Steve Jobs to announce the blistering sales numbers during his keynote at MacWorld Expo on January 15th. The iPhone just recently broke through the 1…
Cinemar bringing Mainlobby support to iPhone – control your home with your iPhone
We’ve seen plenty of applications where the iPhone is used as a remote controller, of sorts. From sound engineering to your music collection, the iPhone’s capacitance-based multi-touch display is ideal for remote-control-use. Cinemar has announced that they’ll be brining iPhone and iPod Touch support for their Cinemar Mainlobby home-automation. Using an AJAX web-app, Mainlobby’s integrated…
Helio launches new Samsung GPS-slider for Koreans – Helio Mysto is live
Helio isn’t exactly known for launching new handsets at the almost-dizzying pace that other big-dog carriers like to do, but they’ve just bumped up their lineup with the Helio Mysto. We spotted the Mysto a couple months ago at the FCC, and it seems Helio’s seen fit to launch the sleek-and-slim Samsung slider just in…
Apple teams up with Intel to use Silverthorne chipset in next-gen devices
Apple and Intel. Once rivals, now the bestest of friends – or at least it appears that they’ve gotten all chummy. And, it looks like the partnership has grown even stronger. Apple has reportedly committed to using Intel’s 45nm Silverthorne mobile chipset in Apple’s next-gen device for 2008. We’ve heard that Apple was looking to…
Android SDK full of bugs, lacks support – developers frustrated
Google is the last company we would have expected to botch a platform launch. But, in hindsight, they may have rushed things a bit more than would have been prudent. After all, there’s a fair amount of heat coming from Cupertino, and we’re sure Google didn’t want to get burned by holding off on Android…
AT&T MediaFLO Mobile TV coming ASAP in 2008
So, the AT&T deal with Qualcomm to bring the mobile TV technology MediaFLO to its stable of mobile phones (including a few Nokia handsets) didn’t exactly help calm the Nokia-Qualcomm battle this year. In fact, the incessant quarreling was probably the reason that AT&T had to delay launching its MediaFLO service until next year. We’re…
GHIII addicts rejoice – Guitar Hero III Mobile hits Verizon Wireless
There’s almost nothing as addictive as Guitar Hero III. We’ve been caught holding up the lines at Best Buy, making those poor little kids wait for us to finish the final riff on “Sweet Child O’ Mine.” Our refusal to buy it for home-use is testament to this little game’s potential to seriously hurt productivity…
Vodafone nixes Windows Mobile 920 handset
Not that we were all that excited for Vodafone to launch their Windows Mobile slider from HTC (HTC Kii?), but we thought a few of you out there might want to know that the Vodafone 920 has been pulled from Vodafone’s lineup. Vodafone gave no reason for killing the Vodafone 920, but we’re figuring it…