To the disappointment of lower-income residents in AT&T’s 13-state pay-phone coverage area – including Texas and California – AT&T has announced that they will be shutting down their pay-phone service by the end of 2008. The pay-phone side of the business has been a money-loser for AT&T and it looks like they’ve had just about…
Nokia patent application hints at N-series slider with 8 megapixel camera
Patent applications, be they from Apple, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Microsoft, etc., all have one thing in common – they employ hand-sketched, incredibly vague images that outline their ideas. Well, Nokia’s breaking rank with their newest patent application filing. The image you see below isn’t some poor-quality spy-shot of an N-series slider in Nokia’s pipeline, rather,…
Nokia: Way to go, Verizon – LTE is the 4G future
With Verizon’s recent announcement to kick off LTE (Long Term Evolution) 4G network tests next year (in partnership with Vodafone), it’s starting to look like LTE will dominate the US mobile-broadband landscape in the future. And, following on successful initial testing of LTE networks by Nokia, and the recent adoption of the standard by the…
AT&T prepping Motorola Q9 with WiFi?
Sure, HSDPA is great and all for on-th-go web-surfing, but with AT&T’s spotty 3G coverage, it’s not always the ideal option for getting your internet-fix. Unfortunately, AT&T isn’t to keen on giving its customers any WiFi connectivity that could drain the company’s coffers of data-revenue. Or are they? With the AT&T Tilt 8925 (HTC Kaiser)…
German court delays ruling on T-Mobile iPhone injunction
We know, we know. You’re all sitting on the edge of your seat to hear the Hamburg court’s decision on the T-Mobile iPhone injunction. The court is reviewing the decision to force T-Mobile to sell unlocked iPhones alongside the locked iPhones offered exclusively through the German wireless operator. And, it seems anxious German iPhone-hopefuls will…
Verizon’s Motorola RIZR Z6c ‘World Edition’ press photos
There’s nothing we love more than some highly-stylized press-shots of the latest and greatest handsets, and Engadget Mobile‘s got their hands on the images that Verizon will be using to promote the recently FCC-approved Motorola RIZR Z6c “World Edition” slider. The “World Edition” portion of the handset’s name indicates the dual-mode CDMA and GSM compatibility…
T-Mobile prepping HTC Touch Dual to launch as the MDA Touch Plus
In another move that rivals HTC’s own penchant for naming/renaming their handsets with more model-names than we care to (or can hope to) ever remember, T-Mobile has announced that they’ll be launching the HTC Touch Dual as the T-Mobile branded MDA Touch Plus. T-Mobile tends to rename their HTC-smartphones with the “MDA” moniker, so the…
When did Verizon Wireless join the Open Handset Alliance?
Did Verizon Wireless jump on the Android-fueled bandwagon that is the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) while we weren’t looking? Well, we can’t find any official sources that would confirm Verizon’s membership as part of the OHA – but Gene Munster, a Piper Jaffray analyst recently released a note to clients that mentioned Verizon as being…
Apple calls off iPhone negotiations with China Mobile?
It seems that the unlocked iPhone trade in Asia has come back to bite Apple in the, well, bottom line. The two companies have reportedly called off iPhone negotiations that started up just this month. It seems that the issue at hand was the revenue-sharing model that Apple has demanded from all iPhone carriers –…
Google makes it official – confirms intention to bid on 700Mhz spectrum
We pretty much knew they were going to do it, but there’s nothing like a an official press release to get our juices flowing. Google CEO Eric Schmidt made it official – Google will be bidding on the 700Mhz wireless spectrum come January 24, 2008. And, it looks like Google’s going to be making their…