It’s official. Well, at least as far as Smartphone and PocketPC Magazine is concerned. Opera Mobile has been named the “best mobile browser for both Windows-based Pocket PC and Smartphones at the 2007 Best Software Awards by Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine.” We should note that the Opera Mobile browser was nominated to compete against…
Verizon XV6800 available for online/phone orders
It’s been one helluva long wait for Verizon customers, but it turns out that our favorite (soon to be open) network operator has made the Verizon XV6800 available to customers through online and phone orders. Verizon barely made good by our November launch expectations. Howard Forums users are reporting that $249 (after rebates and 2-year…
Google announces new ‘My Location’ service for Google Maps Mobile – find yourself without GPS
Maps are great if you know exactly where you’re currently located, but what good are they when you’re completely lost? Navizon is a great solution to help locate your approximate position based on cell-tower signal triangulation (we’ve been using on our iPhones with great results for some time now), and now Google is treading all…
LG sells 5 Million LG Shine handsets!
Sure, a million or so iPhone and HTC Touch handsets are an impressive feat – especially when you consider that they’ve only been on market for a handful of months. But, those numbers are no match for LG’s sales figures for their LG Shine lineup of mobile phone. While Apple is celebrating their single-digit million-unit…
Shake your mobile phone to ‘feel’ how full it is – just give it a ‘Shoogle’
How full is your mobile phone’s battery? Do you have voice or text messages awaiting your reply? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just pick up your phone and give it a quick shake to get an idea for just how “full” your phone is. In much the same way that you’d shake that…
Apple may be suing Nokia over touchscreen patents
So we all know that Nokia is working on an S60 Touch lineup. Touchscreens are the future and all the rage, so it makes sense that Apple’s starting to feel the pressure to keep ahead of the curve. Now, an analyst for London-based Nomura, Richard Windsor, is predicting that Apple may be unleash their legal…
Exploding cellphone kills South Korean man
Here’s yet another incident where an exploding mobile phone has caused harm, and even death, to the owner. This time, the victim is a South Korean man working at a quarry. The man, identified only as Suh, was found dead with an exploded and melted cellphone in his shirt pocket – the burn in the…
France’s Orange prices unlocked iPhone at 749 Euros
As we expected, France’s exclusive Apple iPhone carrier will be offering their unlocked iPhone at a price that undercuts its German rival T-Mobile’s price point of 999 Euros. The French wireless carrier will be asking 749 Euros for the unlocked version of the Apple iPhone, a steep discount in comparison to T-Mobile’s unlocked iPhone. The…
Verizon set to open its network to ‘any app, any device’ in 2008
Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android, as well as the OHA, will and has already profoundly changed the wireless landscape in the US. We’re getting a glimpse of just how radical the change is going to be. Verizon has just announced that it will be opening up its CDMA network to allow any phone and any…
Get 600 Euro for signing up your unlocked iPhone with Debitel Germany
So, with T-Mobile Germany forced to sell unlocked iPhones (at least for now), Debitel’s got a plan to help snatch-up some potential unlocked iPhone customers. Debitel provides its customer with leased network time from its German counterparts, and they’re offering a €600 bonus to all new iPhone customers. The sign-up bonus should help bring the…