Well what do we have here? Is T-Mobile is planning to take their anticipated 3G network online by December 6 2007? According to reports from The Inquirer, it seems T-Mobile may just be working on launching (or announcing their launch-plans) their long-awaited high-speed wireless network in just a few weeks time. There’s some conflicting information…
T-Mobile set to face-off with Vodafone over locked iPhones in Germany – November 29
Well, it looks like Vodafone is about to get what they’ve been seeking. The mobile phone carrier has successfully prompted the German government to look into whether or not rival carrier T-Mobile’s iPhone exclusivity deal breaches German wireless regulations. T-Mobile has already complied with the temporary court order, and is offering unlocked iPhones for almost…
South Korea kicks off rehabilitation program to cure mobile phone addicts
South Korea’s wireless infrastructure blows the US’s mobile environment out of the water. The country’s wireless networks are some of the most advanced in the world – and South Korean network operators push feature-packed, highly-advanced mobile phones into their customers’ pockets. In a country where cellphones outnumber landlines (68% cell, 49% land), is it any…
Court saves Qualcomm from paying doubled compensatory damages to Broadcom – $19.6 million in damages
In a moment of bittersweet victory for Qualcomm, a federal judge upheld U.S. District Court Judge James V. Selna’s previous ruling that Qualcomm is indeed guilty of infringing on Broadcom’s 3G WCDMA technology. However, and here’s the sweet part, the ruling overturned Judge Selna’s decision to double the damages awarded to Broadcom by a federal…
T-Mobile swapping out defective Sidekick Slide handsets with Sidekick LX replacements
T-Mobile is really taking the right steps in this whole defective-Motorola-Sidekick-Slide fiasco. After suspending sales of the Motorola-sourced Sidekick, named for the Slide mechanism that’s causing all those hard-resets and data dumps, T-Mobile has announced that they’ll be replacing Sidekick Slides with its larger, more expensive brother – the Sidekick LX. T-Mobile has confirmed that…
Qualcomm gets a win against Nokia
Qualcomm sure has a bit of legal good fortune to be thankful for today. The International Trade Commission (ITC) has just thrown out one of the lawuits brought against Qualcomm that would have barred the chipmaker’s chipsets from being sold in the US. Following on a Dutch court’s recent decision to throw out Nokia’s patent…
Happy Thanksgiving Day! We’re thankful for our readers
Thanksgiving Day is here! We love turkey and ham and stuffing and pie and…well you get the point. We have a lot to be thankful for this year – great gadgets, great friends, but most of all, we’re thankful for our dear readers. At the risk of sounding a bit sappy, we’d like to take…
Another upside-down iPhone – this time on TV
Here’s another iPhone that’s had its butt-end confused for its top-end. Aren’t there people getting paid to make sure stupid slips like this don’t make it into the production version of any film or TV show? Actually, we’re pretty sure there are – which begs the question, where were they during the taping of this…
Sprint and HTC to give Sprint Mogul owners a late Christmas present – GPS and EV-DO Rev. A
Have any of you Sprint Mogul owners out there wished for GPS and EVDO Rev. A in your HTC-sourced handset? You know, the features that your Sprint Mogul handset already has built into it, but were disabled for some crazy reason? Well, it looks like Sprint and HTC are working on a new ROM update…
WND DUO Atom sports dual SIM cards, upside-down sensor
We’ve seen many a handset sporting dual SIM-card support, but none as unique as this WND DUO Atom. Having two SIM cards plugged into your handset at the same time is nice and all, but we’d imagine that switching between the two accounts can get a bit tedious, if not downright annoying. The WND DUO…