We’ve finally gotten official pricing details on Sprint’s upcoming BlackBerry 8130 Pearl. We’ve known about the Sprint BlackBerry 8130 Pearl for quite some time now, but the only details missing from our puzzle was just how much cheese Sprint’s GPS-packing Pearl would demand. Well, it looks like Sprint’s promotional page (the same one that dropped…
HTC ships 1 million HTC Touch handsets in 6 months!
Hot on Apple’s tail, HTC has just announced their sales figures for the TouchFLO-based HTC Touch handset. The Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional-powered HTC Touch, released just this past June, has reportedly topped the 1 million-unit-mark as of the end of October, according to HTC CEO Peter Chou. Inching ever closer to Apple’s iPhone sales figures…
IOGEAR’s Bluetooth Audio Transport with SRS WOW enhanced sound
SRS Labs’ is known for their sound enhancing SRS WOW technology found in many portable music players. So, what are they doing in the mobile space? Well, it seems that SRS Labs’ SRS WOW HD sound enhancing technology has piqued the interest of electronic gear-maker IOGEAR. The pair has teamed up to bring SRS WOW…
Verizon may have Samsung i760 world phone in the works
We heard it on the grapevine. It seems that Verizon Wireless may be prepping a world-phone edition of their newly released Samsung i760 smartphone to pull duty as the jet-setting complement to the CDMA handset in the states. Word has it that the Samsung i760 world phone may rock EVDO for US-based phoning and GSM…
Snap.Send.Get from SnapTell – get product information from advertisements with your camera phone
Ever passed by a billboard and wondered what’s up with that product? SnapTell wants to help you find out with their new service – the appropriately-named Snap.Send.Get marketing service. All you have to do is “snap” a pic (with your camera phone) of any advertisement, “send” the picture to SnapTell’s image recognition servers, and you’ll…
Yahoo launches Chinese-langage Yahoo! Go 2.0
The Chinese wireless market is a formidable force. With their hundreds and hundreds of millions of wireless subscribers, it makes sense for Yahoo to cater to the Chinese market. The search-giant has announced that they will be releasing their Yahoo! Go 2.0 mobile service in a Chinese-flavored version. The US has had Yahoo! Go 2.0…
Pandora streaming radio on your AT&T handset – Pandora and AT&T, together as one
We love Pandora. It’s like having your own, personal radio DJ in your computer. Following on their partnership with Sprint, the streaming internet radio service has teamed up with AT&T to bring the customizable online radio service to 3G handsets on the AT&T network. Pandora radio stations can be personalized to your liking (limited to…
AT&T launches Sierra Wireless USBConnect 881 HSUPA USB modem
With AT&T’s high-speed upload network now online, the wireless carrier is starting to roll out wireless data HSUPA modems. AT&T’s first HSUPA data card offering was the Sierra Wireless AirCard 881, and now they’re offering us the Sierra Wireless USBConnect 881 HSUPA USB modem to surf the full HSPA data highway. If expresscards aren’t your…
iPhone video recording, more features coming soon?
As long as the iPhone hacking community keeps jailbreaking the latest iPhone firmware updates, we have no problem with updating our handsets. However, should there come a time when iPhone hackers are unable to find a way into the iPhone’s file-system, Apple had better offer us some really, really, enticing features to get us to…
No-name firm files suit against Apple and other handset makers for patent infringement
In our land of the lawsuit-friendly legal system, it’s no surprise that we’re hearing of another no-name company coming out of the woodwork with a patent-infringement case. The latest patent-infringement suit comes from Delware-based AutoText Technologies. A 32-page complaint was filed against 23 companies that AutoText Technologies claims infringed on a 1994 patent for a…