We love getting live pics of unannounced mobile phones. The newest spy pics come from a Chinese website and show what is presumably the successor to the Sony Ericsson K850i. This sleek and svelte Sony Ericsson Cybershot-branded phone rocks the legendary 5 megapixel Cybershot optics and Xenon flash – a la the Nokia N82…
Get $100 off on your iPhone purchase – Apple certified refurbished iPhones save you some serious cash
Money doesn’t grow on trees. We wish it did. Seriously, that would be nice. Alas, we all have to earn our money the old-fashioned way – by working. If the thought of dropping $600 on a new 8GB iPhone just makes you think of all the time and elbow grease that it took you to…
More details leaked for Verizon’s Motorola Q9 lineup – the Motorola Q9c
Remember those mysterious Motorola Q’s waiting in the wings of the Motorola Q promotional website? Well, newly leaked information leads us to believe that at least on of the flanking pair of mysterious Moto Q’s will be the Motorola Q9c – the “c” stands for enterprise. The Moto Q9c will be marketed to the business-minded,…
Chinese blogger imprisoned for 4 years on charges of writing about democracy!
Alrighty folks, this one’s a bona fide off-topic post, but it’s definitely worth mentioning. Apparently, in the land of trademark infringement and mobile phone rip-offs (we’re talking about China), a Chinese blogger has been sentenced to 4 years in a swanky Chinese prison on charges of writing about democracy. Well, actually, he was officially charged…
AT&T: Get off our TDMA network and pay us more money!
Is there anyone actually still using the old AT&T (Blue) Wireless’ TDMA wireless network? Well, there must be, because AT&T is stickin’ it to those AT&T TDMA network subscribers that are taking advantage of those super-low legacy rate-plans. They’re trying to make the monthly savings less appealing by charging TDMA users an extra $10 per…
Apple and Vodafone in final stages of working out iPhone exclusivity deal for European release?
The iPhone launch in Europe is part rumor, part speculation, and a whole lotta anticipation. Apple will be releasing the iPhone in Europe, it’s just a question of when and with which carriers. Sources close to the situation (we love when reports start off like that) are saying that Apple and Vodafone are in the…
Nokia may be in more hot water with Japan for overheating batteries
Just when we though Nokia’s overheating battery problem was getting taken care of, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has ordered the Finnish handset manufacturer to “report by next Friday on details of a series of accidents.” Apparently, Nokia Japan took a little too long (10 days is the limit, they took 16 days)…
Sprint reserves $5 billion for WiMAX network – we mean XOHM
Sprint’s push for total WiMAX coverage in the US is getting another boost. The compay has announced that they will earmark $5 billion for the development of the WiMAX (XOHM?), network through 2010. It looks like Sprint’s partner Clearwire will also be lending a hand in footing the bill. With Sprint expecting to see positive…
Sprint get’s touched by HTC – Sprint Touch
With AT&T and their iPhone putting the squeeze on other carriers’ subscriber base, it makes sense for them to scramble for the next-best iPhone alternative. As of now, the coolest touchscreen competitor in The States is the HTC Touch (and it’s CDMA brother, the HTC Vogue). And, it looks like Sprint wants in on the…
Nokia wants import ban on Qualcomm chips too!
What’s this? Nokia’s jumping on the ITC bandwagon with their new proposal to have Qualcomm’s chips banned from US import? Well, it seems the Finnish handset manufacturing giant is asking the US ITC to ban another subset of Qualcomm’s 3G chipsets from US import, which would deal another blow to the embattled chip-maker. Nokia and…