Motorola’s gettin’ all styled up with their newest iDEN handset – the Motorola i290. Other than the i830, this thing is as slim and sleek as you get for iDEN phones. With a slim candybar form factor, this PTT (Push-to-Talk) phenom is everything past iDEN handsets weren’t – fashionably sleek. With the Motrola i290, you…
Chinese government hates mobile phones, but keeps enabling copyright criminals
In something of a paradox, China’s State Council Information Office admitted yesterday that mobile phones were hindering the government’s efforts to put the kibosh on anything deemed inappropriate. The communist nation is notorious for censoring any and all information from coming into or leaving the Red borders. Recently, however, the prevalence of the internet and…
Asus T500 3.5G card – high-speed wireless broadband for the ExpressCard set
Until now, there haven’t seen too many choices in wireless broadband cards for the ExpressCard set. The next-gen notebook card format improves on the outgoing PC card (PCMCIA) slot with a smaller footprint and faster transfer rates. Asus has just announced their new T500 3.5G broadband ExpressCard for notebooks lacking the older standard. The GSM…
Hold off on AT&T’s LG CU500 – LG CU575 “Trax” may be on the way!
We’ve received word that the LG CU575 “Trax” musicphone will be launching any day now (possibly even tomorrow, July 17th). The successor to the LG CU500 is expected to come to us with a shiny exterior that packs in HSDPA, Video Share, and that trick touch-strip external control. Engadget Mobile was tipped off to shipments…
Duke University wireless network struggles under constant iPhone WiFi hammering – ‘Misbehaving iPhones’
Apple really did good by us when they decided to integrate WiFi into the iPhone. But, we have a feeling that Duke University’s Office of Information Technology doesn’t share our sentiment. Network World‘s John Cox blames the campus’s fleet of iPhones for intermittently knocking up to 30 wireless access points offline. Apparently, iPhones on campus…
Official AT&T Windows Mobile 6.0 ROM for Cingular/ATT 8525 (HTC Hermes)!
You’re eyes do not deceive you, you read it correctly. Thanks to the ingenious ROM “chefs” over at XDA-developers forums, an AT&T branded Windows Mobile 6.0 ROM upgrade is now available for all Cingular/AT&T 8525 owners! The ROM is really just the already available WM6 ROM for the European HTC TyTn (Hermes), but in AT&T…
Calling all Apple iPhone owners – is your AT&T EDGE network still down?
We want to hear from you. The Into iPhone team wants to get a clearer picture of how widespread and prevalent these EDGE outages are. If you have an iPhone and you are still experiencing intermittent, or chronic, EDGE failures in your neck of the AT&T woods, please let us know. Head on over to…
AT&T gets put in their place by Washington State Supreme Court – loses roaming-charge class action lawsuit
Is there anything better than news of a huge corporation getting served the smackdown from a State Supreme Court? Washington State’s Supreme Court just laid down a ruling that effectively loses AT&T their roaming-charge class action lawsuit. The class action lawsuit, filed back in 2004 (when AT&T was Cingular), alleges the company of advertising free…
Stop paying for slow iPhone internet performance – get a phone-only iPhone plan for $40
Citing customer complaints about internet performance on AT&T somewhat pokey EDGE network, AT&T seems to be giving disgruntled users the option of a new data-free wireless calling plan for the Apple iPhone. Apparently, this last ditch option will be offered as a retention tactic, to keep subscribers from completely canceling their iPhone plans due to…
Sprint launches LG Muziq musicphone
Just as we expected, Sprint has launched their newest musicphone – the appropriately titled LG Muziq. For a penny short of a C-note ($100 after contract and rebates, of course), you get that 1.3 megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth, FM transmitter, and SDHC-compatible microSD slot. Oh, and the clamshell plays nice on with Sprint’s Music Store,…