Remember that cool smartphone-that-thinks-it’s-a-UMPC from HTC? Well, here’s your chance to get your mitts on the HTC Advantage. Amazon is offering the large and in charge Windows Mobile 6.0 Advantage on pre-order. It’s as big and almost as expensive as a full-fledged UMPC, yet it runs Windows Mobile 6.0. This is one of the few…
Apple iPhone may be incredibly fragile!
We’re not all that surprised to hear that a device as thin, and hardware packed (3G naysayers, hold your lip, there’s multi-touch and accelerometers in there) as the Apple iPhone may turn out to be more fragile than the average mobile phone. With a full-screen multi-touch LCD covered in glass, we cringe at the prospect…
Apple Store starts prepping for iPhone launch with giant iPhone displays!
Apple Stores across the nation have started to prep for the iPhone launch at the end of this week. In anticipation of the epic launch, Apple Store staff have been busy setting up huge iPhone mockups in store windows. The 4-foot tall iPhone models are spot-on replicas of the actual device, and are actually rigged…
Apple iPhone shipments have started!
AppleInsider reports that the first US-bound shipments of the eagerly anticipated Apple iPhone have started to make their way to US airports across the country. The precious cargo was couriered by a Hong Kong-based airline that services Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, and San Fransisco – with enough time to clear customs and…
AT&T’s data plan for the Apple iPhone may be called the ‘iPlan’
Boy Genius got word from a “pretty high up source” that the AT&T data plan for the Apple iPhone may be dubbed the “iPlan.” We’re not sure if the “iPlan” moniker is an internal reference, or if it will become the official data plan’s title, but we can tell you that the data plan will…
Will the Apple iPhone be a prime target for hackers?
If security experts turn out to be right, and the Apple iPhone fulfills its prophecy of marketing greatness, then yes, the iPhone may well be a bulls-eye for hackers. The same market hype and frenzied anticipation for the hot, new Apple iPhone will make the iPhone a prime target for hackers. What could be a…
GSMA pushing for 3G services on the 900 Mhz spectrum
The GSM Association (GSMA) today called on regulators the world over to open up the 900Mhz frequency spectrum (in addition to the 2100Mhz frequency spectrum currently in use) to 3G networks. Not only would the new spectrum allocation increase the bandwidth available for 3G services, but will also make 3G networks cheaper and easier to…
FCC outs another Katana successor – Sanyo Katana DLX
It looks like our friends at the FCC have been getting some hands-on time with the second concurrent successor to the Sanyo Katana. The new Sanyo Katana DLX (deluxe?) handset will be running alongside the Sanyo Katana II with a similar (from what we can tell) design and shape. The Katana DLX clam-shell will sport…
Toshiba develops new NAND flash memory – smaller mobile phones on the horizon
Not to be outdone by Korean rival Samsung’s advancements in chip architecture and NAND flash memory milestones, Toshiba has announced a breakthrough in embedded NAND Flash chip architecture that will soon lead to smaller and more efficient mobile phones. Toshiba has dubbed the new architecture mobileLBA-NAND – which incorporates both Single Level Cell (SLC) and…
Review of the Motorola Q9m (Nelson) – CDMA successor to Motorola Q
We barely have confirmation of the CDMA version of the Motorola Q9h – the Motorola Q9m (formerly codenamed “Nelson“) – and we already have some reviews popping up on the internets. MobileBurn has a great, in-depth review of the Moto Q9m – comparing it to the original CDMA Motorola Q (which is fitting, since both…