We found this interesting phone on the FCC website today. It’s clearly marked as a Nokia and equipped for WCDMA, but the particularly interesting thing is the FCC documentation outlining both 850 and 1900 Mhz frequencies for WCDMA use – making 3G possible in the US. Aside from those few details, and the outline of…
Iran Wants to Filter “Immoral” Cell Phone Messages
Iran’s Telecommunications Ministry is set to start “filtering” picture, video, and audio messages, by order of The Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution. The Council wants the Telecommunications Ministry to acquire whatever equipment they will need in order to start filtering MMS messages for “immoral” content. There is no mention on how this “filtering” will…
AT&T Reneges on Nokia N75 Launch; Phone No Longer Available
Those of us in the States saw the launch of the hotly anticipated Nokia N75 on Cingular/AT&T’s website. Symbian fans rejoiced! Celebration swept the nation! And then…AT&T pulled out their “Out of Stock” sign and promptly killed the party. After just a few hours on the website, the nation’s largest GSM carrier must’ve realized that…
FCC Approves Auction of 700Mhz Wireless Spectrum
The FCC approved, on Wednesday, a plan to auction the 700Mhz wireless frequency spectrum. The auction will take place as the current 700Mhz block is abandoned, on Congressional decree, by TV stations switching to digital broadcasts. Large tech companies have requested that 60Mhz of this block be auctioned by early 2008 and is expected to…
O2 – First to Ship a Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional Device with XDA terra
We’ve been waiting on O2 to drop the XDA terra for some time now. The re-branded HTC P4350 (Herald) has started to ship from O2 and clinches the coveted “World’s First” title for O2 – as the first to ship a mobile device with Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional. Head over to O2’s website for a…
Apple iPhone – Great Battery Life, Slippery and Hard to Hold
By now, everyone and their grandma is expecting the Apple iPhone to launch on Cingular/AT&T with a 40 minute battery life. First, Dvorak starting talking smack on the iPhone. Then we get “reports” straight out of the component integrator, FoxConn, that the iPhone’s design falls short in terms of performance. But, would Apple really launch…
Blue Sky Positioning announces their GPS enabled SIM card
The Register reports that Blue Sky Positioning has announced their GPS enabled SIM card at SIMposium, in Berlin. The company has apparently managed to fit an entire GPS receiver onto a SIM card. The entire system, including the antenna, fits onto the card, but processing is done by your phone. The unit had to be…
Samsung C210 ultra-thin “Ultra 5.9” offically launches
Samsung’s ultra-thin C210 gets all official with it’s “world’s slimmest” claim. The Samsung C210 launches as the “Ultra 5.9,” in reference to its 5.9mm thick body. We saw the announcement of this barely-there candybar in January, back when the unit was slated to come paired with a 3.2 megapixel shooter. Unfortunately, the launched version sports…
FCC reveals GSM Watch Phone
The SMS Mobile Phone M500 was spotted on the FCC’s website. The trick thing about this mobile “phone” is that it’s not so much a phone as it is a watch. This watch works on tri-band GSM frequencies of 800/1800/1900 Mhz and sports all the normal phone features, like call-waiting and hold, SMS messaging, media…
Another hands-free Bluetooth speakerphone
ThinkGeek brings us this Bluetooth headset speakerphone. Made primarily for auto applications, this OLED equipped hands-free device easily clips to a visor or an air vent. The built-in microphone and speaker keeps your hands at “10 and 2” and your eyes on the road. The OLED screen displays phone status, battery, call status, caller ID,…