The Nokia N900 inches closer to a retail launch today with Espoo’s announcement that they’ve started shipping their N900 to distributors and retailers. Nokia recently missed its initial October 2009 window for shipping the N900, so today’s announcement is great news for fans of the N900’s 3.5-inch touchscreen, powerful ARM Cortex-A8 processor, 5-megapixel Car Zeiss…
Qik beta bringing high-res video streaming to Motorola Droid
The Motorola Droid isn’t just the first Android phone to run the latest Android 2.0 OS, it’s also the first Android phone to record video in DVD-quality 720×480 resolution. Putting clarity and video-quality arguments aside for a second, the Motorola Droid’s video camera is as high-res as you can expect in a smartphone today. Qik,…
Motorola Droid sales reportedly hit 100,000 since launch
Motorola is reportedly doing well with their Motorola Droid. Despite reports from some bitter bloggers about not finding any lines outside their local Verizon Wireless store on Droid launch-day, the latest word on the street has Motorola pushing some 100,000 Android-powered Motorola Droid phones into anxious customer hands over the weekend. The estimate comes from…
Google giving FREE WiFi access to 47 airports in the US!
Travel much? Google’s got an amazing holiday gift for you. The cash-bloated search giant has announced that the company will pay for your WiFi use in any of the 47 participating airports throughout the country! Beginning Tuesday, Google will be providing FREE WiFi access in 47 airports in the US. The offer is good through…
Jailbroken iPhones in Australia get hit with first iPhone worm
Jailbroken iPhones beware, if you have SSH installed, you’re going to want to change your default root password quick. Like lickity-split quick. Following the jailbroken iPhone hack that held Dutch iPhones for ransom, another hacker is targeting Australian iPhones that have been jailbroken and are still running the default SSH password. Hacker “ikex” has created…
Verizon unfazed by lawsuit, continues with the AT&T 3G bash-fest
It’s becoming almost trendy to hate on AT&T’s 3G network, and Verizon Wireless is pushing hard to make the trend stick. So hard, in fact, that AT&T filed a lawsuit to stop Big Red’s “theres’ a map for that” TV ad campaign in its tracks. The lawsuit is still in it’s early stages, but the…
Holiday shopping season is here, keep your hands on your phone!
The holiday shopping season is nigh, and you know what that means. Yup, you’ve got weeks of frenzied shopping to look forward to. It also means you’re going to open yourself up to more opportunities to lose track of your mobile phone. In fact, NYC cabbies say that they see more people leaving their cellphones…
Video Demo: Xobni’s super-charged BlackBerry address book app
We can’t think of anyone that couldn’t use a personal assistant helping keep track of emails and contacts. It’s too bad a living, breathing personal assistant just isn’t feasible for everyone. That’s where Xobni comes in. Xobni is a super-charged, super-smart address book for your BlackBerry. The Xobni for BlackBerry app trawls through your emails…
Loopt for BlackBerry bests iPhone app with background location updates and Pulse suggestions
It’s not often that a mobile app for the BlackBerry platform out-plays its iPhone counterpart. But, when it happens, you can be sure it’s going to grab some headlines. Location aware friend-tracker Loopt is grabbing just those kinds of headlines today with a new update that enables background processing and things-to-do suggestions in the BlackBerry…
Video Preview: Need For Speed Shift shows what OpenGL ES graphics can do on a BlackBerry Storm2
RIM today announced at their BlackBerry Developers Conference in San Francisco that the BlackBerry OS will soon support OpenGL ES for 3D graphics acceleration. The arrival of 3D graphics support should finally bring the BlackBerry platform out of the dark ages, where BrickBreaker and other 2D games reigned supreme. RIM and EA Mobile took to…