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Those of you waiting to grab yourself the TouchPad 4G will be glad to know that HP’s tablet has finally hit the FCC where engineers are testing its radiation levels to ensure it’s safe to use in the U.S. of A. As we reported earlier, the device should be launched later this month, running on…
A roadmap of Wireless Giant’s upcoming BlackBerry devices has revealed a trio of RIM accessories are due to go on sale on October 31. One of them, the Cyclone, is what we’ve heard will be a TV accessory, and is described as “Streaming HDMI”. The other two, dubbed Beats and Calypso, are Wi-Fi stereo devices.…
A new Virgin Mobile ad is attempting to put T-Mobile in its place, and Spencer and Sarah (Sparah, for those in the know) have a few select words concerning the upcoming merger, and to Magenta’s own Carly. It’s pretty hilarious. We’ve seen Sprint express its distaste for the upcoming AT&T-Mobile merger more than once, so…
Last time we talked about Mobage, DeNA announced entering the ever-growing Chinese mobile market. Now the company’s U.S. subsidiary ngmoco is teaming-up with AT&T to bring the social gaming platform to the carrier’s Android users, allowing them to discover and play games, as well as connect and communicate with other players around the world. As…
AT&T has been saying for months that it will crack down on jailbroken iPhone users who are using its network for unlimited tethering. The carrier has separate individual plans for iPhone tethering, but some users have circumvented the plans by jailbreaking their iPhones. Their free and unlimited tethering days, however, seem to be over. Some…
If you’ve been waiting to get the Nexus S or just want a new smartphone for not much money, you should check out Best Buy August 3 because the company will be offering the pure Google experience phone for free with a new, two-year contract. That’s right, starting at 11:00 p.m. CST tonight through 11:59…
NTP launched into a patent lawsuit frenzy last year, suing giants like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Motorola, LG, HTC, and major U.S. carriers like AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint. The seven patents in question revolved around mobile e-mail, and though the U.S. Court of Appeals sought to invalidate the patent for being unreasonably broad, the…
Spectrum, quite possibly the most expensive invisible thing you can buy, is absolutely crucial for the wireless industry to function. The Chief Executive Officers of six American operators (AT&T, Cellcom, Sprint, T-Mobile, U.S Cellular, and Verizon Wireless) recently sent a letter [PDF file] to President Obama asking if he could get the Department of Commerce’s…
Well friends, the long wait for the Samsung Galaxy S II in the United States is almost over as we’ve heard it will be announced in August and Samsung has put up a signup page for the superphone. The Samsung Galaxy S II signup page asks for the usual information like name and e-mail but…
We have a couple cool tips from our trusted AT&T source, as the company’s internal inventory shows that it should be getting some cool new Android-powered Motorola devices soon: the Motorola Xoom 4G and what could be a followup to the Atrix. The first bit isn’t that surprising, as AT&T said a Motorola Honeycomb tablet…