Breaking news, information, and analysis on the latest mobile phones and mobile technology
CES 2010 News
We’ve been waiting for something official to come of the Cliq 2 and today seems to be that day. Along with the Xoom, Atrix 4G and the Droid Bionic, Motorola has officially announced the successor to their first Android phone ever. Even with the beefier specifications on board, will the Cliq 2 appeal to the…
Sony Ericsson kicked off CES by announcing the Xperia arc, the next generation of Xperia handsets. Starting where the Xperia X10 left off, the Xperia arc offers a 4.2-inch capacitive touchscreen display (854 x 480 pixels). This Reality display is powered by Sony’s Mobile Bravia engine, the latest display technology which promises to deliver a…
One of the more overlooked announcement at AT&T’s CES event this morning was the HTC Freestyle, a lower-end feature phone running Brew MP. Although it’s not technically a smartphone, it runs Sense and AT&T is aiming to provide apps for the platform. Whatever it takes to get ’em using data, right AT&T? The Freestyle has…
At AT&T’s CES developer event today, they showed off some work they’ve done with the iPad U-verse app, with a new feature called ComplemenTV. When paired up with a TV via Wi-Fi using DLNA, the iPad automatically showed extra information on whatever show was being watched (like links to related stuff on Amazon). It could…
The HTC Inspire 4G has been announced at AT&T’s CES event today, running Android with the usual Sense customizations, though HTC’s CEO remained sketchy about hard specs. The Inspire 4G includes a new feature called Fastboot which turns the phone on in a mere second or two. It also brings for the first time to…
Nuance, a big name in voice recognition, has launched a custom keyboard for Android called FlexT9, which comes with four different modes of input. First, it has the traditional tap-to-type keyboard that we’re all pretty familiar with. Secondly, it has a distinctly Swype-esque gesture-based input where you trace lines between the keys you want to…
At CES today, LG announced two LTE products that work on Verizon’s new 4G network. The WM300 and L2000 aren’t broadband dongles, but rather chipsets that work for machine-to-machine connectivity. That means these modules will mostly be used for fixed enterprise assets that require high-speed wireless connectivity. Any businesses that have been really hurting for…
If you’re a heavy iPhone user, then you already know about Mophie. The company is partnering up with Flo TV to create a juice pack that will let you watch live TV on your iPhone or iPod Touch. The Juice Pack TV will have the Flo TV chip inside of it to give you access…
The nation’s fourth-largest carrier may have dragged its feet with 3G in the past but it is trying to make up for it. T-Mobile said it plans to cover 185 million people in its HSPA+ network, and it says this will be better and faster than 4G networks. This super fast data network is already…
Not that you haven’t seen it before, but the BlackBerry 8910 Curve (a.k.a Atlas, Dakota) made an unexpected appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show a few weeks back at the Case-Mate booth. Youch. There’s nothing really new to report aside from the picture – I would have been curious to see the device itself running…