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CTIA WITE 2009 News
by Simon Sage - 5 Comments
Yeah, yeah, we know, we’re a little late. Sorry for the delay, y’all – between recovering from CTIA, and some technical difficulties, the podcast fell to the wayside for a few weeks, but we’re back on track now. San Diego had a few treats in store for us, like the Samsung Moment and the Behold…
Here’s a look at Motorola’s CTIA WITE 2009 booth from the San Diego Convention Center showfloor. Sure, it’s a little late, but better than never. Motorola’s booth was dominated by Android. As you can see from the photos, the booth was all about Android and the new Motorola CLIQ. Android is at the center of…
During the recently ended CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment 2009, Verizon shared some numbers about its mobile navigation service – VZ Navigator. Here’s what we’ve learned: More than 65% of VZ Navigator customers use the service more than three times a week; So far in 2009, VZ Navigator users made 11.5 million more inquiries than…
Kempler & Strauss, the folks behind the “W” watch phone we covered recently, have used the CTIA in San Diego to show off their Billionair 7 Windows Mobile smartphone. Here’s the specs rundown: 2.5-inch QVGA (320×240 pixels) “frameless” touchscreen Full QWERTY keyboard 624Mhz CPU HSDPA supporting speeds of up to 14Mbps on the downlink WiFi,…
by Will Park - 3 Comments
Sony Ericsson didn’t have a CTIA booth this go around, so they sent their Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 with the “Windows Phone” booth to keep things interesting. There was no way I wasn’t going to get my hands all over the X2’s improved arc-slider and 3.5-inch OLED touchscreen. The X1 launched Sony Ericsson’s high-end XPERIA…
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After getting a demo of some of the cool vector map capabilities on the N900 at CTIA, I prodded a Nokia rep about what they’ve been working on with augmented reality (since zooming down to street level on the map to check out the 3D rendering of a stadium was awfully close). He mentioned that…
Ever wanted to use an iPhone for work, but got stuck with the standard issue BlackBerry? Well, Good Technology has made progress on their iPhone application, the back-end management for which was announced in the spring, and was showing it off at CTIA. The app has all the usual fixings, like e-mail (complete with push…
by Will Park - 6 Comments
CTIA Fall 2009 isn’t the biggest show we’ve ever been to. In fact, this particular conference might be the smallest CTIA we’ve ever attended. But, that doesn’t mean there’s a lack of cool hardware to ogle on the showfloor. Take the Nokia N900 for example. It’s Nokia’s latest Nseries smartphone, and the first of the…
Okay, let’s face it: there are people in your social networks you just want to mute sometimes. Inane tweets, stupid Facebook status updates, or a continual influx of devilishly entertaining links distracting you from doing something productive. On the flip side, sometimes you want to be on be on the pulse of things and just…
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Rock Band is on its way to the iPhone! Forget everything you thought you knew about beat-matching music games on the iPhone, EA Mobile’s Rock Band is by far the best in its class. We had a chance to sit down with EA Mobile at CTIA WITE 2009 to get a sneak-peek at Rock Band…