Midomi, an online community for amateur singers and music identification service, will be extending into Android soon. Until now, Shazam had struck me as the best mobile music ID service out there, but after seeing Midomi in action, I can see how handy humming a song could be when you’ve got it stuck in your…
BlackBerry Bold and Curve 8520 Show up in White
A nice little treat from RIM last night at CTIA was these two devices, the BlackBerry Bold 9000 and Curve 8520, in a brand new white paint job. We had heard rumours about the white Bold hitting up AT&T, but the new 8520, which will be joining its black and blue brothers on T-Mobile, was…
CTIA: When shopping for a phone in January 2012, it will have a 3.5 mm headphone jack + microUSB
The CTIA Wireless Association, which is also holding a show at this very moment if you haven’t been reading Will and Simon’s blog posts from the show floor, is starting an initiative that will require all mobile phones sold in America to have a 3.5 mm headphone jack and microUSB port. If the initiative is…
Live from CTIA WITE 2009: Nokia booth tour
There’s no doubt that the fall CTIA (also known as CTIA WITE) is a smaller shin-dig than the spring CTIA conference. That much was evident in Nokia’s smallish booth in the San Diego Convention Center. We’re used to seeing Nokia’s massive booths bursting with cool hardware and enthusiastic people, so it was a bit disappointing…
Qualcomm shows off 30fps color video on mirasol display
Passive display technologies rock. You’re probably familiar with the Kindle’s e-Ink passive display, but that’s already ancient technology. The future of low-power displays is color video, something the Kindle can only dream of doing. Qualcomm, however, isn’t just dreaming it, they’re living it. The company’s mirasol division was proudly showing off their latest mirasol display…
Hands-on with the Android-powered Samsung Moment
Samsung has officially gone Android. Today, at the CTIA WITE 2009 conference in beautiful San Diego, Samsung unveiled the Samsung Moment as their first Android phone to hit market. The Moment features a 3.2-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 3.2-megapixel camera (with autofocus and LED flash), slide-out QWERTY keyboard, GPS, WiFi and an optical mouse. There’s also…
Zer01 unlimited voice and data service demo @ Fall CTIA 2009
It’s been a long time coming, and they’ve had to trudge through a veritable gauntlet of bad press related to Global Verge and Buzzirk Mobile, but Zer01 Mobile is finally ready to show that they’re not just full of hot air. Zer01 CEO Ben Piilani was on hand at the Fall CTIA WITE 2009 conference…
Slacker Radio Coming to Android and Windows Mobile
Slacker, a great music app for BlackBerry and iPhone, will be launching on Android and Windows Mobile tomorrow, allowing you to browse, favourite, and discover music on your smartphone. The launch will come with some new Twitter integration which will let you tweet whenever you favourite a new track, and share a link to the…