Research in Motion had their hands full at CTIA with the BlackBerry App World launch, which is ostensibly the biggest announcement of the show. Of course, RIM was showing off their full assortment of devices, but even the latest, the BlackBerry 8230 Pearl Flip, wasn’t anything more than a CDMA twist on the GSM version.…
HTC Booth Tour – Live from CTIA Wireless 2009 Las Vegas
HTC’s Snap made a reasonably big splash in a generally quiet show here at Las Vegas, packing a slim form factor, nice keypad and Windows Mobile. Yeah, sure, we saw the code-named “Maple” coming several thousand light years away, but it was good to have it out in the open for playtime. The HTC Snap…
Motorola Booth Tour – Live from CTIA Wireless 2009 Las Vegas
Poor old Motorola really disappointed us at Mobile World Congress without a single device release, but since then they’ve released the the QA4 with a physical number pad and a virtual landscape keypad, the QA30 Hint, and the Stature i9. On top of that, Motorola was showing off some decent stereo Bluetooth headphones fresh to…
Nokia Booth Tour – Live from CTIA Wireless 2009 Las Vegas
Nokia didn’t have too much to show off at CTIA Wireless that we didn’t see in Barcelona last month – namely the AT&T E71x and even that is nothing more than the same ol’ E71 with a gold star to make it feel special. Of course there was the very cool flip that was launched…
BlackBerry App World Seeing a Few Glitches
So, I just got back from the CTIA Wireless 2009 keynote, sitting next to my buddy Al Sacco, and we compared copies of the BlackBerry App World between his BlackBerry Bold and my Telus Pearl Flip. Last night during the launch, I was hearing Viigo was making great headway through the App World, but I…
Palm Pre Announcement Liveblog
Palm and Sprint have an announcement today regarding the Pre, and we’re all pretty excited. Maybe a release date? Maybe some new features? And hey, how about the rest of the world – is this thing coming to Canada? As you can see, our beloved EIC Will is manning the tweets, and I’ll be liveblogging…
Video of Alcatel-Lucent’s Enhanced Reality
Yet another gem found whilst cruising through my photos of Mobile World Congress was this clip showing Alcatel-Lucent’s Enhanced Reality, which is still in its early stages. By initiating a video call through the service, video content can be superimposed onto real-world objects viewed through your phone’s camera. Two U.S. carriers are sniffing around the…
Nokia Launches Stereo Bluetooth Speakers for your Car
While combing through my photos from Mobile World Congress, I stumbled on one little gem that had managed to slip through the flurry of press releases and launch events. These HF-310 Speakerphones were looking a little lonely at the Nokia booth when everyone was oogling the N97 not far away, but they were pretty impressive.…
The Signal (Episode 17: Mobile World Congress 2009 Edition)
Nervous exhaustion, shmervous exhaustion. Here’s the year’s busiest week of mobile news. Mobile World Congress has come and gone, in case you haven’t noticed our live-from-Barcelona coverage, and it’s time to rein it all in and figure out what actually happened. There’s a ton of new devices that were on display from most major manufacturers…
This is the Palm Pre – Palm’s Sachin Kansal demos Palm Pre, Web OS, and Synergy
When it comes to up-and-coming high-end smartphones like the Palm Pre, there’s nothing like a little video demonstration straight from the source. At Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona, Palm setup an entire booth dedicated to the recently unveiled Palm Pre and the Web OS. Palm’s Sachin Kansal, Director of Software Product Management, was on…