The very handy (or should I say hands free?) Drivesafe.ly app for BlackBerry has apparently reached the 1 million user threshold. Wowza! Congrats to the folks at Drivesafe.ly. If you’ve never heard of the app before, Drivesafe.ly enables you to put your phone DOWN while driving your car. It reads emails and SMS messages to…
Virgin Mobile Canada Launching iPhone 3G and 3GS ‘in the Coming Months’
Today Virgin Mobile Canada released an official statement regarding iPhone availability: Virgin Mobile Canada will launch iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS in Virgin Mobile Retail Stores and online in Canada in the coming months. I’m not sure if they could have been any more vague… But at least this is an official ‘it’s coming’ statement.…
Dropbox Launches Free iPhone App
Received an email this morning from the good folks at Dropbox. The news? They’ve released a Dropbox iPhone app… Cool! The app is of course free, and offers access to your Dropbox while you’re on-the-go. Access, view and download your files right from your iPhone for offline viewing. Take new photos or videos and sync…
Sony Ericsson’s mobile diet: Close four facilities, cut 2,000 jobs
Sony Ericsson has a new plan to whip itself back into shape to compete with leaner and meaner mobile phone makers. The Japanese-Swedish joint venture is planning to close four facilities and cut some 2.000 jobs in an effort to streamline the company. Following a recent round of job cuts that left 450 employees at…
Amazon offers Palm Pixi for $25
Cash-strapped webOS hopefuls and deal seekers alike, take note: Amazon is offering Sprint’s Palm Pixi for just $25. The entry-level webOS smartphone hasn’t been on market for more than a week and we’re already seeing the handset hovering dangerously close to “free with contract” territory. As it stands, Amazon will sell you the Palm Pixi…
O2 to build 1500 new network sites across the UK in 2010
O2 today unveiled plans to accelerate growth of its mobile network and build extra capacity for mobile data, in a multi-year programme of investment (running to hundreds of millions of pounds). The planned investment will cover upgrade of the current radio network and also the delivery of new sites. 200 sites will be delivered in…
BlackBerry Storm2 9550 Now Available on TELUS
Well what do we have here? After some random browsing on the TELUS website this morning, I couldn’t help but notice that the Storm2 9550 is now available on their website! Pricing? The TELUS BlackBerry Storm2 will run you $199.99 on a 3-year contract. Other options include $599.99 to pick it up off-contract, $549.99 for…
AT&T beefing up 3G network in San Francisco Bay Area
AT&T apparently isn’t going to let the likes of Verizon Wireless and bitter AT&T subscribers get them down about their 3G network performance. Big Blue has announced that it’s beefing up 3G services in the San Francisco Bay Area – they’ve upgraded more than 800 cellular base stations and is in the process of migrating…
Droid Does… pretty damn well in it’s first week
Droid Does. That’s the slogan that Verizon’s ad campaigns for the Motorola Droid have been hammering into our heads for the past several weeks. With $100 million reportedly invested into the marketing push to turn struggling Motorola’s Droid the de facto alternative to the iPhone 3GS, Verizon and Motorola are betting big on the new…
Roambi Visualizer turns your iPhone into a spreadsheet cheat-sheet
No one likes poring over spreadsheets, especially on the iPhone’s relatively small display. It would be nice if there were some way to break down spreadsheet information into visual representations that actually make sense. Thankfully, there’s an iPhone app for that. Roambi Visualizer turns your iPhone into a handy spreadsheet cheat-sheet that converts your information…