T-Mobile’s 3G network may be sparse and their indoor reception lacking, but if there’s one thing T-Mobile USA always delivers, it’s high-performance customer service. J.D. Power and Associates have just released the second volume of their 2009 Wireless Retail Sales Satisfaction Study, and the results give T-Mobile USA top billing as the nation’s most satisfying…
Aircel and RIM Strike a Partnership to Offer BlackBerry Services in India
Aircel, one of the fastest growing carriers in India has struck a deal to partner with RIM. The partnership of course enables Aircel to offer the beloved BlackBerry and BlackBerry services in India. To start, Aircel will offer enterprise and individual customers 4 different Berry devices, including the Bold 9000, Curve 8900, Curve 8310 and…
iPhone Dev Team cracks iPhone 3.1 OS, except for iPhone 3GS
iPhone and iPhone 3G owners still waiting to update their jailbroken smartphone to the iPhone 3.1 OS are in luck today. The iPhone Dev Team has just released their latest PwnageTool update! With the new PwnageTool utility, iPhone users can update to jailbroken iPhone 3.1 OS firmware without worrying about losing the jailbreak (which allows…
Opera unveils next-generation Opera Mini 5 – We talk with Opera’s CEO about Mini
I recently got a chance to take a sneak-peak at Opera’s Opera Mini 5 beta last week, and it basically blew me out of the water. Opera asked that I keep the launch of Mini 5 on the hush until they were ready to go live. Today, Opera took the wraps off its all-new Opera…
U.S. Cellular launches My Contacts Backup for smartphones
U.S. Cellular has recently launched My Contacts Backup for smartphones, allowing users to create and share groups of contacts with other U.S. Cellular customers. From the press release: U.S. Cellular customers have the ability to group friends, colleagues and family members into contact lists, which can be easily shared with others. Whenever a list is…
Video: We take the Motorola CLIQ and MOTOBLUR for a spin
Motorola today announced its first Android phone at Mobilize 2009 as the interestingly named Motorola CLIQ. The unveiling finally brought the Motorola Morrison out of the shadows and into the mainstream. Thankfully, the CLIQ looks more impressive in person than it ever did in the leaked Morrison images we’ve been seeing for the past couple…
Telefónica Launches Application Store
Telefónica has just announced a little something called mstore, which will be a dedicated mobile software venue . Categories include games, dictionaries, entertainment, finance, health, GPS-maps, information, photos and videos, social networks, travel and books, sports, shopping, tools and education/children. As for prices, they’ll range between 0.49 Euros and 19.99 Euros, with roughly 10% of…
Motorola CLIQ brings its A-game to Android!
Motorola’s co-CEO of mobile devices, Dr. Sanjay Jha, took the stage at Mobilize 2009 to unveil Motorola’s first Android device. After some talk about the need to mobilize the internet, Motorola unveiled the previously leaked Motorola Morrison as the all-new Motorola CLIQ. And, because custom homescreen UIs are what’s hot right now, Motorola skinned the…
Nokia: Hands off my Maemo!
Nokia’s just announced Nokia N900 has been getting some pretty solid reviews as of late. It’s single most intriguing feature is the Linux-based Maemo OS. With its touch-optimized user interface, Maemo OS promises to finally bring a powerful yet fun mobile platform to high-end Nokia smartphones. And, to keep the user experience as “cool” as…
Loopt’s Always-On Location Service does background location-tracking
Location-tracking mobile services are wacky cool or ominously scary, depending on how you look at it. There are numerous location-based social networks out there that allow you to keep track (literally) of your group of friends, but the one thing they all have in common on the iPhone is the inability to update location data…