If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard some company promise me that they’re going to reduce the price of my phone bill by letting me use WiFi to make phone calls, I would not have to pay my phone bill for over a decade. Cherry, a new operator based of Belgium, is…
iPhone SDK 3.1 Hints at Bluetooth Support for Voice Control, Nondestructive Video Editing
The software development kit for iPhone software 3.1 has been released, hinting at a few helpful updates, the two big ones being Bluetooth support for Voice Control and the option to Save As… after editing a video so you don’t automatically overwrite the original. Smaller changes, like a vibration when you move icons, OpenGL and…
Stantum, Sitronix team-up on multi-touch panels
Stantum, the company which we know for its multi-touch technology, and the leader of LCD driver and SoC IC design, Sintronix, announced a partnership to provide “voltage matrix multi-touch single-chip solutions.” Sitronix will integrate Stantum’s patented multi-touch screen tech into its own products and supply multi-touch controllers for consumer electronics and mobile applications. The first…
Toshiba TG01 comes preloaded with Nimbuzz for O2 Germany
Today, Nimbuzz has announced that its native preinstalled version will be available on the highly anticipated Toshiba TG01 handset, launching with O2 Germany in mid June 2009. The Toshiba TG01 was first unveiled earlier in the year, coming with quite a few head-turning features. With O2 securing the first-to-market launch for the TG01 in Germany…
Nimbuzz Selects Voxbone To Provide Mobile VoIP Function Without Wi-Fi
Voxbone has announced that it has been chosen by Nimbuzz, the fast-growing, all-in-one mobile voice/chat/messaging service, to provide local access numbers. Nimbuzz is using Voxbone to enable its users to make voice calls – without benefit of 3G or Wi-Fi connectivity – to their contacts on any of all popular IM and VoIP services, including…
Motorola Working on Android iDEN Phone
Motorola has already thrown in its few remaing chips with Android, with solid pictures of their first device bubbling up recently. Apparently wholly-owned Israeli subsidiary, Mirs, is working on the Android-powered Opus 1, which will be fairly limited in that data access will only be via Wi-Fi, and voice will be supported through iDEN networks.…
Sprint Prepping WiMAX Version of HTC Hero?
Take this one with several grains of salt and a side order of wishful thinking, but rumour has it Sprint is working on releasing their own version of the recently-announced HTC Hero, only it’ll supposedly be running on WiMAX and CDMA. I seriously doubt this will actually happen, considering Sprint CEO Dan Hesse has gone…
LTE-Ready LG Device Passes FCC
An FCC report for the mysteriously-named M13 have gone public, bearing signs of LTE support. Of course, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen LG waving around 4G-capable handsets, but it is a step towards commercial availability. Verizon’s burning the midnight oil trying to get LTE ready for a 2010 launch, and no doubt manufacturers…
HiT Barcelona: AcCells enables NFC-like payments with any mobile phone!
While we’re all waiting for (Near Field Communication) NFC-based payments to start taking off, other methods of mobile payments such as SMS are gaining traction. There are no doubts that NFC promises new opportunities for the whole ecosystem, it’s just that it takes more time than anyone thought for the wide adoption. Enter AcCells. This…
HiT Barcelona: GreenFire has technology that will charge your phone in 30 seconds!
GreenFire Technologies is working on what they say is the power-bank product, which is/will be designed to quickly charge your phone. When I say quickly I mean 30 seconds, and we’re talking about regular Li-Ion batteries! Their trick is in the huge paradigm shift. They don’t talk about actually charging batteries but moving of energy…