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For all the guff AT&T gets about its mobile data usage in major cities, I’m pretty glad they have John Donovan as its Chief Technology Officer. Donovan’s an interesting cat. A self-proclaimed gadget freak, he carriers an HTC Android device (Aria?), a BlackBerry Bold, an iPhone 4, a Kindle, an iPad and other things. I’m…
Sure, it’s called ‘Find My iPhone‘, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be used on your iPod Touch or iPad… Because it can! The Find my iPhone app has just been released by Apple, and it works just fine and dandy on any of your iOS powered devices, including the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.…
In its conference call Wednesday, Clearwire said it would be offering its own branded WiMax handset. The company, which is majority-owned by Sprint, said it is working with HTC and Samsung on 4G devices that will carry its brand. This will not be the EVO 4G, which is slated to hit Sprint later this summer.…
It hasn’t been a whole 24 hours, and we now got word that the LG Aloha will be renamed to the LG Ally, and will be heading to Verizon in May. We’ve hear a lot of this device lately. Just yesterday we heard that LG’s first Snapdragon Android device would be heading to Verizon this…
You have a couple choices when it comes to mobile apps. You can download and install a mobile app that’s been specifically created for your smartphone, or you can simply hop online and use a web-app through your smartphone’s web browser. Now that web technology is advancing to the point where web-apps can perform many…
It looks like Verizon Wireless customers won’t have to wait long for the Nexus One, as a very similar handset just passed the FCC and it’s rocking dual-band CDMA EVDO radios. While the FCC filing doesn’t specifically out the HTC handset as Google’s “superphone,” its model number, PB99300, is very similar to that of the…
It’s not just the latest (and greatest) version (5.0) of SPB Mobile Shell that SPB Software launched at the Mobile World Congress. The company also unveiled the SPB TV Mobile Operators Solution, which they tout as a “slick combination of server-side and client-side software meant to provide carriers with the best-in-class mobile TV experience, enjoyable…
The first few minutes of the joint Verizon Wireless and Skype press conference was loaded with jokes from the two guys pictures above, John Stratton, Chief Marketing Officer of Verizon on the left, Josh Silverman, CEO Skype on the right. They’ve said that this news has leaked multiple times over the past 12 months, but…
We’ve been seeing a lot of an in-the-works device from RIM sporting both a full physical QWERTY keyboard and a clicking touchscreen, code-named the BlackBerry Magnum or Dakota. TD analyst Chris Umiatowski has it on good word that there will be a BlackBerry that has those features as well as an optical trackpad. At first,…
The cosmic ballet continues. That’s exactly what Leonard Nimoy would say regarding the issues Rogers has been having with the HTC Dream and Magic. The situation is far from perfect. You may recall Rogers’ first move to piss off Dream users was to announce they would not be on-board to upgrade Android past version 1.5.…