Taiwan moves one step closer to WiMAX commercial operations
Just as the people in Africa are close to seeing their very first WiMAX commercial networks get deployed, Taiwan is also moving one step forward regarding the same, after an initial investment from Intel Capital. Intel CEO Paul Otllini has announced that Intel Capital, the company’s global investment arm, plans to invest NT$386 million or [...]
Live Mesh for mobile installation update
Having fun with syncing your data and being able to access them from anywhere with Live Mesh for mobile, are we? Well, it’s people like you that make Microsoft proud. Anyway, there’s something else those folks from Redmond are proud to tell you today, and that’s their Live Mesh for mobile installation update. The Live [...]
RIM sued by Mformation for… stealing software?
RIM may be doing great lately, with its Bold and Storm and all, but there’s someone that says the Canadian company shouldn’t be that happy. Mformation Technologies Inc., an “innovator in mobile device management software” based in Edison, New Jersey, today sued Research in Motion Limited and its US subsidiary, Research In Motion Corporation, [...]
Sprint makes its ETF more user-friendly
Sprint, North America’s second largest CDMA carrier, today announced its new pro-rated early termination fee (ETF) policy. The US mobile operator says that the new ETF is among the industry’s most customer-friendly ones. Starting month six of a wireless contract, the current $200 EFT decreases by $10 per month. This means that, in the [...]
Swedish technology: cell phone vibrations might let us watch soccer games without actually watching
Fans of soccer currently have three ways of staying updated on an ongoing match via their cell phones: text messages, audio content, or mobile TV – for those who have compatible phones and live in countries where this service is available. All these not only that require a lot of your attention, but might also [...]
BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 available in the UK via O2
Only few weeks after being released in the US by T-Mobile, BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 is now out in the UK too. The smartphone is offered only by O2 for the moment, but there will probably be other carriers to also release it in the near future. RIM’s first and only clamshell, the Pearl Flip [...]
LG KS500 brings optical touchpad, GPS and more
LG KS500 – this is the latest slider phone manufactured by the South Koreans from LG and planned to be released by Vodafone, most probably in all the countries where it operates. The new KS500 won’t manage to attract too many mobile users only with its design, which is kind of plain. That’s why LG has [...]
Google testing Gmail SMS Chat in Labs
Google is trying to integrate yet another nifty new feature to its free web-based mail service, Gmail. Currently available under Labs, Gmail SMS Chat will enable users to send text messages to their contacts via their Gmail account’s built-in Chat feature. All that’s needed are a few click to get started. Users can turn the [...]
Opera Mini for iPhone rejected by Apple from App Store
Mobile Safari on the iPhone is great. You can pinch-out/double click to zoom in, pinch-in/double click to zoom out, you can open up to 8 tabs and it also works as a local Word/Excel document and PDF reader. It doesn’t hurt that it’s one of the fastest mobile browsers available out there, but I’m sure [...]
First commercial WiMAX network in Africa to be built by ZTE
Commercial WiMAX network deployment across the world hasn’t exactly been widespread, and the same can be said for the African continent. However, Africa will get its first commercial WiMAX network set up soon, courtesy of a deal between China’s ZTE and Mauritanian telecom operator Chinguitel. Financial details of the deal have not been disclosed, but [...]
British Airways launches global mobile check-in service in 11 languages
Feel the need to use a mobile check-in service for the next time you’re going abroad? If you’re flying British Airways, now you can. The British airliner has just launched a new mobile check-in service for customers to avail with any mobile device from any point in the world, and it’s available in 11 different [...]
SoftBank 930SH out in Japan with an 8MP CCD autofocus camera
Clamshells with 5 Megapixel cameras are so last year in Japan. 8MP flip phones are all the rage now, and the new SoftBank 930SH comes to sustain my affirmation. Created by Sharp for SoftBank, the 930SH is truly unique among camera phones. That’s because its autofocus camera, instead of having a standard CMOS sensor, comes [...]
Japanese iPhones get mobile TV through Softbank’s new 1-seg tuner
Though you can’t say mobile TV is one of the top missing features of the iPhone 3G, the good folks at Softbank in Japan have cooked up a new 1-seg tuner that enables the said feature anyway, and it all works via the magic of Wi-Fi. Softbank’s new 1-seg tuner is actually a separate, wireless-enabled [...]
Samsung Delve officially announced by Alltel, $199 on contract
Samsung Delve, the full-touch handset rumored to debut soon via U.S. Cellular, was officially announced today by Alltel, one of U.S. Cellular’s main competitors. The Delve is among those TouchWiz handsets that Samsung said, earlier this month, to be ready for the US market. Many will probably compare Alltel’s new handset with Sprint’s Samsung Instinct, [...]
Softbank’s Aquos Fulltouch 931SH comes with nearly netbook standard hi-res screen
I don’t know if I’ll put the new Aquos Fulltouch 931SH slider phone from Softbank as an overgrown iPhone, or as a Yanko Design concept brought to life. It features a 5.2 megapixel camera, 1-seg TV tuner, Bluetooth with A2DP, 3G reception, and above all, a 3.8-inch 1024 x 480 pixel resolution screen. Uh huh, [...]
LG Tribe launched exclusively on TIM Italy
Over in Italy, it appears as though operator TIM has scored an exclusive release of LG’s KS360 Messenger phone, which they have gleefully branded as the LG Tribe. As far as I know, “tribe” ain’t no Italian word I ever heard of, but this apparently is the case with this handset here. Notice the striking [...]
Google launches mobile voting locator tool for the US elections
The 2008 US presidential elections are coming next week, on November 4, and Google thought it would be nice if a voting locator tool for mobile phones existed. So, obviously, the big G has just launched such a tool, which is available online, at m.google.com/elections, or it can be sent directly to your phone if [...]
In Japan, Samsung Omnia packs a 800 x 480 pixels display, built-in TV tuner and comes in red too
Samsung Omnia has been only today announced for Japan, several months after the handset went on sale in Europe. However, Japanese mobile users seem to be a bit luckier than the European ones, as Omnia will be launched by SoftBank with some upgraded features. The official name of the Japanese Omnia is SoftBank 930SC Omnia. [...]
Nokia N96 hits Best Buy, unlocked and yours for $900
Nokia N96, the smartphone that might be the best thing from the Nseries family (for the moment, at least), is now on sale in the US, via Best Buy’s website. The handset is available unlocked, for a price that won’t please too many of you: $899.99 – that’s with $240 more than the Best [...]
Nokia: Mobile gaming market not growing, touchscreen N-gage coming in 2009
The touch screen version of Nokia’s N-Gage gaming service is scheduled for a release in 2009. One such game to be part of the new version will be GameLoft’s Guitar Rock Tour for the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. This, along with a lot of other news-worthy tidbits, were spilled out by Nokia’s head of gaming operations, [...]