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Entries from April 2007

FCC Reveals HTC Herald for T-Mobile

April 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

Documents appeared on the FCC web site today showing a version of the HTC Herald branded for T-Mobile USA. The Herald - officially called the P4350 by HTC - is a successor to the MDA currently offered by T-Mobile. Notable improvements include a thinner body, spring-assisted slide, and 2 megapixel camera. […]

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Tags: FCC · T-Mobile · In The News

Motorola Patents LCD with Built-In Solar Cell

April 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

Motorola recently patented technology that combines a solar cell with the LCD screen of a mobile phone. The solar cells are essentially a thin film called transparent conductive oxides that resides on top of the LCD, collects energy, and passes it to the battery. In theory, the technology would allow cell […]

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Tags: Motorola · In The News

RIM Emulates Blackberry On Windows Mobile

April 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

RIM today announced that they will bring the entire Blackberry application suite to Windows Mobile 6. Users of new Microsoft smartphones will be able to launch a program that will contain all the Blackberry applications including the browser, inbox, phone, custom enterprise applications and more. Once this environment is running, the […]

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Tags: In The News

“Push Ringer” Forces Your Friends to Hear Your Tunes

April 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

A new technology from Emotive allows you to push a specific ringtone to another phone. Known to Skype users as “Ringjacker”, the service overrides whatever existing ringtones may be set on the phone being called. The pushed ringers can be animations, audio, avatars, flash files or video. If the person on […]

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Tags: In The News · CES

Review of GSM-handset Philips 9@9f

April 19th, 2007 · No Comments

Sales package:

Handset
950 mAh Li-Ion battery
User guide
Charger

In January Philips nearly totally revamped its Xenium range by introducing a number of long-lasting models for various price-brackets. Philips 9@9f, the junior product of the line, is in fact an upgraded version of the 9@9a. The handset’s design changed considerably, though – specifically the […]

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Tags: Philips · Review

Helio to Shut Down Hybrid

April 19th, 2007 · No Comments

Helio will shut down its Hybrid EV-DO / Wi-Fi service starting May 8th. Users of the service will still be able to access the Boingo Hotspots and 3G data service through May 7th, but afterwards, the cards will no longer work. Hybrid blended Wi-Fi and EV-DO radio technologies and used software […]

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Tags: In The News

U-verse Subscribers Can Program DVR From Mobile Phones

April 19th, 2007 · No Comments

AT&T today announced that U-verse subscribers can now schedule recordings on their DVR using an AT&T phone. AT&T (Cingular) subscribers can log into a WAP site from the company’s portal to manage their recording and add new programs to the schedule. Because AT&T is offering this service as a WAP site, […]

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Tags: In The News

New Features Coming To Disney Mobile

April 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Disney will begin launching new features for its MVNO subscribers this summer. The first will be a location based service called Scout that will display points of interest near the user’s location. Scout will be followed by a photo upload service that will send pictures taken from Disney cameraphones to a […]

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Tags: In The News

BlackBerry Service Briefly Goes Down

April 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Research In Motion’s wireless BlackBerry email service crashed Tuesday evening across the entire Western Hemisphere. BlackBerry did not provide any details concerning the reason behind the crash, but was working to slowly restore service gradually Wednesday morning. The system failure began at 8 PM Tuesday. RIM said it will bring the […]

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Tags: In The News

New Nokia Smartphone Has Dual Band HSDPA

April 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Nokia today announced another slim S60 phone to add to its lineup. The 6120 is a 15mm thick candybar-style smartphone running S60 version 3 feature pack 1, the same version as the N95. It features a QVGA screen, Bluetooth, microSD slot, a 2 megapixel camera, and a second VGA camera for […]

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Tags: Smartphone · Nokia · In The News