While only just having been confirmed as a 2008 release, the second-generation iPhone may already have experienced its first delay, according to an analyst from Friedman Billings Ramsey & Company. Mehdi Hosseini claims that among information gathered in “recent checks,” it was learned that the next iPhone may have originally been planned for launch in […]
Entries from November 2007
Second-gen iPhone already delayed?
November 30th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: iPhone · Portable Video · Portable Audio · Apple
Samsung Introduces the r410 for MetroPCS
November 30th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Today MetroPCS announced the Samsung r410. This sideways slider reveals a full QWERTY keyboard for messaging when opened and comes with multiple messaging applications. It is limited to 1xRTT data and has a VGA camera with multi-shot capability. The r410 also has Bluetooth and a speakerphone.
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Tags: Cellphones · Samsung
Google Officially Announces Intent to Bid in Spectrum Auction
November 30th, 2007 · No Comments
Today Google said that it is definitely going to take part in the FCC 700 MHz auction that begins on January 24 of next year. Google will bid on the “C” block of spectrum, which is the block set aside with open access rules. The deadline for declaring intent to bid is December 3. Google […]
Tags: Google · In The News
Verizon Wireless Announces Blue Mint LG Chocolate
November 30th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Just in time for the holiday season Verizon Wireless has announced a new color for the LG chocolate phone called Blue Mint. Mint makes the color sound a bit girly to me, but the blue is actually a nice navy shade that looks manly enough.
Features of the phone are the same as the other LG […]
Tags: Cellphones · Verizon Wireless · LG Mobile Phone
Motorola’s CEO Ed Zander Steps Down
November 30th, 2007 · No Comments
Ed Zander, Motorola’s CEO, has agreed to step down from his post effective January 1. Zander has been with Motorola since January 2004. Motorola has had a tough year and seen sales figures and revenues drop over the last 12 months. The handset division will close out 2007 at a loss. The company recently slipped […]
Tags: Motorola · In The News
BlackBerry 9100 to exceed iPhone’s specs?
November 30th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Research in Motion’s previously leaked BlackBerry 9100 will race to beat Apple in technical features ahead of an upgrade to the iPhone, BGR claims in an alleged leak. The device will have a touchscreen with the same 320×480 resolution as the iPhone’s and will have 3G cellular Internet over HSPA — a feature that is […]
Tags: Cellphones · iPhone · BlackBerry
Sprint Nixes Investment Bid from SK Telecom
November 30th, 2007 · No Comments
Before the Thanksgiving holiday, SK Telecom and private equity firm Providence Equity Partners offered to invest $5 billion in Sprint. The terms of the proposal would have had former Nextel CEO Tim Donahue return to helm the company. Donahue planned to bring in an entirely new management team. Sprint turned down the offer without discussing […]
Tags: WiMAX · Sprint Nextel · In The News
Korean Death by Mobile Phone a Hoax
November 30th, 2007 · No Comments
A story has been making the rounds in technology circles after a man in Korea was reportedly killed when his LG Mobile phone exploded. A coworker of the man who was killed has now come forward and admitted it was a hoax.
The hoaxy part wasn’t that the man was killed, rather that the exploding LG […]
Tags: Security · LG Mobile Phone · In The News
Blockbuster Talking to Handset Makers About Easing Mobile Movie Pains
November 30th, 2007 · No Comments
At a recent media summit, Blockbuster CEO James Keyes said the movie rental chain is speaking to all the major handset manufacturers in hopes that they can make the process of downloading and watching movies on mobile phones easier. Blockbuster is also speaking with mobile software companies. Keye’s did not elaborate on how the process […]
Tags: Cellphones · Portable Video · In The News
Unannounced Motorola Media Phone Spotted In Fergie Video
November 30th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Fergie’s latest music video, “Clumsy”, which has been playing on MTV for weeks and is available on the iTunes Music Store, features an unannounced Motorola phone. The phone is likely the rumored ROKR E8 Elba, Motorola’s next flagship media phone. It can be seen clearly in a nine-second segment of the video between the 3:10 […]











