With the newly launched unlimited iDEN plans, Boost Mobile aims to push all subscribers to its iDEN network-based services over time. Boost Mobile spokesperson Tatum Hawkins said, “Boost Mobile will still operate, support and service its CDMA-related products, but it will no longer promote them.” If customers wish to sign up for CDMA-based services, they [...]
Entries from January 2009
Boost Mobile Confirms CDMA Phase Out
January 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tags: CDMA · In The News
iAdsense
January 28th, 2009 · No Comments
iAdSense is an iPhone app that will go straight to the heart of all compulsive bloggers who are signed up with GoogleAd Sense. You can check your earnings as the day goes by, in one tap (after initially logging into your AdSense account). No doubt it would have been a lot more fun to watch [...]
Tags: Google · Software · iPhone
AT&T Quietly Launches LG’s CF360 Slider
January 28th, 2009 · No Comments
The LG CF360 has recently been made available via the AT&T Web site. This slider has quad-band GSM/EDGE as well as dual-band UMTS/HSDPA 3G radios on board. The CF360 carries a 1.3 megapixel camera with video capture and Video Share. It supports microSD cards up to 16GB in size, has Bluetooth 2.0, and a USB [...]
Tags: AT&T Wireless · GPS · LG Mobile Phone
Sprint cuts 8,000 jobs in bid to save $1.2b
January 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Sprint this morning took drastic action to maintain its performance and said it would cut 8,000 jobs, most of which will be eliminated quickly and disappear by the end of March. The carrier describes the layoffs as reducing labor costs in a difficult economy and estimates it will save $1.2 billion per year from the [...]
Tags: AT&T Wireless · In The News · Industry Q&A's · Palm · Sprint Nextel · Verizon Wireless
iPhone Bluetooth File Transfer coming soon
January 26th, 2009 · No Comments
Aside from lacking flash support, the iPhone doesn’t also do Bluetooth filetransfer. Well, thanks again to jailbreak and the hardworking developers out there, this sorely missing feature may soon be available on the iPhone as developer MeDevil is currently working on one. The video above shows its potential, and once it’s done and ready, it’ll [...]
Tags: Apple · Bluetooth · Software · iPhone
BlackBerry Storm should have been Free to the first 500,000 Owners
January 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment
After the flurry of bad reviews, customer complains and less than forthcoming firmware update management it is no wonder that the BlackBerry Storm sales are far from what Apple sold with the iPhone.
The WSJ runs a story that claims that RIM sold 500,000 BlackBerry Storm smartphones in the first month. The iPhone had sales of [...]
Tags: BlackBerry · Smartphone
PSP Carnival Colors
January 26th, 2009 · No Comments
Here you are a nice move from SCE with their PSP Carnival Colors… Starting from Arch, SCE Japan will start selling its PSP-3000 in 4 different flashy colors with Blue, Red, Yellow and Green. If you are interested in the best deal SCE also propose these new PSP in a pack with a 4GB Memory [...]
Tags: Gadgets · Portable Audio · Portable Gaming · Portable Video · Sony
Verizon Wireless Announces the Hub Home Phone
January 26th, 2009 · No Comments
Today Verizon Wireless announced a new product for the home that is meant to replace landline telephones and act as an accessory to wireless service. The Verizon Hub uses a broadband connection to connect to the Internet and provide VoIP-based telephony services. It has a seven-inch touchscreen display that offers a wide range of features [...]
Tags: Accessories · Internet · Verizon Wireless
Nokia announces Q4 2008 financial results
January 26th, 2009 · No Comments
Nokia has revealed its financial results for last year, and as is to be expect, the results aren’t what Nokia would of liked. In terms of overall sales, in the last quarter of the year, they declined by 19%, compared to the previous year, with sales of mobile phones and services declining by 27% on [...]
Tags: In The News · Industry Q&A's · Nokia
Powerful USB Mini Speakers from Grandmax
January 26th, 2009 · No Comments
Let’s stay on the tiny gadgets topic with the brand new Grandmax Pull-n-Play Tweakers - a pair of portable mini speakers that show “sound can come in small packages”.
Give it a twist and the top portion expands, giving you extra air space which brings out the bass. You’d have to hear it to believe [...]
Tags: Accessories · Gadgets · Portable Speaker
HTC Unveils the Touch Cruise with Footprints
January 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
Today HTC announced a new Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional smartphone, the Touch Cruise. The Cruise has the TouchFLO user interface and a host of other features, including quad-band GSM/EDGE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, GPS/a-GPS, and a 3.2 megapixel camera with fixed focus. The display spans 2.8 inches, rating QVGA resolution, and the Cruise has a slot [...]
Tags: Camera · GPS · HTC · PDA Phone · Portable Audio · Portable Video · Smartphone · Windows Mobile 6
T-Mobile G2 leaks on the Internet
January 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
Images of what are said to be of T-Mobile’s alleged G2 handset have leaked. Unlike the G1, on the G2, which, as is the case with the G1, manufactured by HTC, there is no hardware keyboard (making the G2 thinner than its predecessor), for text input, so you’ll have to rely on the touchscreen for [...]
Tags: Camera · HTC · Rumor · Smartphone · T-Mobile
Twitter UK traffic up 974 per cent in a year
January 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
Traffic to microblogging service Twitter has increased by 974 per cent in the last year, according to the latest figures from Hitwise.The tenfold increase in visitor numbers has seen Twitter leap from being the 2,953rd most popular website in the UK last year to 291st most-visited as of the middle of January.
Tags: In The News · Internet · Software
Sprint Selling Treo Pro
January 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
A CDMA version of Palm’s Treo Pro has appeared for sale on Sprint’s web site. The phone appears mostly identical to the GSM version already announced, including support for WiFi, GPS, and a memory card. It supports most Sprint services, including Sprint TV, Music Store, Mobile Sync, and picture messaging. Other features include a QWERTY [...]
Tags: CDMA · GPS · PDA Phone · Palm · Sprint Nextel · Windows Mobile 6
First handsets to run on Windows Mobile 6.5 said to be arriving in Q3
January 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
Apparently, the first mobile phones that will run on the Windows Mobile 6.5 OS - which is likely to be announced by Microsoft at the Mobile World Congress, next month are to arrive sometime between July and September of this year. Though, it’s said that some manufacturers will ship their devices running the OS, in [...]
Tags: Microsoft · Windows Mobile 6











