March 2010 Archives
AT&T Offers MicroCell to Extend Cell Coverage
AT&T announced that AT&T 3G MicroCell plans to begin its national roll out beginning in mid April AT&T 3G MicroCell is a fem-to-cell option that allows residential customers to route wireless phone calls and data connections (or sessions) across a home broadband connection. This …
Apps Awards: Bike Dashboard, Niko Twitter-Controled Droid, and Pit Crew Win PUSH N90
The winner of PUSH N900 MOD IN THE USA competition - BrettSarahTops - turned the Nokia N900 into a car-like dashboard showcasing odometer, speedometer with Bike Dashboard and won $10,000. Second prize went to Twitter-controlled N900 robot Niko and third prize went to Pit Crew slot car racing contr…
Android Zio and BlackBerry Curve 8530 Coming to Cricket’s National Coverage Cheap Plans
Cricket has gone nationwide covering all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. More of interest however to BlackBerry and Android fans is that you will able to get the new Android Zio M600 and BlackBerry Curve 8530 with prepaid plans. You will still have to pay for the smartphone upf…
CTIA E-Tech Award Winners, Pureness, Samsung I8530 & BOLT
Winners in the fifth annual CTIA E-Tech Awards were announced. International CTIA WIRELESS 2010 web visitors named Leapwave's Big Screen Games played via mobile phones by large audiences "Best Online Pick." At the show, attendees were able to browse entries showcased in the E-T…
Sprint’s HTC EVO 4G Coming this Summer 10x Faster than 3G
Sprint and HTC showed off the world's first 3G/4G Android handset, the HTC EVO 4G at CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas. The HTC EVO has a 1 Ghz Snapdragon processor, 8.0 megapixel camera, HD video, HTC Sense and creates a Wi-Fi hotspot for up 8 other devices.HTC EVO 4G delivers a multimedia experienc…
ZAGG Skins and Protects Smartphones with Leatherskins and invisibleSHIELD Dry
Zagg introduced at the International CTIA WIRELESS show in Las Vegas, Nevada, two new forms of personal electronics protection, ZAGG LEATHERSKINS and invisibleSHIELD Dry.ZAGG LEATHERSKINS is a thin, pliable case that applies directly to personal electronics like a film, but …
Motorola Devour Smartphone @ Verizon Now Devourable with MOTOBLUR and Android
Verizon announced that Motorola DEVOUR is available online and in stores for $149.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement.The Motorola DEVOUR is the second Android-powered smartphone from Motorola to run on Verizon Wireless’ 3G network. The Motorola Devo…
Top Best Topics 4G, LTE, WiMAX, App Stores and Health @ CTIA from Juniper Research
Juniper Research also attended the CTIA Wireless show, they saw the top stories from their analyst's eye view they noticed these stories, the HTC EVO, LTE launches, app stores from carriers and healthcare as their top stories. Sprint has been the only US carrier to commit…
CTIA Views an’ News: Smarter Lighter Brigther HD Smartphones an’ Apps
Yesterday, we flew into Las Vegas, for a whirlwind tour of CTIA Wireless convention (something very easy for Californians.) The CTIA exhibit area was slightly smaller than last year, with fewer phone announcements, however there is always something interesting to report. Screens are getting bi…
LG Cosmos Enters Verizon Cosmos on March 25 $29.99
Verizon and LG Electronics announced LG Cosmos will be available on March 25. It has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard fo text messaging and built-in social networking tools and photo apps. The LG Cosmos is candy bar phone with metallic finish and offerss web-based e-mail, instant messaging and chat, ext,…
Samsung Wave DivX Certified, Samsung Galaxy S Will Follow DivX Wave
The Samsung Wave is the first mobile phone to be DivX Certified for HD video playback at 720p resolution. The Samsung Wave is based on Samsung's new smartphone platform bada.Samsung and DivX will work together on HD Certification for the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S, an innovativ…
Android Smartphones: Samsung Galaxy S Enters Smartphone Galaxy with 4 Inch HD AMOLED
Samsung introduced at CTIA the Samsung Galaxy S (Model: GT-I9000), an Android-powered smarphone with a 4-inch Super AMOLED screen, 1 GHz processor, ready for HD video. The Samsung Glaxay S has a ‘Social Hub’ and lots of multimedia ready for Layar’s augmente…
Dog-Tracking Wireless Tech: Apishpere Collar Tracking @ AT&T
If your dog is getting lost and you have trouble finding him, you will soon be able to track him through a tracking collar. Apisphere and AT&T will wirelessly connect a location-smart animal collar to help pet owners keep track of their pooches. The product uses GPS via a wireless SIM to follow…
Android Smartphones: Kyocera Zio M6000 Touchscreen
Kyocera introduced of the Kyocera Zio M6000 Android smartphone at the CTIA Wireless 2010 trade show. Zio (pronounced Z? -O) uses CDMA2000 1xEV-DO rev. A and Wi-Fi network technologies and features ahigh-resolution 3.5-inch WVGA motion-enhanced, touchscreen, trackball, 3.2 MP camera with 30f…
Qualcomm Brews Opera Mini Browser into Brew Mobile Platform Phones
Qualcomm and Opera Software,s are pre-integrating the Opera Mobile 10 and Opera Mini 5 browsers with Qualcomm's Brew Mobile Platform (Brew MP) operating system. They claim that their collaborative effort, will be a key element of Brew MP operating system's growing market momentum. Under …
iPhone Sketchy Free Apps 2day: Yahoo! Sketch-a-Search
Yahoo! now offers the free Sketch-a-Search iPhone App. Users draw a boundary on the phone's map to discover local businesses within that location. Yahoo! Sketch-a-Search is initially available for restaurant searches in the U.S.Yahoo! Sketch-a-Search will launch additional local categories …
Mobile Broadband Internet Similiar to PC Use, Says Sandvine
"Mobile Internet Phenomena" by Sandvine looks at the state of mobile network and shows that mobile data is becoming main stream, with users relying on mobile broadband to do the same things they do on their PCs. The high-end users eat up the most data. Other top trends such as Facebook, social netwo…
Verizon Customers Top Satisfied, Followed by T-Mobile, AT&t and Sprint, Says Vocalabs
Verizon and T-Mobile beat AT&T and Sprint in customer satisfaction with customer service, according to the latest study on phone-based customer service quality customer service conducted by Vocal Laboratories Inc. (Vocalabs). In 1,142 telephone interviews co…
Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus Coming to AT&T $149 & $49
The Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus (in new blue too) phones will be available at AT&T. With a slider keyboard, a larger touchscreen and a high-performance processor, the Palm Pre ' webOS, Synergy and web browsing on the Palm Pre Plus were found to be…
Free BlackBerry Apps 2Day: Microsoft Talk to Text for Sprint, Powered by Yap
Yap, cloud-based speech recognition service, announced that if will provide speech-to-text capabilities in the Microsoft Talk to Text mobile application. Microsoft developed Talk to Text for Sprint, that lets users to speak their text messages and emails. Talk to Text is available immediate…
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