Archive for January, 2008

Sprint plans to invest in iDEN

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

As reported yesterday, Sprint will continue investing in the Nextel’s iDEN following year, by “aggressively marketing Nextel Direct Connect and expanding features and functionality including combining Direct Connect with Sprint Mobile Broadband data capabilities.” This will result in new options for the customers, such as “push-to-x”, which can include push to instantly send a text [...]

White Touch for Bell Mobility

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Bell Mobility which is The Canadian wireless carrier , will offers the white version of the HTC Touch to its customers and future subscribers. Bell Mobility managed to beat Verizon and release it faster. The white Touch will have all the features as the darker model, which we reviewed earlier. With the EV-DO support, customers will be able to [...]

Is Dell joining Google to bring us Android

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

As reported in MarketingWeek in the UK, Dell and Google working closely together on what seems to be the  Gphone. Since we have no reason to believe Google is going to jeopardize its Android OS by getting extra-friendly with one specific manufacturer, the primary weight we can give to this rumor is that fact that [...]

Nokia N95 8GB passes FCC

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

We certainly can’t guarantee that your wait for the US 3G version of the Nokia N95 8GB is nigh, but it did just pass through the FCC, meaning the last major hurdle to selling the things in the US is over. We don’t blame you for gawking, just hang tight until Nokia drops the official [...]

O2’s Active portal as i-mode nomore

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

UK mobile operator Telefonica O2, stopping it’s i-mode production and tempting cutomers to a new Active portal. Following 9 months of close collaboration, O2 UK is gearing up to launch “a highly sophisticated, personalised and content centric” mobile portal, designed by mobile content firm ChangingWorlds.
O2 revealed it’s Plans to shut down i-mode were revealed last summer, [...]

First of a kind iDen phone by Motorola

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Finaly an iDEN handset came along that actually looks appealing. Motorola will definitely see the demend for this beautifully RAZR 2-esque thing actually proves to be real, check out the frickin external screen on this thing! Featuring a 3 megapixel camera, external touch screen — we’re not positive if this only refers to the controls [...]

Verizon Voyager Browser Update

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Mobile phones cause a change in brain function

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Scientists at the Australian Centre for Radiofrequency Bioeffects Research are looking for an answer to this question. A study at the Centre partly funded by the Aussie government, of 110 adults, “confirmed mobile phones cause a change in brain function by altering brainwaves known as alpha waves”. Now the scientists are focusing on the effect [...]

Sprint and another customer dispute

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Sprint with another dispute, will it ever end. Sprint bhas been charging a family $6 a month in local Texas taxes for the past three and half years, but the problem is the family hasn’t lived in the Lone Star State for three and half years. In addition, Sprint has also been charging local Nevada [...]

AT&T adding 2.7 million customers

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Mean while Sprint loosing customers, AT&T is being bigger than ever, adding 2.7 million new wireless customers. They also added 396,000 high speed internet customers and 105,000 U-Verse TV customers.
Many of AT&T’s newly found customers seem to have come at Sprint’s expense. Despite their successes, AT&T is still plagued with more customer churn than Verizon, so be [...]