ZTE expands R&D team by 900, focusing on TD-LTE development
In a sure sign that LTE is gaining momentum, Chinese handset maker ZTE has hired 900 additional developers to focus on TD-LTE technology. The company …
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Oprah’s favorite new gadget is confirmed to be the Amazon Kindle
Yeah we know this post sounds like something you might read at “People Magazine” but it does have some pretty serious gadget implications, so read …
Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile may be planning Nuance Open Voice Search enabled handsets
Nuance, the company behind Dragon Naturally Speaking, is developing a new mobile product called Open Voice Search. Similar to Vlingo and Microsoft’s TellMe, Open Voice …
UIQ is dead, so says Sony Ericsson
According to a post from All About Symbian who was blogging live, UIQ was declared dead by Sony Ericsson’s Patrick Olson at the Symbian Smartphone …
Comcast begins to rollout 50 Mbps High-Speed Internet Service
In a bid to compete with Verizon’s FIOS service, Comcast has just announced that it will begin the roll out of their DOCSIS 3.0 network …
Spy shots of the Nokia E63 emerge
As part of the whole discussion on the leaked Nokia promotional video about a month ago, the existence of the mysterious Eseries phone, the E63, …
RIM announces Web Signals, will push everything to your handset
RIM announced on Tuesday their new Web Signals technology that lets content providers push relevant and timely alerts directly to your Blackberry. Like SMS alerts …
HP unveils two new iPaq smartphones
HP added two new Windows Mobile handsets, the Data Messenger and Voice Messenger, to its enterprise messenger line of smartphones on Monday. The Data Messenger …
Motorola redefines elegance with the AURA
Motorola announced on Tuesday its new luxury phone, the Motorola AURA. The AURA features the world’s first circular display with 16 million colors and 300 …
More details about Motorola’s Android phone emerge
According to sources at Business Week, Motorola has been sharing a spec sheet and some concept images of its new Android smartphone with carriers around …
LG Lotus, Samsung Rant and Highnote now available at Sprint
Ready for your buying pleasure from Sprint are two new QWERTY texting phones and one dual-sliding music phone. The LG Lotus and the Samsung Rant …
8MP shootout: LG KC910 Renoir vs. the Samsung Pixon M8800
Want an 8MP shooter but cant decide which one? With four sweet phones currently filling this category we feel your pain. The folks over at …
Asus S101 stars in its own unboxing photo shoot
When you think of Asus and Eee PC, you think “cheap Linux netbook”. With their latest offering, the S101, Asus tries to shatter this stereotype …
The affordable LG KP500 is codenamed “Cookie”
We guessed it would come with a cute nickname and boy we were right. The entry-level LG KP500 has been given the codename LG Cookie. …
Dell Inspiron “Ubuntu” Mini 9 ships with Partition Error
If you own a Dell Inspiron Mini with Ubuntu and paid extra to upgrade your hard drive from the stock 4 GB to an 8 …
Qik now supports select Nokia and Sony Ericsson J2ME feature phones
Qik announced on Friday that it has expanded outside the realm of smartphones and will now support J2ME feature phones, a.k.a. non-smartphones. Lucky owners of …
Rumored Sony Ericsson early 2009 Lineup
This one is for you hardcore Sony Ericsson fans. The folks over at SEMC blog compiled a list of the upcoming Sony Ericsson phones with …
Wrike and Intermedia to launch ContactSync, Exchange/Outlook sync tool for G1 Android
When you sit down and compare Android to the various mobile platforms, the lack of Outlook/Exchange sync support is one of Android’s most notable deficiencies. …
MetroPCS to launch Screen-it, a wireless caller naming service
MetroPCS announced on Thursday that it will be the first carrier in the US to offer Screen-it, a wireless caller naming service. Screen-it basically brings …
Nokia N810 WiMAX edition is now in the hands of the people
After months of waiting, the Nokia N810 WiMAX edition went live on Nokia’s online storefront this week. No longer “Available Soon” the WiMAX version of …
March to a different beat with Alltel’s LG Rhythm
Alltel customers who prefer music phones to smartphones have another phone to drool over starting Thursday as Alltel has officially added the LG Rhythm to …
Australia to allow mobile phone use in planes
For better or for worse, the Australian Communications and Media Authority is proposing an amendment to the Mobile Phone Jammer Prohibition that would permit cell …
Sony Ericsson’s 8MP C905 passes through the FCC
Add another to the list of phones recently approved by the FCC, this time ’round it is the Sony Ericsson C905 slider . With its …
Microsoft toying with the idea of an “Instant On” operating system
A survey sent from Microsoft to select users hints that Microsoft is interested in the concept of an “Instant On” OS where a select subset …
Motorola to develop an Android-based social networking smartphone
It looks like Motorola has some tricks up its sleeve and may be introducing an Android phone with a twist. No plain Jane Android phone …
FCC approves the use of the white space spectrum for nationwide, free wireless internet
Score one for Google and company as the FCC has cleared the way for the use of the white space spectrum for free, nationwide wireless …
T-Mobile Germany exposes confidential data for 30 million customers
Fresh on the heels of last week’s announcement that they lost confidential data for 17 million customers, T-Mobile on Saturday confirmed that an error in …
Sony Ericsson Rika is the W705
That stylish Sony Ericsson slider, the Rika, has been given a model name: the Walkman W705. The W705 will be the Walkman version (obviously) of …
Verizon Wireless says “text messaging not going up to $1,000,000 per text”
Verizon hit us up yesterday to let us know that what we reported the other day was just something being tossed around internally. It was …
LG to bring Windows Mobile powered phone to AT&T
LG is rumored to be bringing the “Incite”, a Windows Mobile Professional device, to the AT&T lineup prior to the end of the year. The …
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