Palm's Pre commercials are horrible
We love you Palm, we really do. WebOS is in a small club of mobile platforms that is as versatile and visually pleasing as it …
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T-Mobile slashes prices on Samsung Comeback and Highlight
Talk about a shameless early adopter tax… T-Mobile released the Samsung Comeback just a week ago and it has already chopped the handset’s price down …
Palm App Catalog welcomes new apps with open arms, and open tables
We hope you’re sitting down, Pre people… Believe it or not, there’s a new app in the App Catalog this morning! More than one even! …
Sprint reports Q2 results, sheds almost 1 million postpaid subs
Still managing to skirt the ever-present how many Palm Pres has the company sold question, Sprint reported its Q2 2009 results this morning. While the …
Carrier Wars: Verizon Wireless speed test results
Well folks, the numbers are in. Last week we asked Verizon Wireless subscribers to break out their favorite EV-DO handsets and see how Big Red’s …
AT&T to launch the Samsung Solstice A887 on August 2nd, $99.99
Surprise, AT&T-rocking budget touchscreen fans. One of our trusty ninjas just hit us with some Sammy juice and it looks like the affordable A887, formerly …
Customers to get free AT&T Wi-Fi at Barnes & Noble stores
AT&T and Barnes & Noble will announce a new deal today that gives customers free AT&T Wi-Fi access at B&N stores across the country. The …
Apple rejects official Google Voice app, clears App Store of third-party offerings
Ohhhh, Apple. In this latest chapter of the schizophrenic soap opera that is Apple’s relationship with iPhone developers, Apple has rejected Google’s Google Voice application. …
Sprint to acquire Virgin Mobile for $483 million
Didn’t see this one coming… Apparently Branson’s Helio-hawking MVNO Virgin Mobile is about to be gobbled up by the nation’s number three. Sprint has officially …
August is shaping up to be the month of sequels at T-Mobile
The good folks over at T-Mobile always do their best to bring hot new GSM phones to market as quickly as possible. With a subscriber …
Symbian Foundation: Help us help you
Making a mobile OS “open” is one thing, but this is unlike anything we’ve seen to date. The Symbian Foundation — the newly formed group …
Video game market finally dives in June
Many would say the worst is behind us where the recession is concerned but gaming giants Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft would probably disagree. An industry …
Verizon reports Q2; reaffirms Palm Pre launch in early 2010, plans to cut 8,000 employees in 2009
Verizon, on its investor conference call this morning, reaffirmed its intentions to launch the Palm Pre in early 2010. While news of Palm’s revival handset …
HTC trademarks new device names; Vigor, Dawn, Imagio, Interlude and Tattoo
Hooray for non-information! Hunting for trademarks is the latest trend in terms of ongoing efforts to prowl on handset manufacturers and dig up any possible …
AT&T drops pricing on refurbished iPhone 3G, still not worth skipping the 3GS
Even AT&T must have expected that it would have trouble burning through iPhone 3G inventory once the 3GS was released. After all, it doesn’t take …
Samsung Omnia Pro gets fondled, Omnia 2 gets less appealing
While Samsung fans on this side of the world ogle the Omnia 2, our Asian brothers and sisters across the globe are already eying bigger …
Verizon issues Q2 subscriber count; full results coming Tuesday
While we wait patiently for the 27th to see how the recession treated Big Red this past quarter, Verizon has issued its first little taste …
T-Mobile's upcoming Samsung Scarlet T649 gets caught inducing comas
Well T-Mobile subscribers, we wish we had more exciting news for you but alas… Win some, lose some. Pictured above is the upcoming Samsung Scarlet, …
WiTricity CEO talks wireless charging; preliminary availability in 12-18 months
Woh there George Jetson… Did you take your flying car to a remote studio on Mars to record this interview? WiTricity Corp. CEO Eric Giler …
Palm releases webOS 1.1, fixes iTunes sync; unofficial change log assembled
And so the cat and mouse game continues — Palm found a loop hole that would allow it to provide Pre iTunes syncing out of …
AT&T/Rogers 3G-ready Samsung I8000 Omnia 2 clears FCC; hands on video slips out
Sammy fans in the US (and perhaps Canada) have cause for celebration as the FCC has just given the upcoming Omnia2 its coveted nod of …
Welcome to Carrier Wars; next up, Verizon Wireless
You knew we weren’t going to leave well enough alone — it’s just not our style. Following yesterday’s post calling out AT&T for terrible 3G …
Verizon Wireless fights for the little guy again, poses ammendment to roaming laws
Well isn’t Big Red just the Robin Hood of US carriers… First Verizon announced a new policy where handset exclusivity is concerned — promising small …
The nation's fastest 3G network… Part 2
Well the numbers are in folks, and we’re pretty surprised to reveal that AT&T’s 3G network might not be the travesty many thought it was. …
AdMob issues June report; 46% of iPhone/iPod touch users are outside the US, Android OS share balloons
Oui oui! In its latest mobile metrics report, AdMob takes a look at the geographic distribution of the iPhone and iPod touch for the first …
AT&T Q2 beats the Street, income still dives 16%
AT&T released its results for Q2 2009 this morning and while there’s no question its performance in the quarter was solid, not all is peachy …
The nation's fastest 3G network…
Since the iPhone 3G was released over a year ago, AT&T customers in many regions have experienced the slow and painful decay of what had …
HTC continues to look beyond Windows Mobile; BREW-based phone in 2009, 50% Android shipments in 2010
As the world gets ready for what will hopefully be a series of page-turning events for Windows Mobile — the releases of 6.5 and then …
LG posts record Q2; hooray for touchscreens and washing machines
Well it looks like LG Electronics came through in a big way this past quarter as the company reports a very, very solid performance. Maybe …
HTC Leo gets spec'd; mmmmm, Snapdragon
Earlier this week we reported some rumored details of the upcoming HTC Leo and today it looks like things are now getting flushed out a …
