May

8

HTC’s Diamond Touch

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May 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment

 
While HTC kept many of their upcoming devices under wraps at their ‘World Event’ they did give some people a little face time with the new Touch Diamond which has the new version of TouchFLO 3D interface. First impressions indicate that it is sexy as hell and more than little slick. The mobile OS is […]

May

6

Blackberry 9000 in the wild

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May 6, 2008 | 1 Comment

Shockingly enough apparently all you need is $850.00 and a serious sense of faith and you too can buy a Blackberry 9000 some 4 months before it is launched. How is this possible? No one really knows especially considering that it came off Ebay and was shipped from Europe. The guys over at Crackberry had […]

May

2

BlackBerrry KickStart confirmed

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May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment

With the proverbial cat out of the bag due to the spy shots making the internet rounds the past couple days, Research in Motion has confirmed the existence of their first foray into the flip (clamshell) style phones in the name of the KickStart. Of course not much information is available except for a few […]

May

1

The 1st BlackBerry Flip Phone

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May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Research in Motion hasn’t announced this and to be honest a lot of people want to think this is some type of hoax but some spy shots straight from the bathroom of some office seem to indicate otherwise. The fact is simple, it appears that the BlackBerry line will now include a flip phone, which […]

Apr

29

Bluetooth headset for both mobile phone and iPod

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April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment

With the new JayBird Bluetooth Stereo Headset (130 bones) you can control both your phone and your MP3 player at the same time using the newest update to the A2DP protocol. As of now there aren’t any Bluetooth enabled iPods so an adapter will need to be purchased but expect that Bluetooth will be built […]

Apr

25

Samsung pushes its market share to 16%

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April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

 
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. shipped over 46 million phones in Q1 to solidify itself as the world’s second best mobile phone manufacturer. The 33% increase in sales over Q1 2007, has pushed its market share to 16%.
All this while Motorola tumbled to a 9.4% share in the No. 3 spot. Motorola has yet to come […]

Apr

24

Apple sells 1.7 million units

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April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Apple announced revenue of $7.5 billion and net profit over $1 billion in its 2nd fiscal quarter, with revenue beating expectations. This is what happens when you sell 10.6 million iPods, 2.3 million Macs, and 1.7 million iPhones — which the company said kept it on pace to reach its year-end goal of 10 million […]

Apr

23

AT&T Mobile has big 1st quarter

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April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment

At&t Mobile has announced Q1 2008 numbers in which they added 1.295 million wireless customers, an 8.7% increase compared the first quarter of 2007. The numbers pushed the carrier’s customer base to more than 71.3 million subscribers. This is especially impressive considering they shut down their TDMA network and along with it 330,000 customers.
Churn remained […]

Apr

15

iPhone 2.0 beta: Screen caps

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April 15, 2008 | 2 Comments

The latest iPhone 2.0 beta firmware allows users to save web images to its running camera roll for later download to its host machine (or sharing via email). In addition the iPhone, with a flick of  two buttons, (sleep & home) will be capable of taking full screen caps. Of course all of this is […]

Apr

11

Emergency sms system approved by FCC

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April 11, 2008 | 1 Comment

The FCC today approved plans to roll out a nationwide SMS-based alert system, which will soon become mandatory for all four national carriers and all the ‘baby bells’ as well. The FCC will appoint a federal agency tasked with creating the messages.
Those messages will be limited to one of three categories of emergencies, including disasters […]

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