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In a couple of days, Mac lovers who own a BlackBerry instead of an iPhone will be able to download BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac OS X. Research in Motion has announced that it will launch the ne... More >
A Gizmodo reader recently took his iPhone to the Apple Genius Bar in New York City to complain about dropped calls. The reader was told that his iPhone was dropping 22 percent of its calls. Unfortu... More >
T-Mobile confirmed the rumored pre-order date of the Motorola Cliq when it announced it would begin taking orders for the handset from Oct. 19. Interested T-Mobile customers can register for additi... More >
Mobile users face an ever-expanding gap between their smartphones' increasing power demands and battery capacity. According to IMS Research, it's a gap that is only expected to widen over the next se... More >
Nokia, Samsung, Silicom Image, Sony and Toshiba have teamed up to form the Mobile High-Definition Interface Working Group. The companies' goal is to create a new industry standard for connecting hand... More >
AT&T will launch Garmin's long-awaited nuvifone G60 device on October 4. Originally announced in Janurary 2008, the handset's launch has been delayed several times. The device will feature... More >
Palm has made the WebOS 1.2 update available via over-the-air download, and this update has brought a slew of new features. The bad news is the update will not allow Pre users to sync with Apple's iT... More >
Vodafone announced it will sell Apple's iPhone in the UK and Ireland starting early next year. This announcement comes a day after France Telecom SA's Orange secured a similar deal . Vodafone UK and... More >
China Unicom says it will offer Apple's iPhone in China next month for $732. It's unknown if that is the price for the 16GB or 32GB version of the iPhone, reports ChannelWeb . China Unicom, the coun... More >
Last week, reports circulated that Verizon would pass on offering the Palm Pre on its network in January. Analysts are refuting the report, with Deutsche Bank analyst Jonathan Goldberg calling the ... More >
France Telecom SA's Orange mobile business says it has reached an agreement to sell Apple's iPhone in the UK in the run-up to Christmas. The news means O2's exclusive run with the popular device is c... More >
IBM will offer enterprises a managed service platform for Research in Motion's BlackBerry mobile messaging service. The company has been offering BlackBerry management services for some time, but now... More >
Tony Melone, Verizon's chief technology officer, unveiled a few more details of the carrier's plans and strategy for the deployment of its upcoming 4G network. According to Phone Reviews , Verizon i... More >
The Palm Pre, released in June, isn't generating the types of sales that analysts and investors had anticipated. The company's plan for the Pre to help reverse its fortunes could take a hit if report... More >
Earlier this year, Google's Andy Rubin said there would be at least 18 Android handsets by the end of 2009. According to Benjamin Tan from Microsoft China, Microsoft will see Android's 18 and raise... More >
Vodafone says it will launch a new set of Internet services called Vodafone 360, which will bring a customer's mobile and messaging contacts with their online social networking information. The carri... More >
Palm finally has a good problem. Its decision to open development to everyone has left it facing more WebOS app submissions than it can handle, Gizmodo reports. Regarding the issue, Palm Developer ... More >
Vodafone announced that the HTC Tattoo will be arriving on its network next month. The Tattoo, HTC's entry-level Android handset, provides access to the Android market and the Touch Sense user interf... More >
South Korean regulators have cleared the way for Apple's iPhone to be sold in the country. Up until recently, South Korea used technical rules to stifle competition, allowing domestic companies to do... More >
The enterprise community around the world is reaping the benefits of 3G, says a new survey commissioned by the GSMA. According to the study, 36 percent of enterprises use mobile broadband connectivit... More >
Google announced it has added Gmail support to Google Sync for iPhone, iPod touch, Symbian and Windows Mobile devices. The update to the Google Sync client expands the amount of mobiles that can now ... More >
A number of manufacturers and carriers are positioning themselves to take advantage of the October 6 launch of Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 . One such manufacturer is Acer, which reportedly will r... More >
Samsung launched the world's first mobile display driver with embedded touch screen controller functionality. Based on Samsung's Touch Embedded DDI technology, the single-chip solution allows handset... More >
The HTC Hero is coming to Cellular South, a small regional carrier and staunch opponent of exclusive handset deals. Sprint, who's CEO recently backed government scrutiny of handset exclusivity deals... More >
LG's Chocolate BL40 is now available on O2, Orange and Vodafone networks. The LG BL40 features a unique 21:9 display to make reading content on Web pages and e-mail more user-friendly. In addition,... More >
T-Mobile announced that it has rolled out HSPA+ in Philadelphia and has activated 20 cell sites within the city's metropolitan area. The company plans to expand the service in Philadelphia and launch... More >
AT&T announced its new A-List calling feature, which allows individual subscribers unlimited calling to five domestic numbers of their choosing. FamilyTalk plans will get 10 numbers. According to... More >
HTC released a ROM update for Hero users in the UK last week. Orange UK rolled out the firmware update to its customers over the weekend. The wireless carrier tested the new software to make sure i... More >
Sprint is looking to be to the first wireless carrier to offer a 4G WiMax Android handset. Mark Sullivan of PCWorld.com speculates that Sprint is preparing to launch a 4G Android smartphone in 2010... More >
Nokia has developed a possible solution for anyone who cannot read text on a mobile phone screen by implementing a new system of reading braille on a touchscreen handset. The Nokia Braille Reader, st... More >
Telecom equipment maker Nokia Siemens Networks claims to have made the world's first voice call using Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology. According to the company, the call was made at its research... More >
Pre-orders for the Motorola Cliq , the company's first Android handset, are likely to begin October 19, according to leaked promotional documents. According to Boy Genius Report , T-Mobile will lau... More >
Trackball problems have plagued Research in Motion's BlackBerry Tour 9630. The issues have led to return rates that are near 50 percent, says SlashGear . Customers are complaining of a lack of sensi... More >
Symbian, the world's most popular smartphone operating system, has designs on maintaining that title. In recent years, the mobile OS has lost share to the iPhone OS and Android within the UK, says P... More >
The writing was pretty much on the wall for Windows Mobile when Palm developed WebOS . Palm CEO John Rubenstein announced that the company was dumping Windows Mobile and fully backing its own mobile... More >
Samsung unveiled the Omnia Pro B7330, the latest edition to its Omnia smartphone series. In addition, the company announced that all its Omnia models will run Windows Mobile 6.5. The company plans to... More >
Microsoft and M-Com recently announced a solution that offers mobile payment functionality to banks and payment processors. The software package, called BankAnywhere, is based around Windows, Microso... More >
Opera Software released a test version of its new mobile Web browser. The Opera Mini 5 beta sports a refreshed design, a more user-friendly Speed Dial tool, and support for touch-screen devices, says... More >
HTC has released the firmware update for UK Hero users on the UK HTC download page . The ROM update improves the speed of the Android OS and adds a touch focus feature to the Hero's camera, Phone M... More >
The Motorola Dext will be the next Android smartphone to make its way to the UK. The Dext, a version of the Cliq , will be made available in October from Orange, which will sell the handset exclusiv... More >
India's Department of Telecommunications has scheduled a date for its auction of 3G and WiMax licenses. The state auction for W-CDMA will be held December 7, with the auctions for CDMA 1xEVDO and WiM... More >
Motorola unveiled the Cliq , its first Android phone, last week and has its sights set on bringing the device to much if not all of the U.S. market, says The Wall Street Journal. Motorola Co-CEO San... More >
Multimedia messaging for the iPhone is due to arrive 10 days from now on Sept. 25, but many iPhone 3G and 3G S users are reporting that they can send and receive multimedia messages already. Accordi... More >
Samsung's application store was launched in Europe today. Three hundred free and paid applications are available now and 2,000 are expected before the end of the year. According to Mobile B... More >
iPass launched a global Wi-Fi client for Research in Motion's BlackBerry platform. The iPassConnect client for BlackBerry gives iPass customers with BlackBerrys access to more than 140,000 Wi-Fi hots... More >
LG announced that it will release an Android-based mobile phone by the holidays. The LG Etna KS360, dubbed the LG GW360, is the first LG device to be powered by Google's open source operating system.... More >
AT&T's exclusive deal to carry the iPhone has at times been a popular topic. Despite predictions by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster and statements by AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson that w... More >
Apple has made the new iPhone Software Development Kit 3.1 available for download for registered iPhone developers. The SDK includes iPhone simulator, Xcode IDE and a number of additional tools for d... More >
Motorola officially announced its first Android device yesterday. Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha introduced the Motorola Cliq at the Mobilize 09 conference in San Francisco, PC World reports. The device w... More >
Vodafone joins Verizon and Sprint in offering a mobile broadband hotspot. The carrier announced the Vodafone Mobile Broadband Hotspot, also known as the MiFi 2352 , which enables its business an... More >
The jury is still out on whether cell phones can be directly linked to cancer. While the American Cancer Society, Food and Drug Administration and World Health Organization have ruled wireless device... More >
Japan's NTT DoCoMo is reportedly considering entering the U.S. market. While that's no surprise, the company's rumored method for doing so is, says CNET News . It seems that after the high-profile f... More >
AT&T announced it will roll out its new HSPA 7.2 technology in six markets by the end of 2009. Residents of Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles and Miami will be the first to benefit... More >
The GSM Association has endorsed a new 3GPP standard, Integrated Mobile Broadcast (IMB), that the standards body hopes will enable a quicker uptake of global mobile data and broadcast services. Accor... More >
Palm introduced the Palm Pixi, its second WebOS phone. Smaller than the Pre, the handset is expected to be available from Sprint just in time for the holidays. Pricing and availability will be announ... More >
It appears more and more likely that AT&T's iPhone exclusivity will come to an end next year. Carriers eager to snap up the wildly popular smartphone for their network may want to give a recent... More >
Nokia is preparing to launch its own push e-mail service. The service will be named Nokia Messaging and is set to launch in India by December. The Finnish handset maker is in the process of finalizin... More >
Devices running Windows Mobile 6.5 are slated for release Oct. 6. However, Windows Mobile 7 may quietly be in beta already according to reports. An Ars Technica article highlights the LinkedIn prof... More >
The beleagured Palm Pre is getting a price cut from Sprint effective today. With the HTC Hero on deck for an Oct. 11 network launch, Sprint has decided to drop the price of the Pre by $50 in order ... More >
HTC announced plans to release a less expensive Android phone next month, the HTC Tattoo. The Tattoo will be made available in Europe at the beginning of October and in other markets in the following... More >
In a bid to right struggling Android Market sales , Google is tweaking the app store's interface along with several other updates in its upcoming 1.6 version. As part of the upgrade Android owners w... More >
Nokia introduced its new Nokia Money service during Nokia World 2009 in Stuggart, Germany. The service enables the company's mobile customers to perform basic monetary transactions from the conveni... More >
It appears AT&T will miss its deadline to provide multimedia messaging (MMS) for the Apple iPhone by the end of the summer. Yesterday, it announced it will launch MMS for the iPhone on Sept. 25, ... More >
LG has announced that it will be launching the Chocolate BL40, the latest flavor of its popular smartphone brand. The handset will be coming to the Carphone Warehouse and Orange in September, says S... More >
It's official, HTC and Sprint have ended the speculation and announced that the HTC Hero will launch on Sprint's network Oct. 11. The smartphone will cost $179.99 with a two-year contract and after... More >
Nokia announced it is launching a set of tools that will enable external developers to create applications for Ovi, its Internet service platform. Niklas Savander, Nokia executive vice president of s... More >
T-Mobile is preparing to launch its first pay-as-you-go Android-based smartphone. The handset, manufactured by Huawei, will be launched in October and will cost $293 with a pay-as-you-go contract. Un... More >
LG has announced three new handsets, which will be the first devices from the company to run Windows Mobile 6.5. The phones are to be the first of 13 Windows Mobile handsets LG plans to release by th... More >
Nokia has announced the online availability of its new SIM-free Nokia N900 and Nokia N97 Mini smartphones. Pre-order pricing for the N900 Internet tablet stands at $819 while the N97 Mini is priced a... More >
T-Mobile has announced Business Unlimited, a service package that offers UK small businesses unlimited calls within the UK and unlimited texts for approximately $43 a month. The deal, which is availa... More >
HTC announced that its HTC Touch 2 touch-screen smartphone will be its first handset with Windows Mobile 6.5, the latest release of Microsoft's smartphone platform. The Touch2 includes HTC's TouchFlo... More >
Beginning Sept. 14, AT&T customers with a qualifying plan will be able to use their Windows Mobile phones at any of the telco's 20,000 Wi-Fi hotspots for free. With Windows Mobile 6.5 scheduled f... More >
3 UK has announced its new mobile Wi-Fi device will be available online beginning Sept. 17 and in retail stores on Sept. 18. The device, dubbed the "Mi-Fi," allows customers to create their own wirel... More >
AT&T is ramping up its 3G network in New York City and New Jersey. It's a move that cannot come soon enough for some, especially rabid iPhone users. The network upgrade is part of AT&T's plan... More >
According to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, Apple will begin adding new iPhone carriers in the U.S. within the next year. Such a move shouldn't come as a surprise, as Apple already sells the iPh... More >
According to Larva Labs , Android Market sales have been abysmal, IntoMobile reports. Larva Labs, which has two of the Android Market's top 12 paid apps, only averaged $62.39 per day for the two a... More >
Microsoft announced that the first batch of Windows Mobile 6.5 devices will launch worldwide on Oct. 6, 2009. The new crop of devices will be the first that Microsoft sells under the Windows Phone ... More >
Samsung's i7500, the company's first Android-based smartphone, is finally available for sale on UK carrier O2's Web site. The handset was reported to be available two weeks ago , but has just now su... More >
Already offered by T-Mobile , the HTC Touch Pro 2 will be available from Sprint beginning Sept. 8 , SlipperyBrick.com reports. The handset runs Windows Mobile 6.1 and features HTC's touchFLO user... More >
Last week, China Unicom reached a deal with Apple to sell the company's popular iPhone. However, the deal was not exclusive as previously reported and JLM Pacific Epoch reports that Apple remains... More >
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