Is demand for the iPhone in America already starting to wane?
AT&T, the exclusive American carrier of the iPhone, activated just 900,000 iPhones during the fourth quarter, the company revealed during its earnings conference call Thursday. It wrapped up the year with "just at or slightly under ...
Research In Motion
(Credit: RIM)This week, Research In Motion announced that it will roll out a series of updates to its BlackBerry platform (both to the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry device software), with some big ups on the e-mail and productivity fronts.
BlackBerry OS 4.5, as it'...Research In Motion
(Credit: RIM)This week Research in Motion announced that it will roll out a series of updates to its BlackBerry platform (both to the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry device software), with some big ups on the e-mail and productivity front. BlackBerry OS 4.5, as it'...
(Credit: Crave Asia)We aren't sure why Nokia's product announcements are coming in dribs and drabs these days, but here's one that's more on the drab side. The 7900 Crystal Prism doesn't have anything extraordinary to offer, and the only reason anyone would get this ...
This update to the i560 clamshell-style iDEN phone is smaller and lighter. Features are similar to previous model, including Push-To-Talk, speakerphone, and an external display.
(Credit: NTT DoCoMo)There's one constant in the gadget world: The minute you post an item that claims to have set a new record for being the smallest or thinnest fill-in-the-blank, someone will immediately dispute it. (The point was proven once again in discussions stemming from the MacBook Air.)...
If you've been thinking, "Wouldn't it be great if Yahoo updated its mobile app, and someone made a video to point out the main features?," you're in luck, because they did, and we did. Yahoo announced Yahoo Go 3.0 beta at the Consumer Electronics Show in ...
Now that Verizon Wireless has thrown open its doors, and grabbed a lot of attention in the process, it appears that AT&T is still trying to convince consumers that it plays nice, too. First, it took pains early last month to remind us it had an open network ("...
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to weigh a dispute that could affect how taxes show up on Americans' cell phone bills, dealing a setback to wireless companies.
The case at hand, which pitted Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA against state utility regulators, centers on whether states should be ...
WASHINGTON--Just a few months ago, Verizon Wireless was protesting "open access" rules requiring mobile operators to let their customers use whatever devices or applications they please.
Now it's inviting gadget developers to swap ideas at a two-day conference in New York City, scheduled for March 19 and 20.
It'...
Article updated and corrected on January 22, 2008 at 3:10 pm PST.
Microsoft and Zumobi, a content distribution platform for mobile phones, announced on Tuesday a partnership that will preload Zumobi (download here) on select Windows Mobile phones.
Zumobi's downloadable app (available now for Windows Mobile 5 and ...
Apple released the first patches for 2008 to the QuickTime media player as well as the iPhone and iPod Touch on January 15.
The updates to QuickTime 7.4 for Windows and Mac users are designed to prevent a system from being hijacked when malicious movie files are opened.
Apple Downloads lists the updates ...
If Sex and the City popularized the punishments of urban dating, IceBrkr, a London start-up, offers a chance to get through them less battered and bruised.
The Web site, designed to be accessed from desktops and mobile phones, keeps a guest list of IceBrkr members frequenting a select London hot ...
Ahh, would that Microsoft really were adding an easy button to its Windows Mobile software. But alas, Microsoft is only announcing that it has hired one of the marketing executives behind Staples "easy button" campaign.
Peters helped lead Staples' "easy button" marketing campaign.
Todd Peters, who has ...
(Credit: Polymer Vision)If we were editors for a thesaurus, "brag" would become a synonym for "concept." Companies tease consumers all the time with digital renderings of products that never see the light of day. This is why it came as quite a surprise that Polymer Vision, a spinoff from ...
Hello, hello. It's me, the Beselo worm calling, and, man, do I have a new trick for your Symbian-based phone.
But security researchers are advising users of the Symbian S60 second-edition phones to just hang up.
(Credit: F-Secure)The Beselo.A and Beselo.B worms are in the wild, ...
This follow-up to the T809 adds voice dialing, stereo Bluetooth and support for T-Mobile's 3G network (when available). Other features of this thin slider are roughly similar, including a megapixel camera, music player and a memory card slot.
Samsung SGH-T819
(Credit: Samsung)There's nothing earth-shattering here but Samsung launched a new cell phone for T-Mobile today. The SGH-T819 sports a thin slider design we've seen many times before, but the SGH-T819 offers a redesigned navigation array and a chocolate brown color. The feature set is fairly ...
Photo-sharing and -storage sites Picasa Web (click for Picasa's PC download) and Photobucket announced new mobile interfaces this week. While m.photobucket.com and picasaweb.google.com/mobile (or via Google's new mobile interface: mobile.google.com) grant access to online albums from any mobile browser, the interface ...
Sony Ericsson W890i
(Credit: Sony Ericsson)Only the most passionate cell phone geeks know that the Federal Communications Commission holds a treasure trove of information on upcoming handsets. Because the FCC has to certify every phone sold in the United States, not to mention test its SAR rating, the agency'...
iSkin's offerings: typical
(Credit: Kevin Ho)Much like CES, the vast majority of iPhone accessories were limited to carrying cases or skins, which is surprising given that this was the event where the iPhone was introduced. While entries from iSkin and CaseLogic were there, these entries from Gilty Couture ...
Motorola i570
(Credit: Sprint Nextel)Sorry--I'm a couple days late with this, but I was a bit distracted by Macworld yesterday. Yes, there are other cell phones than the iPhone, and Moto gave us a new one yesterday with the i570 for Sprint Nextel. Like the recent i335 the ...
(Credit: eReader)I love e-books. For years I've read them on whatever PDA or smartphone I happened to be carrying at the time. (Currently it's a Palm Centro.)
Sure, the screens are small, but you get used to that pretty quickly. For me, nothing beats the convenience of ...
Helio Mysto incorporates Tellme, a GPS-based search application with voice recognition.
(Credit: Helio)Helio has just launched the Mysto, a super slim slider that's basically the CDMA version of the Samsung SGH-U600. However, it has a few more things going for it than the U600. For one thing, it ...
Alltel's My Circle network
(Credit: Alltel)Alltel has offered its "My Circle 10" service for almost two years now, letting customers on rate plans of $59.99 or higher call up to 10 people on any network for free. Now Alltel is offering two more My Circle rate ...
It's now been a year since Apple first unveiled its iPhone and today the company announced a series of updates to the super-hyped device. Though 3G-capability remains on the horizon (it will come this year, however) now has the capability to do a couple things its should have done ...
(Credit: CNET Networks)Among the new product announcements at the Macworld 2008 keynote, iTunes received a brand new feature: movie rentals! With the latest version of iTunes for both Windows and Mac, you will be able to rent movies from all the major studios including Touchstone, MGM, Miramax, Lions Gate, ...
(Credit: Drop.io)If you've never heard of drop.io, it's worth checking out. The service provides temporary storage for your files--an online dropbox, so to speak--complete with a unique Web address you can share or keep to yourself.
Of course, lots of services offer this capability, but ...
There are awkward times to answer an incoming call, and equally awkward ways to silence it. I can think of a few scenarios where fumbling to locate the ringer or off button is as disruptive and stressful as the constant ringing.
Taking advantage of accelerometer technology, the very same used ...
Photobucket, the massive image-sharing site that was acquired by News Corp. last year, announced Tuesday the debut of its mobile Web site.
On the new site, now live at m.photobucket.com, members of the photo-sharing site can browse their own photos as well as public images, upload photos to ...
This thin CDMA slider sports a full set of standard features in a design similar to the D900 / Black Carbon. Key features include music player, stereo Bluetooth, memory card slot, EVDO data, and a 1.3 megapixel camera.
This basic clamshell CDMA phone features an external display, speaker-phone, voice dialing, and BREW for downloadable games and content.
(Credit: Sony Ericsson)She's turning 21 in April this year, so it's apparently time for a change.
Ending her three-year run with Canon, Maria Sharapova today pledged her allegiance to Sony Ericsson. Besides undertaking a series of new consumer-brand campaigns off the court, the international tennis star will ...
(Credit: MobileWhack)It will take more than the iPhone for Europeans to give up on Prada. Even with a price tag approaching $900, more than 700,000 of the touch-screen designer handsets have reportedly been sold.
It was only a matter of time, therefore, that LG followed the traditional path ...
Vic Gundotra, a vice president of engineering at Google, shows off the new user interface of Google Web apps for the iPhone being unveiled at Macworld on Monday.
(Credit: Google)(This post has been updated to reflect Google's announcement on Monday.)
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