Archive for the 'Mobile' Category

Helio continues to bleed money, now $560 million in the red

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Filed under: Helio, MVNOs, Misc

We’ll be honest with you — it’s a bit disheartening to watch the (seemingly) inevitable happen to Helio. After all, it’s managed to soldier on despite hordes of other MVNOs hanging it up here in the US of A. Nevertheless, data gleaned from EarthLink’s most recent annual report shed some […]

Easy 1.1.4 jailbreaking with iNdependence, Ziphone, and… iTunes?

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Filed under: Handsets, Software, Apple, OS X

If you happen to own an iPhone, and you happen to have updated to the 1.1.4 firmware, you can now easily jailbreak, activate, and unlock your phone with a couple of simple solutions. As you may have heard, iNdependence 1.4 beta 5 is out, which will do all […]

Nokia about rumored PSP phone: can Sony Ericsson really pull it off?

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Filed under: Games, Handsets, Software, Nokia, Sony Ericsson

It seems that several years of taking their lumps on the long road to mobile gaming success has hardened the boys and girls at Nokia just a bit, and they’re ready to come out swinging. The target? Fellow European manufacturer Sony Ericsson, of course, which has been rumored […]

iPhone software development to be locked down by Apple?

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Filed under: Software, Apple, OS X

It was only a matter of time till the serious iPhone SDK rumors started flying, and with Apple’s Town Hall event next Thursday, it’s possible some of what we’re hearing is right on. If that’s the case, prepare to be letdown in a major way. According to iLounge, Apple […]

AT&T may not have the LG Vu yet, but it has Vu accessories

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Filed under: LG, ATT, Accessories

We’re still waiting on the Vu to make its grand entrance on account of legal and technical woes, or so we hear. We guess we can hold ourselves over for a bit by staring at those two simple letters on the packaging for this lovely mono earbud, though, and deciding to […]

ITC upholds ruling, reiterates that Nokia didn’t violate Qualcomm patents

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Filed under: Nokia, Others, Misc
We remember when there was actually a glimmer of hope that the quarreling between these two may end — man, was that a long time ago. Anyways, the International Trade Commission has reportedly upheld a judge’s ruling made back in December which affirmed that Nokia did not violate Qualcomm patents. As […]

Sprint to launch dual-mode CDMA / WiMAX devices this year?

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Filed under: Sprint, CDMA
Assuming Sprint can make it — and that’s starting to seem like kind of a big if these days — CEO Dan Hesse made some comments about the coming 4G revolution, including one auspicious hint about dual-mode CDMA / WiMAX devices this later year for XOHM. It’s almost an exciting enough concept […]

ROK’s acquisition of Xero officially now a vapor-acquisition

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Filed under: MVNOs, Misc
We certainly can’t give Xero Mobile credit for launching any actual product — because they haven’t — but we’re all about giving credit where credit is due, and in Xero’s case, we’ve gotta hand it to ‘em for continuing the magnificent vaporware parade for as long as they have. It’s now been […]

Latest financials confirm it: Sprint and Nextel probably shouldn’t have merged

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Filed under: Sprint, Misc

Well, it looks like the aggressively priced unlimited action really didn’t come a moment too soon. We’re no economists here, but it doesn’t take rocket science, a Ph.D., collegiate level maths, or even a fancy calculator to crunch the cold, hard numbers coming out of Sprint Nextel’s fourth quarter earnings call. For […]

Verizon’s new top data plan is like unlimited, but with limits

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Filed under: Verizon Wireless
Check yourself before you wreck yourself, fools, because Verizon’s most expensive BroadbandAccess data plan is about to get a whole lot less unlimited. Yes, true, there’s already a 5GB soft cap on the current plan — but the worst that’ll happen to a chronic violator is a throttled download speed or a […]