Yesterday, Motorola announced the world’s first WiMAX USB adapter, USBw 100. Coming in size as a regular 3G USB modem, the device will be available in three versions, each operating at a different frequency (2.3GHz, 2.5GHz and 3.5 GHz) that is used on WiMAX networks around the world. Apparently, the device will work on virtually all [...]
Continue reading...27. July 2008
Music-enabled mobile phones are selling like crazy these days. LG knows that and it keeps pushing new music phones to the marketplace. We’ve just caught the new model Korean giant is launching in Russia - KP265. The LG KP265 is a basic phone with pre-installed music player. The active-lifestyle-looking slider sports a 1.3 megapixel camera, 262K [...]
Continue reading...21. July 2008
How many of you out there were thinking you’d just hold off on scoring yourself an Phone 3G for a week or so in hopes of avoiding those multi-hour lines? Bad news, folks. Daring Fireball has found, after a bit of detective-work, that iPhone 3G supplies in the US are virtually bone-dry. Following on reports [...]
Continue reading...21. July 2008
Motorola just can’t seem to catch a break these days. With their handset business fighting hard to keep from being sucked down the drain, Motorola needs all the help it can get to keep from being banished to mobile phone oblivion. The firm has seen a significant churn rate in its executive management team, and [...]
Continue reading...21. July 2008
Cellphones have been blamed for everything from killing honey bees to frazzling our neurons with their deadly electromagnetic radiation. And, with the increasing penetration of mobile phone in all parts of the world, it’s not hard to draw casual correlations between cellphone use and all manner of deadly diseases and fatal events. But, there’s a [...]
Continue reading...21. July 2008
There’s just something about sticking it to “the man.” Sure, jailbreaking an iPhone is sticking “it” to Steve Jobs, which is or isn’t as satisfying (depending on your point of view) as sticking it to more prominent authorities. But, it sure beats sitting back and taking what they give you. The latest iPhone jailbreak solution went [...]
Continue reading...21. July 2008
If there’s one thing you can count on while playing Scrabble is that someone will inevitably try to pass off a legit-sounding word as valid. But, unless your vocabulary is up to dictionary-levels, you’re going to need to look up the word to prove your shady opponent wrong. Too bad most of us are too [...]
Continue reading...20. July 2008
Gameloft has announced a licensing agreement with America’s greatest hero, Chuck Norris, to launch “Chuck Norris: Bring on the Pain” in August this year. According to the mobile games publisher, we should expect “a sweeping round house kick to all that is evil.” You can play as either Ranger Chuck or Commando Chuck and it’s [...]
Continue reading...20. July 2008
Mobispine has acquired the web-based feed reader NewsAlloy with the idea to “shake up the market and offer users a seamless product to view personalized news feeds on both mobile phones and PCs.” As we’ve already covered Mobispine in the past, let me briefly introduce NewsAlloy. From the official release: NewsAlloy offers an extremely fast AJAX driven [...]
Continue reading...20. July 2008
True to their promise of bringing the world yet another round of iPhone-jailbreaking madness, the iPhone Dev Team has gone live with their Pwnage Tool 2.0 application. The iPhone Dev Team apparenty wanted to push the tool out in to the wild ahead of any official launch - which basically means eager iPhone jailbreakers get [...]
Continue reading...
24. September 2008
1 Comment