Microsoft’s new Kin phones are now available for order, and early reviews are starting to appear. The Kin isn’t Windows Mobile or Windows Phone 7, but I think it clearly shows the direction that Microsoft is headed. This week we’ll discuss that, and I’ll point you to the reviews
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Reviews of Microsoft “Kin” Phones
The Wall Street Journal today has expanded details on the possible preliminary antitrust investigation against Apple Inc. The Journal reports that the company may face an investigation into its iAd mobile advertising service, citing an unnamed wireless-advertising executive who …
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Apple’s iAd Also the Subject of Investigation
We’ll just go ahead and say what everyone is thinking at this point: just make the Palm Pre Plus free, Verizon. You’re just avoiding the inevitable, and there’s no point for it anymore. Obviously both Palm and Verizon believed that they could eke out a bit more money with the Pre’s slash in price, plus the fact that the wireless juggernaut isn’t charging for the mobile hotspot feature anymore.
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Palm Pre Plus for Verizon Wireless Now Available for $30
When you buy a new phone, are you one of those people that tries to find a Bluetooth headset that matches, even slightly, your new toy? Well, you may want to look at the line-up from Samsung that they’ve just introduced, particularly if you find yourself wanting to get your hands on the Iron Man Samsung Monte. They’ve decided to play the matching game, and we’ve got to admit, they’ve managed to make Bluetooth headsets genuinely interesting again
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Samsung Unveils 7 New Bluetooth Headsets to Match Handsets
We’ve had a bit of a very interesting relationship with the BlackBerry Slider ’round these parts, and we’re honestly glad to see it show up again, especially because it’s boasting a new trick. So, whether you want to call it the Slider, or maybe the BlackBerry T –for Talladega–, here’s your next glimpse of the still unannounced device, running the latest version of Research In Motion’s mobile Operating System, BlackBerry 6
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RIM BlackBerry Slider Appears Again Showing Off BlackBerry 6 OS
Boost Mobile today improved its $50 Monthly Unlimited Plan by offering free, unlimited calls to 411 directory service. Subscribers will also get unlimited email and instant messaging, in addition to the text messaging that the service also provides
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Boost Beefs Up Unlimited Plan with Free 411, Email
You’ll have to consider the word soon to be pretty relative in this case, because we still don’t have any idea when the Samsung Wave is going to be released in the United States, let alone anywhere else (not including the UK ).
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Samsung Wave Could Hit North and South America Soon
During the testing of the native Windows Mobile version of the current Opera Mini 5 beta (see THIS for more info), I’ve routinely tested it on my old, WM2003-only iPAQ 2210 Pocket PC.
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My small gift to all of you WM2003(SE) users: great Web browser Opera Mini 5!
Microsoft’s My Phone is a great free service for backing up your phone, and now it’s just gotten better. This week I’ll also point you to more videos and news about Windows Phone 7 and T-Mobile’s HD2, as well as news about a couple new devices.
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Microsoft Updates “My Phone” Service; Windows Phone 7 and HD2 Videos
Scosche Industries announces the availability of its solBAT II – solar powered charger and battery backup. The solBAT II works with almost any handheld device that can be charged via a USB cable and feature’s a simple two light indicator that lets users know when the solBAT II it is charging from the sun or a USB cable (red), and when it is passing that stored energy to a handheld (green) like a Blackberry, iPhone, iPod, or PSP.
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Scosche Launches solBAT II – Solar Powered Back up Battery and Charging Device
Today Cellular South announced that it has fully acquired Corr Wireless. According to Cellular South, Corr will continue to operate under the Corr brand, though Cellular South will gradually introduce its own products and services through Corr’s retail outlets.
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Cellular South Finalizes Corr Wireless Buy
Verizon Wireless and Motorola today announced the availability of Motorola Devour in March. Motorola Devour will be the first Verizon Wireless phone to feature Motoblur, Motorola’s unique Android-powered content delivery service created to make wireless phones more personal and customizable. The Motorola Devour comes with a 3.1-inch capacitive touch screen, bluetooth and will be bundled with a 8GB microSD card
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Motorola DEVOUR Brings MOTOBLUR To Verizon Wireless 3G Data Network
Sony Ericsson introduced its communicator called Aspen, an eco-friendly Windows Mobile smartphone –is made from recycled plastics and consumes less energy. Initially known as Faith, it also integrates a 2.4-inch touch screen display, built-in QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and high-speed HSDPA Internet. The Aspen runs Microsoft’s new Windows Mobile 6.5.3 platform, allowing users to open and edit Office files, browse the Web, send emails and deal with social networking sites
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Sony Ericsson unveils Aspen, eco-safe Windows Mobile phone
Today Bitstream announced that version 1.7 of its Bolt mobile browser will add the ability to run widgets. According to Bitstream, the widgets will be installed directly into the Bolt browser, and users will be able to access their ..
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Bolt Browser Pledges Widget Support in Version 1.7
Nokia has today announced that since the 21 January 2010 launch of the new version of Ovi Maps with free walk and drive navigation, there have been over 1.4 million downloads. The one million mark was reached just one week after the launch. “We’re averaging a download a second, 24 hours a day,” said Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President, Nokia.
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New Ovi Maps with free navigation races past 1 million downloads in a week
Nokia Research Center (NRC) Helsinki today unveiled a new research concept at Demo House 2010 research exhibition in Espoo, Finland. The mobile radar demonstration shows how a mobile device can use an active radar sensor to measure speed and the direction of movement of approaching objects, just as traditional RADAR would. It uses electromagnetic waves to provide a different type of mobile wireless sensing
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Nokia Research Center unveils mobile radar concept
Nokia Siemens Networks and LG Electronics have achieved an LTE downlink data transfer rate of 100 Mbps, the maximum speed for a Class 3 LTE terminal. The call was made using Nokia Siemens Networks’ LTE radio equipment including the Flexi Multiradio Base Station, its Evolved Packet Core network elements and standards-compliant software along with a pre-commercial LTE USB modem from LG. The speed record comes after the announcement from November 2009, when the two companies were the first to complete end-to-end LTE interoperability tests in the 2100 MHz frequency band.
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Nokia Siemens Networks and LG Electronics achieve record LTE data speeds
Apple today introduced iPad, a portable tablet with Multi-Touch display, 0.5 inches thick body and weighs just 1.5 pounds. iPad includes 12 new innovative apps designed especially for the iPad, and will run almost all of the over 140,000 apps in the App Store. iPad will be available in late March starting at $499
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Apple iPad Available Late March, Optional 3G
Starting in less than 2 hours time, SlashGear liveblog coverage is bringing you the first hand info on the new Apple tablet and might include the announcement of its next iPhone OS 4.0 with native multitasking support. The event will start on time from 10am PST (6pm GMT), remember to get ready for the live coverage soon at http://live.slashgear.com !
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Reminder: Live Apple Event Coverage on SlashGear
This past week T-Mobile officially announced that it will be releasing the HTC HD2 in the spring. In this column we’ll also look ahead to the coming of Windows Mobile 7 — and the sad fact that it may be too late, given the Android surge. Plus, I’ll point you to an unboxing and hardware tour of the new Nexus One Android phone from Google.
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It’s Official — HD2 from T-Mobile; WM 7 Announcement Expected
This time of year brings lots of top-10 lists, and a couple recent ones name the top 10 phones. The results are interesting, with Android being the big winner and the HD2 and Omnia II coming out ahead in the Windows Mobile arena. This week I’ll also point you to a review of the Omnia II, as well as note a Y2K16 bug that appeared at the stroke of midnight as the year turned to 2010.
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Top 10 Phones, Review of Verizon Omnia II, Y2K16 Bug
We emulator freaks have been waiting for version FpseCE 0.10 for at least two and a half years. Back in May-June 2007 when I published my (almost) all-in-one article series on emulating other computing platforms (see THIS ) on Windows Mobile, everyone was already waiting for FpseCE 0.10.
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Great Playstation emulator FpseCE 0.10, finally, released! + video