By now, most of the planet seems to have heard about a time traveler that was caught on Charlie Chaplin’s 1928 film “The Circus” talking on a cell phone. There has been a huge deal made of this, but is it really needed? In this “Time Traveler” video, you can see a woman walking down [...]
This week there has been a lot of information coming out about a Mozilla labs project referred to as Mozilla Seabird. It is merely a concept phone designed by a Mozilla community member named Billy May. He came up with the elaborate idea when Mozilla requested ideas for an Open Web Concept Phone last year. [...]
Location based apps have been catching on at an extremely fast pace. Foursquare and Gowalla lead the charge. However, a new type of location based service is beginning to take shape. Mobile shopping alerts are emerging in the location based arena. Placecast and Shopkick are two new services that allow retailers to alert consumers of [...]
Last month when there was much news on the Apple iPhone 4 Antenna issue, people were quietly wondering if someone would lose a job over the issue. Then Steve Jobs held a conference during which he basically denied any wide spread antenna problems. Since then, Apple has been saying that there are no major issues [...]
On August 9th, residence of China will be able to purchase the 3G Version of the WiFi enabled iPhone. It is expected to be a huge hit in a market that has more mobile internet usage than that of the United States. Even though the iPhone has been selling in China for the past 2 [...]
This week, the Motorola Droid is expected to get the latest version of Android. The update should begin before weeks end, and users with Motorola Droid Smartphones on the Verizon network will be upgraded to Android version 2.2 (Froyo). However, Verizon has announced that Droid users will not get the complete upgrade. The Upgrade will [...]
Today is the day that Blackberry users have been waiting for. Research in Motion is expected to unveil a new smartphone today, that they hope will compete the iPhones and Android devices out there. RIM is already the largest smartphone maker in the world, making over 40% of all smartphones on the market. However, in [...]
There is news today of a joint venture formed by Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile to create a smartphone payment system, that would directly compete with credit card companies like Visa and Mastercard. The new venture would allow customers to purchase merchandise at participating retailers, simply by waving their smartphones. If this succeeds, it could cause [...]
Good news, if you are a customer of Sprint and own an HTC EVO smartphone. On August 3rd, users will begin to receive the latest version of Android’s operating system. Currently the phone is operating using Android version 2.1, but the EVO 4G handsets will be getting the 2.2 upgrade before any other smartphone carrier. [...]
