The Pre Is Not Saving Palm, Dead By 2010, Analysts Claim
The online media has been abuzz about the Palm Pre since it first showed at CES back in January. Some pundits, in fact, are touting it to be Palm’s saving grace, the device that will bring them back from the ashes. It may not be too far off a prediction too. Even though Palm is [...]
Black Hat Europe: Cell Phone Data Not So Secure
At the Black Hat Europe conference this week, a group of researchers are claiming to have found a way to hijack data transmissions going to and from mobile phones. With ever-increasing web-based functions now performed on handsets, such an assertion can mean huge implications on personal data security. The new vulnerability relies on a protocol [...]
Qualcomm Looking To Be More Aggressive With FLO TV, Building Tuners
I never liked FLO TV (formerly MEDIA FLO) and no one I knew did either. Not that it’s bad. We just wouldn’t really know since none of our handsets can use it. Available primarily on feature phones with onboard TV tuners (like the LG Invision), the FLO TV has received underwhelming adoption (and I’m being [...]
Hot Mobile Apps Out Of CTIA
As expected, a number of interesting apps came out of CTIA 2009, while the hardware side of things were pretty uneventful. While there didn’t seem to be that many stunning moments either, some of the software shown off looked to be really promising, if not entirely welcome additions to our mobile lives. Social Integration With [...]
Samsung Impression: The Best Dumb Feature Phone Of 2009?
While smartphones are undoubtedly doing a takeover of sorts in the mobile market, plenty of people still find them an overkill. After all, most people will only really use their handsets for four things: voice calls, messaging, media playback and internet/social networking. A smartphone, of course, can do all that and more. However, it’s the [...]
REDFLY Mobile Viewer Lets You See Your Phone Screen On A Full-Size PC
With phones becoming more and more like real computers with decent apps on board, you’ll probably be using your mobile handset’s software tools with increasing frequency as well. Celio Corp.’s REDFLY Mobile Viewer, a PC program that allows you to view your phone’s screen on a full-size display, should make using your phone’s onboard suite [...]
Everyone’s Got An App Store Now
Earlier this week, RIM made its application store official. Formerly known as the Blackberry Application Center, the service will now be known as App World and handset owners interested on the actual launch can register to get updates from the official site. Sadly, the new name (intending to sound more hip, perhaps) actually feels like [...]
Might Be As Well Be A Joke: AT&T Recalls QuickFire For Propensity To Become A Quick Fry
Last Monday, rumors started going around about AT&T issuing an order for store managers to stop selling QuickFire GTX75 units, as well as to pull any demo handsets off the floor. While the only reason given at the time were “quality issues”, the actual circumstances surrounding the decision has been cleared now. According to AT&T, [...]
Ringtone Maker RCP Tones Goes Pay What You Want
Last I heard, the ringtone market has been seeing a bit of a slide in recent months. Understandably so, considering any idiot with a PC, a USB connection and decent software can make their own ringtones since ages ago. Add to that the mounting complaints from consumers sucked into expensive monthly subscriptions, along with worldwide [...]
The Motorola ZN300 And Other Linux Phones In 2009
Press shots of a new Motorola phone based on a Linux build just leaked today and it’s…not all that exciting. Dubbed the Motorola ZN300, the phone will have a slide-out standard keypad, QVGA display and a 3 megapixel camera. It doesn’t look anything special although I guess that should be expected from the upcoming batch [...]