Andy Abramson |
August 30th, 2008 |
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I've been tethering my laptop and other peoples laptops over a 3G connection for a while now using my bright and shiny Nokia E71 smartphone and an AT&T; 3G data plan by running JoikuSpot as many readers know. Others have picked up on the capability and are doing it now, [...]
Andy Abramson |
August 28th, 2008 |
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David Aiello has a great solution to those of you who have a cell phone and a laptop and want to stay connected. It's called tethering, and with the Nokia E71 it's been made easier by JoikuSpot, a Working Anywhere Approved solution. Why is this important? Simple. When you don't [...]
Andy Abramson |
August 28th, 2008 |
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Ok, so I took the line and some journalistic license in the headline, but the news out of Vancouver from EQO is simply this. EQO has announced an IM and Mobile VOIP client for the Blackberry Bold that just came out this week. That makes me wonder if they'll have [...]
Filed under: Handsets, Vertu, GSM, EDGE, UMTS It seems that Nokia's luxury brand Vertu has finally decided to take a bold leap into the 21st century with its top-of-the-line Signature series, blessing it with a refreshed design, 3G for the very first time (though not the first time for a [...]
Filed under: Handsets, Features, Samsung, Verizon Wireless, Windows Mobile, GSM, EV-DO, CDMA Don't worry, you throng of dual-band Samsung smartphone fanboys and girls out there -- Verizon hasn't forgotten about you. It's been a little while since we've heard anything about the i770, but a new slide shows that Big [...]
GigaOM |
August 26th, 2008 |
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Business Week today has a good summary of various mobile VoIP services that allow you to make phone calls from your cellphone over the Wi-Fi network. These apps are incredibly popular amongst people who use iPhones, thanks to services such as Truphone and Gorilla Mobile, while others like iCall will [...]
Filed under: Handsets, Features, RIM, Rogers Wireless, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA We've been waiting to get our smudgy digits on RIM's BlackBerry Bold seemingly since before the Earth's crust finished cooling, and finally, Canada's Rogers Wireless lent us a hand. In a few words, the screen is striking, size is actually [...]
GigaOM |
August 26th, 2008 |
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The more our cell phones come to resemble miniature computers, the harder it is to eke out decent battery life, leaving some of us with little more than fancy bricks at the end of a long day. In order to get a better sense of what exactly saps the juice [...]
Filed under: Handsets, Nokia Well, they're here. Nokia's latest and greatest N-series devices just hit the market like a trio of well-aimed bricks -- or at least that's what Nokia's hoping. We got to spend a little bit of hands-on time with prototypes of the new devices, and while we [...]
Filed under: Nokia, SymbianFor Nokia, WiFi and VoIP have seemingly gone hand-in-hand for as long as 802.11 radios have been offered in S60 handsets. It makes sense, of course -- the internet is a great way to yap at little or no expense compared to plain old cellular voice minutes [...]
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS Looking for the Touch Pro in a slightly less conspicuous package? HTC (who else?) thinks it has the answer in the S740, a pretty thorough revamp of the S710 of old. The basic concept is the same -- wrap Windows [...]
Filed under: Software, RIM, T-Mobile Along with the all-new form factor will come an all-new -- well, kinda new -- software build for RIM when it releases the BlackBerry Pearl (or KickStart, or whatever the hell they decide to call it) 8200 series later this year. The most fliptastic of [...]
Filed under: Handsets, Nokia Nokia promised us two new handsets today, and just as we heard last week, it's the N85 and N79. Not a lot of surprises with the N85 since it popped in the FCC database a couple weeks ago and started appearing in the wild: 2.6-inch AMOLED [...]
Filed under: Handsets, RIM, Apple Now that the BlackBerry Bold's made its official North American debut, there's a lot of talk about a video Mobile Computer did of the Bold getting blown away browsing head to head with an iPhone 3G over WiFi -- but there's a slight problem there: [...]
Andy Abramson |
August 20th, 2008 |
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TechCrunch reports that Aircell is launching WiFi in the Sky today. As a person who used to choose his flights by which airlines had Airfone and later which airlines offered the ill fated Boeing Connexion service for International travel, I'm happy to hear this service is now a reality. So, [...]
Filed under: Handsets, Others, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, Hutchison 3 Hold up just a second, this is more than your average WiFi-powered Skype handset for yakking it up while you're wandering around the abode in your skivvies. In fact, it's none other than the follow-on to 3's Skypephone of last [...]
GigaOM |
August 19th, 2008 |
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Earth2Tech: Bill Clinton: 10 Things the U.S. Government Should Do For Clean Power. NewTeeVee: Ultimate bloke show, Top Gear, has its own YouTube channel. Awesome! jkOnTheRun: Houston, Texas has launched city wide WiFi. NewTeeVee: Vuclip is big on mobiles. Who knew? OStatic: Waiting for a new class of devices: Mozilla, [...]
Filed under: Handsets, RIM Okay, pretend you had absolutely no inclination that this so-called KickStart was real. Surprise! E-tailer expansys has spoiled RIM's thunder (no silly, not that Thunder) by posting up detailed product pages for both the BlackBerry 8220 (WiFi) and BlackBerry 8210 (GPS). The current specs list points [...]
Andy Abramson |
August 16th, 2008 |
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This is the kind of story I like to see, not only because it has direct benefit to clients (Truphone and Boingo) but also because one of the company's whose advisory board I sit on Agito, is smack in the middle of this whole Voice over WiFi game. Voice over [...]
Filed under: Handsets, Software, Symbian JoikuSpot is one of our favorite S60 apps, turning what is otherwise totally capable smartphone into a pocket-sized WiFi hotspot. Now the company behind it, Joikusoft, is partnering with FON to release a new version called FONspot, which will turn Symbiotes into Foneros. (Symbreros?) Users [...]
Filed under: Handsets, Palm, Windows Mobile Would you look at this. A very official looking page -- at a Palm.com domain, no less -- has unveiled the previously rumored Treo 850 as the Treo Pro. We're still digging the new look, though the keyboard does look suspiciously small in these [...]
