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1 September, 2010, 10:23 pm
As you may have heard Samsung has created a Tablet device based upon the Android Mobile OS. On September 2nd at IFA2010 Berlin, Samsung plans to release further information concerning the “Galaxy Tab”. Fortunately for us at CellPhoneTrek, we’ve received an anonymous tip giving us some of the skinny on the new Samsung Galaxy Tab. Some of the features you might already be aware of, however the information here is believed to be exact specifications is; the device will sport a 7-inch touch screen that can support up to 16 million colors. The screen in particular will be resistant against Smudges, Scratches,
25 August, 2010, 2:24 pm
Every now and then the perks of this job actually pay off, and by pay off I mean free stuff. Most of the items that we review and test are loaners. Now don’t get me wrong it actually works out better this way because if I got to keep all these sweet phones I’d probably drown in them. However, Mr. FedEx delivered a package just moment ago and it was a bit thin. By thin, I mean letter size. The package was marked Samsung and with IFA coming up I was really hope for first class tickets to Berlin for the show.
24 August, 2010, 11:52 am
From an anonymous tip that I received via email this morning T-Mobile is going to be definitely naming the G2 the HTC Vanguard. The G2 was being used as a slang term to keep people from using Vanguard. Why there is all this secrecy around naming phones I may never know. Business school was a long time ago but if you want to sell something don’t you want to name it one thing, keep it that way, and advertise the crap
24 August, 2010, 11:31 am
Every day always seems to be better than the last with Samsung and this definitely is holding true today. They have come out with a twenty second teaser video showing some artistic shots and weird angle shots of their new seven inch tablet. They are going to be making its world premier to the public Sept 2nd in Berlin right before the official start of the IFA 2010 Conference. This is IFA’s 50th year in existence and with the first real tablet with options that people actually want I’m sure it is going to be the entire buzz
23 August, 2010, 5:42 pm
You read it right folks, Foxconn is going to give twenty five thousand dollar (US) to some of its employee when they move back home to open up small electronic retail shops in their home towns. Foxconn said in a recent interview
“The company plans to open another 200 electronics booths in hypermarkets in Chinese cities, while also providing funding for Chinese employees who return to their hometowns to start small shops through which Hon Hai can distribute products.” Read
Now this may seem like a good idea however the main reason behind it is to try and scoop up revenue. Foxconn this year had to raise its wages mostly due to a rash of suicides by its employees at a compound that housed roughly 450 thousand workers, nearly half its work force. Now only a dozen or so workers
23 August, 2010, 4:59 pm
Now for those of you who haven’t caught on to what BBM is, I’m not talking about Billy Bob’s Mazda. I am talking about Black Berry Messenger. Blackberry says that Blackberry Messenger is
“An instant messaging app just for BlackBerry® smartphone owners. With a chat style layout, and unlimited characters, BBM™ makes it easy to share with the people who matter.”
Now, it sounds good in theory, however, it is only for Blackberry users whose phones are up to date enough to download the app and honestly how many of your friends and colleagues have a Blackberry phone for personal use. I say personal use because even if you own a Blackberry phone for work; how willing would
23 August, 2010, 4:26 pm
Well that is right guys and gals. We have been surfing the forums and found some unusual chatter about the HTC Evo 4G’s charging port malfunctioning to the point that intermittent or no charging can occur. And trust me I asked to make sure the charger had been replaced and that these individuals had tried everything in the book before trying to return the phone back to Sprint. Another point to add to this was that it was a fifty fifty chance if Sprint store were going to take back the phone under its 1 year Warranty
23 August, 2010, 12:35 pm
Ever wonder what senators do all day besides scandals, cheating on their wives, or just making our lives worse. Well here is an example of something some senators do, they tell telecom giant Huawei that they can’t sell or make phones for Sprint. Yep that is right. Eight Senators to be exact. Now, when questioned [...]
20 August, 2010, 9:55 am
SE announced today that they are going to be moving forward with plans to help out their cell phones clean out their clutter. By clutter, I mean all those pesky wires that go from the bottom of the base to the top of the flip part of the phone. Traditionally, most flip phones had something like 22 or so wires running between the top and the bottom of a standard flip phone. These wires were there to help transfer images, controls, camera images, ect. Now SE want to replace all those wires with one single copper wire. And if your worried
19 August, 2010, 6:54 pm
That’s right, just moments ago I received a notification that my HTC Evo 4G has an OTA for Froyo. It prompts me to either use my 4G or Wi-Fi only, which coincidentally I also received in my area, central florida, as of a few hours ago. It isn’t a bug either as the Samsung Epic that I am reviewing currently has 4G connectivity as well. The OTA using 4G has approx taken 2 minutes to download and is a 84 MB file. The update then takes roughly another 2 minutes to install. Pretty quick and easy if I do say so myself. Well you can expect a video HTC Evo 4G w/ Froyo in the coming days.
11 August, 2010, 8:52 am
Last year only nearly 3200 cell phones were confiscated from prisoners. This is when the government finally had enough and decided to do something about it. With this President Obama decided to signed a prohibition on the usage of cell phones by prisoners. Therefore from now on any prisoner caught smuggling or hiding [...]
11 August, 2010, 8:31 am
It seems that these days Android just keep popping up everywhere! Not saying that they’re bad phones, but they can get quite pricey. These days you either commit to tie yourself down for a long time on a contract or you pay up a front a high amount. Fortunately the UK has come [...]
10 August, 2010, 3:04 pm
Dell is finally ready to release the new Dell Streak this Friday through AT&T and will be available for $299.99 with a 2-year contract. On the other hand if you prefer to not tie yourself down with a contact the phone will be costing you $549.99. The phone will be made available a day earlier [...]
9 August, 2010, 9:59 am
AT&T and Samsung today had some new phones to introduce into their already extensive line up of Samsung phones. The new Eternity II and the Flight II were announced via Samsung press release page with immediate release. The phones seem to be some where between smart phone and full feature. A growing trend that has arisen in the last 6 months. With all the smart phones and super smart phones being released, a large gap has been growing between feature phones, which are your basic clam shell dialers, and the latest & greatest smart phones which you can never stop hearing about. These new in between phones offer a lot of features for a relatively inexpensive phone. The Eternity II has a full 3.0 inch touch screen with a 2 mega pixel camera
4 August, 2010, 2:36 pm
WiFi and cellular connection will be coming soon to the subways in New York City! It doesn’t stop there though because now Alex Mashinksky wants to make WiFi connections available in thousands of livery cars in New York City. Sometime in the near future i believe that all of the people in New York will have an internet connection one day because many WiFi spots have will be put in soon around New York and the will most likely be planning on expanding their connections. While in a livery car you’ll now be able to check your emails faster and browse the web at lighting speeds. You will also be able to charge your car in the phone. The one problem i see with this new WiFi in cars is that people will be distracted while driving and texting even more because of these new connections. Plus this is coming to New York City and there’s many drivers which leaves you a good chance of getting in an accident. I plan on seeing Alex Mashinsky bringing these new WiFi and cellular connections to New York City very soon!
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4 August, 2010, 10:19 am
Vonage has a new application that will let you talk voice to voice with your friends on Facebook! You will be able to download this new application with no charge at all. To make calls all you will need to do is sign on your phone with your Facebook log-in and password. This app is only capable with Android and iOS phones. If your friends do not have this app downloaded then you will not be able to make calls to them. This new feature can work over any type of internet connection including 4G! Most of the time if you have a friend who lives in another country it will cost money to call them, but with Vonage its all free. From downloading this app you will be able to meet and learn more about your friends. You can also add people to voice chat. I believe this new Facebook Call App will become very popular with people all over the world!
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3 August, 2010, 8:48 am
Neutrinos has come out with the new app called Rock Show 2.0! This new app will work for the iPhone and iPod Touch. This new application is free for you to download. When you open this app you will be able to browse through concert, music and handmade posters. There are many different posters you can browse from and some of the posters are limited edition. Most of the posters start off at around $50.00. The iPhone 4’s retina display will let you see the posters in a clearer image. Right when you open the app you will notice that there is two buttons at the top of the screen that say band and designer. That has made it much easier for people to find their favorite band or designer poster. Guy Burwell’s Silversun who recently had a concert in July will have thirty copies of posters available for you to buy through RockShow 2.0! Once you find the perfect poster you will have to give the website your information to know where to send it to. If you like to listen to music or have a favorite designer or band then this would be the perfect RockShow 2.0 would be the perfect application for you!
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14 July, 2010, 11:29 am
There is a threat, just lurking in the waters, unforeseen by many. Actually several threats - and they’re all aimed at the Fruit and the Number (Well Google, which i suppose really isn’t a number, just sounds like Googolplex which is a number - a large number equal to 10^(10^(100))).) Okay, I suppose it would’ve just been easier to say Apple and Google, but it’s early in the morning, I’m drinking my first cup of coffee, and my mind is wandering… so on to that threat I was talking about. So, if you’ve got an iPhone, why would you go through the trouble of using Google search when you’ve got Yelp at your disposal?
3 June, 2010, 4:50 pm
The Samsung Galaxy S went on sale in the European markets as of yesterday, June 2nd. The Samsung Galaxy S, also known as the GT-I9000, is supposed to be a new class of smartphone. The phone features a 4-inch Super AMOLED screen which provides excellent clarity and battery life optimization. Its heart is a 1 GHz application processor and soul being the TouchWiz 3.0 user-interface mixed with S-Life. Let us not forget that the phone is being powered by 2.1 android and all those lovely Android Market Apps are ready for the downloading. The phones S-Life features are also worth mentioning.
3 June, 2010, 3:44 pm
Today’s hilarious cell phone news is about an App made by MEDL Mobile for the Apple iPhone. The app is called Boink and how it works is it helps users cut through all the guess work and hopes that the person that they are trying to be with will be a sexually compatible match. However dirty this app may seem it is not. It was rejected twice by the strict Apple App board and is not some type of raunchy pornographic app but a tastefully done sexual compatibility chart of sorts.
1 June, 2010, 6:33 pm
The CEO of Apple announced on Monday that the technology company has finally reached 2 million iPad units sold. He also eluded that he was grateful to the many consumers that were willing to wait patiently for more iPads to meet the demand. Now, the iPad didn’t go on world wide release until last week. So most of these numbers are from the US based sales however Apple, nor has any research been done in to how many iPads sold in the US made their way into foreign markets via popular websites such as amazon/eBay, third party retailers, or family and friends based here in the US.
18 May, 2010, 8:52 am
It looks like Google has done it again. They’ve done just enough 2.1 upgrade rollouts to make it the most used build before their I/O conference tomorrow that will likely announce Android 2.2, or Froyo, as their latest installment in the long line of desserts (builds). These numbers will likely continue to grow with more devices receiving 2.1 such as the Samsung Moment and HTC Hero along with many others in the near future. For those of you that own a Nexus One you’ll be able to revel in being the king of the hill for a short while again as it is expected to be the first device to receive 2.2. Google is working to make 2.2 easier to implement for manufacturers, such as HTC, that use their own UI’s such as Sense so don’t expect to see 2.2 on Sense or Motoblur devices anytime soon (Which i’m pretty bummed about as an Incredible owner). We look forward to the release of 2.2 and all that it will bring to Android devices so expect plenty more from us tomorrow during Google’s conference. We’ll keep you up to date on all relevant information and cell phone news as always.
17 May, 2010, 3:33 pm
You want an Apple iPad, but you really don’t desire to have the same bland device that everyone else is carrying around? Well you should talk to Stuart Hughes, a luxury designer who has turned an Apple iPad into a piece of jewelry. Hughes took a 64GB Apple iPad, covered it in 22-carat gold, and encrusted the Apple Logo on back with 53 diamonds, bringing the grand total of the device to $187,500. Talk about a stand-out device!
Compared to the msrp of the $829 iPad, and it looks like maybe this sparkly device could be aimed a little higher than your everyday user.
“When someone spends £80,000 on an expensive car, they don’t want to drive it home and find their next door neighbor has got the same one,” Hughes tells the Daily Telegraph. “It’s all about having something different, and that’s what we provide.”
28 April, 2010, 8:13 pm
You heard right folks, HP is to buy struggling handset manufacturer Palm for get this, 1.2 billion dollars. This being reported on CNN Money and other sources including HP. This has definitely come as a surprise as HTC and others were at the the top of the rumor mill surrounding the eventual buy out of Palm. Even with HTC’s official announcement that they didn’t want to buy out Palm, it still stood to reason that HTC really wanted their patents, to help with HTC’s legal battle against Apple.
26 April, 2010, 10:29 am
Palm is almost drawing dead on willing or even slightly interested parties at buying out the floundering tech company. There had been rumors and whispers that HTC was going to purchase Palm, but however by the end of last week those rumors were crushed with an official statement that HTC has no plans on buying Palm. The latest word on the street is that PC maker, Lenovo, may have an interest in the handset company. There is a shimmer of hope in all this mess. All the rumors, whispers, and hype has given investors a boost in confidence, and stocks in the company has gone up 5%. Where the real problem has come in for Palm has been its timing, years back when the company released the Treo line, they were good phones. Then Palm creates the Pre and Pixi, release them at the wrong time, on the wrong network, and with better publicized competition released at the same time. Palm was sure hit with a triple whammy of bad planning and bad luck. Now, Palm has seen the error in its past and has been trying ever so diligently to repair its past damage. It has released its handsets on to Verizon and AT&T in Q1 of this year. It is going to a French Telecomm company later this month. that is only step one however, the other problem was the awful ad agency it had. Now there was some news last week that Palm was canning its Ad Agency and looking for a new one. Great for them however, Palm released its flagship products to 3 major carriers in the last 2 months and the only reason I know is because it is my job to scourer the Web for cell phone news. Well, what ever the case may be, we here at CellPhoneTrek will do our best to keep you apprised.
23 April, 2010, 11:51 am
That is right folks. France’s SFR was named by Palm themselves in a press release on the companies website today that the french carrier was going to start selling the phones via its website. The phones will be released for in store sales come May 11th but we all know whose gonna wait til the 11th when they can just go online and order from SFR’s website. the French edition of the Palm line will have Palm’s Mobile Hotspot app, but according to the press release there is going to be charges added on to use it. Also native app and items such as SFR TV and SFR Wi-Fi will be added to the Palm Handset devices.
22 April, 2010, 6:35 pm
Samsung has a contest currently running on their facebook(follow linc after reading) page where you enter the contest they will send you a cutout of their Samsung recharge station and you have to insert it into a photo where you and your friends are recharging however that may be. If fishing is how you recharge send in the altered photo. If tanning is your game, send it in, their isn’t much of a limitation to what they will accept. All the photos will be posted and the public will vote on the photos and come May 17th, the contest will end and a winner will be named.
22 April, 2010, 6:12 pm
Ok, not really cell phone news here, but once you go to the Gray Powell Fan page on Facebook, you will see why I posted this article. Now, every one has been saying Gray Powell this, “Gray Powell is an idiot”, “oh Gray Powell was supposed to lose the iphone, its all part of Apple’s plan”. I dont think any of this is true. Apple has to regimented of a marketing campaign to deviate from it. Second, every one makes mistakes and that’s what this is, if anything the drunk guy who ‘found” the iphone in the german bar where Gray Powell “lost” the phone has more of a plausibility of being a corporate spy. I mean this guy could be as good at stealing
22 April, 2010, 5:47 pm
I know the title is a bit weird yes but it is true. How you are asking me. Well here’s the deal. Lufthansa, the official airline of Germany had there marketing team make a tweet on their Twitter page stating in open letter to Gray Powell, the gentleman who lost his disguised 4G iPhone, and said
21 April, 2010, 10:40 am
Hey Folks, it’s Tommy from Cellphonetrek.com here and that is right boys and girls, free phone giveaway time is upon us. Come April 30th, the Editors and Reviews here at Cellphonetrek will go and pick a lucky winner to win a free phone, the HTC Hero Unlocked GSM. How are we going to announce the winner you ask, well we have decided that we will release a post and video simultaneously on April 30th. Here is where the contest becomes interesting. For us to pick the right winner, we are going to need you to tell us via Video Response why you, over all the other dedicated viewers, deserve the HTC Hero Unlocked GSM. All video responses will need to be submitted to us by the 29th.
20 April, 2010, 11:22 am
In cell phone news today, Samsung announced via press release that they were going to be releasing a brand new Eco-Friendly phone called the Samsung Restore. The Restore, when finally disposed of, can have 84% of its materials recycled. Now this isn’t the first Eco-Friendly phone for Sprint by Samsung. If you can remember the Samsung Reclaim, it was another Eco-friendly phone that was made up of only 80% recyclable materials. The New Samsung Restore will also have a full slide out QWERTY keyboard and 2.0 MP camera.
19 April, 2010, 6:20 pm
Off of a CNN video link, Fortune’s John Ford and Michael Copeland give their predictions on the Top future Tech Companies of 2015. Five years into the future, Mr. Copeland Predicts that Intel, Amazon and Google will rain as the top 3 tech companies. Google for its open platform and eventual integration of all things mobile and digital. Intel for its ability for dominating the chip market and moving mobile, and Amazon because of their Cloud Service. Now after some discussion Mr. Ford stated that his list is a little different that Qualcomm will push and still be the mobile handset chip set manufacturer leader. He follows up with Cisco and Oracle
19 April, 2010, 3:21 pm
That’s right, Samsung ans Verizon have teamed up to release a brand new phone for Verizon. The New Samsung Reality will have a 3 inch WQVGA screen, with a full four line slide out QWERTY keyboard. The front of the phone looks very similar to the Samsung Omnia 2. However, the new addition of a full QWERTY keyboard is not the only difference. The phone will have a two color options, Piano Black and City Red. The press release stated that the phone will have a Social Networking Widget that will allow users to post information, photos and updates to their choice of Social Networks. The phone will have a 3.2 megapixel camera with a multiple options for action, night, panorama shots just to name a few. Verizon is going to be selling the phone at $79.99 (US) after the $50 Mail In Rebate.
7 April, 2010, 10:07 am
With the recent onslaught of tablet news bursting from the rafters we figured one more wouldn’t hurt. Nokia is not officially saying anything at this point however an analyst with Rodman Renshaw Group, Ashok Kuma, has stated that the Finnish tech Giant is working on a tablet like device, hopefully for a fall or winter release. If Nokia we to make these move, it wouldn’t be the most original move but at least Nokia’s not to proud to admin it. Now Nokia has made internet tablet like devices in the past
6 April, 2010, 12:33 pm
Palm recently announced that it was terminating its contact with Modernista, an independent ad agency from the Boston area, who clientele consist of National Parks assc. and TIAA-CREF. This another bad hit to Modernist however, They had GM as a client until GM went to a competitor. Now Palm and Modernista have not made thing public about their split however sources on the inside are saying that Palm is already looking for other agencies to help sell the phones not necessarily the the brand image of Palm which had been Modernista’s marketing strategy.
6 April, 2010, 11:10 am
In cell phone news today, RIM announced the release of a new Blackberry Developers Kit. The reason being is that the new kit will allow developers to create web based applications more easily and faster with less hassle. The new tools released are listed as follow: BlackBerry Java Plug-In for Eclipse v1.1, BlackBerry Web Plug-In v2.0, BlackBerry Java SDK v5.0, BlackBerry Widget SDK v1.0. When commenting on the new development tool release, Alan Brenner, Senior Vice President, BlackBerry Platform at Research In Motion, had this to say,
5 April, 2010, 6:06 pm
Sprint announced some cell phone news today. The company is planning on Wednesday, April 28th that the North American Telecom company is going to release its quarterly earnings at 7 am and then shortly there after at 8 am hold a giant conference call for investors to discuss what the earnings statement means and how it reflects on how Sprint’s BofE is doing. As the date draws closer we will keep you updated on any new developments or rumors we hear but I’m sure this is just standard quarterly earning report.
5 April, 2010, 5:52 pm
Top cell phone news today, April 5 marks the beginning of the National Cell Phone Recycling Week, that all national carriers and manufacturers are supporting. Now the best way to recycle your phone is when purchasing a new phone you can use the prepaid envelope to mail your old one back. Now that is all well and good if you have just purchased a brand new phone, but lets say during a recent stint of spring cleaning you locate your old Nokia 3595. Now you can just throw it away but you know better than that because you understand that every little bit helps.
2 April, 2010, 12:38 pm
Old cell phone news but still it is a good story from across the pond. Orange, a telecom carrier based in the UK, has always been known for their mobile gaming ability. They released three brand new platforms for different types of customers. The Orange iPhone Games, is for the Orange iPhone user, they go into the App store and get the games that are made directly by Orange for Orange iPhone users. Definitely, a direct marketing campaign for carrier based game/app development. secondly released platform was, Games Zone, it is a subscription based service where users receive two free games a month, receive up to 20 percent off of other game purchases.
2 April, 2010, 12:07 pm
The cell phone news never stops as today I read that a new type of Lithium battery is being worked on. The battery is not the standard lithium Ion battery you hear so commonly refereed to when we do our cell phone reviews. The way the article explains it is that all batteries have a finite amount of space and electrical charge capacity.
30 March, 2010, 8:54 am
Some early morning cell phone news from the leader in push-enabled mobile email and messaging solutions for mass market devices, SEVEN, announced that they are partnered up with Samsung to help provide the best email and messaging service to Samsung users of its new Social Hub Application. Why this is important is that Seven will provide a streamlined single direct interface. CEO of SEVEN, Ross Bott, had this to say about the partnership,
29 March, 2010, 12:03 pm
The first ever app oriented conference is being held later this year on August 24-26 in Las Vegas later this year. This is a really large step toward extreme app development. As most of us know who keep up with cell phone news is that app have just exploded in the last 18 months. With almost every carrier and or different platform having some type of app store,
29 March, 2010, 12:03 pm
As I start my first day back since leaving last Sunday for CTIA in Las Vegas. I take a break from cell phone news to look back at all the events and meetings we had with all the great manufacturers and great accessories companies at CTIA. On the flight home from Las Vegas to Orlando I started to recap all the things I witnessed and experienced. I tried to create an arbitrary list of a Top five or Greatest ten but with everything being so independently great for so many different people how dare I say that this is the greatest or that is better then this other.
19 March, 2010, 4:04 pm
It seems that everyone has their price for just about anything, so what’s the price to giving up your location privacy in return for some neat geo-location based applications from Google and their new Android 2.1 update? Regardless of whether or not you’re a super-villain on the run or just a soccer Mom driving to the grocery store it’s somewhat un-nerving to know that big brother always knows where you are. The trade off in this case are actually some very practical applications that not only help Google and their advertising partners, but they advertise according to where you are by giving you information on Gas/Traffic/Restaurants/Weather/Etc. locally and i’d say that beats TV commercials any day (If this happens i’m not sure how TV will support itself considering so many individuals already skip commercials via watching online or recording them on TiVo and skipping commercials, but back to the point). My personal favorite feature is the utilization of these new applications with the Live Wallpapers, you can actually use Google’s navigation application with up-to-date traffic information as your background among as many possibilities as developers can possibly think of. If you have any determined stalkers you may want to turn off your location based services, but otherwise they seem fairly harmless at the moment. Always keep your Guy Fawkes mask handy just in case though.
19 March, 2010, 2:35 pm
Well it looks like all of you talkaholics out there have one of two options. Either learn to control your addiction or take advantage of the new Universal Gadget Wrist Charger from ThinkGeek.com unless you want to be hugging a wall charger all day. The $35.00 82 gram wrist charger utilizes a 1,500mAh(5.5V) rechargable lithium ion battery that is compatible with the following devices utilizing it’s 9 connectors:
* iPhone
* Nokia II (2mm)
* Nokia I (3.5mm)
* Mini USB (for Motorola/HTC/Dopod/MP3/MP4)
* LG
* Samsung i900
* Sony Ericsson
* Sony PSP
* NDS Lite
* Nintendo DSi
While it may not be a fantastic fashion statement(though i’m sure some will find it to be), it is certainly handy when needing to extend the battery life of your mobile devices. It provides enough power to actually charge the device while in use as opposed to merely sustaining it. ThinkGeek.com has dubbed this gadget the Bracer of Battery Life +2 so we’ll see if that name catches on. If you’re not proud of the device, you could always start wearing a suit or jacket to disguise it though I personally think it’s awesome. Not exactly specific to cell phone news, but interesting nonetheless.
19 March, 2010, 2:03 pm
International texters rejoice! AT&T has announced it’s new Global Messaging 50 package today. While the service may not satisfy the spoiled unlimited text users needs, it does offer a fairly significant savings over typical international messaging costs. The $10(per month-subscription) package allows you to send 50 text, IM, picture, or video messages from more than 90 countries. The price per message included with the plan comes out to $.20 which is a $.30 savings from the typical $.50 international message price, and after the alotted 50 the price jumps to $.40 which is still a $.10 savings from the usual $.50. This new service will be available starting March 20th though be wary as this service only covers outgoing messages so be sure to include plenty of “DO NOT TEXT BACK” demands in your texts.
15 February, 2010, 7:15 pm
The cellphone news today is a bit choppy as the Samsung Wave is released by the company for all the world to see. Its the first phone by Samsung to offer the Bada open mobile platform. Bada is Samsung’s brand new open mobile platform that is helping show that Samsung is commited to creating smartphones for every type of mobile user. The phone itself is a stunning new addition to the Samsung line up of smartphones. It offers a top of the line 3.3 inch Super AMOLED screen, which offers an even more crisp, brilliant display with less on cell glare as you have with a regular AMOLED screens. The phone is also sporting the new Touch Wiz 3.0 UI that samsung has on most of their touchscreen smartphones. The Wave’s CPU is also new and improved with almost no lag time in any of the videos that we have seen. All around the Wave’s features and performance is what is making Samsung great these days. Better phones for a better tomorrow.
10 February, 2010, 9:43 am
Today in cell phone news, a research firm known as The Coda Research Consultancy has recently released a statement concerning the handset market in the United States. They said that handsets that run WiFi radios will quadruple between the years of 2009 and 2015. With a decent growth rate of 25 percent , they estimate there will be around 149 million WiFi phones being operated by 2015. More than half of the 149 million handsets, or around 65 percent of the devices will be considered smartphones. It is always interesting to see what these research firms come up with, it would be nice to see how and why they are coming up with the numbers. For now we can just sit back and watch the smartphone market blow up before our eyes!
9 February, 2010, 3:49 pm
In cell phone news today, LG not just revealed the LG mini which is said to be the skinniest touchscreen phone of its kind on the market, but they are also introducing the LG GT350. This phone is said to be the successor of the KS360 or also known as the Neon, with tons of improvements. Some of which are a four line full QWERTY keypad that slides up to reveal its self, and a 3 inch WQVA touchscreen. Great for emailing and browsing the web, the only feature that new LG Mini has over the GT350 is the social networking connect. Although that application makes it easier to access these portals, the GT350 can still go on the web to gain access that way. With no price details, LG has commented on the release date, which is said to be sometime in April for EuroZone.
8 January, 2010, 8:15 pm
Live from CES, its Cell phone trek and we are here at the LG booth picking up on the most riveting cell phone news we can find. While at the booth setting up for interviews with LG reps we have stumbled across the New LG GW620, LG’s first Android powered smart phone. It boasts a 5.0 megapixel camera with real time push email. it has a real time email feature that is quite visible on its 3 inch resistive touch screen. Its running the 1.5 cupcake build that has some visible LG influence toward social media and networking. It has threaded SMS and to text it boasts a 5 line full QWERTY keyboard. We will for sure be getting a full review in the near future of this phone.
