Posts Tagged ‘thoughts’

Filed under: Cell Phones , Celebrities , iPhone In case you haven't noticed, the two major cell phone service providers have spent the past few weeks trying to prove their mettle in a 3G network -wagging contest. It started with Verizon's "There's a Map For That" commercial , which debuted in October and was a direct dig at the iPhone (which just so happens ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones Cell phones -- and for that matter, app-enabled smartphones -- have typically been aimed at the middle class, containing software designed to help balance meeting agendas, check a flight's status, and the like. But what about the potential for cell phone apps to help a notoriously under-served section of the population? Well, there's an app for that. The ' Transborder ... Full story

Filed under: Handsets , RIM , Verizon Wireless , EV-DO , CDMA , BlackBerry OS We've already given you our thoughts on RIM's BlackBerry Tour , but our warm hearts just wouldn't let us take the crowbar to it. Thankfully, the tool-wielding fiends over at GSM Phone Unlocking are a bit more calloused, as they've decided to dissect and reassemble the aforementioned smartphone in ... Full story

Filed under: Handsets , HTC Better late than never, we suppose. Our friends at Mobile Crunch have it on word from a HTC spokesperson that a "vast majority of devices we launch after Hero " are gonna be including a 3.5mm headphone jack as a standard feature. The rep also added that devices already announced would "not necessarily be part of this change," which ... Full story

Filed under: Multimedia , Software , Android Qik , the live mobile video streaming service pioneered on S60 , has always set out to tackle as many phones and platforms as it possibly could -- and the latest to get hooked up today is Android , which means you can push video to the world anywhere you've got a T-Mobile signal on that G1 ... Full story

Filed under: Games , Software , Nokia , Symbian Quick, what's easier to find: an E52 or a game that'll run on it? You'd think this is an egregious case of putting the cart before the horse, but you've got to give the N-Gage team credit for being well-prepared -- they're already listing Nokia's new mega-thin business candybar as being compatible with the service. ... Full story

A stroke of gadgetry genius has produced a tool that gives us the power to direct and produce an amazing audio-visual experience, using the age-old technology of handwriting. Livescribe has been making digital recording pens, or “smartpens”, for a few years now but have recently introduced an innovative feature that puts a whole new spin on taking notes Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , Web , Social Networking Thought movie hecklers were annoying? Well, if a new project takes off nationwide, prepare to be uber-annoyed by heckling via texting/Twittering projected directly onto the movie screen. MuVChat creator Rien Heald describes his Frankenstein-like creation to the Chicago Tribune as "a mash-up of ' Mystery Science Theater 3000 ' and Twitter ." At MuVChat screenings ... Full story