AT&T announced today that it will start offering the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 and BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9100, with the added benefit that app purchases will automatically be included on AT&T customers’ bills. Carrier billing was one of the features highlighted in the Payment Service SDK announced this week at BlackBerry DevCon 2010. BlackBerry Curve …
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Motorola has just announced the ES400S, and it will be the first Motorola Mobile Enterprise Handheld to be sold through a wireless carrier, namely Sprint. The enterprise-class handset is built to be rugged and it runs on Windows Mobile 6.5.3. A few of the phone’s features include a biometric finger swipe, a 3-inch VGA touch screen, a 3.2-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, …
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Welcome to the 411, my column answering all your questions about cell phones and cell phone accessories. I receive plenty of questions about these subjects via e-mail, so I figured many of you might have similar queries, too. At times, I might solicit answers from readers if I’m stumped. Send your questions and comments to me at [email protected]. If you …
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San Francisco–RIM developers can now build applications based on BlackBerry WebWorks, a new open-source Web-based development platform. These apps can be written entirely in HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript, and developers can then use the BlackBerry Web App Packager to wrap the apps in a Javascript wrapper, making it easier for them to integrate the app with BlackBerry services. The Web …
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Motorola Oasis Motorola Motorola announced the Oasis Bluetooth headset today, which it claims is the most comfortable Bluetooth headset ever. The unusual-looking device has a rotating boom mic and a lightweight battery unit that fits behind the ear. It has the usual dual-mic noise cancellation in addition to 12mph wind resistance, a dedicated mute button, voice prompts, multipoint, and a …
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San Francisco–RIM gave developers yet another reason to stick with BlackBerry when it announced its own advertising platform at the BlackBerry Developer’s Conference on Monday. Similar to iAds, the BlackBerry Advertising Service will allow developers to integrate advertising into their applications. RIM will act as mediator and will work with five different ad networks at launch (JumpTap, Amovee, Lat49, Millenial …
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Months after Verizon first hinted at a move toward tiered pricing, Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg said that it’ll introduce the new plans in four to six months, according to the Wall Street Journal. This comes in the wake of its burgeoning LTE implementation, though we don’t yet know if this will affect the current 3G CDMA network. Seidenberg was careful …
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Samsung Epic 4G speed tests. Our 4G connection died when we took this picture. Nicole Lee/CNET Sprint customers in San Francisco who have a 4G-enabled device woke up to a pleasant surprise today as the carrier began a few public tests of its WiMAX-based 4G network there. So those who have the HTC Evo 4G, the Samsung Epic 4G, or …
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One of the benefits of the Aliph Jawbone Icon is that if you pair it with an iPhone you can see the headset battery meter next to the iPhone’s. Now BlackBerry owners have the icon as well. Just pair and connect the Jawbone Icon to your BlackBerry and you’ll see the Icon’s battery meter. To get this new functionality, you’ll …
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Motorola Grasp Motorola Motorola has recently announced that its eco-friendly Grasp will be offered by U.S. Cellular. The Motorola Grasp is a messaging phone with a full QWERTY keyboard and features threaded messaging, e-mail, an MP3 player, an optical trackpad, a 3.5 mm headset jack, Bluetooth, a 1.3-megapixel camera, and a MicroSD card slot that can take up to 8GB …
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