As popular as unlimited text messaging and data plans are, there are still cell phone users who want affordable voice-centric plans. That’s where PayLo by Virgin Mobile comes in. This lower-tier prepaid arm of Virgin Mobile is introducing a new 1,500-minute plan for $30, which also includes 500 messages and 10MB of Web access. The …
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Q: Recently I bought a used iPhone 3G from a friend. A month after I started using it, I realized that AT&T added a data plan to my service. I never use the data features so to get around the requirement, I accessed my customer profile on AT&T’s Web site and changed my phone to an old Sony Ericsson W760i. …
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“Honey, I’m going to the office,” is a remark we may not hear as much if more people have their way. Three out of five workers around the world said they don’t need to be in the office to be productive, according to a study out yesterday from Cisco. The “Cisco Connected World Report” collected the results of two surveys …
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TomTom and HTC are teaming up in a bid to offer quicker and more accurate maps and directions for HTC mobile phone customers. HTC Locations HTC The two companies announced today that HTC Locations, the smartphone maker’s new mapping and navigation service, will come preloaded with TomTom’s “location-rich” maps. The service will initially appear on the Android-based HTC Desire and …
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Symbian 3 software issues on the Nokia N8 have made one owner so furious he’s created a hate site bemoaning its numerous failures. Created a week ago, N8 Fail – Reasons why the Nokia N8 sucks is a hilarious and often foul-mouthed diary of the problems the anonymous blogger has had with the new smart phone’s software. Its motto is, …
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Now playing: Watch this: FaceTime for Mac 3:09 Earlier today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs revealed FaceTime for Mac, a beta version of the FaceTime video chat app that came to iPhone 4 this past June. One of our biggest complaints about FaceTime for iPhone was that it restricted video chat participants to those who own an iPhone 4. Today’s beta …
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7digital is building a musical empire out of tablets. The online music store has announced it will power the music hubs on the forthcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab and Toshiba Folio tablet PCs, with deals with O2 and others in the works. The Tab arrives on 1 November. 7digital will povide the music store so you can browse and buy music …
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Taking a cue from LG, Lenovo has pulled back from releasing an Android 2.2 tablet. PC World reports that Rory Read, COO of the company’s U.S. operations, feels Lenovo would be better served waiting until the tablet-friendly version of Android (Honeycomb) arrives next year. Initially expected by the end of 2010, this means the “LePad” will not arrive until around …
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Mozilla has revealed the first build of an ambitious attempt to create a Web app store that allows you to purchase and download apps that work across different browsers, whether you are on the desktop or mobile. This shouldn’t be confused with the app stores Apple and Android offer, which require you to download a program or game and use …
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We were so busy writing reviews and burying nuts in the ground for winter that we just didn’t have time to tell you about all the glorious tech that won an Editors’ Choice award in August. Allow us to now reward your patience by presenting you with a bumper, all-in-one harvest of both August and September’s award-winning technological crop. Ferrari …
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The new Apple TV has busted out of jail like Steve McQueen. The jailbroken Apple TV was revealed by iPhone hacker Joshua Hill, tweeting as P0sixninja. ‘Jailbreaking’ is the name given to cracking Apple’s restrictions on its mobile devices, including the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. By default, the fruit-flavoured gadgets only allow you to install Apple-approved apps from the …
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Update: Our full Nokia N8 review is now live The N8 will be Nokia’s first phone to run Symbian 3. It’s still a few months away from hitting the shops, but we’ve got our hands on the N8 for an early peek. The phone was still in the throes of final software design, but we were able to ogle the …
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Android creator Andy Rubin has switched his Twitter account back on to hit back at a Steve Jobs tirade over whether the Google smart phone OS is as ‘open’ as is made out. In a tweet from his account, which TechCrunch said was genuine, Rubin wrote: “the definition of open: “mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git …
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With less than eighty days to go before the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show kicks off in Las Vegas, the tech rumor mill already is in high gear. Building off of the momentum created this year, I expect to see Android take on a major role at the electronics conference. A big part of the platform’s future hinges on tablets and …
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Revenue from mobile ads for Android outstripped that for the iPhone for the first time on Millennial Mobile’s ad network in September. For its September Mobile Mix report, the mobile ad network, which hosts ads on the popular smartphone platforms, found that ad requests (the number of times a mobile ad is clicked on) on Android phones rose 26 percent …
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