October, 2011

• 3 October

  New Kindles coming to a Best Buy near you

  

  There’s still a segment of the population that likes to actually touch a product–and play around with it–before they buy it, and unlike Apple or Barnes & Noble, Amazon doesn’t have any brick and mortar stores. However, as it did with the Kindle 3, Best Buy will carry and sell the new Kindles, so you’ll …

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• 3 October

  Pantech Hotshot for Verizon keeps it sleek, simple

  

  With a name like Hotshot, one would think that Verizon’s newest handset would have an impressive feature set and a lot of swagger, but it’s actually quite the opposite, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The Pantech Hotshot is more of a basic phone and boasts a slim design (it measures just 0.35-inch thick) and a 3.2-inch touch screen, with …

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• 3 October

  iPhone 4S pops up on German carrier’s Web site

  

  Screenshot by iPhone-Ticker.de With just a day left before Apple’s official announcement, another indication of an upgraded iPhone 4 has popped up. The latest comes from Vodafone Germany, which lists the iPhone 4S on its Web site. In addition, the options include a higher capacity model with 64 gigabytes of memory. The listing was discovered by iPhone-Ticker.de and reported by …

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• 3 October

  Sprint commits to $20B order for 30M iPhones, WSJ says

  

  Sprint Nextel paid a hefty price to finally get its hands on Apple’s iPhone–to the tune of $20 billion. That’s according to a Wall Street Journal report, which details the lengths in which Sprint went to secure Apple’s blockbuster device. Boy Genius Report piles on by adding that Sprint’s massive bet may have secured it the exclusive rights to the …

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• 3 October

  Amazon Kindle Fire a “stepping stone,” says analyst

  

  It may be setting the tech world ablaze at the moment, but it seems the Amazon Kindle Fire has left one analyst cold J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz said the company wasn’t impressed with the device, even branding it a “stepping stone, a best, into the tablet market,” according to All Things D. With a second Amazon Tablet rumoured to …

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• 3 October

  Samsung Galaxy Note on sale 17 November in the UK

  

  Looking forward to the Samsung Galaxy Note? Then consider this your official Note notice: it’s hitting UK shops on 17 November. The dual-core Note is Samsung’s oversized Android smart phone — or, depending on your perspective, it’s Samsung’s undersized Android tablet. The screen measures 5.3 inches across, making the Note about the size of a sachet of cup-a-soup. Seriously, that …

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• 3 October

  64GB iPhone incoming, according to tipster

  

  This one’s been running since before the iPhone 4 launched last year, but now we have fresh reason to believe a 64GB iPhone is incoming. Apple site 9to5mac says it’s received a tip from its mysterious Mr. X revealing that the next iPhone will come in three different capacities. Could they possibly be 16, 32 and 64GB, just like the …

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• 3 October

  Sprint to FCC: Hurry up on AT&T/T

  

  Sprint Nextel sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission on Friday asking for the agency to move with more speed in its decision on AT&T’s planned acquisition of T-Mobile USA. Sprint filed an ex parte letter to the FCC, joining Dish Network and Public Knowledge, which filed their own ex parte letters late last month. The document urges the …

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• 2 October

  A beginner’s guide to telecom jargon, part 8

  

  Nokia is “aligning” its workforce. Translation: It’s cutting several thousand jobs. Nokia The mobile world moves at a breakneck pace, and it’s difficult to keep up–even without the technical jargon most industry insiders throw around. And they do love to toss those terms about. This week, I explain what a geo-fence is, why a feature phone is really just a …

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• 2 October

  Play along with CNET’s iPhone event bingo!

  

  It’s time for another Apple special event and all that it entails. Sure, the new device (or perhaps new devices) will be the biggest news from Tuesday’s “Let’s Talk iPhone” session, but a new iPhone will be only part of the experience. Though CEO Tim Cook is expected to preside, it’s still a mystery as to exactly which Apple execs …

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