U.S. Cellular announced today that it’s pushing Android 2.2 Froyo to its Samsung Acclaim smartphone. You can’t get the update over the air–you’ll have to actually connect your phone to a PC–but that’s a small price to pay for all the goodness that Froyo brings. Here are a few of the highlights as listed on …
Read More »TimeLine Layout
January, 2011
-
19 January
Nokia ditches plans for X7 smartphone on AT&T
Nokia has canceled the U.S. release of a new smartphone that was supposed to be exclusive to AT&T, CNET has confirmed. The Wall Street Journal first reported the news today, but a source close to the situation, who didn’t want to be named, confirmed Nokia had pulled the plug on the launch of the new smartphone on AT&T’s network. A …
Read More » -
19 January
Tekkeon MyPower for iPhone 4: Double the talk time, for a price
The Tekkeon myPower for iPhone offers smart supplemental power, but it’s mighty pricey. Tekkeon If you’re constantly fighting the low-battery blues, you might want to consider switching to a case that provides supplemental power. The Tekkeon MyPower MP1280 for iPhone 4 is one such case. It provides not only protection, but also 1200 mAh’ worth of extra juice–enough to nearly …
Read More » -
19 January
Playboy to offer Web subscription service
Oops! Hef misspoke about the iPad offering. Twitter Playboy plans to bare it all anew in March with a Web subscription service that offers the full catalog of the venerable men’s magazine. The news was revealed yesterday by none other than the magazine’s famed founder and bon vivant, Hugh Hefner, though it turns out that Hef’s tease was a bit …
Read More » -
18 January
Has ‘4G’ lost its meaning?
Wireless carriers in the U.S. have turned 4G into a meaningless marketing term, and standards purists are none too pleased about it. With good reason: All four of the major U.S. wireless carriers are calling their faster wireless networks 4G, but the truth is that none of these networks meets the International Telecommunication Union‘s specifications for 4G. Top on the …
Read More » -
18 January
eBay Fashion iPhone app’s augmented reality lets you try on before you buy
After the genius that is WordLens, augmented reality is a step closer to revolutionising the way we use our mobiles to interact with the world. eBay is the latest company to make use of AR in an interesting way. The auction service has updated its spin-off iPhone app eBay Fashion with a new feature called See It On, which lets …
Read More » -
18 January
Rumor: Apple’s white iPhone 4 coming soon
Apple According to two separate rumors, Apple has not given up on releasing a white iPhone 4. After months of production issues, any hope for getting a white iPhone 4 to consumers seemed to be lost. With the passing holiday season and last week’s announcement of the iPhone coming to Verizon, it appeared as though we might have to wait …
Read More » -
18 January
War in the Pacific: A coffee
I’m a closet World War II junkie. I sat rapt through Ken Burns’ “The War” and HBO’s “Band of Brothers.” And I just finished “Unbroken,” the mesmerizing, jaw-dropping tale of WWII POW Louis Zamperini. (Seriously, if you read no other book this year…) So I was very keen to thumb through War in the Pacific, an iPad application based on …
Read More » -
18 January
Android is a wish your heart makes as Disney launches smart phone in Japan
Usually when we refer to something as a Mickey Mouse phone, we’re not being generous. Today is different. Disney. Japan. Android. Smart phone. Boom — four of our favourite things, coming together like two dogs hoovering up a piece of spaghetti, as Disney stamps its distinctively eared brand on an Android phone. The Disneyphone will run version 2.2 of Google’s …
Read More » -
18 January
Sprint increasing smartphone data plans by $10
With rising data usage and rising network costs, Sprint announced today that it will increase its Everything Data plans by $10 per month on new smartphone activations starting January 30. This new Premium Data add-on, which Sprint already charges on its 4G handsets, applies to all smartphones, including BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone, Palm, and Instinct devices. Note, however, that if …
Read More »