Posted on 06 June 2008 by Chris Davies
The Dare will be yet another touch screen super phone for Verizon. They have been hitting the touch screens up heavy as of late, but this one could be the best of them all. Until now the best we had seen of the device are renderings and pictures of LG PRADA's with a Verizon logo hastily placed on the front ...
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Posted on 02 June 2008 by Vincent Nguyen
The Sprint Instinct is a touchscreen phone with high-end features that may finally give the iPhone some real competition. The Sprint Instinct is an EV-DO Rev. A handset with integrated GPS and fast access to Sprint TV, together with a virtual QWERTY keypad, 2-megapixel camera with video recording, Bluetooth 2.0 and microSD storage supporting up to 8GB cards. The user ...
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Posted on 02 June 2008 by Chris Davies
Monday just got a ton more exciting thanks to this leaked slide show that supposedly comes internally from Verizon. The slide show reveals all sorts of information about new devices, device upgrades, network upgrades, and new services. It is not known where the slide came from or how much it can be trusted, but it looks very official.
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Posted on 22 May 2008 by Chris Davies
The Samsung Instinct for Sprint will be huge. From back when it was still referred to simply as the M800, the device has shown tons of potential. We got a hands on with the device at CTIA this year. It is very clear this device is aimed squarely at the iPhone. Sprint has shown ads, and even licensed visual voice ...
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Posted on 19 May 2008 by Chris Davies
5GB data caps have been the norm for carriers for a while now. Some carriers will even charge you overages for going over the limit. Even more extreme actions for violating the rule include booting you off the network. Until now, there was an oasis in the land of data caps, and its name was Sprint. An internal Sprint memo ...
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Posted on 19 May 2008 by Chris Davies
Software radios have been sort of the holy grail in mobile hardware for quite some time. A phone needs many chips to operate. It needs a modem to communicate with the network, it needs a processor to control that. That is at the absolute minimum. Most phones now day include Bluetooth, which requires another chip. Many others include GPS, WiFi, ...
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Posted on 15 May 2008 by Chris Davies
An image purporting to be a prototype Palm Treo 800w in the wild has turned up, together with the news that the handset is also going under the moniker "Zeppelin". While little of the hardware has been confirmed, bar the fact that it's CDMA and that there's a microUSB plug (rather than miniUSB), earlier rumors suggest a 320 x 320 ...
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Posted on 13 May 2008 by Chris Davies
I have got to tell you, this really woke me up before having my coffee. What is potentially a touch screen BlackBerry, the BlackBerry Thunder, has been outed in a rumor. The device, which is of the model number 9500, will be all touch, with no physical keyboard. In fact, the device will only have four hard keys, send, end, ...
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Posted on 09 May 2008 by Chris Davies
Verizon is letting loose a ton of devices lately, and the latest is the Motorola Q9c. The Q9c is a more business like upgrade to the Motorola Q, as opposed to the much more media friendly Q9m. It features a full barrel of improvements over the original Q, not the least of which is the upgrade from Windows Mobile 5, ...
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Posted on 09 May 2008 by Chris Davies
It has been a long, rumor filled wait for the CDMA BlackBerry Curve. The wait is finally over, with Verizon, and now Sprint getting the CDMA Curve. We had seen the rumor that the device would launch on May 7th. Unfortunately this date obviously fell through. It was not too far off though, as early this morning, the Curve showed ...
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