WebOS 1.4.1.1 now available for Verizon subscribers
Hardly the most exciting Palm news you're gonna hear this week, but the company that still owns itself for the time being has just updated its WebOS software on Verizon to the extremely granular version 1.4.1.1. The helpful changelog informs us there are no new apps, but pinch-zoom now works correctly in Doc and PDF views, a lag in the camera shutter sound has been rectified, and forwarding videos uploaded to YouTube on to your friends via email has also been made to work as it should. The most important fix of all, though, is to a keyboard input issue whereby a single key press would generate a letter twice -- both Pre Central and one of our readers report that this problem appears to have been consigned to the past.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: entry, firmwareupdate, operating-system, os update, palm pre plus, pdf, pixiplus, softwareupdate, Stuff, subzero, update, verizon, webos
HTC expects 36 percent increase in Q2 sales thanks to Android
If Apple created the first round of disruption to the business-as-usual lethargy infecting the cellphone industry then Google appears poised to bring round two. When looking around at choices, it's the Android OS backed by Google's cloud-based services and the 50k app-strong Android Market we usually find underpinning the sexiest and most powerful hardware on the market
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: apple, cheng-hui-ming, chief-financial, handsets, htc, microsoft, partner, sales, windows
AT&T’s micro SIM card is the matryoshka doll of micro SIM cards
Alright, well played, AT&T: you've sort of managed to undo Apple's unfortunate move of eschewing nearly two decades' worth of deeply-entrenched SIM card standards in favor of a new one that literally nobody in the consumer cellphone world is using -- and for that, we thank you. We're being told that these new SIMs are now being sold in AT&T stores for $15 and will work both with the iPad 3G and... well, literally every other GSM device you've ever owned, thanks to a couple of well-placed perforations that can turn the standard SIM into a micro SIM
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, cellphone-world, evening, exclusive, ipad, ipad 3g, ipad3g, matryoshka, micro-sim, Sim, Sim Card, simcard, the-consumer
T-Mobile drops some overage charges in favor of bandwidth throttling
Well, it looks like T-Mobile has some good news and some bad news for customers using its 5GB webConnect data plan.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: bandwidth cap, bandwidththrottling, charges, Data Plan, making-the-5gb, monthly-plan, overage, overage fee, overage-charges, overagecharges, the-standard, used-on-top
Cyanogen ports Android 2.1 to G1 and MyTouch 3G
Droid , Milestone , Eris , Moment , Spica , even the Hero , all have had their Eclair, one way or another. G1 and myTouch 3G?
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: cyanogen mod, cyanogenmod, eclair, googleandroid, hacks, hero, htc-dream, htcmagic, minute-now
HP buys Palm: the liveblog
Well, we can't say we were expecting HP to step up and be the one to buy Palm , but here we are, getting ready to liveblog the conference call. The deal is worth some $1.2b, and we've heard that HP is "doubling down" on webOS, so we're eager to find out what's in store -- and, quite frankly, we're excited to repeatedly hear that it's really, really true.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: breaking-news, breakingnews, buyout, conference, engadget, hewlett-packard, palm, result, start-at-5pm, worth-some
HP: opportunities for webOS ‘smartphones, slates, and potentially netbooks’
Color us excited. HP's Todd Bradley just made an interesting proposition on the conference call about its Palm acquisition .
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: conference, netbook, palm, potentially-netbooks, smart books, still-ongoing, tablet, tablets, todd
iPhone tethering on AT&T still waiting on better network performance
AT&T's own Ralph de la Vega mentioned as early as November of 2008 that you'd be able to tether your iPhone to your computer and use it as a modem "soon," but here we are some ten months after the initial announcement of official tethering support in the platform and there's no sign of it. Considering that many iPhone carriers around the world deployed it as soon as Apple had it ready -- and many more came online over the months to follow -- it seems that AT&T's silence on the issue has spoken volumes
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: across-the-bow, apple, data tethering, datatethering, exclusive, increases, iphone, mobile, mobile hotspot, over-the-months, POTENTIAL, soon-as-apple
Apple acquires virtual assistant search app maker Siri
Apple has acquired Siri, a company that makes a virtual assistant app.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: acquisitions, app store, apple, assistant, calo, darpa, direction, insider, means, neighborhood, Recognition, smart, smart-search, the-acquisition
Sprint halves its quarterly customer loss, increases revenue for the first time in ages
If you can find the silver linings, the news is finally getting a little better over at the number three largest carrier in the States after countless quarters of brutal numbers.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: after-countless, customers-fell, downward-trend, earnings report, earningsreport, entry, finally-getting, financial, news, silver, silver-linings