Verizon slashes daily unlimited prepaid voice rate in half, now $1.99
This won't have much relevance to the lot of us that no longer user our voices to communicate, choosing instead to discuss current events with our friends just blocks away in 160-character chunks fired off on cramped QWERTY keyboards -- but if you look at carrying a phone as more of a necessary evil than a lifestyle accessory, this might be of interest.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: discuss-current, events, evil, fire, less-important, mobile, nod, package, phone-as-more, result, verizon, verizon-wireless, verizonwireless
Palm Pre and Pixi get updated to 1.3.5.1, Exchange bug fixed
Don't expect anything awesome (like "new features" for example), but Pre and Pixi owners are getting a minor boost today in the form of webOS 1.3.5.1, being pushed out to handsets as we write this. The ultra-minor ".1" on the end there portends the cold, hard reality here, which is that the new ROM does nothing but fix one absolutely critical bug that couldn't wait for the next major release: the unceremonious clearing of all calendar events after syncing to an Exchange account
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: all-calendar, breakingnews, does-nothing, engadget-mobile, events, exchange, grab-it-while, grabbin, mobile, palm, webos 1.3.5.1, webos1.3.5.1
Encryption protecting most mobile phones cracked – SC Magazine US
With a few thousand dollars and widely available open source tools, the encryption algorithm used to protect most cellphone communications can be cracked, allowing an attacker to listen in on phone calls, researchers have warned.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: buyers-guide, Encryption, events, Mobile Phone, mobile-endpoint-security, newsletters, podcasts, research, retail
Android Rising: O'Reilly Android Apps Gaining Ground on iPhone – O …
O'Reilly sells apps in both the iPhone App Store and the Android Market. Most apps (for now) are just app presentations of our ebooks, built using ereader apps popular on each platform (Stanza on iPhone, Aldiko on Android ).
Categories: Android Tags: conference, events, mobile, open-source, operations, programming, research, science, videos
HTC Comes Up With Widgets For Its Own Android Phones
HTC has released 4 Widgets that were developed in-house for its own Android-powered HTC Hero and Eris smartphones. These apps are only compatible with said phones, so it does make you wonder whether the Android software scene might ...
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, nintendo, Other, PS2 Tags: black, BlackBerry, computers, events, gadgets, gaming, htc, thoughts
New Mobile Phone Battery Standard Revision in the works » Phone …
The word is the IEEE Standard Association has now approved work to start on revising the IEEE Std 1725 Standard for mobile phone rechargeable batteries which addresses the reliability and quality of rechargeable lithium ion polymer and ...
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Google Nexus One aka HTC Passion: Your debates please! » Phone Reviews
It has been said that the Google Nexus One is also the HTC Passion, but when the handset was only known as the HTC Passion there wasn't this much commotion, so it would seem that the main interest here is that it comes from Google and ...
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: accessories, apple, deals, events, google-nexus, iphone, mobile, Mobile Phone, mobile-phones, news, nokia, video
Google Details Android Fragmentation | mocoNews
In a blog post today, titled “knowing is half the battle,” Google says that most devices, or 54.2 percent, are running on Android 1.6.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Other Tags: BlackBerry, events, facebook, finance, google-details, lists, mobile, tricia-duryee, venture-capital
Warrant Required to Search Mobile Phones Rules Ohio Court » Phone …
Described as a landmark case by the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, the Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that police offer's must gain a search warrant before they search a suspect's mobile phone unless their safety is in danger ...
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Android 2.1 Ported To Motorola Droid
This really shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody, but that doesn't mean that it isn'ta nice achievement. It seems that some folks have managed to get hold of Android 2.1 and managed to get it running on...
Categories: Android, Other, PS2 Tags: events, featured-posts, green, military, motorola-droid, phone, review, storage, top-stories