Mobilicity ponies up attractive $30, $40 plans for the holidays
Canadian upstart carrier Mobilicity is doing what the little guys often do best -- undercutting its bigger rivals -- and it's doing that in an especially dramatic way this holiday season with a pair of pretty enticing new plans. The "exclusive holiday offers" include CAD $30 and $40 price levels ($30 to $40 US, coincidentally) that include unlimited calling and messaging, while the $40 option throws in unlimited US long distance, global text messaging, and unlimited data
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: guys, holiday, holidayoffer, holidays, long-distance, mobilicity, offers, option-throws, parity, plan, plans, rungs, upstart-carrier
T-Mobile offering unlimited tethering ‘this holiday season’ as $15 add-on
This one comes as no surprise , but T-Mobile has announced today that the availability of tethering and WiFi hotspot capabilities for "select smartphones" in its lineup in time for the holidays -- and as is often the case with Big Magenta, they're offering the service at a much more aggressive price point than its larger competitors: $14.99 a month on top of your $30 unlimited data plan buys you unlimited tethering on T-Mobile's glorious HSPA+ network (and in its non-HSPA+ areas as well, of course). We still don't know whether this'll start to roll out on November 3rd as was rumored, but that'd be a nice way to get into the holiday spirit, wouldn't it?
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: availability, holidays, hotspot, mobilehotspot, often-the-case, result, smartphone, smartphones
The PlayStation Phone
It's hard to believe that what we're looking at is real -- but we assure you, the picture above is in fact the PlayStation Phone you've long been waiting for.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: engadget, holidays, memory, phone, photos, playstation, playstation portable, pspphone, sonyericsson, station-phone
Nokia, Motorola establish cross-licensing pact for 4G tech
No shortage of lawsuits going around in the industry as we come up on the holidays -- you know, peace, happiness, the season of giving and all that -- but one place where you won't find much public animosity (for the moment, anyway) is between Schaumburg and Espoo. That's right: Motorola and Nokia have just agreed to a cross-licensing arrangement that will give both companies access to each others' 4G patent portfolios, with LTE , LTE Advanced , and WiMAX all specifically called out as being affected. It's literally impossible to develop 4G devices without navigating a nightmarish jungle of patents and royalties, so whenever an agreement like this goes down, we put on our optimism hats and hope that it'll mean faster times to market for devices and infrastructure
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: animosity, holidays, lawsuits, license, optimism, patent, peace
Amazon sends ‘welcome packet’ to prospective app store devs
There's now little doubt that Amazon -- for reasons that may or may not be borne of sound mind -- is hard at work setting up its own app store ecosystem for Android devices. We've got a tiny bit more evidence of that today in the form of the complete welcome kit being sent out to prospective developers; there's not anything too mind-boggling in here, but let's break down some of the key points: From the wording, there's no question that the system is exclusive to Android -- at least initially
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: app store, critical, digital, ecosystem, holidays, materials, packaging-tool, promotional, prospective, result
AT&T welcoming BlackBerry Curve 3G and Pearl 3G to the fold later this year
RIM products tend to have ultra-predictable launch cycles -- when Waterloo announces a new BlackBerry, odds are pretty great that your carrier's going to pick it up at some point, no matter what carrier that may be. So it goes with the Curve 3G and Pearl 3G ; neither product is new, of course, but they're new to AT&T, which has just revealed that it'll be getting both this year.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: berry-curve, BlackBerry, curve, entry, holidays, launch, press, the-third-party
BlackBerry Style 9670 spotted in Sprint’s database, yet another YouTube clip
Any lingering doubts about this thing's existence? Scatter 'em
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: america, blackberry style 9670, engadget, existence, holidays, official, public-release, video
Windows Phone 7 dev tools go gold September 16, Marketplace taking submissions in October
Microsoft's held the line since its February announce that Windows Phone 7 is going to be ready in time for the holidays this year -- and from what we've seen recently , we believe it -- so today they're announcing another small step in the process by finalizing the dev tools that first bowed at MIX in March. Specifically, the gold build will be hitting streets on September 16, just a little under a month from today, while the Marketplace will start accepting apps sometime in early October
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: breakingnews, healthy-catalog, hitting-streets, holidays, microsoft, phone, retail, shelves, windows, windows-phone, windowsphone7sdk, wp7
webOS 2.0, ‘Roadrunner’ device showing up in app logs?
We know that Palm plans on having webOS 2.0 out of the door this year -- and that it's "aggressively" cranking on its hardware roadmap -- so they've got to be in the later stages of testing at this point if they hope for any retail launches in time for the holidays, right? On that note, the developer responsible for the webOS flavor of Foursquare has noticed both webOS 2.0 entries and references to a new, previously unheard-of device codename "Roadrunner" in his app's logs on webOSroundup's Metrix analytics service; it can all be faked with enough effort, of course, but it would make a lot of sense for Palm's peeps to be testing new hardware and software with some of the more popular apps in the Catalog. For now, we're categorizing this one in the "totally plausible" category until we hear differently -- question is, what form is this Roadrunner gonna take
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: cranking-on-its, device-codename, holidays, launches, logs, mobile, retail-launches, roadrunner
Android 3.0 Gingerbread getting revamped UI, Froyo living on for lower-end phones?
Last we'd heard, the next major release of Android -- codename Gingerbread -- was scheduled for a fourth-quarter launch , but the always-entertaining Eldar Murtazin has apparently just spilled a few details on what he knows of the release on a Russian podcast.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: eldar murtazin, fourth, from-the-fancy, gingerbread, holidays, laying, outset, podcast, quarter, specs, verizon, windows