Editorial: Should your next mobile OS update cost you?
Will that fancy new smartphone you're looking at buying run a version of Android that hasn't even been announced yet?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: editorial, importance, mobile, operating-system, smartphone, sprint, symbian, upgrade
Nokia N900 Maemo / MeeGo dual boot ‘will come at some point,’ but not next firmware
Quim Gil of Nokia's Maemo team has dropped some knowledge on the folks chatting up the upcoming MeeGo release in the official Maemo forums, and it sounds like there are at least a couple critical points to be aware of for N900 owners and would-be ROM flashers when the first developer preview drops next week.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: couple-critical, critical, Dualboot, flashers, importance, initial, maemo, nokia, official, points, result, Rotation, the-importance, update
AT&T posts four new featurephones from Samsung and Pantech
AT&T loves to trumpet the importance of the so-called "quick messaging" segment to its bottom line -- the QWERTY-equipped featurephones that keep the teens and tweens texting 24 / 7 -- so it's no surprise that of the latest batch of devices they've added into the mix from Samsung and Pantech (which we missed while caught up in the week's MIX10 activities), three of the four have full keyboards.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: importance, keep-the-teens, pantech, pursuit, quick messaging device, samsung, stores-on-march, strive