Smartphones

Nokia Lumia 900 to be released this March

Jan 13 2012 / 1 Comment

Nokia appears to be releasing its much-awaited Lumia 900 in March.  The Nokia Developer’s Newsletter showed the March timeframe for the release. It is being reported that both Nokia and AT&T would only admit to sometime “in the coming months” for availability. It will be riding on AT&T’s new 4G LTE network ...

Is Siri to blame for Apple’s data hogging?

Jan 6 2012 / 3 Comments

Most of the wireless carriers have ditched their unlimited data plans and instituted tiered plans and data caps.  Along with those limitations come throttling, or even worse, punitive data overage charges. There has been anecdotal evidence that Apple’s iPhone 4S was responsible for increased data bills.  Without some sort of study ...

The Sony Walkman is resurrected as a smartphone

Aug 22 2011 / No Comments

Do you think the Sony Walkman has been dead?  How many people have music cassettes, or even know what a cassette is? How about the Sony Walkman that played CDs?  You can still find those around. Well, for all of the Walkman friends out there, the latest version has been announced.  It ...

Japan discovers rare earths in the Pacific

Jul 4 2011 / 1 Comment

Some people may say “So what?” but those who think about it see the costs of smartphones and other electronics devices coming down.  At the present time, China controls most of the supply of rare earths which are used in the production of a lot of our electronic devices. All it ...

Apple has patented technology to disable selected functions of iPhone at will

Jun 16 2011 / 8 Comments

It was revealed today that Apple has the technology to selectively disable functions on the iPhone.  Infra-red sensors would detect an iPhone and a signal would be sent to the iPhone to disable the camera function. Apple applied for the patent over a year and a half ago, so this should ...

Another unlimited data plan bites the dust as T-Mobile kills $30 unlimited data plan

May 23 2011 / 8 Comments

Broadband Expert wrote about T-Mobile’s Truly Unlimited data plan they were offering for $79 nearly a month ago.  Now, T-Mobile eliminated its $30 per month unlimited data plan which was just introduced last November and adopted a new 4-tier solution for its data plans. Spend $10 and you get 200 MB ...

Apple iPhone 5 rumored to have Qualcomm chip for GSM and CDMA plus an 8 MP camera

Apr 19 2011 / No Comments

The highly awaited Apple iPhone 5 to be released this fall will be manufactured with a Qualcomm integrated circuit to support both GSM and CDMA. This makes a lot of sense since Apple has had to have two separate development thrusts – one for the AT&T version of the iPhone and ...

Microsoft MIX 11 developers conference reveals 13,000 Apps in Microsoft Marketplace

Apr 14 2011 / No Comments

Joe Belfiore of Microsoft gave a keynote speech at Microsoft’s MIX 11 developers conference which is held every year. Joe kicked some tires of the upcoming release of Windows Phone and showed off some of the features.  He also demonstrated some new apps that are released. The developers in attendance just about ...