Facebook for Feature Phones is a mobile app designed to provide users without smartphones easier access to their social network information. – Facebook Jan. 19 rolled out a new mobile application to
allow people with feature phones to access the social network on the go without
incurring data charges.
Built in conjunction with mobile app specialist
Snaptu, Facebook for Feature Phones aims to approximate
the user experience of smartph…
LG kicked off CES 2011 by showing off nine phones, two 4G USB modems, two Bluetooth headsets and a charging pad. Among the phones are its first with Windows Phone 7. – LG Electronics got rolling at 2011 Consumer Electronics
Show by introducing a haul of new devices, including nine phones,
Bluetooth headsets, a wireless charging pad and two USB modems the
companys first devices to work with 4G networks.
quot;In an ever-changing wireless industry, it is vi…
Although the focus is on consumer brands, a number of companies that straddle the enterprise/consumer product fence will show products that can be used for home and/or the office. – Which electronics show is really the largest in the world: the annual CeBIT conference in Hannover, Germany in March, or the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas each January?
Both are certifiably huge. But CeBIT, which takes over up to 28
hangar-like exhibit halls in Hannover –…
Verizon is rolling out several 4G smartphones and at least one tablet computer as it seeks to catch Sprint and its 70 4G markets. – Verizon Wireless will unveil several 4G smartphones and at least one tablet
computer based on Google’s Android operating system at the 2011 Consumer
Electronics Show.
Verizon Wireless has made no secret that this CES will be its coming-out
party for 4G long-term evolution wireless technology, wh…
Online mobile phone retailer Wirefly found Google Android powered-smartphones drove sales this holiday season. – Wirefly, an Internet authorized retailer of cell phones and cell phone
plans, released its annual list of its top 10 best-selling cell phones during
the 2010 holiday shopping season and offered up its predictions for cell phone
trends that will shape the mobile and wireless industry in 2011.
Sm…
Carriers, developers and phone makers are rolling out new services and features to protect mobile devices from malicious attacks and data breaches. – As people increase their use of smartphones to check
e-mail, do their banking and access documents, the wireless industry is
addressing mobile device security.
There will be a quot;consumerization of IT, quot; where
more employees will be using their personal mobile devices, including
smartp…
An IBM research report predicts vastly more powerful batteries and holographic cell phones are in our future. – Technology giant International Business Machines (IBM) issued a list of predictions of future technologies culled from a survey of 3,000 IBM scientists, Bloomberg reported, pronouncing cities heated by servers, holographic cell phones and advanced city traffic monitoring as among the prevalent techn…
Commoditisation of Android offering in the Smartphone market is leading to low profits claims Needham & Company’s Charlie Wolf who told investors last week that the smartphone market is at a critical point at the moment, driven by the flood of android programming devices and the recent arrival of Windows Mobile Phone 7.The smartphone market could soon follow the flat panel TV market where vendors are struggling to make a profit. The one exception claim Analysts will be the Apple iPhone programme
Nokia and Microsoft are rumored to be in talks about deploying Windows Phone 7 on Nokia smartphones. The source is a blogger Nokia has previously taken actions against. – Unwired View is reporting that
Russian blogger Eldar Murtazin, in a weekly op-ed in Mobile Review, wrote that
Nokia has initiated talks with Microsoft over the last month about working
together.
“They are talking about not the technology exchange, or more Microsoft apps
on Nokia phones,” wrote…
While most parents have made it a habit of monitoring their teens behavior online, parents are just now learning of ways to monitoring cell phones. This article states the top three ways on how parents can monitor cell phone usage of their teens.
Here are some useful tips for you to choose a right mobile spy software for mobile phones.
Ekahau Mobile Survey delivers a nice mix of WiFi stumbling tools and performance measurement to Android-based smartphones and tablets, supporting many Android devices running Android OS 2.1 or higher. Mobile Survey ($299) is sold through the Ekahau Web store, rather than the Android Market, so the device to be used with Mobile Survey must support non-Market application sources. The software performs both active and passive WiFi scans with the ability to measure detected network performance against multicriteria templates tailored for specific network use cases. Unfortunately, Mobile Survey is hampered because most Android smartphones don’t support 5 GHz 802.11n and only have a single transmit/receive chain, even though the software claims to be able to handle the higher frequency band and better antenna configurations. To read the full review, check out "Ekahau Mobile Survey for Android Troubleshoots WiFi Networks". Or if you have experience with Ekahau Mobile Survey, share your thoughts at http://labs.eweek.com. – …
Flaunting the latest gadgets has almost become a style and status statement today besides being a necessity. It is the mobile phone that adds weight to every hand! Mobile phones are incessantly being stuffed with increasing number of vital features over time.
The Department of Transportation is considering cell phone software that would prevent the devices from working in moving vehicles, as “distracted driving” laws have proven ineffective. – U.S. Department of Transportation officials are considering software solutions that would prevent cell phones from working in moving vehicles, Secretary of Transportation Raymond LaHood said at a talk this month, according to Discovery News.
The comment followed the launch of the departments “Fa…
Sophisticated voice recognition technology is now available to process spoken commands and convert speech to text in your mobile phone. Here, Knowledge Center mobile and wireless analyst J. Gerry Purdy discusses the real convenience benefits of today’s voice recognition technology in mobile phones. – Companies such as Nuance, Vlingo, Yap and others have developed some sophisticated technology to process spoken commands and convert speech to text in your mobile phone. The following seven statements are the kind of commands that new mobile voice recognition applications can do, or will soon be abl…
The Droid Incredible, Motorola Droid X, Motorola Droid 2 and new Motorola Droid Pro are available through Monday for $0.01 from AmazonWireless.com. Merry Christmas. – Amazon.com reprised its 1-penny sale, offering four Verizon Wireless Droid
models and more than 100 other phones for $0.01 each with a two-year contract
and a $35 credit for the activation fee.
The Droid Incredible, Motorola Droid X, Motorola Droid 2 and the new
Motorola Droid Pro are available …
Cox Communications, looking to fend off AT&T and Verizon, will offer a bundled package of wireless services, Android mobile phones, TV and Internet. – Cox Communications, the nation’s third largest cable operator, is taking on
AT amp;T and Verizon Wireless, which have been slowly expanding into Cox’s TV
territory.
On Nov. 19, the company introduced quot;Unbelievable Fair, quot; a bundled
mobile phone and high-speed Internet service being ext…
Verizon Wireless is offering Microsoft’s Kin One and Kin Two phones on its Website, officially marking the return of the previously defunct social-networking devices. – Verizon Wireless is offering Microsofts previously defunct
Kin One and Kin Two phones via its Website, confirming earlier reports.
Having retrieved the devices from the dustbin of history, Verizon
plans to market them as feature phones. The Kin One (now branded the KIN
ONEm) will retail for $19…
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