Wireless carriers and Google respond to FCC

All the major wireless carriers have been in trouble over their early termination fees (ETFs) at one time or another. A few of them have been targets of class-action lawsuits, and have paid large settlements to plaintiffs in those cases. The mobile companies have also gotten the attention of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in recent years because of ETFs. They’ve come under even more scrutiny by the FCC lately because of increased ETFs, as well as other questionable fees ..read more

HTC HD2

Overview

What’s Good: Huge screen is something that every manufacturer should take note of, as it is absolutely gorgeous; great hardware specs What’s Bad: Keyboard is terrible; battery life could be a bit better.

Introduction

If you’ve heard anything about the HTC HD2, the screen size has inevitably been a part of the discussion. Simply put, the device is absolutely beautiful. The 4.3-inch screen pops out at you, and small things like checking e-mail and downloading apps from Windows Marketplace come to life. If ..read more

Will kiosks help boost mobile phone recycling?

Environmental groups have not been shy in warning the public about the dangers of throwing away old mobile phones. Like all electronic items, cell phones sitting in landfills can damage the soil, which can then cause further-reaching effects. Not that many people are inclined to throw away their cell phones, anyway. Most unused devices sit in drawers, collecting dust as their owners justify them as emergency devices, in case they drop their main device in a cup of water. Still, ..read more

T-Mobile jumping on the netbook bandwagon

For quite a while now—at least in terms of technology where, much like dog years, three months roughly equates to a calendar year—AT&T and Verizon have been offering netbooks with wireless service agreements. Netbooks offer users a smaller, lighter option to notebooks, and have been cropping up at coffee houses and campuses nationwide. While a netbook doesn’t offer as much memory or as many features as a notebook, it can still come in handy on business trips because of its ..read more

Sprint to launch first 4G phone by mid-year

While the two biggest carriers, Verizon and AT&T, respectively, have been busy fighting about ads, and maps, and who has the better network, Sprint has been quietly but steadily building its 4G network. They’ve been working on it for years, actually. Verizon and AT&T are also working on 4G networks, but for once, Sprint was first in something—launching a 4G network. Now they’re poised for another first—launching a phone to work on that 4G network.

Being the number three carrier in ..read more

T-Mobile to launch HD2 in the spring

All kinds of interesting news came out of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) held this past week in Barcelona, Spain, other than the formation of a new Wholesale Applications Community. Once that community gets off the ground and begins offering applications, surely one device to benefit will be T-Mobile’s HD2, also a hot topic at the trade show. News about the phone has been circulating for several months now, but on Tuesday, T-Mobile held a press conference at the MWC ..read more

Warrant to search a cell phone? Please

If a law enforcement agency wants to search your home, they must first obtain a warrant from a judge. The reasoning is fairly obvious, at least to those who grew up in American and went through the American educational system. Our Founding Fathers wanted to contain government so it didn’t grow in size and power and end up emulating the country from which they broke. As such, a provision against unreasonable search and seizure appears in the Bill of Rights. ..read more

Companies combine efforts to take on Apple’s App Store

You know that saying, if you can’t beat them, join them. Maybe the converse is, if you can’t beat them, gang up on them. Since its inception, the Apple App Store has dominated the mobile applications market. In just a couple of years, it has grown to offer more than 140,000 applications, which have seen billions of downloads. Several other handset makers, as well as a few wireless carriers have built their own app stores to compete, but so far, ..read more

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro Announced

Sony Ericsson recently made some waves at the Mobile World Congress by unleashing its latest Xperia handset – the Xperia X10 Mini Pro. This newest iteration of the Xperia product line will remind you of the Xperia X10, a compact version at that. The X10 Mini Pro combines high spec features and Sony Ericsson’s UX platform which was specifically designed for smaller mobile handsets.

The Xperia X10 Mini Pro sports a slide out QWERTY keyboard that provides an open and intuitive ..read more

U.S. government argues for cell phone tracking

Since H.G. Wells’s novel 1984 was published in 1949, any time a large entity, whether it be a government or a business, has made an attempt to monitor those it governs or employs, people have jokingly made references to “Big Brother,” the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-controlling character in the novel. At the time it was written, 1984 was a long way off, and it was easy to imagine the government getting to the point it did in the story, being able ..read more

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