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Cell phone provider AT&T has a problem: The owners of Apple’s popular iPhone use lots of data. Some of them use more than lots. As a result, its network has been known to run slowly, especially in places where there are many iPhone owners. Yesterday, AT&T held an investor conference in New York.
It’s called the “First Else” phone from Emblaze Mobile. Its goal is to change the face of Smart Phones, especially the user interface. Here’s a look at the new phone: It has the same processor and screen found in the Motorola Droid, as well as a 5 megapixel camera, etc. Engadget is smitten: Emblaze’s First [...]
Priya Ganapati wrote yesterday that the smartphone‘s operating system, WebOS, sends a GPS signal back to Palm every day. A programmer, Joey Hess, discovered his Pre was doing that, and reporting which applications he had run and how much time he spent using each one.
He found the problem because he’d been using a wireless battery charger and was trying to determine why the Pre remained on while it was charging.
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On Monday, Jonathan and I talked about convergence. It’s his favorite word (as most of you all know), and it’s all about how products take on the roles that once were handled by multiple devices, such as smartphones, which function as phones, computers, GPS devices and even compasses, these days. We may be nearing a time when we have one box that lets us send e-mail, play games, read books, make calls and manage our calendars. Just don’t lose yours — because all your data is in it.
Then on Wednesday, we talked about green technology. It’s a very popular topic right now, but we wondered — is it here to stay, or just a trend?
Sprint has a brand-new sales leader, and it’s the Palm Pre. According to an article by Marguerite Reardon at CNET, the launch of Palm’s new smartphone surpassed expectations and drove the highest one-day sales of any phone in Sprint’s history. In fact, Sprint Vice President of Business Marketing Tim Donahue said…
The CTIA Wireless trade show is underway in Las Vegas, Nev. If you’re not sure what CTIA is, you’re not alone, but there’s a decent chance that the cell phone you carry with you now was once on display at the show. CTIA is the wireless phone industry association.
So what’s up at this year’s show? Big surprise: smartphones. Oh, wait, that’s no surprise. CNET’s Kent German said that Samsung is going to release a new version of the Instinct, the S30. There aren’t many changes for the Sprint touch screen phone, but it appears that Samsung will make it more possible for developers to write software for the machine, which may make it more appealing to customers who want something more like the Apple iPhone or HTC G1 (based on the Google Android operating system)*.
Speaking of HTC, they have a pretty nifty-looking machine on exhibit as well. Theirs is called the Snap.
They’re Rolling Out 4G? I’m Already, Like, a Whole G Behind!
by Chris Pollette | February 18, 2009
Apparently there are at least two American wireless carriers planning on launching fourth-generation wireless broadband networks: Verizon in 2010 and AT&T in 2011. And here I am, still making calls with my dumbphone.
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