Archive for July, 2004

Earlier this month, Motorola contacted Cingular alerting them to a problem with the RF Performance of the Motorola V600, though they categorized it as minor in nature. Cingular responded by halting all V600 orders until Motorola presented them with a plan to have all V600s updated.
Apparently, Motorola is unwilling to promote a product-wide recall, and [...]

The highly anticipated Motorola V710, Verizon’s first phone with integrated Bluetooth, is finally arriving in Radio Shack stores. Most stores have been issued two or less. Retail at Radio Shack is $519.99 for current customers ($100 higher than the Verizon launch price of $419.99).
New Every 2 upgrade programs are not available at Radio Shack stores. [...]

Is it polished? No, but its been waiting long enough. Tonight, Verizon Wireless Info is officially open.

Verizon Wireless today announced that they have launched their EV-DO BroadbandAccess network in Las Vegas and the greater Las Vegas area.
This brings the EV-DO area count to three, as Las Vegas joins San Diego and Washington DC that fully launched earlier this year.

Update: Price has been raised to $199.99 after rebate.
Amazon.com appears to be clearing out the Treo 600, possibly in preparation for the next Treo, or to dump AT&T stock in preparation for the AT&T/Cingular merger. The price is $249.99 with a $100 mail-in rebate for choosing a $20+ data plan. The offer is [...]

SPI has been updated to version 7.4 of the PHP-Nuke Content Management System.

Usually, plugging eBay auctions is rare on the newsfeed, but it’s a slow news week, so here it goes…
I’ve listed on eBay a V5 Slider that can be activated on Sprint PCS. Originally a Virgin Mobile phone, it has been reprogrammed and comes with an additional Sprint phone with the ESN transferred.
Porting it does [...]

AT&T has apparently reversed their original plan to only offer the $24.99 mMode Unlimited plan only for UMTS owners, the mMode plan site now says that the plan is available on any GSM/GPRS or EDGE device, as well as UMTS.

Update: Despite what other web sites are incorrectly reporting, the 3205 is still not for sale on-line.
Sprint has placed the Nokia 3205’s product page on their web site.
Nokia 3205 Sprintpcs.com Product Page

Motorola has issued firmware version Triplets_G_0B.09.2FR for the V600.