Cingular to Shut Down mMode LBS Services
Cingular has stated that in early 2006 it will discontinue the first consumer wireless handset LBS services offered in the United States; Find Friends and Find Things Nearby. While much of AT&T Wireless’ mMode offerings have made the transition over to Cingular’s MEdia Net, these two services have remained absent. Cingular claims that the reason [...]
Sprint+Verizon: BitPim 0.8.04 Released
The BitPim project has released Version 0.8.04 of BitPim as of 12/13/2005. With this new release: Added a feature to the Phone Contact Editor that allows users to navigate to the next/previous contact item. For calendar events, combined the description and location with the format ‘description[location]‘. Fixed A few Exception errors In the Today tab, [...]
Motorola PEBL Released
T-Mobile today released the Motorola PEBL phone on its web site. The small antenna-equipped phone comes in a rounded form, and includes an etched keypad very similar to that on the RAZR. The PEBL includes the following features: Quad band world phone (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) Bluetooth wireless technology Camera w/ 4x digital zoom Speakerphone Voice-activated dialing [...]
Cingular Launches Nokia 6061
This marks Cingular’s second Nokia flip phone to date; the 6102 is also for sale through Cingular. Because the 6061 only supports dual-band (850/1900 MHz) and GPRS data instead of EDGE, it is more of an entry-level offering in the lineup. Other highlights include: Mobile Instant Messaging using AOL�, Yahoo!� and ICQ� Instant Messaging Speakerphone [...]
T-mobile Launches Samsung T-809
T-Mobile has gotten deeper into the thin phone fray with the Samsung T-809. This half-inch thick phone weighs in at a paltry 3.6 ounces. T-mobile already offers the Motorola RAZR V3 and will soon also offer the Motorola PEBL in the thin phone category. Features in this device include: Micro SD removable flash memory Removable [...]
Cingular Releases Company-branded Smartphone
Cingular today returned the 2125 to its online lineup. The phone appeared briefly in the lineup online this weekend, and then disappeared again, apparently due to a release date mixup. Now it seems there to stay. This Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone is the only phone currently in Cingular’s lineup branded as a Cingular device, rather [...]
Full-Length Movies Coming to Power Vision
Sprint-Nextel is expected announce on Monday a new service that will bring movies to the small screen– the extremely small screen that lives in your mobile phone. For the last 3 years, Sprint has bought some form of mobile TV to Vision-enabled phones, first with MobiTV and then Sprint TV on Power Vision. Now they [...]
EA Buys JamDAT
In a move sure to have a ripple effect throughout the mobile industry, electronic entertainment giant Electronic Arts has made a deal to purchase mobile gaming company JamDAT Mobile. The deal, valued at almost $700 million, will meld JamDAT’s aggressive mobile gaming development and deployment resources with the brand label powerhouse EA has worked so [...]
Knowledge Base Updates: Sprint Phones Section, Sprint FAQ
We’ve been hard at work expanding out the PCS Intel Knowledge Base since its launch; updates continue to be dynamic on the Phones Section. However, we’re happy to announce that the Sprint FAQ is finished and ready for viewing. Please provide feedback in the forums for things you would like to see improved, or, if [...]
