Archive for June, 2006

Nokia today quietly canceled their agreement with Sanyo to form a joint company for the creation of future CDMA phones. Nokia will cease all direct production and R&D for CDMA handsets. Instead, Nokia will only re-brand Pantech handsets, as they are doing currently to provide EV-DO phones for Verizon. Nokia has not [...]

When AT&T Wireless launched GSM on their network, they did so with their Charter Plans. These were plans that offered unprecedented price-points for customers. The highest-tier plan was a $99.99 plan that offered unlimited talk time.
Since the plans were discontinued, customers holding onto those plans have fought literally for years to maintain them. [...]

Once again, Google has updated its Toolbar for Firefox. Firefox is the primary suggested browser for PCS Intel, and as such, we strongly suggest users keep it, and Toolbar for Firefox, up-to-date. The latest version of Toolbar for Firefox comes in at 2.0.20060606M.
To get Firefox, just click on the button at the top-right [...]

T-Mobile officially shedded some light on the new Sidekick 3 today.
Although the new specifications have been known for weeks, it’s still impressive— changes include bluetooth, 1.3 megapixel camera with flash, MiniSD card slot, removeable battery, and support now for AIM, MSN, and Yahoo Instant Messaging networks. Perhaps the best known feature is the old [...]

Starting July 1st, it’s going to get a lot easier to surf the net on your Sprint mobile outside the USA. Sprint is entering into reciprocal agreements with providers north and south of the border to enable wireless data roaming.
In major cities in Canada as well as Mexico, any customer with a Sprint Vision, [...]

Today, we’re launching a new forum. If you didn’t guess from its name, Content Zone is a new forum for posting and sharing content for your wireless device. Images, games, applications, etc are all available for sharing in the Content Zone. Of course, we do have some guidelines that have to be [...]

In addition, Motorola showed off for the first time the P970. The P970 is a new rechargeable source of power for mini-USB devices. Motorola has been transitioning their entire device porfolio away from proprietary connectors to the USB standard, and other companies such as HTC have followed in this trend. Motorola’s P970 [...]

Palm today announced that they are offering a limited-edition version of the GSM Treo 650. Palm’s Black Tie Edition Treo 650 celebrates 10 years of producing PDA, dating back to the original Palm Pilot. However, there are few technical changes from the standard Treo 650. Previously, Palm had only announced the release of [...]

The Wall Street Journal is breaking news on a major merger in the wireless industry. Nokia and Siemens will merge network equipment operations in a new joint company. The merger, estimated at $31.5 billion will be saved mostly in research and development costs between the two companies.

Siemens has had an checkered past in [...]

Nokia’s latest phone won’t be in Sprint Stores until next month, but is trickling out via resellers right now. Does Nokia’s first Bluetooth phone on Sprint stand up to the competition? Read more…

Nokia 6165i @ RadioShack.com (PCS Intel Wireless Store)
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