Archive for August, 2007

News reports and screenshots are popping up reporting to show AT&T offering the Z9m, a RAZR2 variant for GSM. Those sites are reporting a full retail price of $750, presumably to include heavy discounts to bring it to a more market-palatable level.

Whether or not those rumors prove true, and AT&T is ready to launch [...]

Though launching a bit more slowly than the Sony Ericsson W580i, AT&T has launched the Sony Ericsson Z310a. The basic phone builds on the prior Z300a with a VGA camera, Bluetooth, EDGE, built-in instant messenger, tri-band (850/1800/1900) GSM, and a redefined external flip.

While the Z300 series is aimed at the low-end, this phone features most [...]

PhoneNews.com has finally gone mobile. Specifically, we have a great new mobile version for most modern phones and smart devices. How do you access it? Just go to PhoneNews.com on your PDA or smart-phone.
Our new mobile version uses the xHTML mobile browsing standards… which should be on just about every mobile device made within the [...]

Opera has released the second beta to the upcoming version of Opera Mini 4.0 (code-named Dimension). Beta 2 adds considerable improvements, including…

Landscape Mode: Provides an iPhone-like browsing experience.
Multi-search Start Page: Allows for searching multiple search engines at once from the start page.
Custom Search Engine
Enhanced BlackBerry Support, and BlackBerry-specific User Interface
Opera Mini [...]

Motorola’s CDMA unit appears to be poised to heavily market their Z6 series of CDMA sliders. The manufacturer has now raised the variant count to three with the introduction of the Z6c.
The first Z6 to drop was the Z6m ROKR, a slider aimed to capitalize on the integrated music stores of both Sprint and Verizon. [...]

Microsoft has released an update that improves the performance of 3G WWAN data cards for Windows Vista. The update does not appear to be offered currently via Windows Update, and with the recent demise of AutoPatcher, the most direct route to install is for users to download the update manually, and keep a copy for [...]

AT&T has launched the Sony Ericsson W580i. The slider form factor phone features a built-in velocity sensitive accelerometer to control the Walkman music player with nothing more than a slight movement with a hand left and right to skip tracks or a quick up and down motion to shuffle tracks.

The phone also features a 2.0 [...]

Sprint has issued a firmware update for their version of the Motorola V9m RAZR2. The update is short on detail, no change list is provided with the update aside from the following:
“Software upgrade for the Motorola V9m version 2670 to 2680″
Specifically, the firmware update pushes the software version to TRPLT2_02.68.00R
To update your phone, go to [...]

Verizon has launched the Motorola V9m RAZR2. The Verizon version of the V9m incorporates a BREW UI (non-Flash) user interface, and bundles V CAST Music, V CAST Video, and VZ Navigator. The V9m also builds on previous software offerings from Motorola phones on Verizon with V CAST SongID and Verizon Mobile Email.

However, the V9m [...]

We give the HTC PPC-6800 Mogul a month long, battle-tested review. Does the Mogul give Sprint an answer to Apple’s iPhone? Or is it too little, too late? Read more to find out.

Buy a PPC-6800 Mogul from Wirefly ($249.99 with Contract)
Update: I apologize that some of my comments have been mistaken for comparing Mogul to [...]