Archive for November, 2007

Starting December 1, we will be offering $100 for the best news tip and $100 for the best forum post of the month. This is to reward users that take advantage of the news submission and forum sections of PhoneNews.com, and to encourage you to use them more and more. We will follow up with [...]

At PhoneNews.com, we love the Motorola P790 portable charger. We hand them out like candy to friends and family… and now, we’re handing out four of them to you. These chargers can do anything a regular charger can, but aren’t tethered to the wall.
The P790 has the capacity to recharge a standard RAZR up to [...]

Sprint has launched three new phones this Thanksgiving weekend; the Motorola Q9c, RIM BlackBerry 8130 Pearl, and Motorola i335.

The Q9c was previously titled the “Q2″, but is nearly identical to the Motorola Q9m on Verizon Wireless, running Windows Mobile 6.0. The Q9c includes Java, and will eventually support Sprint Navigation. The phone also [...]

AT&T has begun offering the Nokia N75 as a GoPhone Pick Your Plan offering. This is the first time that the S60 platform has been released and promoted in a prepaid offering.
The nation’s largest wireless service provider has been expanding efforts to increase data usage amongst prepaid users. This has largely been spurred by large [...]

Happy Black Friday everyone. While many of you will undoubtedly be shopping for deals, the PhoneNews.com Forums remain open for discussing all-things-wireless. Here are some highlights in discussion from the past week…
One user has continued his pursuit in tapping Sprint GPS to work with Google’s map data.
Another discussion has sparked a posting all the available [...]

Black Friday has come earlier and earlier with each year, and this year, most retailers have many deals online right now.
CompUSA.com is offering the Motorola S9 Stereo Bluetooth Headphones for $59.99 with free shipping. That’s $70 off the typical price, with no mail-in rebates required. Buy one now while supplies last online.

Earlier today, Verizon Wireless and Kyocera Wireless Corporation released the KPC680 ExpressCard with CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Rev.A technology.  It features a revamped detachable, corkscrew flip-up antenna design, dual external antenna ports enabling better reception and performance, a dual color LED service status indicator and a smaller compact design measuring in at 4.49" (H) x 1.34" [...]

Verizon Wireless is shipping the Samsung Flipshot U900 just in time for the Thanksgiving Weekend Sales Event.  Differences between its predecessor, the Samsung A990, are the addition of an automatic powered lens to cover its 3 megapixel auto-focus camera, upgraded camera flash, the ability to play MP3 files, support for high memory capacity microSD cards [...]

Sales of unlocked Apple iPhones will continue in Germany per a court order against the Deutsche Telekom arm, T-Mobile.  The specifics of the court order demands that the iPhone be sold unlocked and without a two-year contract.  These events are a culmination of arguments brought up by mobile phone rival Vodafone Deutschland claiming that T-Mobile’s [...]

The third generation Nokia Tablet hit retail stores across the US this week.  The N810 offers a newly redesigned slide-out keyboard, built-in GPS, a high-resolution 4.13" WVGA display (800 x 480 pixels), 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.0, high quality stereo speakers and a sensitive microphone for all those VOIP calls you’ll be making over WiFi.  This device [...]