Have any interest in Nokia’s new Windows Phone 7 bearing hotness, the Lumia 900? Maybe you’re interested, but not enough to smack down a hundred bucks? Good news for you. AT&T has decided to make the practically new handset free through April 21. This is with a mail-in rebate so it’s for a given value […]
You’re not alone if you read the headline and wondered “Who the heck is Alcatel?” The handset maker is a bigger name in non-US markets. Here, however, the Venture seems to be their only handset on the market, which I hate to say, is a good thing. The Venture should be right up my […]
At yesterday’s HTC/Sprint event, I wasn’t too surprised to hear Sprint lavish the EVO line with praise. As they pointed out, Sprint introduced the EVO 4G two years ago and the 3D last year. Now, the company is giving us the third generation of the EVO franchise, and while at first glance it just seemed like a […]
Some of us are still waiting for Sprint’s “any day now” Galaxy Nexus. The current Google reference phone is more than a neat bit of hardware — it represents Sprint’s first shift from a high-speed WiMax network to one based on LTE. While Wimax continues to work for those who picked up earlier 4G Sprint […]
Remember Steve Jobs’s “third screen” conceptualization of a tablet? In a nutshell, the idea is that the average user goes from their first screen, a desktop or laptop, to their second screen, a smartphone. Jobs had the idea of a tablet as a third screen, and as we’ve seen from Apple’s sales, he was right […]
You probably want to file this under “Solution in Search of a Problem” — Nokia has patented the bright idea for alert ink. The idea is to use ferromagnetic ink to create a tattoo that “pairs with your phone” and vibrates when you get an alert. For those not into body art, there’s also the […]
Some people have accused this blog of being a bit unfair to RIM. This could not be further from the truth. I write about the makers of the once-ubiquitous Blackberry because I want to see them return to greatness, and I hate seeing them make obvious missteps. Having sat through the death of Palm, I […]
Gather round, children, and let grandpa tell you about the olden days that we called the 90s. Times were dark, then. We didn’t have smartphones. Instead we had PDAs — personal digital assistants. The leader of the field was a company called Palm, and their operating system was a little thing called PalmOS. One of […]
Pro-ana. If you’ve never heard of this term before, then you, sir or madam, are a lucky person. Ana is short for Anorexia. Yes, that’s right, there actually exists people in this world who promote and push a horrific, potentially deadly eating disorder. Back in 2004, the popular web comic “Something Positive” stirred the hornet’s […]
There’s plenty of buzz going on about the reported Sprint/HTC event happening in two weeks. On April 4, the big bosses of the two companies will present… something. Smart money is it being one of the recently announced HTC One models. Whatever it is, Sprint needs it. While competing network Verizon has added the Droid […]
