Michigan Mobiles Review and Rant

It looks like actual value is going to be offered to Canadian smartphone users in time for Christmas because Bell is going to match Telus’ amazing $99 smartphone plan. Created in anticipation of large sales of the BlackBerry Storm, both Canadian CDMA-come-HSDPA carriers are offering up plans consis ...

Well what do we have here? Live shots of AT&T’s upcoming answer to the T-Mobile Sidekick just came in courtesy of one of our ninjas and we thought we might as well share ‘em with you. We’ve all known the Quickfire has been in the pipeline for a while and last month we dropped the [...]

It was only a matter of time - Motorola has officially lost its title of number one handset manufacturer in the US to Samsung. Somehow managing to increase sales by 6.2% in the past year despite the US being in the midst of one of the worst economic crises in modern history, Samsung now controls [. ...

If that last ad left you wanting to punch the TV screen, this one should help calm you down a little bit. It doesn’t offer much in terms of new content, and the device sequence is obviously edited to make it look smoother, but all in all, it’s a pretty decent ad. Favorite line? “What [...]

Google must have known this was coming. In the ever-present battle between mobile manufacturers and hackers, it’s always a game of cat and mouse. New OS build is released, hackers attack, hackers win, manufacturer patches - lather, rinse and repeat. Apple was welcomed to the game pretty quickly and ...

Filed under: Handsets , Motorola , Alltel , EV-DO , CDMA Alltel isn't typically the first US carrier to release much of anything, with the notable exception of Glimmer . That's alright -- coming it at number five, they probably don't have quite the sway with manufacturers that a Verizon or a Sprint ...

Filed under: T-Mobile , GSM , EDGE , HSDPA , UMTS Caps are nothing new to the world's 3G networks, but T-Mobile's being particularly stingy with the bytes -- 1GB is all you get. Well, technically you can get more than that, but our friends in magenta are reserving the right to throttle you back to ...

Filed under: Handsets , Multimedia , HTC , T-Mobile , Android Hey, that's pretty awesome that Amazon's thrown together an MP3 store app for the G1 , isn't it? What would be even cooler still, though, is if you could actually listen to those tracks without a crazy dongle hanging off your phone. Like ...

Filed under: Handsets , HTC , T-Mobile , GSM , EDGE , HSDPA , UMTS , Android The T-Mobile G1 web site went up with a bunch of placeholders late last night , but it's finally fully live after this morning's big unveiling, and while it's not exactly bursting with detailed info, there's plenty of new ...

Filed under: Handsets , Features , RIM , Verizon Wireless , GSM , EDGE , EV-DO , HSDPA , UMTS , CDMA Flashy new slides circulating among Verizon staffers are calling out the Storm for everything that makes it just so darned Stormy, and the list is pretty impressive -- particularly the bit about the ...