Virgin Mobile, pre-paid mobile operator has entered the smartphone market with its Android-based Samsung Intercept in the United States. The Samsung Intercept is also available as a prepaid phone on Virgin Mobile.
The handset features a 3.2-inch touchscreen display, a 3.2 megapixel camera, runs on Android 2.1, fully slide out QWERTY keyboard, integrated Wi-Fi, GPS, [...]
Oct
7
2010
7
2010
Samsung Intercept, Virgin Mobile’s first pre-paid Android phone
Aug
2
2010
2
2010
Smartphones will act as your credit cards in just $15
The contactless technology will be soon used by the collaboration of all the major wireless carriers in USA to allow customers to pay through their smartphones. The testing of the same will soon be started in Atlanta where in a person’s smartphone will be his credit cards.
Telecommunication giants Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile USA [...]
Jun
8
2010
8
2010
HP printers offers new E-print-functionality
HP printers now have their own email and work directly from the cloud. With a home network connection is no longer required for desktop printing from mobile devices or from other cloud applications.
The printers are designed to print jobs which are emailed or uploaded to a cloud of ex-service access to the printer. HP [...]
Apr
20
2010
20
2010
Apple would have lost iPhone 4G
The photos of the prototype of iPhone 4G on Gizmodo circulated on the Internet. A prototype of the device, which must be the future version of Apple’s new smartphone, would have been lost in a bar in the U.S., and then recovered by the site Gizmodo. This ensures that it is not a fake. [...]
Feb
19
2010
19
2010
Feb
16
2010
16
2010
Verizon Wireless teaming up with Skype could draw new users?
Verizon Wireless has tied with Skype, and Verizon Wireless that will allow free domestic and cheap international calls for Verizon Wireless customers with a data service plan. Its subscribers will be able to start making calls using Skype on nine selected smartphones in late March.
The Skype Mobile app will allow Verizon customers to connect with [...]
Feb
16
2010
16
2010
Smartphones : a growing problem for networks
Vittorio Colao, chief executive of the world’s largest cellphone networks operator, told in Barcelona that instead new business models needed to be created to cope with the demand for data services.
The comments added at the annual gathering of handset makers, chipmakers and service providers, the rapid growth of smartphones such as Apple’s iPhone, operators are [...]
Feb
16
2010
16
2010
Sony Ericsson joins the bandwagon; launches smartphones
Sony Ericsson has launched two new smartphones during the ongoing Mobile Congress. The two phones are very high-end and are called Vivaz Pro and the X10 Mini and X 10 Mini Pro. They have touch screen facility.
While the Vivaz runs on Symbian platform, the other two use Google Android. This with the earlier two version- [...]
Feb
15
2010
15
2010
Nokia, Intel to merge platforms to form MeeGo
Nokia and Intel are going to combine their operating systems to form one platform. It would be named MeeGo and will be used as a mobile platform.
The two operating systems which would be merged are Nokia’s Maemo and Intel’s Mobilin and this would allow MeeGo to run even the smartphones, netbooks and others. This was [...]