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rumor

Walt Says 3G iPhone Coming in 60 Days

Walt Mossberg has confirmed what AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega already hinted at CTIA: the iPhone will be 3G-capable "in 60 days." Mossberg said it 6:53 into this Beet.tv feature. Knowing that it's going to be one year after release, what De la Vega said, and the fact that Walt gets his mitts on the goods way before anyone else, it's only logical to think he is right. We will discover it around June 4. More »

1:49 PM on Sat Apr 5 2008
By Haroon Malik
49,457 views, 54 comments

Latest by passafist: did he just refer to me as a geek "very narrow portion of geeks". my plasma has a vga input on it, isn't it just natural to connect it to its own media center file server? and more »

skyfire

Hands On Skyfire Windows Mobile Browser: It Definitely Doesn't Suck

During our brief hands on with the Skyfire mobile browser at CTIA, it actually lived up to most of its claims, and we walked away fairly impressed. We saw it on two different devices, though most of our time was on a Sprint HTC Mogul. Besides rendering media-heavy Giz with surprising snap (a feat that made the Instinct's browser cry), it churned out YouTube and Hulu videos like a champ. Zooming isn't quite as intuitive as Safari—you touch, a box pops up which you can drag around, then you touch again—but I was told they're working on making it more natural. Overall, it's definitely one for Windows Mobile users to watch, and we'll be getting some more time with it soon.[Giz @ CTIA]

7:00 PM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By matt buchanan
8,030 views, 20 comments

Latest by TurboFool: I've been running the beta for the last few weeks, and I'm very impressed. It's very smooth, the video/audio playback's amazing, and it overall just covers my needs very well. Needs a bit of stability work and multi-line text input more »

sprint

Sprint to Revive Nextel With Wi-Fi BlackBerry and CDMA Phones

According to a Gearlog report from CTIA, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse is promising an unnamed new iDEN BlackBerry with both push-to-talk and Wi-Fi, a full-featured smartphone to put some juice into the abysmal Nextel network. He also pledged new phones from Sanyo, Samsung, Motorola and LG that run on the CDMA network most Sprint customers use, but will have Nextel's push-to-talk and other "chirp" services. This sounds to me like waffling: if iDEN can't attract handset makers and has no high-bandwidth roadmap, why encourage the format? I'm all for moving in the CDMA direction and easing customers in with familiar services, but hasn't that been the plan all along? And hasn't it been failing? [Gearlog via Electronista]

6:15 PM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Wilson Rothman
3,052 views, 24 comments

Latest by Zlevee: Still used heavily in the construction industry. Blackberry's with the push-to-talk feature are used by management people in that industry. more »

wimax

Is WiMax All Washed Up? An Open Letter

Dear Sprint and Intel,
I'm sorry to hear about your recent WiMax delays and struggles, I really am. The Xohm service was originally scheduled to launch this month, but all you've given us are a few prototypes and half-baked demos in controlled environments—the public has yet to see the technology truly in action. WiMax in general and Xohm in particular have the potential for greatness, but you guys seem to have lost your way. Here are all the signs that WiMax may be washed up: More »

4:00 PM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Adrian Covert
9,893 views, 32 comments

Latest by bigMoneyMIKE: @matt buchanan: Sure Matt, I know we all will look forward to your editorial! I may be off on the time line of the build-out, perhaps its something like 95% penetration by end of '08 but I do know for more »

cellphones

Motorola's Smart Rider Car Phone: Just In Case You Were Expecting a Call From 1992

An FCC leak back in February tipped us off to the fact that Motorola was prepping a car phone, but it wasn't until today that the details were announced. However, unlike the car phones of yesteryear, the Smart Rider features GPS navigation, voice activation and Bluetooth. But here is the kicker—you can use it outside of your car, which basically makes it just another cellphone. Oh those Motorola execs with their marketing trickery! No wonder you guys are kicking so much ass. Available starting in June. Press release after the break. More »

9:20 PM on Thu Apr 3 2008
By Sean Fallon
4,246 views, 28 comments

Latest by sublimnl: @Ashley927: so hot. i didnt think they let your kind on gizmodo more »

ctia 2008

Meshcentric H_T: Waterproof Wi-Fi Cellular Anti-Stalker GPS Game Handheld With LED Lightshow... Say What?

Our friend Stuart at PocketGamer UK just shared with us his encounter with Meshcentric CEO Scott Fry, who is in Vegas at CTIA telling everyone about the H_T, a cellular gaming 1-mile-range-Wi-Fi hot spot with over-clocked CPU, fluorescent LEDs and GPS. The suspiciously PSP-shaped new multifunction device is apparently the second product to come from Fry's brain trust after the Air Sniper weapons system, also currently in prototype form. H_T's killer app is the game VR Warrior, set to launch Christmas 2008 and, according to Fry, is supposed to "get the gamers off their a** and start moving as a team or as an Army of one": More »

2:50 PM on Thu Apr 3 2008
By Wilson Rothman
3,055 views, 11 comments

Latest by The illest wind: take the role of the MSX computer in La Mulana? more »

lte

WiMax Competitor LTE Runs Wii Online Multiplayer So Fast It Seems Local

WiMax isn't the only the live 4G game in town. Alcatel-Lucent is running an arguably much sexier demo of LTE (long-term evolution), the high-speed 4G network that Verizon and AT&T are going to deploy. Besides streaming video to a wall of TVs with over 100Mbps of throughput, they have two Wiis hooked up, one on Wi-Fi and one on LTE, battling each other in an online Mario Strikers Charged match. It's totally lag-free, as frenzied and butter smooth as Striker gets. Full-fledged online gaming anywhere is so close it hurts.

6:30 PM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By matt buchanan
4,164 views, 14 comments

Latest by BenG9810: @bigMoneyMIKE: Umm... Sprint already has Wimax LAUNCHED in at least 4 cities. They have phones coming out for their new service. A sham? Maybe but if it actually works, it's going to PWN! more »

cellphones

AT&T Could Release a Customized 'AT&T' Android Phone

When we spoke to AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph De La Vega a few months ago, he said AT&T was open to the possibility of Google's Android phones being on their network. Today, at CTIA, he followed up on this and said that he's already met with Google executives and is "encouraged by the idea that an Android phone could host AT&T branded apps." More »

5:04 PM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Jason Chen
4,594 views, 10 comments

apple

Straight from AT&T Mobility CEO's Mouth: 3G iPhone Coming in "Months"

We're at an AT&T lunch, and AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega just dropped some meaty bits. He had mentioned earlier in the event that he expected all of their smart integrated devices to be 3G in the next couple months. Sascha Segan from PC Mag asked it that included the iPhone. De la Vega responded, "Let me repeat what I said: I think that you're going to see our integrated devices be 3G devices in the not-too-distant future, and I mean months. That should be clear enough." Cue fanboy 3G fever! [Giz at CTIA 2008]

4:50 PM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By matt buchanan
66,579 views, 79 comments

Latest by dgstan: Just in time for those juicy tax rebates! I'll take two, please... more »

at&t

AT&T Mobility CEO: $299 Vu, $15 Mobile TV and Sprint Sucks

Even though AT&T they played coy on pricing for the LG Vu with its original announcement, AT&T Mobility's CEO just revealed that the LG Vu is going to run $299—same as Sprint's Instinct. Its mobile TV service which impressed us with its slick interface and high quality streams, is gonna run $15 a month. More »

4:49 PM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By matt buchanan
4,951 views, 9 comments

umpc

Hands On HTC Shift EV-DO

HTC had their Shift UMPC on display here at CTIA, which packs Sprint EV-DO, an 800 MHz Celeron processor, 1 GB RAM and a 40 GB SSD into a tidy $1500 package. After getting touchy feely with it for a few minutes, I found it wasn't half bad. I was especially impressed by the proprietary HTC SnapView interface that runs on top of Windows Vista, and provides quick access to weather, calendars and emails (similar to the Windows Mobile 6.1 homescreen that it's based around).
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4:16 PM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Adrian Covert
4,364 views, 11 comments

Latest by hanswurst0815: Is that a fingerprint reader on the screen's lower right? more »

samsung instinct

Video: Samsung Instinct Lets You Browse Web Pages with Tilt Navigation (Plus, It's Under $300)

Samsung Instinct, second pass, this time in a room with real lighting! Besides learning that it'll come out for under $300, we took another look at the web browser, which we weren't super impressed with earlier, partially because its slick, headlining interface feature—panning through a website by tilting the phone up or down—was brokified. Turns out, the dark discotheque room is what nuked it, since it made it impossible for the camera to detect any movement. More »

12:05 AM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By matt buchanan
55,559 views, 52 comments

Latest by instinctsamsung: The best fans website is at w w w. instinct-samsung .c o m more »

cellphones

Kyocera Neo E1100 Brings OLED, Designer Sensibility to Low End Phone

The Kyocera Neo E1100 is a forgettable CDMA handset save for the fact that it has a glowing blue "lightpipe" and a hidden OLED display on its minimal exterior. Other than that, it has Bluetooth 2.0 and a 1.3 MP camera. But hey, it's nice to look at and it's coming soon to a North American carrier near you.

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12:00 AM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Adrian Covert
3,560 views, 6 comments

Latest by macrumpton: Better than tilting,have the camera detect your finger moving across the lens, sort of an optical trackball. That would be far more controllable and useful. more »

wimax

Sprint Xohm WiMax Test Drive: Just Like Cable

Sprint's got a bunch of devices huddled in a booth running off its Xohm WiMax network: some Nokia N810 tablets and a smattering of notebooks from different makers (like a Windows XP Asus Eee PC, but it was acting a bit wonky, so I had to move on to a more generic laptop). Basically, the internet experience is just like cable, except wireless—the buildout is aimed at 2-4Mbps downspeed bandwidth and about 1.5-2 up, which is exactly what I was pulling here, according to a stealthy speedtest.net check. More »

7:55 PM on Tue Apr 1 2008
By matt buchanan
6,098 views, 11 comments

Latest by SneakerFiend: @Kilcannon: Well it is still a new network i'd expect faster download speeds tho and more unstable download speeds too. Also you have to consider that it is wireless. Lets go sprint. Im not with sprint but i hope this works more »

windows mobile

Hands On Windows Mobile 6.1 (Update is Skin Deep)

Windows 6.1 is officially out, and after a hands on with the standard and professional versions of the refreshed OS, I'm still not sold on it. There's no denying the redesigned home screen is beautiful, and easily takes you to emails, texts and events for the day. But it still doesn't make up for the laggy nature of the OS and the menu surfing required to perform simple tasks.
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7:44 PM on Tue Apr 1 2008
By Adrian Covert
15,468 views, 36 comments

Latest by RobotVampire: @MINI Driver: "Not only are business users already using the current iPhone, and effectively running and managing their business," Not is they're using Exchange servers. Oh, and "It's gonna support Exchange in 2.0" does nothing for me now. more »

smartphones

Hands On HTC Touch Dual (Nice, but Still WinMo)

HTC's Touch Dual is now officially headed to US markets, and after a brief hands-on with it, I'm a fan of the hardware. But at the end of the day, it's still a WinMo phone. The phone pairs the form factor of the HTC Touch with a slide-out SureType keyboard in a (relatively) light and thin package. And though they gave it the TouchFLO interface and WIndows Mobile 6.1 Professional, it only covers up WinMo's shortcomings to an extent.
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7:30 PM on Tue Apr 1 2008
By Adrian Covert
5,183 views, 22 comments

Latest by TheKidMillz: any chance of a CDMA version of the Touch Dual? where are my insiders?? more »

headsets

Sound ID's HD300 Bluetooth Headset: Pristine Audio, Filters Out the Jibba Jabba

Sound ID has taken the lid off their new HD300 Bluetooth headset featuring proprietary NoiseNavigation technology that promises "pristine sound" by isolating speech and automatically reducing wind and background noise using dual microphones and DSP algorithms. A lot of companies make similar claims, but Sound ID's word is backed with the nerdy credibility of a staff composed of "hearing specialists and top acoustic scientists." We shall see if they live up to the hype when the HD300 is released in Q3 of 2008 for $119.99. Full details are available in the press release after the break. More »

7:30 PM on Tue Apr 1 2008
By Sean Fallon
2,147 views, 12 comments

Latest by ackthbbft: The earpiece looks a bit like the Jabra EarGel I use on my JX-10. The original loop fit very comfortably, but I couldn't hear very well. The eargel is much better. more »

laptops

Cloudbook Max Features Built-In WiMAX for Sprint's XOHM Network

Straight from CTIA 2008, Everex has unveiled their new Cloudbook Max featuring built-in support for Sprint's XOHM WiMAX network. Users can also expect a 8.9" WVGA (1024 x 600) display, a 1.6GHz VIA C7-M ULV processor with the VIA VX800 digital media IGP chipset, up to 2GB DDR2 SDRAM, a 80GB hard disk drive, 802.11b/g WiFi, Bluetooth, an integrated GPS receiver, dual built-in 2-megapixel webcams, an S-Video port, audio in/out and the Microsoft Vista OS. No pricing info has been announced, but you can expect it to hit store shelves within a year. Press release after the break. More »

7:00 PM on Tue Apr 1 2008
By Sean Fallon
2,331 views, 8 comments

Latest by Superevil: @Rob C: You're not gonna get all that in an EEE for under 600$ more »