We've been waiting and waiting for HP to finally get real with their iPAQ 900-series Windows Mobile smartphone. Just as we were about to give up on HP's smartphone offering, the HP iPAQ 900 pops up on the FCC's website. We were expecting the HP iPAQ 910 to get its launch on with AT&T back in [...]

All you Windows-using iPhoners out there can join the Pwnage club with the release of winpwn. Just like the Mac-only PwnageTool released by the iPhone Dev Team, winpwn allows you to "pwn" your iPhone using your Windows machine. Pwn-ing your iPhone requires that you build a custom IPSW (firmware/OS) bundle and upload it to your iPhone. [...]

At least that's what folks supposedly in-the-know are saying. While the US the Europe are waiting eagerly for the 3G iPhone to make its global debut, Indians on Vodafone could have an iPhone 8GB to look forward to later this year. More specifically, the 8GB iPhone is purportedly slated to drop on Vodafone India in [...]

Sure, you might already be rocking that cool RotateMe hack on your Nokia N95, but there's nothing like a little manufacturer-sanctioned love straight from Espoo to make you fall in love with screen-rotation on your N95. A new firmware (v20.0.016) is available for the Nokia N95 8GB (sorry folks, only the European N95-2 is supported [...]

French supermarket chain Carrefour is launching its own MVNO telephone service called Carrefour Mova in Poland. This is not their first time, though. Poland is the fifth country in Europe where they are offering their mobile phone service. Other markets include France, Belgium, Spain and Italy. According to Carrefour Polska's new chairman Gilles Roudy, Carrefour Mova [...]

Just as we reported that FlyTunes has added more than 100 new channels to its offering, they've announced a partnership with AccuRadio.com that will bring all 320+ channels of AccuRadio to iPhones and iPod Touch models. AccuRadio, with nearly a half-million listeners per month, is among the top Internet radio broadcasters in the world. AccuRadio's channels [...]

dotMobi announced that it has partnered with the leading domain name suggestion and search engine company DomainsBot which will now include .mobi in their domain name search and suggestion tool. DomainsBot's "name spinner" tool is designed to help developers, site owners and marketers find available domain names when a first-choice domain name is already registered. DomainsBot [...]

Verizon Wireless and VOCEL announced the availability of The Pill Phone, a new Get It Now application that provides users with detailed drug information and automatic dosing reminders, right on their phones. The mobile version of the best-selling medication reference guide (The Pill Book), The Pill Phone application is available exclusively through Verizon Wireless. With The [...]

Escarpod is a free podcatcher for Symbian UIQ3 smartphones, and one of those puzzle pieces that I missed on my Sony Ericsson W960i. Not any more. Escarpod rocks and it works on all Sony Ericsson and Motorola Symbian UIQ3 based smartphones. Feature highlights: RSS feed updating and show downloading Built-in player Persistent position in shows between restarts Cover art Support for [...]

Just recently we wrote about Truphone and their plans to roll out Truphone SIM to allow users to take and make cheap phone calls, even when they're outside of a hotspot. Now they've announced a new round (Series B) of venture capital funding that brought them additional £16.5m ($32.7m). The round was led by private investors, [...]

Nokia was the first phone manufacture to commit to the Silverlight platform, promising to deliver it on their S40, S60 and Maemo based products, and more recently Scott Guthrie, Corporate VP of Microsoft's Developer Division, told a crowd of attendees at the ReMIX08 conference that "big" deals with the other phone manufactures are going to [...]

This picture isn't the highest of quality and I blew it up to 500 pixels wide to make out what exactly is gong on here. The top row, from left to right, and please correct me since I'm not familiar with the HTC lineup is: TyTn II, TyTn II, Touch Cruise, Touch. The bottom row, [...]

O2 Wireless is getting a breath of fresh air with the addition of the new Alcatel OT-E206a phone. Read the full story here.

O2 Wireless is getting a breath of fresh air with the addition of the new Alcatel OT-E206a phone. Read the full story here.

Hop-on, Inc. announced today that its low end GSM cell phone with no LCD screen is hopping all over the European Markets Read the full story here.

Hop-on, Inc. announced today that its low end GSM cell phone with no LCD screen is hopping all over the European Markets Read the full story here.

Francesco Cara is speaking at the 2008 LIFT Conference about how Nokia has grown in terms of how their devices interact with the ecosystems around them. He notes that the iPhone takes a very desktop oriented approach in terms of how to operate the device and most curiously praises Palm for their user centric design [...]