Where Smartphone People Connect
For years now, hotel chains have been toying with alternative ways to letting patrons check-in, access their room and run up their bill with all-too-convenient in-room services. Marriott began testing smartphone check-ins way back in 2006, and select boutique locations (like The Plaza Hotel in New York and Boston’s Nine Zero) have relied on RFID, [...]
How desperate are you to get Netflix running on your iPhone? Desperate enough to jailbreak, grab frameworks from your iPad, and do some plist hacking? If the answer to those questions is “yes,” then the folks at ModMyi have something they’d like to show you. According to the site, a tipster has been able to [...]
I have been waiting for a long time for an app that allows me to watch all of my weekly TV shows on my BlackBerry. Fox Mobile has released Bitbop which will allow all of us to do just that. Well Sorta, as it stands now the app is in the early beta stages and [...]
Join the forum discussion on this post YouMail Visual Voicemail has gone version 2.0 with new features that were heavily requested by users. YouMail 2.0 gives users a streamlined user interface, enhanced organization tools, improved transcription and faster voicemail followup. With the streamlined user interface, the main screen now shows the number of new messages [...]
In an attempt to combat the cartel-related violence, Mexico enacted a law requiring cell phone users to register their identity with the carrier. Nearly 30 million subscribers didn’t do this because of a lack of knowledge or a distrust of what could happen to that information if it fell into the wrong hands. Unfortunately, the [...]
We knew Android has been growing at a rapid pace, and typing that sentence is getting a little repetitive. Nonetheless, during a shareholders meeting held yesterday, Eric Schmidt announced that 65,000 Android handsets are shipped every single day day. While that’s quite a number, it’s not exactly what it seems. The keyword that should be [...]
Sprint’s been slow-going with its 4G WiMAX network rollout in the US, but there are a lucky few dozen markets that are currently enjoying the blazing fast wireless data speeds served up by Sprint (NYSE: S)’s still-growing mobile broadband data network. Well, it turns out that Boston may be the latest market to get some [...]
During Sprint’s EVO 4G media event this week, Sprint (NYSE: S) showcased what HTC’s EVO 4G was capable of. One thing that obviously struck a chord with me was when Sprint announced EA’s Need for Speed: Shift would be making it’s way to the Android marketplace, then proceeded to demo what the game looked like [...]
The Samsung Galaxy S stole the show at CTIA – for about an hour. Still the device is downright sexy, and sports a feature set similar than that of the EVO, just not as high end. There’s now a video out and about suggesting that the Galaxy S may hit T-Mobile (NYSE: DT) USA before [...]
Good news and bad news if you’re rocking the Samsung Moment: you can now officially get the Android 2.1 (Eclair) update but it’s not an over-the-air firmware upgrade, as you’ll have to manually download it from Sprint (NYSE: S). It’s not that big of a hassle though, as you merely have to download the software [...]