It is anticipated that Verizon [VZ] will officially announce the availability of a CDMA-capable version of Apple’s [AAPL] iPhone device on their cellular network. This is one of those stories that has been circulating for quite sometime, at this point. Various news outlets have reported that the network carrier issue has been the major obstacle [...]
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Apple’s [AAPL] lockstep dance with AT&T [T] as its exclusive 3G service provider may be ending, with Verizon [VZ] showing up to the dance hall seemingly first. So what’s a mobile data services consumer going to do?
The Setup For a few years now, Starbucks [SBUX] has been offering free Wi-Fi access to two groups of people: qualified AT&T wireless customers, and Starbucks Card holders. While it has worked well for the “in” people, it has been a point of mild consternation for those who have not been inclined to get a [...]
The war for the hearts, minds, and hands of the wireless masses continues, this time with a new entrant (actually a duo) vying for an initial foothold (handhold?) in the ever-dynamic market for smartphones. Or, perhaps more accurately, it has taken on a new angle due to the new competitor. Never mind the Samsung Instinct. [...]
Hot out of the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2008 conference are the announcements from RIM [RIMM] about their upcoming smartphones: BlackBerry Pearl 8220 BlackBerry Bold BlackBerry Pearl 8220 Unfortunately for AT&T [T] customers, the Pearl 8220 will debut in the U.S. as a T-Mobile [DT] exclusive shortly. It sports a lot of the same [...]
Remember when NullRiver‘s NetShare iPhone app disappeared from the iTunes App Store? It was the iPhone app that provided a means to tether a computer to the iPhone for Internet access via the iPhone’s data transmissions. After it was released on July 31, 2008, it was available on the App Store for several minutes before [...]
Remember our previous discussions about the Apple [AAPL] iPhone 3G signal/reception problems, and how it seemed unlikely that the Infineon 3G chipset was the problem, despite a financial analyst’s belief that the hardware was responsible for all of the problems. But at first glance, it does not make any sense that the chipset would be [...]
Hot on the tail (tales?) of Apple’s [AAPL] latest news of iPhone connectivity problems and App Store concerns, the Palm [PALM] Treo Pro was announced yesterday, followed today by the RIM [RIMM] BlackBerry Bold. Huh? The Apple iPhone 3G The iPhone 3G has been out the longest, and it has been steadily gaining developer acceptance [...]
Uh-oh! Just when the better-than-expected preliminary sales estimates for the Apple [AAPL] iPhone 3G were bandied about, rumblings about reception problems with iPhone 3G began to resurface, reaching a somewhat-boiling point yesterday. On the release day for the new iteration of the iPhone, there was the dramatic activation-related outage in the U.S. at the Apple [...]
The So-So News Multiple news sites have begun covering the Apple [AAPL] iPhone release in the U.S. after I kicked off the official start of sales one (1) minute before it began at 8:00 AM ET. Also, it looks like a LOT of intrepid iTunes users (iPhone-owning and also iPhone-less) took me up on my [...]
