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Unlocked Android: $399

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 8th, 2008

Google has announced a SIM- and hardware-unlocked version of the first Android smartphone, reports C/Net.
To get an Android Dev Phone 1, you’ll first need to register as an Android developer on the Android Market site, which entails a one-time setup fee of $25. Then the device will cost you $399 (free shipping in the States). [...]

iPhone Sales Top Windows Mobile

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 4th, 2008

iPhone sales have exceeded Windows Mobile sales for first time, says Gartner’s latest analysis of the global smartphone industry. But overall, growth in sales of smartphones around the world only grew 11.5 percent during the third quarter.
The world, according to Gartner, saw the weakest growth in the sector since it began tracking smartphone sales. [...]

Emergency Notification for Students via Twitter & Facebook

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 3rd, 2008

Omnilert, maker of e2Campus, the leading emergency notification system for higher education, announced that Pacific University of Forest Grove, Oregon is the first school in the country to integrate their Facebook and Twitter accounts into the e2Campus emergency notification system.
This allows Pacific University to send e2Campus alerts automatically and simultaneously to the school’s Facebook and [...]

Baby Jesus Thefts Thwarted by GPS

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 3rd, 2008

I like to think of Jesus as an Ice Dancer, dressed in an all-white jumpsuit, and doing an interpretive dance of my life. - Cal Naughton, Jr.
“The theft or destruction of Nativity scenes is a rising problem. Every year we hear how the sanctity and harmony of the holiday season was ruined by a few [...]

Nokia’s Flagship: The N-97 Smartphone

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 2nd, 2008

Nokia has announced a new flagship smart phone, the N97, in Barcelona on Tuesday.
The N97 combines a touch screen, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, Web-based widgets, GPS, high-speed Internet and even Flash video. The bulky phone houses a powerful ARM11 processor, a 5-megapixel camera with 640 x 480 video recording, 32 Gbytes of on-board memory [...]

Clearwire in Portland

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 2nd, 2008

Consumer WiMAX service is now available in Portland, Oregon. I am posting this article using my residential Clearwire service. Apparently I was the first person to order broadband wireless at Clearwire’s new office near the Spaghetti Factory on South Waterfront (Ph:503.333.5887).

This is a commercial product and now available to anyone in Portland today. [...]

Top Ten Phones in U.S.

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 1st, 2008

RCR Wireless News compiles the 10 most popular handsets in the United States for the month of October. Rankings were provided by AvianResearch.
Research In Motion has held the top spot on the ranking for five straight months, with the BlackBerry Pearl topping the list in April, and the Blackberry Curve dominating the list from May [...]

Clearwire: Let’s be “Clear”

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 1st, 2008

I want him to know how to holler and put up an argument, I want a little guts to show before I can let him go. I want to be sure he sees all the wild possibilities. I want him to know it’s worth all the trouble just to give the world a little goosing [...]

Gigabyte Rolls Out First Moblin Device

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 28th, 2008

Intel’s open source Moblin platform is beginning to ship on consumer electronics products. The Linux-based platform is designed specifically for mobile Internet devices that use Intel’s Atom processor.
Gigabyte is preparing to release the M528, its first Moblin-based device, next week in Taipei. It has an 800Mhz Atom processor, 4GB internal storage, 512MB of RAM, [...]

Singapore Launches Femtocell Service

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 28th, 2008

StarHub, Singapore’s second-largest mobile operator, and the sole cable TV provider in Singapore, has launched ‘Home Zone’, the world’s first commercially-available 3G femtocell service.
StarHub’s Home Zone service costs S$16.05 (US$10.62) per month with a 1-year contract. Users must also have a mobile-phone and broadband Internet accounts with StarHub for the service to work.

A [...]