August 23, 2004 articles

Motorola V600 recall update

Aug 23 2004 - 02:30 PM ET | Cingular, Motorola, Rumor
Earlier this month MobileTracker reported that Cingular was recalling some Motorola V600 handsets. A week before the recall was announced, Cingular dropped the V600 from its line up. The plot thickens when today RCR Wireless News says they asked Motorola...

HP iPAQ h6315 Pocket PC now at CompUSA

Aug 23 2004 - 02:17 PM ET | Smartphone
While the official release isn't rumored until Thursday, CompUSA stores are already selling the HP iPAQ h6315 (reported to us by many readers and confirmed by Engadget). The device has Bluetooth, WiFi and GPRS which makes it one of the...

TI puts H.264 codec on mobile chips

Aug 23 2004 - 01:35 PM ET | In The News
Texas Instruments has announced a new Digital Signal Processor (DSP) that encodes and decodes H.264 video (also known as MPEG-4 Part 10) in real time. While most consumers do not yet no what H.264 is, Apple Computer is trying to...

Sharp TM150 launches on T-Mobile USA

Aug 23 2004 - 01:16 PM ET | Sharp, T-Mobile
T-Mobile USA has launched the Sharp TM150, the first Sharp phone for the US. It's an exclusive to T-Mobile (because it has no GSM 850). The features are pretty advanced: * 1 megapixel camera, video, zoom * SD/MMC card slot...