Jan 30 2007 - 04:55 PM ET | Motorola
Famous investor Carl Icahn is a large shareholder in Motorola and spoke with CNBC this afternoon, noting that he is running for a seat on the board. Icahn owns approximately 1.4% of Motorola's outstanding shares and was outspoken about the...
Jan 30 2007 - 04:49 PM ET | Backpage, Data
Verizon Wireless' innovative Chaperone service has been launched for new handsets. The child-tracking program was previously only available on the LG Migo. Chaperone is now available on the following handsets: LG 3450L, LG VX8300, LG Chocolate and the Motorola KRZR...
Verizon has introduced new callings plans that bundle wireline and wireless phone service. This comes just two weeks after AT&T Unity was introduced. Like Unity, Verizon's new Freedom plans bundle all the available services from the telecom juggernaut. Verizon's partnership...
Apple rumor site ThinkSecret is reporting that the iPhone may begin shipping prior to June. At its MacWorld introduction earlier this month, Apple CEO Steve Jobs noted that the unusually (for Apple) distant launch date was because Apple wanted to...
Cingular has been catching some bad press after it came out the company billed a senior citizen $31,000 for international calls that would have been impossible to make. Oliver DeSofi was shocked to see his monthly bill (normally $150) listed...
Jan 29 2007 - 03:56 PM ET | Motorola
Motorola has signed an agreement with Texas Instruments for chips to power future mobile phones. Previously Motorola has relied on silicon from Freescale, a company that Motorola spun off in 2003. Motorola has been slow to get advanced 3G phones...
Verizon Wireless has announced its fourth quarter 2006 earnings statement. The results are strong and while Verizon remains the second largest carrier in terms of subscribers, the company posted leading revenue during the fourth quarter. Interesting metrics from the release...
Jan 28 2007 - 08:04 PM ET | T-Mobile
T-Mobile USA has announced hitting the 25 million subscriber milestone. The carrier is still the smallest of the four nationals by a long shot, but is adding customers at a fast clip. Cingular, the nation's largest carrier, recently announced surpassing...
Motorola's Ron Garriques, president of mobile devices, recently gave anxious investors a sneak peek at the company's upcoming handsets. The presentation has been posted online [PDF]. Look for these announcements soon. As expected, many of Motorola's upcoming announcements will be...
Jan 24 2007 - 08:06 PM ET | Danger, Rumor
The FCC has approved what looks to be a lower-end T-Mobile Sidekick (Sidekick Lite?). The Sidekick is technically produced by Danger and is called the HipTop, T-Mobile owns the Sidekick brand. The FCC filing doesn't reveal if this is a...
Jan 24 2007 - 07:55 PM ET | AT&T, Cingular
AT&T's Cingular division posted record profits for the fourth quarter of 2006. Though investors have responded positively, analysis of AT&T's release shows that Cingular's post-paid growth has slowed quarter-over-quarter. Counting pre-paid and MVNO customers the numbers look a lot better...
The Wall Street Journal has an article about Research In Motion's fastest growing customer, consumers. The company previously courted business users almost exclusively, but the BlackBerry Pearl has helped open up a new market for the company. According to the...
Jan 19 2007 - 04:43 PM ET | Motorola
As expected, Motorola announced disappointing financial numbers for the fourth quarter. It wasn't for the lack of handset sales though, Motorola sold a record 65.7m phones in the quarter. The Chicago based company reported a 17% surge in revenue but...
Jan 19 2007 - 04:29 PM ET | AT&T, Cingular
AT&T now includes Cingular and the company hasn't wasted time to use its new size--AT&T Unity is a new calling plan that gives customers unlimited calling within the AT&T network. The company says that over 100 million phone numbers, it's...
Jan 19 2007 - 04:24 PM ET | Camera, Unique
New York City will become the first city in the country to upgrade its 911 and 311 call centers to handle picture messaging. Landline callers will also be able to transmit images to operators via the web. “Imagine someone caught...
Jan 18 2007 - 08:04 PM ET | Alltel
Alltel Wireless has launched a new widget based home screen its calling Celltop. Celltop makes it easy to fetch and display basic information like weather, news, sports scores and stock quotes. Alltel is calling their widgets "cells" and Celltop comes...
LG let it slip out last month that it was working on a high-end fashion phone with Prada but today has gone ahead and officially announced the PRADA Phone by LG. As expected it is a stylish device and actually...
Vodafone has launched three new special edition handsets branded by the McLaren Mercedes. Vodafone is the sponsor of the McLaren Mercedes team in the upcoming Formula 1 season and is hoping the new handsets build buzz for the team. Special...
Jan 15 2007 - 10:47 PM ET | In The News
A man staying in a California hotel was set on fire from his cell phone according to assistant fire chief Kurt Henke. Luis Picaso, 59, was unlucky enough to be wearing highly flammable polyester clothing when his cell phone apparently...
T-Mobile exclusively launched a white version of the BlackBerry Pearl today. The Pearl is the first multimedia capable BlackBerry and is being targeted more towards consumers than other BlackBerry models. The device is myFaves compatible and has the option of...
Sprint Nextel started things off by increasing the amount it charges for SMS messages. Cingular dove in next and angered a lot of customers by sticking to its early termination fee despite a 50% price increase for a central service....
Cingular (well technically as of Monday, Wireless from AT&T) has launched the Motorola KRZR. The KRZR had previously only been available nationally from CDMA carriers. The "MOTOKRZR" is Motorola's replacement for the ever-popular RAZR. It's a little thicker than the...
Jan 12 2007 - 12:07 AM ET | AT&T, Cingular
Cingular Wireless will transition into the AT&T brand starting on Monday. The name change comes just a matter of days after the merger between AT&T and BellSouth was approved by Federal regulators. Cingular has been a brand for six years...
Jan 10 2007 - 08:30 PM ET | CES
CES 2007 -- Three mobile phones became finalists in theYahoo! Tech “Last Gadget Standing” competition at CES. Ten products were selected to be a part of the competition and two winners were selected. One (Data Drive Thru Tornado) was chosen...
Jan 10 2007 - 07:05 PM ET | Backpage
Wirefly has released a list of their top selling phones for the year of 2006. Unsurprisingly the Motorola RAZR topped the list. However there are some surprises: Cingular RAZR by Motorola (in various colors) T-Mobile RAZR (in various colors) Verizon...
Jan 10 2007 - 06:23 PM ET | Apple
Developing -- Apple has been sued by Cisco over trademark infringement relating to its use of the iPhone name. Cisco's LinkSys division owns the iPhone trademark and recently introduced a new product under the name. Yesterday it came out that...
Jan 10 2007 - 12:27 PM ET | Apple
Even though the device is at least five months away from launching, the tech world has been consumed by the Apple iPhone. CES has about every gadget in the world except the iPhone, making it one of the more difficult...
Jan 09 2007 - 06:34 PM ET | Apple
Even though the Apple iPhone is not scheduled to ship until June it has made a very real impact in the financial markets. The changes started just minutes after the introduction this morning by Apple's CEO Steve Jobs. Apple is...
CES 2007 -- UTStarcom isn't known for having many "est" titles (that's Samsung's role), but the new UTStarcom CDM8935 is one of the smallest camera phones around. It's tiny in every direction, the total volume is less than four cubic...
Jan 09 2007 - 01:00 PM ET | Apple
Apple has officially introduced the iPhone. Yes, the official name is iPhone despite the launch of a product from Cisco late last year with the same name. The iPhone is essentially a widescreen iPod and a phone all in one....
Sprint Nextel has updated investors on its plan to build a 4G WiMAX mobile data network. The first coverage areas will be Chicago and Washington D.C. and the network should reach over 100 million people by the end of 2008....
Jan 08 2007 - 10:40 PM ET | Apple, Cingular
The Wall Street Journal has gotten in on [subscription req]the hottest rumor in mobile phones, Apple's introduction of a mobile phone. In typical style the Journal didn't mess around with speculation and instead essentially confirmed that Apple and Cingular will...
Jan 08 2007 - 06:07 PM ET | Backpage, CES
CES 2007 -- SanDisk has announced a 2GB Memory Stick Micro M2 card, the largest in the industry. The new format is being used by several Sony Ericsson music phones but not much else. The company will also sell 1GB...
Jan 08 2007 - 05:46 PM ET | Sprint Nextel
Shares of Sprint Nextel took a significant dive this afternoon after the company announced a monthly subscriber loss for the fourth quarter. Technically the net subscriber base increased, but the gains were in lower margin MVNO partnerships instead of the...
Jan 08 2007 - 05:44 PM ET | 3G, CES, Samsung
CES 2007 -- When HSDPA is added to the Trace you get the Samsung a727, a new 3G handset announced today at CES. The razor thin handset still manages to pack in the latest 3G technology and should be the...
CES 2007 -- Both Motorola and Sony Ericsson debuted new accessories to complement their mobile phones. Though thanks to their Bluetooth underpinnings a phone from the manufacturer isn't required. Sony Ericsson is showing off the MBR-100, a Bluetooth receiver that...
Jan 08 2007 - 05:10 PM ET | CES, Data
CES 2007 -- Yahoo has released an update to Go For Mobile, adding in a slew of new features and a redesign. The new version focuses on Yahoo oneSearch which displays different categories of search results for a single query....
CES 2007 -- Sprint Nextel has announced officially supported Mac OS X compatibility with one of its EV-DO Rev A cards. Previously the easiest way to get EV-DO on a Mac was to go with Verizon (Mac OS X offers...
Jan 08 2007 - 02:50 PM ET | CES, Motorola
CES 2007 -- Motorola has had a mostly quiet CES but there were a few announcements at CEO Ed Zander's keynote speech this morning. The most interesting of which is the Motorola RIZR Z6 which looks like a sleeker RIZR...
Jan 08 2007 - 02:36 PM ET | CES, Nokia
CES 2007 -- The Nokia N93i is an updated version of the popular N93. The imaging-centric N93 has always packed in a lot of power, but at over 28mm thick it was never mistaken for a RAZR. The new N93i...
Jan 08 2007 - 02:14 PM ET | CES, Samsung
CES 2007 -- The Samsung Ultra Music F300 is a new music phone that Samsung hopes to introduce in the US. The device sports a dual face design, each with its own LCD screen. Interestingly enough the larger screen is...
Jan 08 2007 - 02:10 PM ET | CES, Samsung
CES 2007 -- The Samsung Ultra Video was announced today along with the music centric Ultra Music handset. Ultra Video is not surprisingly focused on multimedia. Both of the Ultra handsets feature dual faces, including two screens. Features of the...
Jan 08 2007 - 01:47 AM ET | CES, Nokia
CES 2007 -- Nokia has made good on its promise to get slimmer with its introduction of the Nokia N76. The full featured N-Series device comes in at 13.7mm thick which is significantly thinner than its other devices (the N93...
CES 2007 -- Sony Ericsson put up a rare preview of an unannounced upcoming handset, the W880. Two photos were posted although the complete face of the handset cannot be seen in either one. This release from Sony Ericsson may...
CES 2007 -- The Sony Ericsson W200 is a new Walkman branded music phone that is aimed at the entry-level user. The MSRP sits at a low $179.99 and Sony Ericsson expects carriers to sell the device for under $50....
CES 2007 -- Cingular Wireless has officially announced the Palm Treo 750. The long awaited device is the first Treo from Cingular to have either 3G or Windows Mobile. The 750 has been shipping in Europe for quite some...
CES 2007 -- Verizon Wireless has announced the LG VX9400, a mobile TV compatible phone that will be one of two launch handsets for V Cast TV. The other phone, Samsung's u620, was also announced today. Besides supporting broadcast TV...
CES 2007 -- The Samsung u620 will be one of two launch phones for Verizon Wireless V Cast TV. The LG VX9400 is the other launch handset. Samsung is marketing the handset quite heavily at CES, there are photos of...
CES 2007 -- As expected, Verizon Wireless has officially announced its mobile TV service. V Cast TV uses Qualcomm's MediaFLO technology to provide broadcast TV to US consumers for the first time. The service will launch later in the first...
Jan 05 2007 - 05:34 PM ET | 3G, Cingular
Cingular will demo a one-way video calling service next week at CES. Video calling is currently supported in many countries but this will be a first for the US market. The service allows users to send a live video stream...
Jan 04 2007 - 09:31 PM ET | Motorola
Motorola has issued a restated estimate for 4th quarter sales and earnings because of lower than expected sales of mobile devices. The usually red hot holiday season ended up being not as KRZY as Motorola was hoping for: "We are...
As expected, Sprint has officially announced the Motorola Q. The Q had been an exclusive to Verizon Wireless since its launch in May 2006. Sprint will begin shipping to business channels the Q later in January and expects to have...
