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CTIA 2007 -- One of the more interesting new devices at CTIA is the Samsung UbiCell base station. A small white box that looks like a WiFi access point, the UbiCell is actually mini cell tower designed for CDMA 1x...
Mar 28 2007 - 10:51 AM ET | AT&T, Apple, CTIA
CTIA 2007 -- During a keynote speech at CTIA, an AT&T executive noted announced that it has collected information from a million people who want to be contacted when the Apple iPhone begins shipping in June. The company isn't taking...
CTIA 2007 -- SanDisk, in conjunction with Verizon Wireless, has announced a 4GB microSDHC card. microSDHC is the new High Capacity (HC) version of microSD, more information on that is available below. Two Verizon Wireless V Cast handsets are already...
CTIA 2007 -- The Sony Ericsson Z750 is a new HSDPA handset targeted at North America. What that really means, though not technically announced, is it's destined for AT&T (Cingular). While the 3G connectivity is surely big news (it's Sony...
CTIA 2007 -- The Samsung UpStage is Sprint Nextel's latest effort in the expanding music phone niche. We first saw this handset at CES when it was called the Samsung Ultra Music F300, but since that was a GSM device...
Mar 26 2007 - 11:06 AM ET | CTIA
CTIA 2007 -- Jon Gales -- - The Helio Ocean by Pantech is the first major handset announcement out of the annual CTIA conference. Highlighted by a unique dual-slide form factor, the Ocean is the most unique Helio handset...
Sep 13 2006 - 06:21 PM ET | CTIA, MVNO
CTIA IT 2006 -- Amp'd Mobile has announced the inevitable introduction of advertisements in its video content. Herbal Essences will be the first advertiser. Specifics of the ads, such as length, were not announced. Along with the ads Amp'd is...
Sep 13 2006 - 06:01 PM ET | CTIA
CTIA IT 2006 --SanDisk has again upped the ante and doubled previous capacities of the miniSD card. The new 4GB card is called SDHC because it uses the FAT32 filesystem which is "High capacity". Unfortunately, today's mobile phones run with...
CTIA IT 2006 -- Cingular and HTC have announced the availability of the Cingular 3125 . The device is an OEM version of the HTC Star Trek. Few Windows Mobile handsets are flip phones, the Motorola MPx220 was the last...
Sep 12 2006 - 03:35 PM ET | CTIA
CTIA IT 2006 -- The biggest mobile content news out of the show so far is that News Corp has acquired a controlling in Jamba. The controversial company goes by the name Jamster in the US and is most well...
CTIA IT 2006 --Verizon Wireless has named Motorola as its network infrastructure provider for the upcoming EV-DO Rev A upgrade. Sprint has taken the lead with Rev A as of late so Verizon is stuck playing catch up. Compared to...
Sep 12 2006 - 02:50 PM ET | CTIA, Kyocera
CTIA IT 2006 --Kyocera has announced two "Ultra-affordable" (AKA entry-level) CDMA handsets, the K122 and the K132. Of the two, the K132 is the most likely to become available in the US. The K122 is a single-band handset aimed at...
CTIA IT 2006 -- Sprint has announced Power View, a made-for-mobile sports network exclusive to Sprint. The content will be made available to both Vision and Power Vision subscribers at no additional cost. At launch there are no commercial sponsors,...
CTIA IT 2006 -- Cingular has introduced the Nokia E62, a business targeted "BlackBerry Killer". We were first tipped off to this news all the way back in May, but it just now got legitimized. The E62 is an Americanized...
CTIA IT 2006 -- Verizon Wireless and Research In Motion jointly announced the BlackBerry 8703e this morning. The 8703e is essentially a CDMA version of the 8700c which has been shipping on Cingular since last year. Features of the BlackBerry...
Sep 11 2006 - 08:32 PM ET | CTIA
Tomorrow kicks off CTIA IT 2006, the smaller of two annual tradeshows put on by CTIA. The show moves to Los Angeles this year and runs through Thursday the 14th. While this show is primarily content focused, a few new...
Apr 10 2006 - 03:41 PM ET | CTIA, Smartphone
CTIA 2006 -- Mobile TV upstart Modeo was showing off a self-branded Windows Mobile handset that sports DVB-H (the mobile TV standard supported by Modeo). The device was designed by HTC and is "production ready". Physically it's about exactly the...
CTIA 2006 -- Motorola is showing off its Follow Me TV technology that allows users of Motorola set top boxes to shift around their recorded TV content. TV programs can be transfered to mobile handsets, such as the RAZR V3x....
Apr 06 2006 - 11:17 PM ET | CTIA, MVNO
CTIA 2006 -- GreatCall is a new MVNO that will cater its services primarily to older users that want simple voice service. Several carriers are targeting young people, but this is the first to make seniors its focus. At launch...
CTIA 2006 -- Cingular Wireless joined forces with MySpace to allow indie bands turn their music into ringtones. Besides having over 60 million members, MySpace also hosts homepages for hundreds of thousands of bands (both indie and signed). Specific...
CTIA 2006 -- A Sprint Nextel executive said during a discussion this morning that his company doesn't expect to add many new mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in the near future. Currently Sprint is the leading US carrier for...
CTIA 2006 -- Sprint Nextel announced this morning that the Sprint Music Store has now reached 2 million downloads. The service launched in late October and reached one million downloads in February. But Sprint hasn't announced how many of...
CTIA 2006 -- Verizon Wireless today announced a barrage of new content for its V Cast service. The content comes from several new partners and will be available to existing and new subscribers for no additional cost. The O.C...
Apr 05 2006 - 06:07 PM ET | CTIA, Samsung
CTIA 2006 -- In addition to slick new GSM handsets like the t719 and t509, Samsung announced a CDMA clamshell dubbed the a960. One unusual aspect of the a960 is the external face of the phone sports an off center...
Apr 05 2006 - 01:09 PM ET | CTIA, MVNO
CTIA 2006 -- Disney finally unveiled its plans for Disney Mobile, a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) that will market itself towards parents that want to keep better track of their kids. Unlike some other kid-targeted handsets that focus on...
CTIA 2006 -- Possibly the most interesting new handset shown off so far at CTIA is the Samsung t719. At first glance it looks like a normal clamshell, but when you open the handset you'll see a hybrid QWERTY keyboard...
Apr 05 2006 - 12:47 PM ET | CTIA, Samsung
CTIA 2006 -- Samsung introduced its answer to Motorola's slim SLVR by announcing the t509. At just 9.8mm thick, the t509 qualifies as the thinnest handset for the US market. It's not as thin as the EV-K100 in Korea (7.9mm),...
CTIA 2006 -- UTStarcom unveiled its new flagship low-end phone for North America, the CDM7025. The handset has been approved for launch by Sprint and should be OK'd by Verizon Wireless shortly. Features are light, but that's the idea:...
CTIA 2006 -- Verizon Wireless announced a partnership with Adobe that will see Flash technology built into many upcoming handsets. The carrier has plans to develop a whole Flash ecosystem that will, "allow developers to create new interactive mobile...
Apr 05 2006 - 09:49 AM ET | CTIA
CTIA 2006 -- Leading mobile speech-to-text software vendor VoiceSignal has announced VoiceMode 2.0 which it claims is the industry's first continuous dictation solution. VoiceMode 1.0 was revolutionary but pauses had to be put inbetween words for the software to...
CTIA 2006 --UTStarcom unveiled a mid-tier flip phone this morning dubbed the CDM7075. While it only features a VGA camera, the CDM7075 is being touted as an imaging phone that will change people's mind's about using a camera phone. Features...
CTIA 2006 -- Mobile ESPN is about to get a big boost, the company just announced an agreement with Sprint that will give the MVNO space in 500 bricks-and-mortar Sprint stores. Mobile ESPN uses the Sprint network, but until...
Apr 05 2006 - 08:00 AM ET | CTIA, Nokia
CTIA 2006 -- Nokia this morning unveiled the 6126, an Americanized version of the 6131 which was announced earlier this year at 3GSM World Congress. Despite the number of features in the 6126, it's a Series 40 handset and does...
Apr 05 2006 - 08:00 AM ET | CTIA, Nokia
CTIA 2006 -- As part of an introduction of three CDMA handsets, Nokia announced the 6175i this morning. As a CDMA clamshell style handet, the 6175i is a rare combo from GSM/candybar heavy Nokia. Features of the Nokia 6175i include:...
Apr 05 2006 - 08:00 AM ET | CTIA, Nokia
CTIA 2006 -- The Nokia 2865i is one of three new CDMA handsets Nokia announced this morning (see 6175i and 2365i for info on the others). The Series 40 handset falls in the mid-range, and includes the following features: Bluetooth...
Apr 05 2006 - 08:00 AM ET | CTIA, Nokia
CTIA 2006 -- Nokia revealed a trio of new CDMA handsets this morning, including the 2365i. The 2365i is fairly entry-level, but with some features that differentiate it from the budget phone crowd. It's also another clamshell style handset from...
Apr 05 2006 - 04:12 AM ET | CTIA
In case you hadn't already noticed by the surge of new content, we're busy covering CTIA Wireless 2006. Check out our special event coverage page for links to all the new content on one page, because at the pace we're...
Yahoo! teamed up with Research In Motion to bring several of Yahoo's mobile products to the millions of BlackBerry users. Those products specifically include Yahoo! Go for Mobile, Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger. BlackBerry owners can activate the...
CTIA 2006 -- Rocket Mobile's Song IDentity application has been upgraded to version 2.0. The app should be available to Verizon Wireless subscribers soon. Song IDentity allows customers to identify songs playing from any music source (such as a...
CTIA 2006 -- Verizon Wireless today announced that its V Cast music download service now totals over 1 million songs, up from about 500,000 a few months ago. According to the company that makes it the largest mobile music...
CTIA 2006 -- MediaFLO parent Qualcomm today announced that it has city-wide coverage of Las Vegas for its mobile TV network. Because of the live network around the city, live demos will be possible at CTIA. Devices will be...
Apr 04 2006 - 05:01 PM ET | CTIA, Motorola
CTIA 2006 -- Motorola announced a new iDEN handset this afternoon, the i580. iDEN is the network technology that Nextel currently uses, but will be switching from as it furthers integration with Sprint. The i580 is built to take...
CTIA 2006 -- Motorola continued its trend of releasing already existing handsets in new color schemes with the launch of three new colored RAZR V3i models. Features stay the same as the original, but the outside now comes in dark...
Apr 04 2006 - 04:22 PM ET | 3G, CTIA, Data
CTIA 2006 -- Current third-party Mobile TV leader MobiTV has surpassed the million subscriber milestone. The numbers weren't broken down by geographic area, so it's hard to tell how many of these subscribers are in the US (MobiTV's service...
Apr 04 2006 - 12:27 PM ET | CTIA, Motorola
CTIA 2006 -- Motorola has expanded its smash hit RAZR line with today's introduction of the RAZR V3m. It's a music savvy upgrade to the RAZR V3c, the CDMA version that is carried by Verizon Wireless. No word on if...
Apr 04 2006 - 12:23 PM ET | CTIA, Motorola
CTIA 2006 -- Motorola today introduced a new entry-level CDMA handset, the W315. The handset features a shape somewhat similar to the PEBL, albeit with an external antenna. Features of the new Motorola W315 include: 1.8" 128×160 65K CSTN screen...
CTIA 2006 -- Sony Ericsson has announced the Z525, a minor update to the popular Z520. The Z525's feature set mirrors that of the Z520 with the addition of push-to-talk. Sony Ericsson didn't note what type of PTT technology the...
CTIA 2006 -- Sony Ericsson debuted the W700i this morning as part of the first series of CTIA announcements. The W700i is Sony Ericsson's 8th Walkman branded handset and is very close in features to the W800i [read our review]....
