Chinagrabber, one of the more interesting online retailers of cellphones and MP4 players have the WebXpress phone now on sale. It has a 3-inch touchscreen and works on GSM networks, including T-Mobile and even the long-gone Cingular network. No GPS and WiFi, though but for $149.99, you can enjoy the touchscreen goodness and form factor [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Similar to many other China-made PMPs, the RK186-1 from Rush Electronic takes inspiration from existing products. This time, however, it wasn’t a device that was deemed worthy of flattery-by-imitation. Your eyes don’t deceive you; the buttons of the front panel are placed and colored to replicate exactly the now-defunct Cingular logo. That aside, there isn’t much [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 18, 2007
In a bit of good news for people who want an iPhone but refuse to be tethered to AT&T for the two-year lockdown required, the nice people at the iPhone Dev Wiki have successfully been able to unlock the device using an app called iASign. Partially, that is. Now you can use any existing Cingular [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 13, 2007
I’ve been counting on this site for an unlocked version of the iPhone, which I can then use in any part of the world using GSM 850/900/1800/1900 bands. But it looks like Apple found out about their little enterprise and had the site shut down, and I mean the entire site, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 1, 2007
The iPhone will definitely be in short supply immediately after it is launched some time this June. But the shortage will not be due to delayed parts, and it is not because there are too many advanced orders either. According to Tanner Godarzi of iPhone matters, the iPhone shortage will be due to AT&T. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 28, 2007
There are no official figures yet, but Robbie Bach, Microsoft’s president of the Entertainment and Devices Division, is pretty sure they have sold over a million Zunes and it’s not even the end of June, their original target for selling a million players. The news comes well ahead of the iPhone debut. Robbie [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 21, 2007
Like Moses, Cingular will henceforth be striken from every wall and papyrii of Egypt… Well, not yet anyway, but just as Apple is making use of every day it has left before the end of June, AT&T is busy readying the house for iPhone’s coming. Cingular had 1,800 shops to rebrand into AT&T shops. Cingular [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 11, 2007
AT&T Cingular may get the entire Apple iPhone pie in the United States, it is rival T-Mobile who is the leading candidate to garner the exclusive European rights. The iPhone is a GSM device. Potentially it has a larger market reach in Europe, which is predominantly GSM. CDMA is the predominant airlink in the United [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 7, 2007
Don’t worry, these are only rumored minor changes to the iPhone’s interface, specifically in the navigation bar at the bottom of the screen. The first one is the double-arrow icon that wasn’t there before when the iPhone was introduced in January. The second one is the car icon on the bottom right. MacNN believes the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 12, 2007
A recent survey of 500 teens found that 25 percent of them were willing to pay $500 for Apple’s iPhone. Other findings include that 78 percent of high school students own a portable media player; 82 percent of this group exclusively own an iPod. In confirmation of the recording industry’s intensifying fears, the survey found that [...]
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