This week federal regulators approved their new plan to create an alert system that can be sent to cell phones all over the nation in the form of text messages. Text messages have become more popular among cell phone users – especially with the younger generation. The CTIA – wireless industry’s trade association – has estimated that over 48 billion text messages are sent out each month.
Sprint decided to speed things up for one of its smartphones this week by downloading the ‘Rev. A’ new software that will boost its power at about 1.4 megabits per second. Sprint’s goal is to allow users to surf the mobile Web as fast as they would with a DSL desktop.
Orange – the French mobile phone service – began selling unlocked iPhones on November 29th and since than they have sold 30,000. In five days they have made more than T-Mobile has in a month. Customers found it easier to purchase the phone with the ‘Orange for iPhone’ contract – which gives them unlimited amount of time on the internet and the brand new Visual Voicemail service.
This week Google has released the new programming tools for the Android mobile phone alliance for download. This will give developers the ability to start writing personal software for their phones.
The software development kit (SDK), an open-source package available for download for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X machines, shows that Java is indeed the programming language for software running on the Linux-based phones. Accompanying the SDK is a raft of details that wasn’t available when Google and its partners announced the Open Handset Alliance a week ago.
The Pantech Duo is the newest smartphone to hit the market. It is much like the Helio Ocean – but like most phones that evolve – it is smaller and has more features. One of the great features that consumers love about the Duo is the two keypads built into it. The phone flips out to reveal the QWERTY keypad and up to reveal the phone pad. The keypad makes surfing the web simple – especially since you don’t have to worry about a stylus.
Smart phones are the newest and latest in cellphone technology that everyone is dying to get their hands on. They can access the internet with ease, take amazing pictures, and you have an easy to use keypad for texting and e-mailing. The newest addition to the smart phone line-up is the Tilt, which is bound to blow the Treo and Blackberry out of the water.
On TV the iPhone looks like an amazing phone. In person it looks like a phone that is better than most. But when you crack everything and figure how it all looks, somehow it ceases to become quite as amazing as it started out. That’s what one whiz kid was able to accomplish.
The new iPhone is coming out and everyone is wanting to get their hands on it. And who wouldn’t? There are so many features on this new phone. It’s an ipod, the internet, and a phone all rolled into one. You can forget about spending hundreds of dollars on every little gadget. And AT&T has decided to try it out.
Apple’s brand new cell phone, music player and digital organizer set the tech world talking with great enthusiasm after the iPod maker agreed to joint custody of the “iPhone” trademark with Cisco Systems. Apple chief executive Steve Jobs sent waves through the telecoms industry last month when he unveiled the long-awaited iPhone. In the process he short-circuited trademark talks with Cisco, a US computer network giant.