Posted by Marc Flores on Nov 6, 2008 1:13 am
Filed in Apple, GSM, HSDPA, Handsets, Services
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, right? Well, something like that. The iPhone 2.2 software update hasn’t even been released yet and the ever swift iPhone Dev Team has already jailbroken it. It’s like they were reading Apple’s minds and went up for the block before the shot got off. Or, [...]
Posted by Michael Bettiol on Nov 4, 2008 4:59 pm
Filed in Carriers - Canadian, News, Services
As we reported yesterday, Canada’s Fido has undergone a serious re-branding effort (with a fugly logo to boot) to position itself as a low-cost, no system access/hidden fees alternative to the big name carriers in the Canadian wireless marketplace. Offering plans for a little as $15 a month and most phones going for $0 on [...]
Posted by Michael Bettiol on Nov 3, 2008 4:24 am
Filed in News, Opinions, Rogers
Listen up, Rogers. We know that you have a business to run and that you need to please your shareholders, but it seems like your latest smartphone plans are a bit of step backwards. Sure, the prices are pretty attractive for the Canadian market, but Bells smartphone plans for Q4 are way better. What’s that? [...]
Posted by Marc Flores on Oct 29, 2008 2:00 pm
Filed in AT&T, Apple, GSM, HSDPA, Handsets, News, Services, Wi-Fi
So, AT&T, are you just messing with us again or what? Twice in the last year we discovered free WiFi services for the iPhone but you pulled it just before we could really get into it. What was the deal with that? Now, we’re getting text message notifications that read:
AT&T Free Msg: Your Apple iPhone [...]
In the past few days, the Internet has been set ablaze by news of the iPhone’s success, AT&T’s suffering profits because of it, and all the Apple gloaters doin’ they thang. Well, in other news, a particular executive over at Microsoft is taking a cue from Steve Ballmer and is acting all unimpressed after having [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on Oct 23, 2008 3:01 pm
Filed in AT&T, Apple, Rumors, Services
We heard back in June that the iPhone 3G would not be offered with an optional tethering plan but now a new report indicates that might only be half the story. It now appears that an iPhone 3G tethering plan is back in the mix and is being considered worked on at AT&T. What’s the [...]
Posted by Marc Flores on Oct 13, 2008 5:46 pm
Filed in AT&T, Apple, GSM, HSDPA, Handsets, News, Opinions
If you’re worried about little Timmy moving away and going to a big scary college with drinking, parties, and all kinds of tomfoolery, maybe he’ll just be too distracted with his new iPhone 3G to notice?. Abilene Christian University (probably a place where the aforementioned hedonism doesn’t take place) has just given their incoming Freshmen [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on Oct 11, 2008 11:38 am
Filed in Apple, Exclusives, Handsets, Retail, Rumors
Back in June we broke the news that Apple would be mixing things up a bit by moving away from its prior iPhone distribution model and getting a couple of nation-wide retailers in on the action. A little more than two months later, Best Buy indeed began carrying the iPhone 3G as we reported. The [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on Oct 8, 2008 9:41 am
Filed in BlackBerry, Handsets, RIM, Vodafone
Visitors to Vodafone’s Storm launch pages last night were greeted by some very interesting imagery. If seeing is believing, then apparently Vodafone just dropped the most jaw dropping handset imaginable - a touchscreen BlackBerry running Apple’s mobile OS X… And it’s already jailbroken! That’s right people, when Vodafone’s BlackBerry Storm pages first went up on [...]
Posted by Marc Flores on Oct 4, 2008 9:36 am
Filed in AT&T, Apple, Features, GSM, HSDPA, Handsets, News, Rumors, VoIP, Wi-Fi
Open up your iTunes and get this app now! Fring is a pre-release app free on iTunes which allows you to contact your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Twitter, Skype, and more. VoIP is available over WiFi and the availability of your friends are displayed in real time. The only thing is, and this is [...]
Sure, the bulk of BGR’s readership might come from elsewhere but that does that mean we can’t talk about some good news for our friends across the (other) pond in Russia from time to time? Beginning today you can brave the chilly weather and head to your local, or not-so-local, mobile retailer or electronics store [...]
Posted by Marc Flores on Sep 30, 2008 3:00 pm
Filed in AT&T, Apple, Exclusives, GSM, HSDPA, Handsets, News
One of the biggest gripes about the iPhone is its lack of Flash support (and believe us, that is a huge deal). Now, after waiting so friggin’ long, Adobe has officially confirmed that Flash is pretty much ready to go. This can open up the floodgates to new applications and developers who were hoping to [...]
You definitely have to take this one at face value, but there’s an internal document floating around inside AT&T pitting the iPhone 3G against the upcoming BlackBerry Storm. We had our doubts about this document at first, but we received it from two independent sources now, so it’s legit! Here’s some of the smack-talking AT&T [...]