Feb 29 2004 - 11:22 PM ET | Sprint Nextel
Sprint today announced the combination of wired and wireless stocks. Interestingly enough, one of the cited reasons for the change was to make it easier for a takeover. The PCS common stock will be eliminated and each share of PCS...
Feb 29 2004 - 11:15 PM ET | In The News
Qwest announced that it will start up nationwide cellular service Monday. While the service will be powered by the Sprint PCS wireless network, it's expected to increase already fierce competition in the US wireless sector. While the service will work...
Feb 29 2004 - 08:26 PM ET | Smartphone
Christian Lindholm, Director of Multimedia Applications at Nokia Ventures Organization, posted an article on his website that is full of simple tips to improve your Series 60 experience. Some of the included tips: One touch dialling Easy digit entry in...
According to AT&T Wirless customer Jonathan Hudson, AT&T Wireless is making him give up his Sony Ericsson T68i for a Sony Ericsson T226. Getting a new phone isn't normally a bad deal, but the T226 doesn't have the same features...
Feb 27 2004 - 11:46 AM ET | SMS
During the month of January, China's mobile phone users sent an impressive 15.6 billion text messages. That's a rise of 91 percent over the same period last year....
Feb 27 2004 - 11:30 AM ET | Bluetooth
Mac OS X based Bluetooth utility Salling Clicker has been updated for Symbian powered smartphones. The application allows you to control Mac OS X with your Bluetooth enabled phone. We interviewed the creator of this application, Jonas Salling, back in...
Feb 27 2004 - 09:46 AM ET | DoCoMo
Dow Jones says NTT DoCoMo is still weighing its options on what to do with Cingular. DoCoMo has a large stake of AT&T Wireless, and may become a holder in the post AT&T Wireless Cingular....
The FCC today released a status update for number portability complaints [download, PDF]. Overall complaints are fairly low, but AT&T Wireless has a large lead: AT&T Wireless - 2787 Sprint PCS - 1445 Verizon Wireless - 933 T-Mobile - 854...
Feb 26 2004 - 05:29 PM ET | In The News
PCWorld's Peter Sayer has a piece on a new memory card from SanDisk / Motorola that makes the miniSD seem big. "At around.5 inches by.4 inches in size, the new cards are smaller than the current champion of miniaturization, the...
Chalk this up in the history books--US cellular customers got something before Japanese cellular customers. Back in October 2003, we mentioned that Japan may be getting number portability. According to Retuers, it looks like a go. It could happen as...
Feb 26 2004 - 05:15 PM ET | Push-to-talk
Push-to-talk (PTT) is a lucrative service for the few US carriers that offer it. Nextel had a monopoly until Verizon Wireless launched PTT service in August 2003. SprintPCS launched their service in November 2003 while ALLTEL waited until January 2004....
Feb 25 2004 - 07:46 PM ET | Cingular
Cingular announced that it is carrying Research In Motion's BlackBerry 7280 and 6280 mobile devices. We mentioned the BlackBerry 7280 in October 2003. It sports a color display, which sets it apart from most other RIM devices. The 6280 is...
Feb 25 2004 - 12:01 PM ET | Smartphone
Symbian this week announced the availability of version 8.0 of its mobile phone operating system of the same name. The announcement was made at 3GSM, along with the introduction of a few Symbian devices: Panasonic X700 and Communicator 9500. Improvement...
Feb 25 2004 - 11:53 AM ET | In The News
Sendo launched two phones at 3GSM World Conference: the S600 and M570 MMS. Both phones are pretty advanced and deserve a closer look: S600 65K color display VGA camera with 5x zoom Enhanced MMS, "only five key presses needed to...
Seeing world travel as a big draw to GSM carriers, Verizon Wireless CEO Denny Strigl announced that his company would launch a dual network phone later this year. Verizon Wireless uses the CDMA standard....
Feb 24 2004 - 08:27 PM ET | Unique
The Constra Costa Times has a piece on the newest way for students to cheat--camera phones. We briefly mentioned this in December 2003 "Jan Burten, a math teacher at College Park High in Pleasant Hill, was shocked when a student...
Feb 24 2004 - 03:58 PM ET | 3G
All the wireless big wigs are in Cannes for the 3GSM World Congress. The recent rash of announcements (e.g. Motorola MPx, Nokia Communicator 9500) are all from this conference. While MobileTracker is not attending this year, we present you more...
Feb 24 2004 - 09:02 AM ET | In The News
Openwaved teamed up with Microsoft to build software that allows users access to their Hotmail and MSN Messenger accounts while on the go. It's not uncommon for AOL's AIM program to be installed on mobile phones, so this is a...
