Aug 31 2004 - 04:44 PM ET | Data
Opera today announced a version of its popular mobile browser for the Windows Mobile OS. Opera's Small-Screen Rendering technology reformats web pages for mobile devices to eliminate horizontal scrolling. A shipping date was not announced, but the company said the...
Aug 31 2004 - 04:06 PM ET | Sprint Nextel
Sprint PCS today announced tha several of the ringtones the company sells through its PCS Vision service have gone gold (sales over 500,000) or platinum (sales over 1,000,000). Here's the list: * Rings from Beyoncé Knowles' Dangerously in Love CD...
Circuit City stores today announced that the company will halt sales of T-Mobile service while at the same time ramp up Verizon Wireless sales. A "store in a store" concept will be used with Verizon Wireless actually responsible for employees,...
Aug 30 2004 - 01:25 PM ET | Cingular, Nextel
Both Cingular Wireless and Nextel today announced donations to the community. Cingular is giving $20,000 to the Red Cross to help victims of Hurrican Charley while Nextel will be giving a portion of sales from its NASCAR-themed accessories to Victory...
Aug 30 2004 - 01:08 AM ET | Cingular, Nokia
Cingular Wireless launched the Nokia N-Gage QD this past weekend. MobileTracker last week published a review of the device. Cingular's online price is $149.99, but a mail-in rebate brings the final price down to $99. T-Mobile USA should add the...
T-Mobile has not officially announced plans to carry the Motorola A630, but it has been a rumor since the phone was announced in June. Watchful eyes have found that an image on the front page of T-Mobile's website shows Catherine...
Pictures of the upcoming Treo 650 (the device that was rumored to be called the Treo 610 or Treo ACE) have surfaced. This smartphone has been rumored since shortly after the Treo 600 shipped. According to the poster that provided...
Aug 26 2004 - 01:09 PM ET | Siemens
Siemens today issued a warning to owners of Siemens 65 product series mobile phones--a bug in the device's software may cause damage to the owners hearing. bq. Because of the software error, if a telephone call is automatically cut off...
Aug 26 2004 - 12:56 PM ET | Nokia, Rumor
Rumors are currently making the rounds that Nokia will launch a slimmed down Communicator 9500 dubbed the Nokia Communicator 9300. There may be some truth to the rumor as it notes the phone will be launched on September 8th in...
Aug 26 2004 - 12:49 PM ET | T-Mobile
T-Mobile USA retail stores finally stock the Treo 600. T-Mobile has been selling the device online for quite some time (towards the end of February). Expect to pay $499.99 with a new activation....
You can purchase the Nokia N-Gage QD from Amazon.com for $199.99. Amazon is currently (last updated 10/11/04) giving $250 in rebates making the final price -$50.01. That's right, you get money back. By Jon Gales -- Back when the...
Aug 25 2004 - 12:46 AM ET | Samsung
Matt Maier posted a review of the Samsung SCH-A790 over at GigaOm. The big draw for the A790 is that it's both a CDMA and GSM phone. While it is only being sold by Verizon Wireless, it has the ability...
T-Mobile USA as expected today launched the HP iPAQ h6315. The Pocket PC device sports WiFi, GPRS and Bluetooth. You can purchase it starting today from the T-Mobile website for $499. Orders should ship tomorrow which is ahead of most...
Aug 24 2004 - 08:04 PM ET | Nokia
Nokia and software maker Pointsec today announced new software that allows enterprise customers to encrypt key data on Nokia Series 60 and Nokia Series 80 mobile phones. The software will first be available for Nokia's 9500 Communicator sometime in the...
AT&T Wireless and Cingular have updated their systems to allow picture messages work across the two carriers. While SMS messages typically have no problem going across carriers, MMS has been plagued with carrier interoperability. This move was made in part...
Earlier this month MobileTracker reported that Cingular was recalling some Motorola V600 handsets. A week before the recall was announced, Cingular dropped the V600 from its line up. The plot thickens when today RCR Wireless News says they asked Motorola...
Aug 23 2004 - 02:17 PM ET | Smartphone
While the official release isn't rumored until Thursday, CompUSA stores are already selling the HP iPAQ h6315 (reported to us by many readers and confirmed by Engadget). The device has Bluetooth, WiFi and GPRS which makes it one of the...
Aug 23 2004 - 01:35 PM ET | In The News
Texas Instruments has announced a new Digital Signal Processor (DSP) that encodes and decodes H.264 video (also known as MPEG-4 Part 10) in real time. While most consumers do not yet no what H.264 is, Apple Computer is trying to...
Aug 23 2004 - 01:16 PM ET | Sharp, T-Mobile
T-Mobile USA has launched the Sharp TM150, the first Sharp phone for the US. It's an exclusive to T-Mobile (because it has no GSM 850). The features are pretty advanced: * 1 megapixel camera, video, zoom * SD/MMC card slot...
Aug 22 2004 - 10:27 PM ET | DoCoMo, Motorola
A Dow Jones News Wire report [subscription] reveals details of a NTT DoCoMo plan to have Motorola begin making 3G handsets. Nothing has been settled yet, but a deal could be announced as soon as the end of the month....
Aug 22 2004 - 09:48 PM ET | Ringtones
A new TV show called Orange Playlist will count down top ringtones for the British TV market. Ringtone charts have been around in Britain since June. The show will launch next month on ITV1. Orange Playlist is a product of...
Aug 20 2004 - 08:22 PM ET | In The News
A new study by J.D. Power and Associates found that the worst cell phone reception in the US is centered in the Northeast. Over 21,000 wireless users were surveyed for the report. Interestingly enough, geographic location played a big role...
Aug 20 2004 - 08:14 PM ET | Cingular
Cingular Wireless today announced that the company now boasts over 25 million subscribers. John Brooks III of Medfield, MA was officially named the 25 millionth customer which got him a free Motorola V220. Cingular Wireless stores in the Boston area...
Besides launching the Motorola V220, Cingular also started selling the Sony Ericsson T237. This phone was added to replace the Sony Ericsson T226. It's an entry level handset with a 4,096 color screen and not a whole lot else. The...
Cingular Wireless has launched the Motorola V220. This launch confirms our report, coming out even a little sooner than we had thought. The phone is very similar to the Motorola V400, but is smaller and lighter. With a new activation,...
Siemens yesterday announced the Siemens CX70, the first push-to-talk enabled handset from the company. The push-to-talk feature (being called Push and Talk or PaT by Siemens) works over GPRS. Here are some other features of the CX70: * 132 x...
Aug 18 2004 - 08:43 PM ET | In The News
A Dow Jones Wire [Subscription only] story notes that while most handset makers see a slight rise in prices for handsets, market share leader Nokia will continue to make cuts that will force prices down across the board. Prices on...
Aug 18 2004 - 12:55 PM ET | Motorola, Nextel
Motorola today announced the Pininfarina Limited Edition Motorola i833. Pininfarina is the design group behind Ferrari and Maserati. The new i833 is based off the popular i830, a tiny iDEN that Nextel is marketing hard. Features include: * 65,000 color...
Aug 18 2004 - 12:43 PM ET | Camera
Lumileds today announced the Luxeon Flash, a new type of LED that should make flashes in camera phones brighter. According to the company, the Luxeon Flash is up to 12 times brighter than the flashes currently on camera phones (a...
T-Mobile USA today launched the Motorola C650, an entry level candy bar style camera phone. It has a similar feature set to the Motorola V300, but in a different form factor. Here are some features: * VGA camera (4x digital...
Aug 16 2004 - 12:32 PM ET | Sprint Nextel
Research in Motion today announced that Sprint will be carrying BlackBerry devices by the end of the year. Sprint is the last of the six major US carriers to carry the popular email device. RIM recently announced that it expects...
LG and AT&T Wireless today announced the launch of the LG G4020, an entry level priced handset with a fair amount of features. You can purchase the handset starting today at AT&T Wireless corporate stores. Here are some specs: *...
Sprint PCS has finally launched the Nokia 3205, a colorphone phone that lets you make your own cover. It's the CDMA version of the Nokia 3200. Here are some specs: * VGA camera * SMS * FM radio * 128x128...
Sprint PCS today announced the launch of the Samsung MM-A700, the first CDMA phone for America to offer video streaming. Video will be available from sources like CNN, NBC, FOX Sports, The Weather Channel, E! Entertainment, mFlix, Twentieth Century Fox,...
Cingular's $41 billion takeover of AT&T Wireless should go down within 2 months, much faster than originally projected. According to the report from TheDeal.com we can expect the FCC to give approval in October. bq. Sources said Cingular has been...
Aug 13 2004 - 03:26 PM ET | Nokia, Security
Sophos, an anti-virus maker, has warned of a trojan horse for Nokia Series 60 smartphones. The virus is dubbed Mosqit-A and appears to be a hacked version of the Mosquitos game. Instead of simply being a hacked game, the application...
Aug 12 2004 - 06:14 PM ET | Site News
News will be slow on MobileTracker in the next few days as hurricane Charley looms towards the Florida coast. We're based in Tampa, FL which is currently bracing for a direct hit from the category 2 storm. There is a...
As expected, Verizon Wireless has launched the Motorola V710. The device has been selling at some Radio Shack stores since late last month, but today marks the first day that the phone is available from Verizon Wireless corporate. This phone...
Research in Motion, makers of the popular BlackBerry product line, said Wednesday that it hopes to double its subscriber base by the end of 2004. The company says it expects to have 2 million customers by the end of the...
Aug 12 2004 - 01:49 AM ET | T-Mobile
According to Deutsche Telekom's second quarter 2004 earnings statement, T-Mobile USA added 1.091 million subscribers during the second quarter. This is slightly under the 1.2 million additions in Q1 2004, but is enough to bring T-Mobile above 15 million total...
Aug 10 2004 - 04:43 PM ET | In The News
Apple Computer has updated its iSync software to version 1.5. The new version adds support for new mobile phones from Sony Ericsson, Motorola and Sendo. No list of newly supported handsets was announced, but MobileTracker has obtained a full list...
Aug 09 2004 - 04:22 PM ET | Nokia
Nokia today announced a multi-year agreement with Loudeye to develop a wireless music platform. Motorola announced a similar deal with Apple last month, but industry analysts believe that data hungry carriers will not let a mobile version of Apple's iTunes...
Aug 08 2004 - 09:27 PM ET | Samsung
Samsung today announced the world's first a-Si (Amorphous Silicon) 2.6-inch TFT-LCD with VGA (640 x 480 at 300ppi) image quality. This is a significant step for mobile display where QVGA (240 x 320) is still cutting edge. Besides the resolution...
In this week's Best Buy Sunday insert there is a deal to get a Motorola V400 for $129.99 and a Motorola V600 for $249.99. There is a $50 rebate on the V400, and a $250 rebate on the V600. However,...
Cingular today launched the Nokia 6010 and Siemens C61. The two entry level GSM handsets are available now online. The Nokia 6010 is free (online only price) while the Siemens C61 is $29.99. Here's a little about both phones: Nokia...
Cingular Wireless is recalling Motorola V600s, replacing them with a loaner Motorola V400 (nearly the same phone but without Bluetooth) for an unknown period of time. MobileTracker noted late last month that Cingular halted sales of the V600. Here are...
Aug 06 2004 - 06:07 PM ET | Camera
Here is a report of concert attendees given the choice of giving up their camera phones or not entering the concert venue. The RIAA sponsored event took place in Boston during the security madness that was the DNC. It is...
Aug 06 2004 - 04:47 PM ET | AT&T Wireless
AT&T Wireless may have violated its brand licensing contract with AT&T according to an SEC filing made by AT&T. The filing claims that AT&T Wireless takes too long responding to customer service inquiries, a metric that was included in the...
AT&T Wireless stores have today started selling the Nokia 6620, an EDGE enabled version of the popular Nokia 6600. The phone is not yet stocked on AT&T Wireless' online store. This confirms our report on the Nokia 6620 earlier this...
In the same day that Cingular and Yahoo! couple off, Verizon Wireless and MSN today announced a partnership that covers email and instant message. MSN Mobile is today available to Verizon Wireless customers with select Get It Now phones. MSN...
Aug 05 2004 - 01:28 PM ET | Cingular
Cingular Wireless and Yahoo! have joined forces to bring Yahoo! content and services to Cingular Wireless customers. Previously the two only shared very basic SMS to IM service. Here's what Cingular customers get: * Yahoo! Mail - Free email service,...
Aug 05 2004 - 01:20 PM ET | In The News
A new study on moible phone usage patterns was released today--78% of wireless minutes remain unused. Also revealed in the study was that the average wireless household pays $17.75 more than the cost of their monthly rate plan (taxes, fees...
Aug 05 2004 - 01:00 AM ET | In The News
The FCC has taken steps [PDF] to prevent mobile spam. The FCC first hinted at this back in March. bq. The Commission adopted a general prohibition on sending commercial messages to any address referencing an Internet domain associated with wireless...
Aug 05 2004 - 12:49 AM ET | Nokia
The Wall Street Journal reports [subscription required] in today's issue that Nokia is facing supply problems with the Nokia 6230. We reported earlier this week that Cingular is now advertising but not yet stocking the Nokia 6230--now we know why....
Aug 04 2004 - 03:45 AM ET | Danger, T-Mobile
T-Mobile has officially announced the Sidekick II (Yes, they use roman numerals and the full technical name is the Sidekick II PV-100). The details confirm what we said in our rumor wrap up earlier this week: it's at the X...
Aug 03 2004 - 02:51 PM ET | Cingular
Via a press release that reads like it came from the bizarro world, Cingular Wireless announced a service that can get you out of a bad date: bq. This new service allows you to schedule a "rescue" phone call at...
Aug 02 2004 - 09:35 AM ET | Siemens
Siemens today announced the SK65, a uniquely designed phone aimed at the high-end market. The phone hides a QWERTY keyboard that appears when the top of the phone slides 90 degrees. The company is calling it x2type or, "Cross to...
We've mentioned a ton of new phones for the US lately, so many that its hard to keep track of what's coming when. Below we have an exclusive look at all the dirt on the phones you ask about. If...
Aug 01 2004 - 08:48 PM ET | Motorola
Due to the number of requests for information about the new Motorola RAZR V3 and what carriers it will be on, here is a quick answer: only GSM carriers. For those unaware of the technology behind cell phones, there are...
