Verizon Wireless' music download service is now scheduled to begin in the first quarter of next year according to a report in Forbes. The original goal was to get the service up and running before the holiday season. Analysts believe...
T-Mobile USA has launched the Samsung e635, validating rumors that started last month. The e635 is a slider that is similar in design to the E800. Besides being a slider, the handset is super-light at just 2.78 ounces. Features of...
Aug 31 2005 - 01:39 PM ET | In The News
Victims of hurricane Katrina have found communication tough--both wired and wireless phones are down for the most part, especially for long distance. Text messages have been the saving grace because they work with less signal than voice and the recipient...
Smartphone Thoughts thinks that the Motorola Q, the super-thin Windows mobile handset that was announced last month, will ship on Verizon Wireless in the first quarter of 2006. While the handset was announced, details like if it would be GSM...
Aug 31 2005 - 01:20 PM ET | Data, T-Mobile
T-Mobile USA will finally launch its EDGE data service next month, according to an updated passage on their about page: By the end of September 2005, T-Mobile plans to launch EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution) service across its...
Aug 31 2005 - 01:00 PM ET | Motorola
The i870 has been launched. The Motorola i870, an upcoming high-end iDEN handset, showed up recently on the FCC website. The feature packed handset looks to be a replacement for the i860. Features of the i870 include: Music player (with...
Cingular will carry the upcoming iTunes phone from Motorola according to a report [sub req] in the Wall Street Journal this morning. The reliable paper noted that Apple has, "Reached an agreement with Cingular Wireless to offer a Motorola Inc....
Verizon Wireless and LG tonight announced the LG VX5200, a mid-range flip phone. Features of the VX5200 include: VGA camera Speakerphone with voice dialing Internal 65K Color STN, 128 × 160 Pixels External 65K Color STN, 96 × 64 Pixels...
Aug 29 2005 - 01:27 PM ET |
A mobile phone thief was spotted via pictures he took with the phone he stole, according to an interesting article at Wired News. The phone, a Sanyo 5500 with Sprint service, automatically stores photos online when they are emailed. The...
Verizon Wireless has expanded BroadbandAccess, its name for high-speed EV-DO service. Besides the new market, the price for existing Verizon Wireless voice customers has been cut 25% to $59.99 for unlimited monthly use. Rumors of the price drop leaked out...
Aug 29 2005 - 01:38 AM ET | Samsung
Samsung today announced some new high-capacity speedy MMC cards that should hit the market next month. Besides coming in sizes of up to 2GB, the cards are able to transfer at an impressive 52Mbytes/sec which is a 20x improvement. 1GB...
Aug 28 2005 - 02:52 PM ET | Samsung
The Samsung SGH-i300 has been approved by the FCC, according to documents posted on the FCC's website. The i300 is best known for having a 3GB hard drive onboard. The music phone sports a lot more than a hard drive...
Aug 28 2005 - 02:20 PM ET | Site News
We have activated comments for all new stories on MobileTracker. Thanks to better spam comment management in the latest version of MovableType (which is used to power this site) we won't have to worry about monitoring the site 24/7 for...
US wireless carriers are scrambling to brace their networks as superstorm hurricane Katrina approahces. Rated a 5 out of 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, Katrina packs winds of 175MPH. No matter where it hits, the storm is expected to cause...
UPDATE: It's true. BroadbandAccess is in new markets too. Reuters is reporting that Verizon Wireless will lower the cost of its unlimited EV-DO 3G data service. The package currently costs $79.99 per month. Sprint Nextel recently launched similar service is...
Aug 26 2005 - 03:08 PM ET | In The News
US wireless carriers are now bidding on being able to provide coverage inside of New York City's subway system. The 10-year contract which covers 277 of the city's 468 stations is expected to bring in $50-100 million. Bids by carriers...
