March 2007 articles

LG VX9400 TV phone launches on Verizon Wireless

Mar 28 2007 - 12:24 PM ET | Verizon Wireless
CTIA 2007 -- Verizon Wireless has launched its second MediaFLO mobile TV handset, the LG VX9400. Mobile TV has been a major talking point at the CTIA conference and LG has been showing off the VX9400 proudly. Sporting a unique...

Samsung UbiCell CDMA Base Station for Sprint

Mar 28 2007 - 11:33 AM ET | CTIA, Samsung, Sprint Nextel, Unique
CTIA 2007 -- One of the more interesting new devices at CTIA is the Samsung UbiCell base station. A small white box that looks like a WiFi access point, the UbiCell is actually mini cell tower designed for CDMA 1x...

iPhone attracts 1 million interested customers

Mar 28 2007 - 10:51 AM ET | AT&T, Apple, CTIA
CTIA 2007 -- During a keynote speech at CTIA, an AT&T executive noted announced that it has collected information from a million people who want to be contacted when the Apple iPhone begins shipping in June. The company isn't taking...

SanDisk announces 4GB microSDHC card

Mar 28 2007 - 10:41 AM ET | CTIA, Verizon Wireless
CTIA 2007 -- SanDisk, in conjunction with Verizon Wireless, has announced a 4GB microSDHC card. microSDHC is the new High Capacity (HC) version of microSD, more information on that is available below. Two Verizon Wireless V Cast handsets are already...

LG announces Google partnership

Mar 28 2007 - 08:48 AM ET | LG Mobile Phone
CTIA 2007 -- LG has become the latest mobile phone manufacturer to partner with Google. The handset maker will begin to introduce new models that come pre-installed with Google applications such as Google Maps, Gmail and Blogger. There will also...

Sony Ericsson Z750 HSDPA handset

Mar 26 2007 - 05:55 PM ET | 3G, AT&T, CTIA, Cingular, Sony Ericsson
CTIA 2007 -- The Sony Ericsson Z750 is a new HSDPA handset targeted at North America. What that really means, though not technically announced, is it's destined for AT&T (Cingular). While the 3G connectivity is surely big news (it's Sony...

Sony Ericsson W580i announced

Mar 26 2007 - 04:50 PM ET | Sony Ericsson
CTIA 2007 -- The Sony Ericsson W580i is the latest Walkman music phone for the North American market. With yet another music announcement, CTIA's first day has a very familiar feel. The W580i builds on the Walkman platform which...

AT&T to give away unlimited Napster To Go

Mar 26 2007 - 03:33 PM ET | AT&T, Cingular
CTIA 2007 -- The music phone battle is heating up, AT&T (formally Cingular) has announced it will be giving away 1 year of unlimited Napster To Go service ($180 value) with the purchase of a SYNC or BlackJack. The subscription...

Sprint lowers price of music downloads to 99 cents

Mar 26 2007 - 03:20 PM ET | Sprint Nextel
CTIA 2007 -- Sprint Nextel has taken a page out of Apple's playbook and lowered the price of music downloads on its wireless Sprint Music Store to 99 cents (matching the price set by digital music leader Apple). Downloads were...

Samsung UpStage announced by Sprint

Mar 26 2007 - 03:06 PM ET | CTIA, Samsung, Sprint Nextel
CTIA 2007 -- The Samsung UpStage is Sprint Nextel's latest effort in the expanding music phone niche. We first saw this handset at CES when it was called the Samsung Ultra Music F300, but since that was a GSM device...

Helio Ocean

Mar 26 2007 - 11:06 AM ET | CTIA
CTIA 2007 -- Jon Gales -- - The Helio Ocean by Pantech is the first major handset announcement out of the annual CTIA conference. Highlighted by a unique dual-slide form factor, the Ocean is the most unique Helio handset...

Nokia N95 begins shipping

Mar 22 2007 - 03:08 AM ET | Nokia
Nokia has started shipping the N95. As Nokia has reminded its customers many times, the N-Series isn't made up of phones, it's made up of "multimedia computers". One look at the N95's impressive feature least with re-affirm the title. The...

Nokia 5300 Xpress Music on T-Mobile

Mar 22 2007 - 02:47 AM ET | Nokia, T-Mobile
T-Mobile USA has launched the Nokia 5300 Xpress Music. The 5300 is one of Nokia's latest music devices and is available exclusively from T-Mobile. Unlike Nokia's popular N-Series devices, the 5300 Xpress is designed for the mass market. It may...

Motorola RIZR Z3 launches on T-Mobile

Mar 22 2007 - 02:37 AM ET | T-Mobile
T-Mobile USA has launched the Motorola RIZR Z3. The slide-style handset meshes the styling that Motorola created with the RAZR with more up-to-date features. The RIZR Z3 sports: 2-megapixel camera Quadband GSM Stereo Bluetooth Speakerphone microSD card slot (128MB included)...

Motorola cuts expectations, re-organizes

Mar 22 2007 - 02:28 AM ET | Motorola
Motorola has revised its first quarter guidance and done some re-organization of C-level executives. Lower than anticipated sales of mobile handsets have sharply affected profits and there will be a net loss for Q1. Shares of Motorola [MOT] dove 5%...

Palm takeover rumors

Mar 22 2007 - 12:55 AM ET | Motorola, Palm
Rumors of a Palm takeover have gained ground, though insiders don't believe that a deal is yet imminent. Acquisition rumors aren't exactly a new thing for the company, but the volume has picked up in recent weeks. The list of...