If you’re tired of having an iPhone with a screwed up battery, just wait until the 28th of November when Power Slider becomes available. According to them, this is the first device that can offer the following 4 features for iPhone 3G:

- protection
- expanded battery life
- synchronization
- charging functions

The Power Slider is suppose to double the iPhone’s battery life, and you won’t need to remove the Apple phone from its case in order to use it. Other features include a battery status indicator via 5 LED lights, and a USB interface for the recharging sessions.

Battery life details when using Power Slider:

- Standby time: up to 330 hours
- Audio playback: up to 26 hours
- Talk time: up to 5 hours on 3G network and 10 hours on 2G network
- Video playback: up to 7 hours
- Internet use: up to 5 hours on 3G network and 6 hours on Wi-Fi

Power Slider

The Toshiba G450 is exactly what I would buy today. It’s an all in one device. It works as a modem, phone, MP3 player and USB memory stick. Plug it into your computer and enjoy the element you were looking for.

Toshiba had me at modem and phone. That’s what I need for my mobility. The stick is also good and the MP3 player could also be very useful. It has a battery which will get you extra life when you most need it. The battery gets juice every time you connect it to your computer. You need a SIM card from your favorite carrier to make this stick work. The G450 is bigger than your regular stick. It has a screen and two rotary keypads. You can make calls and sens SMS messages.

The stick offers only 160MB of storage space so you won’t get that many songs on this MP3 player. The price you ask? Only £140 in the UK but I say it’s worth it.

via Toshiba

If you are a T-Mobile customer waiting for some 3G support from your carrier, then keep waiting. Chances are that T-Mobile’s 3G is coming to your city soon as the 3G network is expanding as we speak. Sacramento, California has just gotten 3G this week. Next week is Memphis, Tennesse and Tampa, Florida to get some. Then in November we’ll see Washington D.C. get 3G support. T-Mobile is getting its network ready for 3G phones, including their latest hit, the G1.

In an effort to congratulate freshmen at Abiliene Christian University, the board decided to offer all freshmen a free Apple product of their choice: iPhone or iPod Touch. According to the university, both devices will have pre-installed applications that are suppose to help students in academic activities and studying, but I have to wonder if that is really true.

Of course that students are pleased with receiving a free iPhone, and according to freshmen named Halie Davis, the usage of the phone on class is regular:

If your teacher says ‘get out your iPhone and look up a word’ you can do a Google search or check Wikipedia on the Internet. It’s really fast.

There are 2 functionalities that make the iPhonet useful at Abilene Christian University:

- mymobile application to search for class information like the teacher’s name, and 3D map of campus
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Rogers is reported to be looking into the BlackBerry Storm business. Not only to they want it, but they want it badly. The rumor is based on a phone call to a Customer Service Rep who said that a touchscreen Berry is coming to Rogers by Christmas. Despite the fact that the Storm doesn’t have 850/1900 MHz bands of HSDPA? Despite the fact there’s no WiFi? I’d say Rogers should be thinking twice before upsetting its subscribers! Would you get a 3G-less, WiFi-less Berry with a three year contract plan? Yeah you would, but only in Chinese China!

Chinese manufacturers want Apple to remove Apple’s 3G and WiFi support in order for its customers to use only its network. On the opposite side of that request is the Korean Telecom company which is asking Apple to include WiBro connectivity in iPods and MacBooks made for the Korean market. WiBro is the Korean WiMAX version. Are we to expect the same request for WiMAX iPhones?

Korean Telecom and Apple have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the iPods and MacBooks but an agreement for the iPhone isn’t official just yet.

If I am not mistaking, I believe we told you a while ago about HTC getting ready to release one Android device and one WiMAX device by the end of the year. Well what do you know? We have the HTC Dream or the G1 which is the first Android phone. And now we have the T8290 which is a WiMAX HTC Touch.

From what we can figure out it’s a 3.8 inch 480 x 800 WVGA display, WiMAX and GSM support, 802.11g WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0.

How much it costs and when it is going to be available it’s still a mystery. For now the phone has Russian language written all over it so we’re going to wait for HTC official news.

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Ever used a 3G mobile broadband USB device to go online? Having one as a backup, for those nasty times when your ISP decides to pull that Internet plug for no apparent reason, is a must. A 3G Internet connection is almost guaranteed, although 3G networks do happen to go crazy from time to time.
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Although AT&T has a full HSPA network which was prepared in time for the launch of the iPhone 3G, that doesn’t mean it couldn’t be upgraded to 4G. AT&T seems not to be interested in 4G as it says it’s willing to wait at least two years, if not longer, until it would start deploying the next-generation network

Hank Kafk, AT&T’s vice-president of Architecture said at the 4G Executive Summit that AT&T’s current 3G network already offers more than Verizon EV-DO network. While waiting for future AT&T LTE network we might see an actual speed increase of the current 3G network. AT&T wants to offer subscribers a HSPA+ 3G network which will come with speeds of 20 Mbps sometime next year. Future 4G network might be postponed anywhere from 2 to 5 years.

But why talk about 4G networks when there aren’t any phones specifically created for them?

In a rather awesome move, Asus has added a fairly significant feature to one of its netbooks completely free of charge for future customers – built-in 3G HSUPA connectivity. This will be available to the 8.9” Eee PC 901 model; the chip will be in all 901s that ship starting October.

The HSUPA chip will allow users to get download/upload speeds of up to 7.2/2 Mbps using AT&T’s network in the US. The 901 packs a 7.5 hour battery life and retails for around $500 at most retailers.

As one of the global leaders in the field of wireless mobile communications, Motorola has released the Pebble (PEBL) Navy Blue 3G phone. The phone sports a sleek new design and was recently introduced in Korea.

The phones comes in with a mysterious blue light color to black and comes with a very attractive design. Its features include faster data transfer speed of HSDPA 7.2Mbps, you can use regular 3.5mm stereo headset, phone and navigation features emphasizing convenience, VOD, MOD, MP3, and multimedia elements, Bluetooth and a 200 million pixel camera,

via: newswire

The Sagem Roxy mobile phone was found lurking in the FCC amidst today’s T-Mobile G1’s unveiling. Compatible with 3G/2100MHz (UMTS/HSDPA) and GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz, the Roxy is your typical world phone. Interestingly, the phone features a visual cue in the form of a light at the top, indicating missed calls and new messages. Available in a candy-bar form factor, the phone comse with T9 input mode.

There’s also an integrated FM radio receiver on the Sagem Roxy. The phone is equipped with a 3.2 megapixel camera with flash, and is capable of capturing photos and videos. Depending on the recipient phone, you can also make video calls. The music player can download files using WAP or connecting to a computer. The Roxy also supports external memory cards (volume controls are on the side).

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T-Mobile has announced that their 3G network is going to further expand to 8 more markets by mid-October. That’s quite a remarkable effort and coordinated with the upcoming G1 launch should increase mobile sales.

Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Orlando, Philadelphia, Sacramento, San Francisco and Seattle are the next cities which will get T-Mobile’s 3G network while Birmingham, Denver, Detroit, Kansas City, Memphis and Tampa will have it by the end of the year.
Add the Android device to the mix and you will have a great network and a great phone.

HTC’s new PDA phone, the HTC Jade 100 (HTC Touch 3G), has just been approved by the FCC. The phone, which carries FCC ID NM8JDV, indicates in its FCC approval that it supports Band I (UMTS 2100 MHz) and Band VIII (UMTS 900 MHz), making it unsuitable for the US - which means we will never see it on this part of the world. The Jade is essentially the HTC Touch 3G version, and utilizes TouchFLO - a finger-touch optimized navigation.

HTC claims wireless speeds up to 18 times faster than 3G - giving the phone some extreme Internet capabilities. The Jade also lets you zoom and pan web sites conveniently. You can also watch YouTube videos, use Google Maps for mobile and take advantage of the integrated RSS reader for your daily news feed.

Measuring 102 mm x 53.6 mm x 14.5 mm, the HTC Jade weighs in at 96 grams and is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. A 2.8 inch QVGA screen and 3.2 megapixel camera are provided. Additional memory can be had with microSD memory cards.

Source: FCC

You know you were waiting for this, and even though it’s not in the states, it sounds pretty cool. Vodafone has announced that they will begin offering Dell’s netbook, the Mini 9, with bundled 3G connectivity.

While users will be paying £25 per month (or about $45) for 1GB of transfers every month, Vodafone promises users of the bundle download speeds in the ranges of 1Mb/s and 5Mb/s. You obviously won’t be doing much torrenting, but you can check your emails damn fast!

T-Mobile is expanding their 3G network. Next stop is Phoenix where the 3G network infrastructure and spectrum cost $127 million.

The network offers HSDPA with speeds running at up to 7.2Mbps. But T-Mobile doesn’t offer any HSDPA handsets yet. Which means that if you happen to be a T-Mobile in Phoenix and you have a HSDPA unlocked device from some other carrier, you might enjoy an almost virgin network. T-Mobile will get you some HSDPA devices in the near future, as soon as they get used to the idea that they actually have a 3G network.

Oh my, but what do we have here today? It looks like the FCC has a chic phone to analyze. The Vertu Signature S Design is the new model from Nokia’s luxury division. Well then go ahead and tell your boss you found out the next Vertu is available. I’m sure he is too busy to read these lines, but he’s probably definitely interested in the device.

The new phone might just have a little bit of this and a little bit of that. 3G is there via HSDPA, quad band EDGE and WiFi. Can you imagine that? It’s definitely a first from Vertu handsets. How much will it cost? We’re probably going to find out soon! (more…)

Here she is, Apple has officially unleashed the iPhone 2.1 software, promising to fix all of those annoying bugs plaguing previous version.

The most important of the fixes listed above would have to be improved battery life for “most users”, decreased dropped calls, and the improved 3G signal display. Other than that, the update includes various bug fixes that caused iPhones running the earlier versions to crash. Let’s hope this really works.

You can head Apple’s official page to check out the updates if the above text is too hard for you to read.

Bharti Airtel and Vodafone are the companies which have been selling the iPhone 3G in India so far. The phone will be available starting this December from BSNL as soon as their 3G network gets launched.

BSNL is a carrier company owned by the Indian government and they are upgrading their 3G network to UMTS. Vodafone and Airtel have GSM/EDGE while waiting for their portion of the 3G spectrum. So why say you people of India? Are you happy to see BSNL get in this iPhone 3G action? Which one do you prefer? Airtel, Voda or BSNL?

It’s rumored that BSNL might even go ahead and offer the handset for a better price than its competition but there aren’t any prices or plans available yet.

Virgin Mobile has now entered the 3G realm with the new Virgin Shuttle, manufactured by Personal Communication Devices. Designed to work with 3G of the EV-DO kind, the Virgin Shuttle slider manages to be both stylish and feature packed with a little Helio touch, fresh off its recent acquisition. PCD has squeezed in a 1.3 megapixel camera with video capture, Bluetooth, SD expansion, a 2-inch display, and a media player that also supports streaming media. The Buddy Beacon app from Helio has been renamed as uLocate for the Shuttle but performs the same function of tracking your friends and the “Where” application is carried over just as it is, providing localized information about restaurants and other places around you.

The Virgin Shuttle will land on September 28 at your nearest BestBuy store and will be available for just $79.99 without the frills of a contract and data plans starting at as little as $5 for 20MB to $20 for 50MB with unlimited access to VirginXL content.
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