Today Opera Software made a beta version of Opera Mini 5 available for the Android platform. Opera says that the Android version of Opera Mini 5 offers all the same features that other versions do, including tabbed browsing, the ...
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In a recent interview, Verizon Wireless' chief technology officer, Tony Malone, indicated that the company will have a Long Term Evolution handset ready for the market by the middle of 2011. That's about six months sooner than Verizon had ...
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In the last couple of days leading up to the South By Southwest interactive (SXSWi) festival in Austin, TX, the location-based social networking service Gowalla has released new apps for the Google Android and Palm WebOS platform, as well ...
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Blackberry owners and other smartphone users will soon be able to connect to Twisted Pair's Wave radio platform. Twisted Pair today announced Mobile Communicator for Blackberry, which lets Blackberry owners talk using Radio-over-IP (RoIP). The thin client software on ...
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Today YouTube released a new version of its mobile software for the Windows Mobile and S60 platforms. YouTube mobile 2.4 improves speed performance and also introduces several new features. The new features include search query suggestions, end-user account support, ...
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SmartPhone Technologies LLC has filed a lawsuit against Apple, AT&T, Samsung, Sanyo, LG, and Motorola alleging that all the companies are infringing upon SmartPhone Technologies' patents. Apple is bearing the brunt of the lawsuit, and it alone faces six ...
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SmartPhone Technologies LLC has filed a lawsuit against Apple, AT&T, Samsung, Sanyo, LG, and Motorola alleging that all the companies are infringing upon SmartPhone Technologies' patents. Apple is bearing the brunt of the lawsuit, and it alone faces six ...
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Mike Chambers, principal Product Manager for developer relations for the Flash Platform at Adobe, made a statement on his personal blog concerning Flash on the upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series OS. Chambers says that "Adobe and Microsoft are working ...
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Microsoft has announced at the Game Developers Conference that Windows Phone 7 will have 3D gaming and Live integration. Microsoft talked specifically about XNA Game Studio 4.0.

Target has launched the first scannable mobile coupon program at its stores. The program offers users coupons on the screen of their phone that can be scanned at checkout.

Verizon Wireless customers who are also big fans of the NFL will really be glad to hear a new offering is coming to Verizon mobile phones. The NFL has signed a deal with Verizon that will add the NFL RedZone channel to the mobile offerings.

Amazon Wireless today that it has expanded the number of T-Mobile devices it offers from its web site, as well as the number of plans from which customers can choose. Amazon Wireless said that customers can now initiate a ...
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Today Google announced a new feature for Google Maps that allows users to route directions for a bicycle. Biking directions offers a lot of ways to get from point A to point B by taking advantage of trails, known ...
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Target announced a scannable mobile coupon program launching nationwide today at its retail stores. Consumers will have several different ways to opt into the program (PC browser, mobile browser, short code), which will then distribute coupons to mobile phones ...
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According to unnamed sources cited by The New York Times, Facebook plans to introduce a new location-sharing feature to is social networking service. The feature will let users share their own location as well as see the location of ...
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Leap Wireless recently indicated that it has permanently closed 27 -- about 10% -- of its 269 Cricket Wireless stores. It has also laid off 180 people, trimming its staff level down to 4,200 employees around the country. The ...
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Today Apple made a fourth beta of the iPhone OS 3.2 software development kit available to developers. The SDK provides developers with the tools they need to write for iPhone OS, which also applies to the iPod Touch and ...
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AT&T lands the Motorola Backflip as its first Android handset. Based on our experiences, it's tough to recommend to anyone other than the most diehard Motorola and AT&T fans.
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Palm today announced the Plug-In Development Kit (PDK) for Palm WebOS. The PDK allows developers to use C and C++ in addition to the Web-based framework of the Palm OS. With the new PDK, developers get access to OpenGL ...
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At the Digital Inclusion Summit, the FCC released a statement supporting free wireless broadband for some Americans in a bid to increase affordable broadband service nationwide. The commission did not specify which Americans would qualify for such a service ...
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T-Mobile is sending out invites to an event on March 16 for the HTC HD2. All signs point to a launch for the handset on March 24.

Nokia has filed a patent for battery tech using piezoelectric to self-regenerate. The patent covers a system that will allow batteries in a mobile phone to charge themselves using motion.

A cheap handset called the Olive FrvrOn has surfaced with an interesting feature for those away from a power outlet frequently. The handset can be powered with any plain old AAA battery.

Today Samsung announced that it is offering the SCH-r100 Stunt to Cricket customers. The Stunt is a tri-band CDMA bar-style phone that has entry level features. It includes Bluetooth, speakerphone, and simple messaging services. It costs $100.

The NFL and Verizon Wireless today announced a four year deal that will bring NFL Mobile programming and the NFL RedZone channel to Verizon Wireless phones. Specific phone and pricing information for the new service will be available in ...
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Google today released the Android Native Development Kit revision 3 (NDK r3), offering expanded capabilities to Android developers. Most interesting to end users is probably enhanced support for OpenGL ES 2.0, now offering improved graphics rendering through vertex and ...
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Travel Channel will also bring new content to Gowalla, starting with locations used in "Food Wars."

SlashGear has posted up a review of the new HTC Legend smartphone. In the end, the device is quite good, but it will have stiff competition coming in a bit.

T-Mobile branded HTC HD2 and Nokia Nuron smartphones have been seen in the wild. The HD2 gets a big 4.3-inch screen and the Nuron runs the S60 OS. There is no word on a firm launch date, but things still point to the 24th for the HD2.

Microsoft has offered up an application that works with Android from Google. The app is called Called Tag and turns the camera of the handset into a barcode reader. I still don’t see much use for this sort of app personally.

Today Asiq announced what it calls the first aircraft Bluetooth Access Point. The AP, in conjunction with Asiq's SafeCell application, will allow airlines to offer cellular services (including SMS, MMS, voice messaging and email) on board aircraft during flight. ...
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Today Verizon Wireless indicated that its preliminary tests of Long Term Evolution in the Boston and Seattle trial markets demonstrate that the next-generation wireless technology can deliver peak download speeds of 40 to 50Mbps and peak upload speeds of ...
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Qualcomm has announced that it is bringing new dual-mode HSPA+ and EVDO Rev. A and B. chips to femto cells. Qualcomm says the chips are the first to combine 3GPP HSPA+ and CDMA2000 1X and EV-DO Rev. A and ...
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Swype recently began offering a beta version of its QWERTY keyboard input software. Users can download the beta version of the software for free, though the number of users Swype will allow is going to be limited at first. ...
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T-Mobile USA has called off its year-long exclusive search deal with Yahoo and has replaced it with Google. The deal was completed recently and Google replaced Yahoo as the default search engine on T-Mobile handsets approximately March 3. Phone ...
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Today the Federal Communications Commission proposed a major change to the Universal Service Fund. The USF is collected from U.S. citizens via their phones bills and is put towards developing voice services in underserved rural areas. Rather than put ...
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Verizon Wireless has eliminated the mail-in rebate previously necessary for customers to get the lowest price for the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus. Customers will now only pay $149 out of pocket for the Pre Plus and $79 ...
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AT&T recently announced that it is going to be adopting new standards for its packaging and handset designs to reduce waste, encourage recycling and reduce its carbon footprint. AT&T is working with manufacturers to reduce the amount of packaging ...
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A company called JOOS has unveiled a new solar charger that will work with the iPhone called the JOOS Orange. The charger has a 5400mAh battery and claims to be able to deliver up to 30 times more power than other solar chargers on the market.

SlashGear has put up a video unboxing of the HTC Legend. The smartphone was first seen at MWC 2010 and the Android 2.1 handset looks really cool.

We found out recently that Windows Phone 7 will get Silverlight and XNA, but it won’t be able to run old WinMo apps. Any apps wrote for WinMo 6.5.3 and earlier won’t run on the new OS.

According to an unnamed source cited by Reuters, Verizon Wireless plans to sell two new devices from Microsoft that are not Windows Phone 7 handsets. Reuters' source says that the two new phones are being developed under the code ...
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Microsoft today announced that its new Windows Phone 7 platform will include the company's Silverlight and XNA technologies for developers. Silverlight is designed to make it easier for developers to create rich, attractive interfaces that are intelligently separated from ...
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Today the Wall Street Journal reports that Sony is going to develop "a smartphone capable of downloading and playing PlayStation games" in order to combat Apple's growing hold on the mobile gaming market. The smartphone (along with a second ...
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Today Opera Software announced a new version of Opera Mini 5 beta that is native to the Windows Mobile 5 and 6 platforms. Opera Mini traditionally runs on Java, but this version for Windows phones does not. It has ...
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Facebook fans with the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi can now update their application to the newest version of the WebOS Facebook app, version 1.1. While the original Facebook for WebOS offered only a rudimentary version of the Facebook ...
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Google recently enabled a Labs experimental feature for Android handsets that allows users to perform searches by drawing gestures on the display. According to Google, Gesture Search lets users find a contact, an application, a bookmark, or a music ...
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Today the Bluetooth Special Interest Group gave the first glimpse of the Bluetooth 4.0 specification's roadmap, and said that it expects devices to ship with Bluetooth 4.0 by the end of the year. The Bluetooth 4.0 spec is designed ...
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