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LG Vu signs arrive at ATT stores

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Mar 21st 2008 2 Comments

The LG Vu isn’t all that exciting of a device on its own, but Qualcomm’s MediFLO mobile TV service that works with the device is quite impressive. There have been several, horrible attempts at mobile TV, but I think this one might work.

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FCC 700MHz Auction – the full results, no loose chaff

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Mar 21st 2008 1 Comment

fcclogo The big winners were AT&T, Verizon, Qualcomm, and Frontier Wireless, Google didn’t win a thing. VZW took most of the popular C-Block, and ATT picked up 227 licenses from the B-Block.

VZW seems to be the biggest spender dropping a few million short of half of what the entire spectrum sold for at 9.63 billion dollars, that secured them all of C-Block save for Puerto Rico, Alaska, and the Gulf of Mexico, basically the areas where they wouldn’t make any money anyways. AT&T spent about 6.64 billion dollars in the auction which got them a 12MHz spectrum of Block B.

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Flash on the iPhone – What Adobe should have said, was nothing

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Mar 20th 2008 No Comments

So apparently what Adobe really meant when they said that they could bring Flash to the iPhone with just the SDK was that they could start working to bring Flash to the iPhone using the SDK. They can’t actually bring Flash to the iPhone until Apple gives them more access to the background services and all that jazz.

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SanDisk possibly getting into the music and movie sales business?

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Mar 19th 2008 No Comments

sansasessions Word is that SanDisk might be stepping into the media sales business with their MicroSD cards. Sansa Sessions is a deal they apparently already have in place where with the purchase of a new 8GB Sansa Fuze player you get a free microSD card packed with 55 tracks.

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Opera Mini is now the official browser of the Helio Ocean

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Mar 19th 2008 2 Comments

Thanks to the community surrounding Helio and their Ocean smartphone the push for the Opera Mini browser has made it official. This is great news for lots of people, Ocean owners, Helio, and Opera.

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REDFLY Mobile Companion – like Palm Foleo for your Windows Mobile devices

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Mar 19th 2008 No Comments

It only works with Windows Mobile 5 and Windows Mobile 6, but it works almost exactly how the Palm Foleo was supposed to. The only sad thing is that the Foleo worked with both WinMo and Palm’s mobile OS, why couldn’t they pull that off with this notebook?

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Sony DPP-FP95 and DPP-FP75 HDMI capable photo printers

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Mar 18th 2008 1 Comment

With these printers you can print at a max resolution of 300×300 dots per inch. Then, you can hook up the printer to your HDTV via HDMI to show the photos in all their high resolution glory.

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Cell-Phone Sommeliers – we need these in the US too!

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Mar 17th 2008 No Comments

cell phone sommeliers In Japan, the government has finally embraced a private-sector initiative to have Mobile Gurus guide you to the best handset, carrier all that stuff for you. No more guessing, or hoping that the guy at the local store isn’t just guiding you to what will net him the most profit, they are actually looking to get you what’s best for you.

Furthermore, once you have your handset and cellular plan, they are more than capable of helping you figure out how to do whatever it is you are trying to do, what accessories work with your phone, all that stuff. They aren’t just some tech-savvy yahoos off the street either, they are professionals who have to take and pass exams in order to maintain their position.

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AirPort Express gets upgrade – now with faster 802.11n speeds

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Mar 17th 2008 No Comments

banner airportexpress 080317 For $99 you can pick yourself up one of the worlds smallest mobile base stations for a wireless network. The best part is it now uses WiFi n to move all that data around wirelessly.

That does two things; first, it makes the unit compatible with all major 802.11 networks, and second it boosts the speed and extends the range. In fact it extends the range to twice what it previously was and ups the speed to 5 times what it was prior to the upgrade.

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Android vs. iPhone – a battle royal of SDKs

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Mar 14th 2008 11 Comments

Rich Miner is the Group Manager for Mobile Platforms at Google and he thinks that Android will outsell the iPhone. I’m not saying it won’t, I mean they have 4 device manufacturers to Apple’s one.

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