For a limited time the T-Mobile MyTouch will be available to new customer for $99. To get this special price type in the promo code KICKOFF24when checking out online. The special price will last until the 24th of September. If you’ve been looking to jump over to T-Mobile and want the MyTouch this is a great opportunity. Remember, this is only for new customers and not existing ones. If you have the original G1 you still will have to pay full price (like me).
Sprint might not have the best cell phones on the market, but they sure do get it when it comes to plans. Sprint was the first to offer a flat rate $99 for texting, surfing the net and minutes. Now Sprint is moving beyond the popular mobile-to-mobile in network and “friends” plans which so many carriers have adopted. Sprint announced today they will let their customers call any mobile phone on any carrier without incurring additional charges. The plan is called Any Mobile, Anytime. Now this is what I’m talking about! Hopefully the other carriers will follow suite. As I’ve said in the past it’s becoming more and more about the phone and less about the carrier. The only way carriers will survive is to allow their customers to break out of in network calling. Here’s what Sprint says about the plan:
“Simply Everything and Ready Now were Sprint innovations to make wireless simpler and more worry-free for our customers,” said Dan Hesse, Sprint’s CEO. “We don’t think our customers want to have to keep track of or only talk to friends, colleagues or family members who make the same choices they do. Any Mobile, Anytime provides unprecedented simplicity and value, so much that many more customers can now consider cutting the cord altogether.”
You can read more about this new plan and the pricing at Sprint Any Mobile, Anytime.
Today Palm announced it’s second smartphone in the past year, the Palm Pixi. The Pixi is smaller than the Pre and runs on the Palm webOS. The Pixi has a full QWERTY keyboard and does not slide open like the Pre. Here’s what Palm is saying about the phone:
“In addition to linking your information from Google(TM), Facebook and Exchange ActiveSync, Palm Pixi adds Yahoo! and LinkedIn integration to Palm Synergy(TM) and assembles it all in a single view.(2) You can get your Yahoo! contacts, calendar and IM, and access to your LinkedIn contacts, including job titles. Synergy on Palm Pixi makes messaging easier by showing you all your conversations with the same person in one chat-style thread, so you can start a conversation on AIM Instant Messenger, Google Talk(TM) or Yahoo! Messenger and continue it by text message later.(3)
Complementing the phone’s already rich Facebook integration with the contacts, phone, calendar and photo applications, a new Facebook application will be available with Palm Pixi so you can see and comment on all the latest news from your friends, as well as easily update your status. The phone’s full QWERTY keyboard puts it all at your fingertips, and the multi-touch screen lets you move back and forth between open applications using natural gestures.(4) The unique removable back cover is rubberized, making it scratch-resistant, slip-resistant and durable.”
The Palm Pixi will be available in black, but there will be a number of limited edition custom phones created by today’s hottest artists. The Palm Pixi will have the following features:
Palm Pixi Features
I guess Palm wanted to get an early “heads-up” out there because the Pixi isn’t set to launch until the holidays. This means it will be several months until the Pixi is available for sale. There is no word yet on the pricing, but my guess is it will be around the $149 price range. Stay tuned for more info.
While we’re waiting for the next generation Xperia, the X2, to hit the market why not jump a few generations to the X5. This is not an official concept from Sony Ericsson, but someone with a “vision” of how the X5 will look. The photos came from a Korean website. The developer envisioned the phone having the following features:
Again, we’re still waiting for the X2 to be release so an X5 is years away. Also, how many phone do you know that have made it to fifth generation? Not many, so for now enjoy the concept, but don’t count on it being a reality.
This week Sirius XM introduced the SkyDoc for iPhone and iPod Touch. The Skydoc is anr accessory that plugs into your car’s cigartee lighter so you can enjoy Sirius XM radio from your iPhone via your cars sound system. Of course in order to use the Skydoc you must first have the Sirius XM app downloaded on your phone. The SkyDoc will give you access to pouplar channels such as Better yet, it gives users access to all XM and”The Best of SIRIUS” channels, even those the company infamously excludes from its online feed, like Howard Stern, MLB Play-by-Play and NFL Play-by-Play. Here’s what Serious XM has to say about the new accessory:
“XM SkyDock will allow millions of users to add live SIRIUS XM Radio capability to their iPod touch or iPhone while in their vehicle,” said Bob Law, Group Vice President and General Manager, After Market Division, SIRIUS XM Radio. “XM SkyDock makes their favorite programming from XM and ‘The Best of SIRIUS’ available to iPod touch and iPhone users anywhere they drive, coast to coast.”
In my opinion I guess this is good for users with cars that don’t have Sirius XM. Most new cars come with this feature so the accessory really isn’t necessary. It will be interesting to see if the SkyDoc takes off like Sirius XM thinks it will.
It happened to just about anyone who has ever had a Blackberry, the ball stops working. This can be caused by many reasons, but the most common is dirt getting caught in the rollers. Thankfully it’s fairly easy to take the ball out and clean yourself. Here’s a step-by-step video showing how you can clean your Blackberry trackball.
There are kick-ass cell phone concepts and then there are KICK-ASS cell phone concepts. The WINDOW cell phone concept going into the KICK-ASS category. “The phone is designed as a thin, clear and transparent plastic sheet, which remains clear during a sunny day, becomes humid during a rainy day and takes a dump outlook during a snowy day. The user can write text messages or draw pictures on the phone in different weather conditions which will later transform and show as SMS characters. The screen features sensitive interaction with the user and comprises the state of a window in different weather conditions.” The phone is a concept phone so it doesn’t exist or might not even pysically be possible to make, but it sure is cool. See more photos of the WINDOW phone here. If this phone ever came into existence it would put all other phones to shame.
This is an awesome video of some of the leading smartphones on the market and how their displays compare. The phones in the video are the Samsung Omnia 2, Samsung Omnia HD, HTC Pro 2, Apple iPhone 3gs, HTC Hero and Galaxy. Make sure to watch the video in HD to get the full effect. So which phone do you think has the best display compared to the others?
Yup, the title of this post is correct. When you purchase a cell phone you agree to the privacy policy and in the policy there is a line that reads ” manufacturer may collect, store, access, disclose, transmit, process and otherwise use your location data (including real time geographic information) in accordance with manufacturers privacy policy.” Can you believe it? Palm, Apple and other cell phone users should be warned. You’re being tracked and the manufacturer knows everything you’re doing. Hell, Apple even has a way to zap applications off your phone if they want. The response from manufacturers is that they need this information to improve their products. I’m all for user feedback, but taking it for free seems pretty f’ed up to me. What do you think?
source: yahoo
Palm has sent a cease and desist letter to the developer of the Palm Pre theme for Android to stop selling the theme. I understand that Palm wants to cover their trademark, but I think this is hilarious. If anyone should be mad it should be T-Mobile, Google and HTC. This is basically a free way for Palm to show off the look of their webOS. If I were Palm I would thank the developer for making the theme and ask if they could make the same thing for the iPhone! Come on Palm, don’t get upset because the G1 has sold over a million units. Embrace the help.
Source: leakdroid
