During President Obama’s speech on gay rights the other day he was interrupted by a ringtone, a duck ringtone. Out of nowhere you hear a few quacks and Obama asks who’s duck it is. First of all don’t you know to turn your phone off, second who the hell has a duck quack as a ringtone.
If you’re not a Sprint customer then you know the Palm Pre is not an option for you since it runs on CDMA networks. However, it looks like a GSM version of the Palm Pre has already been created. This is great news for AT&T and T-Mobile. If a jailbroken version becomes available or hacked then the Pre could be used on AT&T and T-Mobile networks. Here’s a video of the GSM ready Palm Pre.
Marketwatch is reporting that Apple hit the 1 million mark over the weekend. That’s 1 million iPhone 3G S devices sold. Obviously that’s a great number to hit, but I wonder what the breakdown was. How many devices were sold to customers that already had an iPhone vs. new iPhone users? Knowing iPhone users my guess is a lot of the purchases were made by existing iPhone users. That being said what are these people doing with their old iPhones. At this point there must be so many iPhones floating around the world that you could probably build a house or even a building solely out of iPhones. If you purchased the new iPhone 3G S I’m curious to know 1) where you a previous iPhone user or not and 2) if you were an iPhone user what do you plan on doing with your old iPhone.
The latest iPhone installment, the iPhone 3G S launched today. If you pre-ordered the phone you most likely have your phone already. If you didn’t pre-order and you want to wait in line go ahead. If you don’t want to wait in line or risk the supply running out don’t worry. As usual there are plenty of phones available already on eBay. Here is just a small sample:
ModeLabs Group and Lacoste have come out with a joint statement to announce the launch of a Lacoste branded cell phone in 2010. I’m actually excited to hear about this. I’m a big fan of phones that are cross branded with non traditional telecommunication companies (think the FIFA branded phones, Prada, etc.). I think it brings a little added excitment to the cell phone industry. My guess is the phone will be a more traditional phone. It won’t have all the bells and whistles of a smartphone. Once I get pictures of the phone I’ll post them. Would you purchase a Lacoste branded cell phone?
I have included a link to the press release below. It’s in French, thankfully I know a few people that speak French and could translate it for me.
I must say that I have no idea if these results are from a poll or official T-Mobile data, but here is a breakdown of the most popular phones used by T-Mobile customers. The list came from T-Mobile’s twitter account. It looks like G1 and Blackberries are the big winner here.
So much to my surprise I was just asked to update my T-Mobile G1. With all the news around the Android update, Cupcake, I knew this had to be it. Sure enough I just finished up downloading firmware version 1.5 which is the Cupcake upgrade. I video taped the upgrade and I will have it posted here shortly. If you have a G1 look for your upgrade shortly if you haven’t received it already.
Sorry I haven’t posted in about a week. Things have been crazy around here. I’ve been going through a site redesign for the past couple months and now I think things are finally starting to materialize. I’m anticipating having the new look up within the next two months. Here’s a little recap of what happened in the world of cell phones while I was away:
T-Mobile announced that it’s second Android powered phone will be coming out sometime this Summer. No word on which phone it will be
The Nokia N97 is set to be released in June
If you have a Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 you should be receiving a new firmware upgrade. The upgrade is available now, it’s not automatic though. You have to find it manually using your phones menu.
Rumor: the next generation LG Viewty may have HD recording capabilities!
Sony Ericsson announced two new phones, the Aino and Yari
Palm Pre will support iTunes syncing
I think that about does it for now. As always the cell phone world is alive and well!
Since Sprint announced yesterday that the Palm Pre will be available June 6th there has been a number of additional stories that have made their way through the blogosphere. Here’s a short recap of each:
Palm Pre Shortage – CEO and star of commercials Dan Hesse told Reuters, “We don’t intend to advertise it (the Pre) heavily early on because we think we are going to have shortages for a while.”
Palm Pre No Contract Price – If you’re already a Sprint customer and you want to purchase the phone or you just want to purchase the phone w/o a contract then it will cost you $549.99
Updates
(5/21) – Palm Pre will not have visual voicemail available at launch
(5/22) – The Palm Pre will be sold to pre-registered Sprint users on June 5th in select stores in major cities throught the country.
(5/22) - If you are on the Sprint Employee Referral Offer Plan you’ll have to upgrade to the Everything Data Plan to use the Pre
Update
I will continue to update this list as new news comes out over the next several weeks. Make sure to bookmark this post.
After a tons of rumors and speculation, Sprint has finally announced a launch date for the Palm Pre. Drum roll please……….the official release date will be June 6th. The Pre will be available through a number of outlets including Sprint stores, Best Buy, Radio Shack, select Wal-Mart stores and online at Sprint.com for $199.99 with a two-year service agreement and after a $100 mail-in rebate. All you Pre lover get your engines ready, you only have two weeks to go before you can get your hands on one. Here is the full Palm Pre press release.
