SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2009 So as many of you know I got a Motorola Droid and have spent the last 24 hours playing with this phone. A few problems that I have found are that the Battery life is horrible. after just a few hours of using the phone the battery is dead. The reason for this is that the Apps run in the background ( not like the Iphone where it turns it off as soon as you exit the app) . So what I did was download a app called Advanced Task Manager . The app allows you to turn off the apps you no longer want running » www.guysfromqueens.com/?p=765comments?
Verizon is working with Motorola and Google and will soon be rolling out the biggest challenge to iPhone dominance yet - or so say the tech pundits. This will be the Verizon Droid advertised to arrive in November.  story continues..2 comments
T-Mobile 'Project Dark'10:36AM Monday Oct 12 2009 by danielk comments?
By The Associated Press
October 06, 2009, 8:23AM
BASKING RIDGE -- Verizon Wireless and Google Inc. said they are teaming up to speed development of mobile devices based on Google's Android software that will run on Verizon's cell phone network. story continues..comments?
» tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/2009···samsungBehold II is scheduled to launch later this year, though a specific release date and pricing were not announced at this time. It's the first Android smartphone by Samsung to be released in the United States and joins the carrier's other Google devices, which include T-Mobile G1, the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G, and the upcoming Motorola Cliq. 
Behold II features a "cube menu" that provides access to six multimedia features: music, photos, videos, the Web, YouTube, and Amazon MP3. You can interact with all of these features through the smartphone's 3.2-inch AMOLED touch screen. Other highlights of the Samsung Behold II include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, GPS, a 5-megapixel camera, and up 16GB expandable memory via the microSD slot. comments?
» digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/2009···s-sync/This morning Palm (PALM) announced WebOS 1.2.1 another point release to its new WebOS platform that restores media synchronization with the latest version of Apple’s (AAPL) iTunes (9.0.1). Moreover, the company has gone the extra step of extending that synchronization feature to photos. comments?
CyanogenMod in trouble?08:07PM Friday Sep 25 2009 by rmdir By Taylor Wimberly on Sep 24 Everyone’s favorite Android hacker appears to have angered someone at Google. We just received word that Cyanogen has received a cease and desist letter from Google. Details are scarce, but it appears Google is not happy about Cyanogen distributing their closed source Android apps (Market, Talk, Gmail, YouTube, etc). CyanogenMod is easily the most popular custom Android rom with over 30,000 active users. More herecomments?
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By Monica Alleven Friday, September 18, 2009
CHICAGO—T-Mobile USA is fully embracing HSPA+, to the extent that it turned on about 20 cell sites in the Philadelphia market yesterday – a first for the U.S. market. story continues..comments?
AT&T* and Centennial Communications Corp. (NASDAQ: CYCL) announced today that, assuming timely satisfaction or waiver of all remaining closing conditions including receipt of the required regulatory approvals, they now anticipate the pending acquisition of Centennial by AT&T to be completed early in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2009. story continues..comments?
Houston will be one of the first six cities to get a faster version of AT&T's wireless data network, which will have theoretical transfer speeds of up to 7.2 megabits a second, by the end of the year. Houston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and Miami should have the HSPA 7.2 service working by the end of the year, AT&T officials said last week. The technology — known as High Speed Packet Access — is an iteration of AT&T's current wireless data system, and an interim step on the way to its fourth-generation, or 4G, wireless network. AT&T hopes to have HSPA in place for 90 percent of its 3G markets by the end of 2011. Dwight Silverman » www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/tec···922.htmlcomments?
Deutsche Telekom has called in banking advisers to study a possible multi-billion dollar bid for Sprint Nextel, the third-largest mobile phone operator in the US.
By Rupert Neate and Jonathan Russell / Published: 7:36PM BST 12 Sep 2009
René Obermann has pledged to reverse the fortunes of T-Mobile UK and T-Mobile US The company's decision to call in Deutsche Bank comes hot on the heels of the agreed tie-up of its struggling T-Mobile UK business with Orange to create Britain's biggest mobile phone firm.
Sources said Deutsche Telekom (DT) could submit a bid for Sprint, which has a market valuation of $10.6bn (£6.3bn), within the next few weeks. story continues..comments?
By PETER SVENSSON, AP Technology Writer - Wed Sep 9, 2009 11:49AM EDT
Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami and Charlotte, N.C., will be the first cities to see the benefits of AT&T's plans to double the data download speeds on its wireless network. The six cities will be upgraded before the end of the year, the carrier said Wednesday. story continues..comments?
By Tim Conneally | Published September 8, 2009 Finnish wireless giant Nokia announced that it has completed trials with the "first ever Long Term Evolution (LTE) capable Internet Modem." The product upon which the trials were conducted was the Nokia Internet Modem RD-3, a development tool by no means intended for consumer use. The company says it will be used with network vendors as well as measurement equipment manufacturers and operators. The RD-3 is interoperable with GSM/EDGE and WCDMA/HSPA and supports multiple LTE frequency bands with a theoretical peak of 100 Mbps downstream. Spotted herecomments?
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (CP) – 5 days ago
MEXICO CITY — Mexico eased a ban on using cellphones on airplanes, though officials said restrictions will remain in place.
Mexico's Communications and Transportation Department announced it was lifting the eight-year-old ban Tuesday, saying improved technology makes it possible to use cellphones and other electronic equipment during some flight phases without interfering with navigation systems. story continues..comments?
TAIPEI, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Shares of smartphone maker HTC (2498.TW) rose to a one-month high on Friday after U.S. telecom operator Sprint Nextel (S.N) said it planned to sell the firm's Hero cellphone based on Google's (GOOG.O) Android system. story continues..comments?
September 3 2009 - 10:45 am ET | Tracy Ford | RCR Wireless News
Leap Wireless International Inc. saw its stock rise yesterday as speculation mounted that AT&T Mobility may want to add the flat-rate carrier to its stable. story continues..comments?
By Brian Chen
A smartphone broadband test conducted by Wired.com found that AT&T customers reported the slowest average 3G network speeds, while Verizon subscribers posted the speediest results.
Verizon came in first place with an average download speed of 1,940 Kbps, as reported by 856 participants. story continues..2 comments
By Tim Conneally Since launching in public beta last September, full-featured mobile browser Skyfire has been installed by more than a million North Americans. Today, the official first version has been released, and is available for free on Windows Mobile 5 and 6, and Symbian S60 3rd Edition handsets. Skyfire has striven to provide a PC-like browsing experience on phones since its earliest stages. All pages are rendered on Skyfire's servers instead of in-phone, and it supports Flash 10, Silverlight 2, Ajax, and JavaScript, making most rich media fully available even on 2G data connections. » www.betanews.com/article/Skyfire···43433246comments?
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