Michelle Maisto

New satellite communications operators are planning to offer dual satellite and cellular services in North America, which will be supported by dual-mode smartphones, according to a new report from ABI Research. These offerings, however, are thought to be a move for the operators to position themselves to take advantage of the 4G market, once LTE […]

T-Mobile has added three Samsung texting- and messaging-focused phones to its summer stash, the Comeback, the Gravity 2 and the t349.The Comeback might be called an unconventional clamshell style, flipping open horizontally, instead of vertically, to offer a full QWERTY keyboard.On the outside is a numeric keypad, a four-way menu navigator, a dedicated camera, and […]

A worker at Foxconn, the Chinese company that makes Apple’s iPhones, killed himself after learning that he was suspected of leaking secrets regarding the next generation of iPhone smartphones, Reuters reported on July 22.The Nanfang Daily reports that Sun Danyong, a 25-year-old product manager, oversaw 16 prototypes of Apple’s fourth-generation iPhone. When Sun realized one […]

AT&T will soon be taking its $50 netbook offer nationwide-and, anticipating all the fresh looks its more than 2,200 retail locations will be receiving, it went and gave them a makeover.The stores’ products and services are now more intuitively organized, according to AT&T.Additionally, the carrier said in a statement July 21 that “all wireless devices […]

The Nokia 6760 slide-a tweaked version of the AT&T Nokia Surge-will be making an appearance in Europe during the third quarter of 2009 for approximately $283 before subsidies and taxes, Nokia announced July 21.The 6760 is a slider phone, with a full, four-row QWERTY keyboard sliding out along the long side of the device, which […]

Research In Motion has good news for Mac users. BlackBerry Desktop Software for Mac will be available in September and will support systems running Mac OS 10.5.5 and higher.“We have all been hard at work here for a while now, and you may have noticed some Mac support with the preview version of BlackBerry Media […]

Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile carrier, sent a letter to major lawmakers on July 17 offering to limit the length of its exclusivity deals on mobile phones.Reuters reports that the gesture comes after the Department of Justice began looking into whether U.S. carriers violated antitrust laws by obtaining exclusive deals to sell specific phones.“Effective […]

Nokia’s flagship imaging device, the N86 8MP, will be arriving in the United States in “the coming weeks,” Nokia announced July 17. Featuring an 8-megapixel camera, Nokia touts the N86 as a true replacement for a point-and-shoot camera. It features a Carl Zeiss lens, dual LED flash and a 2.6-inch AMOLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode) […]

Gateway has a new netbook offering, the LT2000. Available in several configurations, it includes an Intel Atom processor, a 10.1-inch TFT LED-backlit display and iPhone-like touch-pad capabilities.The 2.62-pound LT2000 comes in NightSky Black or Cherry Red, measures 10.17 by 7.24 by 1.03 inches and focuses on what netbooks do best: surfing the Web, offering access […]

The newly formed Symbian Foundation has created Symbian Horizon, an application-publishing program for better distributing applications for the open-source smartphone platform, which is the most widely used in the world.“The core idea behind Symbian Horizon is making the business and distribution of Symbian apps easier,” stated a July 16 post to the Horizon blog.“Developers can […]