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- iPhonomics and the post-PC era
- My friend Steve Gillmor is known for his very occasional cryptic and sometimes prescient posts that attempt to connect the dots and unpack the logic between seemingly unrelated events.This week he focused his attention on the iPhone, which he suggests is new center of computing gravity, and iPhonomics, which has...
- Tags: Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Office 2.0, iPhone, Innovation, General, Cingular, Broadband, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Iowa CLEC set to battle big telco's conference-bridge blocking
- A representative of Iowa-based CLEC Competitive Local Exchange Carrier and broadband conferencing solutions provider Great Lakes Communications Corp. has emailed me with what sounds like a David-Goliath declaration of war against the big telcos. Justification, in GLCCs view, is what it sees as recent attempts by Cingular/AT&T Wireless,...
- Tags: SprintNextel, Regulatory, General, Cingular
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- Verizon iPhone could have been a reality
- USATodays Leslie Cauley reports that as long as two years ago, Apple and Steve Jobs held initial discussions with Verizon about the carrier becoming exclusive distributor for the then-envisioned iPhone.If so, we would have seen Verizons logo all over the ad at the top, not Cingulars.Didnt happen.Verizon reportedly balked, because...
- Tags: General, Verizon VoiceWing, Cingular, Apple, Verizon Communications Inc., Verizons
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Steve Jobs, the iPhone and open platforms
- In a Newsweek interview with Steven Levy, Steve Jobs said:"You don’t want your phone to be an open platform. You need it to work when you need it to work. Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up."Dave Winer is not pleased...
- Tags: General, Personal Technology, Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Mobile, Apple, iPhone, Cingular, Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs
- Blog posts 2007-01-13
- Will iPhone revolutionize the mobile market?
- Video: On Thursday I went with our video crew to Macworld Expo to get some perspectives on whether the iPhone will revolutionize or reinvent the phone as Steve Jobs predicted in his keynote. We talk to some show attendees and Apple watcher Tim Bajarin, president of market analyst firm Creative...
- Tags: General, Personal Technology, Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Mobile, Macworld, Apple, iPhone, Cingular, Apple iPhone, video
- Blog posts 2007-01-12
- If not iPhone, how about Apple iFon?
- I offered a few suggestions and a poll for renaming the iPhone in the likelihood that Apple loses its lawsuit with Cisco over rights to use the name. Apple calling the lawsuit "silly" would indicate that Steve Jobs isnt interested in coming back to the negotiating table with Cisco....
- Tags: General, Personal Technology, Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Mobile, Legal, Apple, Cisco, iPhone, Cingular, Apple Computer Inc., Apple iPhone
- Blog posts 2007-01-11
- Thinking beyond the first generation iPhone, or whatever it's called
- Many bloggers and other commentators have chimed check Techmeme in with their impressions of the vaporous iPhone well continue to call it that until the lawsuit with Cisco is finished. A few key points. The iPhone Steve Jobs demoed is a first generation device. Its definitely not in the realm...
- Tags: General, Wired & Wireless, Apple, iPhone, Cingular, Apple iPhone
- Blog posts 2007-01-11
- If not an Apple iPhone, then what name
- Now that Apples is now in litigation with Cisco over use of the iPhone name, Steve Jobs might have to come up with an alternative. For some reason, Jobs was ok with changing the name of iTV to AppleTV, so he must have an alternate name ready to go if...
- Tags: General, Personal Technology, Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Legal, Apple, Cisco, iPhone, Cingular, Cisco Systems Inc., Steve Jobs
- Blog posts 2007-01-10
- Poll: if you could have one for free: Apple iPhone or BlackBerry Pearl?
- Two of the hottest handsets:Apple iPhone, announced Monday. Up there.BlackBerry Pearl, announced last September.Here:Both have cameras, music playback, video playback, calendar, Web surfing, personal organizer functionalities.Pearl- $399.99 but carrier discounts as low as $199.99 with a two-year sub.iPhone carrier-Ciingular. Exclusive. For years.Pearl-T-Mobile and Cingular.Now I am going to ask...
- Tags: General, Cingular, BlackBerry, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-01-09
- The iPhone fallout: Winners and Losers
- The impact of Apples iPhone, rolled out at Macworld by Steve Jobs, is going to have a lasting impact on the tech industry beyond todays big splash. Heres a look at the winners and losers: Winners: Cingular: By...
- Tags: Apple, Apple iPhone, Cingular, Cingular Wireless, General, iPhone, Microsoft, Mobile, Motorola, Palm, Personal Technology, RIM, Wired & Wireless
- Blog posts 2007-01-09
- WSJ:: Apple, Cingular will announce cell phone tomorrow at Macworld
- CNN Money reports that The Wall Street Journal says Apple has selected Cingular Wireless to provide wireless service for a new Apple-branded cellphone.WSJ rarely gets it wrong. I tend to believe...When Steve Jobs delivers his Macworld Expo keynote, well know more.One question: will such a phone cannibalize iPod sales?
- Tags: General, Cingular, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-01-08
Additional Resources
- More iPhone 3G observations
- More iPhone 3G observationsThanks for this tip......[i]"An app that toggles 3G, EDGE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and even the cellular radio to conserver battery. Bonus points if they add a schedule feature to, for example, turn off all the radios while you sleep then turn them back on when you wake.[/i]I would...
- Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, WIRELESS, Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G observation, 3G, Apple iPhone 3G, MMS, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- HTC Touch Cruise
- The HTC Touch Cruise made its debut way back in November 2007, and unfortunately, it never found its way to the United States. However, being a glutton of punishment and out of pure curiosity, we got our hands on an unlocked version of the Windows Mobile 6 smartphone thanks to...
- Tags: Smart phones, GPS, Handhelds, Cellular phones, power button, HTC Touch, High Tech Computer Corp., smart phone, HTC Touch Cruise
- Product reviews 2008-07-15
- HP iPAQ 910c Business Messenger
- Though more well-known for its laptops and desktop PCs, HP is no stranger to smartphones. The company has released several models in the past, including the HP iPaq hw6945 Mobile Messenger and the HP iPaq 510 Voice Messenger, both of which have garnered some good user reviews, and now...
- Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, Cellular phones, Keyboards, HP iPAQ, Hewlett-Packard Co., smart phone
- Product reviews 2008-07-08
- AT
- ATpretty close to what I pay for a Windows Mobile phone with AT&TI have been anxiously awaiting getting rid of my Cingular 2125, and am very happy with the prices of the 3G iPhone plans ... almost exactly what I am paying now for a low-end plan with 200 SMS...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, phone, High Tech Computer Corp., 3G
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- How to avoid receiving a $837.20 iPhone bill
- How to avoid receiving a $837.20 iPhone billCha-Ching - Nickle and Dime you to DeathI don't know how anyone can keep up with the nickle and dime charges from the cell phone companies. But maybe that is the point. Make it so complicated, no one can keep up...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, iPhone bill, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., phone
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- HTC Touch Dual (Unlocked)
- When it comes to touch-screen phones, there are those who dig them and those who want to bury them. And when we say touch-screen phones, we mean the models that largely lack physical buttons, more specifically tactile dialpads and keyboards a la Apple iPhone, LG Prada, and Samsung Instinct. The...
- Tags: Keyboards, Smart phones, Handhelds, Microsoft Windows, Cellular phones, Operating systems, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Touch, HTC Touch Dual, Touch DUAL
- Product reviews 2008-06-09
- Size matters: Verizon Wireless buys Alltel; Will claim most subscribers
- Size matters: Verizon Wireless buys Alltel; Will claim most subscribersSubscriber envy? That's a ridiculous assumptionVerizon's 67.2 to AT&T's 71? Wasn't that gap larger after the ATT/Cingular deal? Looked as though industry analysts were right at the time, that Verion would overtake them after a few years, so why would this...
- Tags: Cellular phones, ALLTELL, Alltel Corp., CDMA, LTE, Verizon Communications Inc., GSM, Verizon Wireless
- Discussion threads 2008-06-05
- Jason Chen answers questions about Android
- At the recent Google I/O 2008 conference, Jason Chen from the Android team presented a 90 minute introduction to Google's new software platform for mobile devices. Since I've written about Android basics before I'll just cover some of the points that were new or previously unclear. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Phone, Jason Chen, Android, Q., Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Android will be 100% open source, says Google
- Contrary to some reports, everything that makes Android "Android", including all the core platform components and libraries needed to port Android to new devices will be open sourced under commonly used, industry standard licenses, says Google. [ See also: Hello, Android: Introducing Google's Mobile Development Platform ]...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apache Software Foundation, Android, Open Source, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
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