Unlocking Mobile – AT&T teams with Napster (again) for wireless downloads
AT&T teams with Napster (again) for wireless downloads
Filed under: Cellphones, Portable AudioWe suppose the third time’s a charm. AT&T and Napster have quite the history of offering up lackluster deals to customers — first with that $14.95 Napster To Go scam on Cingular, then the free Napster To Go on AT&T — but they’re finally doing it up right and offering wireless downloads from Napster’s 5 million strong catalog to AT&T’s music-starved subscribers. Right now your options with the carrier are eMusic for some spendy wireless downloads, or the iPhone. Unfortunately, while Napster bests eMusic on selection, the price remains the same at $7.49 per five songs, and these ain’t no DRM-free affair like eMusic. The Napster service will also allow for $1.99 a la carte purchases, something eMusic lacks, and with every purchase you receive an email on your PC to help you download a copy of the track. Verizon and Sprint have quite the jump on AT&T when it comes to over-the-air music downloads, but we’ll see if AT&T can start to gain some ground starting early next month when the service launches. Oh, and before you ask: no, Napster won’t work on the iPhone. Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsOffice Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
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Nokia and Reuters develop an N95-based “Mobile Journalism Toolkit”
Filed under: Cellphones The rise of the cameraphone has certainly changed the face of journalism, and old-guard wire service Reuters isn’t about to get passed by — the company has entered into a long-term partnership with Nokia to develop new mobile reporting technologies, and the two companies have recently completed trials of an N95-based “Mobile Journalism Tookit” that takes moblogging to a whole new level. Reporters were given a hardware bundle that consisted of an N95, a Nokia SU-8W portable keyboard, a Sony condenser mic with special N95 adapter, a tripod, and two Power Monkey power stations, including the solar-capable Explorer, all of which linked into a custom mobile CMS that allows stories to be posted almost instantly. Reuters also partnered with Comvu for GPS-linked video streaming, and the N95 also provides a host of other metadata about each piece of content as it’s filed. Although the trial is now over, both Reuters and Nokia plan on using the kits to teach journalism students and to promote the cause of citizen journalism. Let’s hope that means they start teaching people how to take non-blurry cameraphone spy shots, eh?Read — Mobile Journalism Toolkit press releaseRead — Posts from the Reuters mobile journalism trialRead — Toolkit contents Permalink | Email this | CommentsOffice Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
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Apple shipped 1,119,000 iPhones in Q4 2007
Filed under: Cellphones, Desktops, Portable Audio, Portable VideoSure, Apple’s profitability and viability is based on any number of factors, but there’s one figure that analysts have been training their calculators on for months that has finally seen the light of day: Apple sold 1,119,000 iPhones in Q4 2007, which ended on September 29th, bringing the grand total to 1,389,000 since launch. That might meet or miss your expectations, but other sales bringing a smile to Jobs’ face and a cha-ching to his wallet include a 34% growth in Mac sales year to year and a 17% growth in iPods year to year — with 10.2 million iPods sold last quarter. The earnings call hasn’t started just yet, so hopefully we’ll get a few more juicy details on how much AT&T is chipping in to the bottom line these days. Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsOffice Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
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Palm Treo 800w revealed?
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds Are we staring at the new Treo 800w? We obviously know what’s up with the Centro and the 500 (namely the 500v), so the only missing ID in that lineup is the 800, successor to the 700-series flagship throne. Well, if this thing is the 800w we do kind of hope Palm tosses that fish back. Rearranging the WinMo buttons and giving the phone a more industrial, geeky look does not a greater Treo make, so unless this thing is like half as thin as current-gen devices (which it won’t be, Palm seems pretty dogmatic about keeping its devices thick), it’ll just be more of the same. Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsOffice Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
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iPhone Elite team releases “revirginizer” for unlocked iPhones
Filed under: CellphonesThe estimated 250,000 of you out there with unlocked iPhones stuck at firmware 1.0.2 can finally get your 1.1.1 on, as the iPhone Elite crew has released their “revirginizer” tool, which will restore your phone to pristine condition and allow the 1.1.1 update to proceed smoothly before you unlock that bad boy once again. As always, it’s probably best to wait a few days and see how well things are working, but the brave amongst you can snag what you need at the read link.[Via TUAW] Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsOffice Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
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Sharp develops “world’s thinnest” 2.2-inch QVGA mobile LCD
Filed under: Cellphones, Displays We’ve already seen Hitachi launch the “world’s slimmest” LCD TV today, so it’s rather fitting that Sharp comes through and delivers what it calls the “industry’s thinnest” mobile display. Granted, we’ve known this ultrathin 2.2-inch wonder was coming since April, but it’s always reassuring to see plans actually emerge from the drawing board. Nevertheless, this wee unit measures in just 0.01-millimeters thinner than a 1.9-inch version that AU Optronics was touting earlier this week (that’s 0.68-millimeters for those keeping score), and it features a 2,000:1 contrast ratio, 320 x 240 (QVGA) resolution, 176-degree viewing angle and an eight-millisecond response time that should be suitable for mobile TV viewing. Regrettably, there’s no sign of an actual release date, but those browsing the aisles at FPD International 2007 can reportedly catch it up close and in person.[Via Akihabara News] Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsOffice Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
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