Mobile/Cell Phones on TFTS

Facing  a future in which wireless adoption rates are expected to skyrocket, the FCC is beginning to lay down plans to deal with this ensuing wireless broadband crunch. One portion of the overall plan involves auctioning off the now stagnant D-Block, a portion of spectrum that failed to sell when …

Earlier this week, Microsoft held its MIX10 developer conference and announced all the nitty gritty development details for its new Windows Phone 7 Series mobile operating system.  As part of its development strategy, Microsoft released a suite of free tools to entice developers to adopt the newly announced Windows Phone …

The Xperia X10 is a pretty remarkable smartphone – we’ve had a hands on with the X10 and it impressed us immensely – and it would seem that we’re not the only ones to be impressed with Sony Ericsson’s up and coming flagship Android smartphone as Orange have now confirmed …

Did you ever want a rugged Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone? Airo Wireless has one and they call it the A25is. The handset has been quietly made public by AT&T and interested consumers will be able to get it in the near future.

What with the newest member of the TFTS writing team (welcome on-board Kelly, by the way) having only earlier today covered how Palm is, let’s not mince words here, not doing quite as well as it might like right now in terms of handset sales, we don’t doubt that Palm will be …

If you’re based in the Euro zone and you’ve been anxiously awaiting news concerning the pricing of Sony Ericsson’s new compact versions of their flagship Xperia X10, namely the Xperia X10 Mini and the Xperia X10 Mini Pro – then we have some good news for you as we can now …

How well did the iPad do in its first week you might ask? It looks like Apple’s first tablet sold quite well. We talked about unofficial numbers already and it was pretty clear that the device will sell very well even if customers haven’t actually had the chance to experience …

Palm reported its Q3 2010 earnings on Thursday and the results, as expected, are poor. The Sunnyvale, California company reported $349.9 million in  revenue for the third quarter of 2010 which ended Feb. 26, 2010. Palm reported a net loss of $22 million in Q3 2010 which is lower than …

Ahead of Sprint acting to officially announce the 4G HTC Supersonic next week (we initially thought the Sprint HTC Supersonic would launch this week) its reassuring to see that the WiMax HTC Supersonic has gained an inventory listing with Sprint, thanks to an ‘indirect dealer’ having found its listing under …

Samsung is fond of these little low-end touchscreen phones, as they’ve got several of them, and unfortunately, they all run Samsung’s dreadful TouchWiz UI. The new Samsung S3370 has been spied and while it isn’t running Android or packing a 1Ghz processor, it provides a touchscreen phone for those who …

Cisco Systems, a major networking hardware manufacturer, has decided to stop developing any future WiMAX hardware, specifically in WiMAX base stations and radios. While they’ll still produce IP platform hardware for WiMax (for carriers to use WiMAX), they’ve decided to cut consumer-orientated networking gear for WiMAX.