Rumors had it that a Firefox Mobile alpha might be appearing in the near future. On the heels of those rumors, wouldn’t you know it, screenshots of the alpha (code named ‘Fennec’) have emerged. The screenshots are obviously taken on a Windows Mobile device as you can see above. I’m eager to see the alpha on other platforms… BlackBerry and iPhone… ahem… Firefox for the iPhone? Wouldn’t that be something? I highly doubt Apple would ...

3G USB dongle docking station, from T-Mobile Hexus Lifestyle have an interesting story, which they note originally came from The Register - essentially one about a docking station for 3G USB Broadband modems on T-Mobile! Now this sounds like one darn good idea: The Mobile Broadband Share Dock allows multiple users - although T-Mobile recommends no more than three of them at any one time - to share the HSDPA 3G connection that’s picked-up by ...

The press release for the BlackBerry Storm launch slipped embargo just before things got good and official last night, but official they did get, with lots of hands-on impressions and pictures. U.S., Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand will be getting the BlackBerry Storm “next month” through Verizon and Vodafone. Telus and Bell took the opportunity to announce the BlackBerry 9530 for Canada, available before the end of the year. So much for that supposed ...

Bluetooth headsets are plenty popular, but unless you’re a corporate powerhouse who’s on the phone nonstop or a yuppie too cool to hold a phone in their hand like the rest of us plebeians, headsets aren’t that practical to be wearing all the time. Honeywell’s recently-launched Airlite 900 aims to provide an alternative hands-free solution for the car. Measuring up to the size of a credit card, this little sucker offers quite a bit for ...

With Sprint’s WiMAX-based next-generation 4G (well, officially it’s a 3G network) XOHM mobile broadband network officially up and running in Baltimore, the US is poised to see 2-4Mbps download speeds and 1-2Mbps upload speeds blanketing the nation. Sprint has finally started redefining themselves as the premier data-centric carrier in the US, and manufacturers are rallying to give mobile Sprint mobile broadband users a variety of options for WiMAX-enabled laptops. Both Acer and Lenovo have both ...

There’s no doubt that Espoo is banking on their Nokia 5800 XpressMusic touchscreen smartphone (once known as the “Tube”) to take on the burgeoning touchscreen handset market with their touch-enabled S60 5th Edition mobile OS. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic brings to the table all those high-end goodies that we’re used to seeing from the Finnish handset manufacturer. With a 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual-LED flash, a 3.2-inch high-resolution touchscreen (pressure-based) ...

Alongside the launch of their first touchscreen device, the BlackBerry Storm, RIM has let loose some development tools to get started on the new device. Fresh APIs will allow programmers to mess around with the accelerometer, rotation, camera, touch screen, and home screen backgrounds. These should provide lots of opportunity for programmers to make some great stuff on the BlackBerry 9500, while still working within a familiar operating system. Not to be left out, compatibility ...

In the transition from their notification page to spiffy new Flash minisite, some lazy/sloppy/Apple-inducted marketers really couldn’t be bothered to find some BlackBerry OS pictures and decided to throw the iPhone interface in there instead. Now, we could give these guys the benefit of the doubt and presume that they were actually making a cheeky statement about RIM following in Apple’s footsteps… That is, if it weren’t for the BlackBerryNews watermark still sitting on the ...

Remember those good, old days when creating an iPhone ringtone was as easy as renaming a song in your iTunes library to a “.m4r” extension and then syncing it back with your iPhone? No? Well, trust us when we say that iPhone ringtones were never easier (or free-er) to create. That is, until iTunes 8. With the release of iTunes 8 - which brought with it Genius Playlists - creating iPhone ringtones has once again ...

Mozilla’s mobile browser is due to begin its alpha stage before the end of the year, according to CEO John Lilly. Code-named Fennec, the mobile version of Firefox has a rapidly raising bar to meet and exceed if they want to establish the same presence they’ve managed on the desktop. The success of full touchscreen devices are hinging largely on the browsing experience, and with competitors like Opera Mini getting preloaded on the likes of ...

Convergence this, convergence that. In the mobile world it’s all about converging multiple devices/features into a single, mobile device. The latest converged technology concept comes to us from Boston University’s College of Engineering. Using a National Science Foundation grant, researchers are looking to converge wireless data communications into a lowly light-bulb. The engineers hope to use low-power LED light-bulbs as an optical wireless network of sorts. Rather than using RF (radio frequency) wireless technology to ...

If you run a Mac, chances are you are aware of the lack of BlackBerry syncing, app loading, backup and other basic services that are available to all working on PC’s. Frustrating to say the least. Looks like RIM is finally going to step up to the plate. RIM has been working hard to bring all of the good mac folks up to speed in the BlackBerry world. And now, new looks of the BlackBerry ...

Web-apps promised to make native mobile applications a dying breed. But, with web-apps requiring a constant wireless connection and the need to run within a mobile web browser, native applications are still running strong. But, with the iPhone 2.1 OS, Apple has taken the first step to making web-applications just as powerful and convenient as natively installed mobile applications. A little-known feature has apparently been rolled out with the iPhone 2.1 OS update, enabling users ...

If you’re anything like us, you’re probably fighting a bit of a drinking problem and a debilitating gadget addiction waiting in hand-wringing anticipation for T-Mobile to go live with the first-ever Android-powered smartphone - the T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream). T-Mobile made their T-Mobile G1 announcement not too long ago, but it seems like an eternity until the carrier actually launches the Android-powered G1 in the US. And, as great as they are at keeping us ...

eWallet category screen In our push to converge all sorts of devices and daily activities into fewer and fewer gadgets, we seem to have overlooked the wallet. With memberships to all kinda of organizations, accounts at all manner of institutions, and multiple identification cards, our wallets are brimming with pieces of plastic and paper taking up space. Chalk another one up for the mobile revolution. An iPhone application makes it possible to clean out your ...

iPhone 3G Top US smartphone In a move that takes a page straight out of Motorola’s RAZR playbook, Apple has rocketed to the top of the US sales-charts with their iPhone 3G. According to NPD, Apple has seen its iPhone 3G become the No. 2 best-selling handset in the US. Motorola’s RAZR V3 still takes top billing as the overall best-selling mobile phone in the US. With massive iPhone 3G sales spurred by the iPhone ...

The folks at KDDI have started showing off a new prototype LCD display targetted for use on mobile phones. The new display will be capable of showing 3D images. The display interlaces two images together… one image for the left eye, and one for the right. With the 2 images in a slightly different position, the stereoscoping LCD display tricks your eye into thinking there’s a real 3D image right in front of them. KDDI ...

I’m not sure should be categorize this as a good or bad usage of the technology. Maybe the right word is “weird,” you be the judge… A Spanish mortuary has created a new service to allow mourners to send condolences to grieving relatives by SMS. Madrid based M30 mortuary is publishing daily lists in local newspapers of those who have died. Each of the deceased has a code number, which must be included along with ...

Flickr has a new mobile website, which now works much better on the iPhone/iPod Touch. Located at m.flickr.com, the revamped mobile site is rich in JavaScript usage, assuring the whole page doesn’t refreshes that often. Rather, Yahoo-owned image service serves results in the same window, making photo sets easier to browse. In addition, all photos are automatically scaled to fit the screen. This sounds cool, but on the other hand it’s bad in that sense ...

Nokia will soon start testing the new version of its PC Suite software and is inviting interested individuals to participate in the trial. The official wording goes like this: By becoming one of our testers, you’ll get the chance to try out the new Nokia PC Suite features and changes ahead of other users. Your feedback will then be used to help us develop Nokia PC Suite and make it even better. To register for ...