Archives for March 2011

Google and Sprint is partnering up to bring a seamless integration of Google Voice to Sprint users. The new service will allow Sprint users to use Google Voice features without porting their number over, or changing their number.

What this allows users to do is take advantage of all the features that GV offers, such as low cost international calls, one number for many devices as well as transcribed voice mail. When someone calls a sprint number, the office phone, home phone and Gmail account. You can fully configure this so that depending on the time of day, you can set a different phone to ring. [Read more…]

We hear today that Amazon could be launching the Android App Store as early as tomorrow. Last week, we saw a brief glimpse of what it might look like, which we assumed was in preparation for an upcoming launch.

The Amazon App store was first mentioned in September last year and was described as being Amazon’s take on the app store. What that means is that apps will be curated by Amazon reviewers, and if apps pass the test, they are allowed in the store.

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Nokia has begun working on the new Windows Phone 7 smartphones and expects to launch by the end of this year.

The confirmation comes from the Nokia CEO himself, Stephen Elop, when being interviewed by Reuters. [Read more…]

To complement the announcement of the new T-Mobile Sidekick 4G, the company has now pushed out a hands on video of the new device which shows off the features and what it is capable of doing.

A few things to note include the new sliding mechanism that’s described in the video. T-Mobile decided to keep a lot of the physical aspects the same as the previous version, in that it has four buttons around the screen as well as a 5 row QWERTY keyboard and the slide out screen. [Read more…]

Users are reporting that AT&T are contacting them in regards to tethering plans. The text message, and in some cases an email, seems to be targeting those that have jailbroken their iPhone and basically says:

Did you know tethering your Smartphone to a computer requires a tethering plan?

From what can be figured out, it seems to have been sent to users who use the MyWi to get free tethering rather than using an official “tethering plan” that AT&T charges for. It also seems to be going to those users who fit the above, and have the old unlimited data plans. [Read more…]

Yesterday, some results were published that showed the iPhone 4 was slower than the Google Nexus S in terms of page load speeds. The test data was gathered by looking up 45,000 web pages on each device. Today though, we hear that the tests were actually flawed due to the app used on the iPhone not utilizing new features of the Safari browser that was updated in iOS 4.3.

When testing with iOS 4.3, the company used UIWebView which unfortunately, didn’t benefit from the same speed increases as the Safari browser. What this means is that an accurate picture wasn’t gathered about the iPhone browser and thus, making it an unfair test. [Read more…]