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Phones

Mystery HTC Android Phone Appears, Discloses Nothing

7:20AM Jack Loftus | An HTC Android phone popped up today, offering few clues—aside from a few hastily snapped pics—about what it’s called, what it does, or what it wants. More »
Networks

Virgin Launches Mobile Wi-Fi Modem

12:30PM Nick Broughall | Imagine this: you’re part of a highly trained squad of three former SAS soldiers on a mission critical to the survival of this country. We’re talking top secret. Classified. You get to the rendezvous point in a regional centre of NSW, pull out your military-grade laptop to connect to the Internet to perform your mission. Your two soldier buddies do the same thing. You reach into your bag to pull out your wireless internet key, but there’s nothing there. You look to your squad members and realise that due to budget cuts, only mobile broadband solution was issued. Which means your mission fails and the terrorists win. If only you had a Virgin Mobile Wi-Fi modem… More »
Online

Mobile Web Finally Easy Enough For Old People, Females, Teens

9:00AM Jason Chen | Nielsen’s mobile web statistics show that, from July 2008 to July 2009, the demographic groups of 65+, female and 13-17 showed the most usage growth. The least? 18-24 year olds, who are all up in this mobile web already. More »
Phones

Sony Ericcson. Satio. Symbian. Synergy?

3:28PM Chris Oaten | Sony Ericsson has just announced released Satio, a handset designed to deliver the “ultimate” multimedia and communications experience. Our quotes, not theirs. More »
Gadgets

The Iropod Desk Is A Mobile Computer IV Injection

3:20AM Sean Fallon | You know those mobile IV stands you see people clutching to in hospitals? Well, the iropod or “Interactive Robotic Pod” is kind of like that, but it’s for another kind of disease — computer addiction. More »
Hardware

Roadmap For Intel’s First Nehalem-Based Mobile Chips Leaked

11:20AM Dan Nosowitz | Details for Intel’s new quad- and dual-core i7 and i5 chips have leaked in the form of a roadmap, so we’ve got some excellent specifics, including release dates and prices. More »
Software

Amazon Won’t Let Mobile Apps Use Its Product Info Anymore

9:40AM Matt Buchanan | Weird play by Amazon—they’ve changed their Product Advertising API so that mobile apps like Delicious Library, which pull product info from it, can’t use it. Its developers were forced to pull it from the App Store. More »
Networks

Internode Increases Its Data Quotas For Wireless Broadband

10:00AM Nick Broughall | Just over a month after launching their 3G broadband service running off the back of Optus, Internode has boosted the data limits for its customers. More »
Software

Skyfire Leaves Beta, Steals Windows Mobile Browsing Crown

11:00PM John Herrman | Skyfire, the server-compressed mobile browser that promises “the full web,” i.e. Flash support, on Windows Mobile and Symbian phones, has graduated from its excruciatingly long testing period. In a word, it’s great.
Software

Windows Mobile 7 May Get Gesture Controls After All

2:00AM Jason Chen | There was some question about whether or not Windows Mobile 7 may get those gestures we first saw a long, long time ago, but Mary-J has some slides that point to good news. More »