Toyota Reveals Multimedia Add-On

Toyota Motor Sales revealed big mobile technology news at the 2011  Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas detailing a new optional Internet package dubbed the Toyota Entune multimedia system.  Toyota Entune uses the customer’s mobile phone to employ in-vehicle programming that offers integrated and upgradeable entertainment, navigation, and information services.  Integration via the user’s [...]

BlackBerry-Apple Harmony

BlackBerry users are loyal because we sleep with the smartphone and have grown accustomed to the keyboard, which enables typing at standard work speed. When AT&T launched the Torch , CrackBerry users were hoping it would quell the desire to one day switch to the iPhone. That didn’t happen because the pressure to move the [...]

The CrackBerry Orgasm: RIM & AT&T Score

For as long as I’ve been a BlackBerry addict and as long as the iPhone existed, I’ve longed for a smartphone with a full physical QWERTY keyboard and touch capabilities. It has arrived and I hate the name. I have yet to test this gadget in person but AT&T folks can buy it starting August [...]

AT&T To Lose iPhone Exclusivity?

Apple is a cult and as such, can often apply the laws of magical realism to average products (iPad) but in the case of the iPhone, credit is due. So when Bloomberg News posted an article on Tuesday that the beloved touchscreen phone may really be coming to Verizon Wireless, I did a little dance. [...]

CrackBerry TV Love

Streaming TV for the BlackBerry is like all those things you never knew you needed that could change your life–a hot yet work appropriate polyester dress masquerading as silk, the bad-on-paper mate, the not-so-gentle-buzz… Each has a small impact on your life and however fleeting, adds value. Such is the case of BitBop, a media [...]

Budget Mobiles: Pantech’s Dual-Keyboard Smartphone

The presence of a touch and a tangible keyboard offers emerging mobile phone makers a leg up when competing with the most popular handset makers–Apple, Research in Motion and Motorola. For over a year, AT&T and South Korea’s third largest mobile phone company, Pantech, have been working to expand the Asian company’s presence in the [...]