Competitors

The FCC has just issued a $100,000 fine against Amp’d Mobile, the “pay as you go” MVNO aimed at the young adult market, for failing to protect consumers’ personal calling records from thieves.
Amp’d, who buys excess bandwidth on Verizon’s network is, is known to have phones and service that are “Cool as $#!+”. Looks [...]

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I didn’t become completely addicted to my BlackBerry until the 7100T came out. In fact, I carried a BlackBerry and a cell phone before I got the first SureType device. I like mobile devices that don’t look like scientific calculators and I have to admit, I really like the design of the Helio [...]

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Remember a week or so ago, we talked about the second round showdown of emoze and BlackBerry happening at CTIA? Well, yesterday was the day and emoze, as expected, won again.
As Steve St. Pierre puts it best, “nobody cares.” I don’t want to rewrite the same stuff that I wrote the last time [...]

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CNBC is reporting that a major Palm shareholder, who did not want to be identified or his stake disclosed, is expecting Motorola to acquire Palm for about $2 billion.
“They (Palm) generate a lot of cash,” the shareholder added. “Paying $2 billion in cash for a company generating $120 million in free cash flow is not [...]

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I was just reading an article over on the Washington Post that asks the question, “Why would Google want a phone?” The piece almost makes it seem like it is a mistake for Google to move into the already crowded mobile phone industry.
Commentaries have been mostly about rumors, and they lack a good motive [...]

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Taiwanese computer manufacturer Acer has decided to get into the smartphone game and has its sights squarely aimed at Research in Motion’s BlackBerry.
At what point will these companies understand that you can’t keep doing the same thing expecting to get a different result? Mark my words. Unless MS completely rewrites Windows Mobile from [...]

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Have you heard any rumors about the Google Switch, the new mobile phone that, supposedly, Google and Samsung are working on? We first heard about the Switch, or GPhone as some are referring to it, a couple of months ago.
Well, it looks like more Google phone rumors are surfacing all over the place…
Google Phone, [...]

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Apple is making sure that they get the word out that about the upcoming iPhone as they just aired an iPhone commercial during the Oscars. We will update this post with a video as soon as someone sticks one up on YouTube.
UPDATE: View the iPhone Oscars commercial after the jump…

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