Mobility Digest giveaway – Zibra OpenIt!

MobilityDigest.com Holiday 2010 Giveaway #1 We’ve been opening packages the wrong way guys!  This tool lets you easily open nearly ANY package that you come across.  That includes CDs and DVDs, plastic packaging, zip-ties, cardboard, and more.  The OpenIt! tool by The Zibra Company includes a heavy duty scissor tool as well as a retractable … Read more

AT&T faster by a “Wide Margin”

According to AT&T and a “comprehensive third-party drive test” conducted by Global Wireless Solutions (GWS), AT&T is the Fastest Mobile Broadband Carrier in the US. According to GWS, they downloaded a 45-minute (40mb) album from all carriers and AT&T was on average one minute faster than the next fastest competitor, which in this case by … Read more

Viacom Joins the Google TV Shakedown Squad

Damnit Viacom. Damnit. Why? All of you bastards for that matter, why? How did this even start? I’ll offer my theory in the form of a screenplay. Scene: There’s some douchebag at one of these networks. Yes I realize there are plenty of such douchebags; I’m talking about one in particular. After first reading about … Read more

Blast from the Past: Cingular 2125 Review

Wow, look how long ago this was! February 15th, 2006 was my first device review ever and was my first Windows Mobile Smartphone! I thought it would be fun to post this and see how many of you owned this device and what your first smartphone was: By Doug Smith (DSmithZ28) (Blogger/Reviewer) February 15th, 2006 … Read more

Well That Explains My Good Signal

I was doing laundry the other day, came down too early for the dryer transferal so I had to wait, looked at the wall with an odd amount of communications equipment, saw AT&T, T-Mobile, NEC, Nextel, UMTS and so on – and it hit me, I must have cell towers on my roof. Thoughts that … Read more

Skyfire “Retires” Legacy Browser Version 1.5 for WinMo

Well this comes as so surprise and just took a little longer than I expected to get an official announcement. Skyfire today has announced that it will “Retire” and “complete the phase out of our legacy v1.0 product on Windows Mobile and Symbian on December 31st, 2010 for remaining countries”. Skyfire had on intended on … Read more

Otterbox Case For Venue Pro Appears

The option to buy an Otterbox Dell Venue Pro case debuted on Dell.com today. The case is selling for $34.95 and is made from “a durable silicone mid-layer and one piece custom molded Polycarbonate”. Contrary to the “one piece custom molded” claim, the case looks to be a two piece set that snaps on either … Read more

Facebook announces unified messaging

Facebook announced on Monday that they will be rolling out a new messaging service which will allow you to consolidate all of your facebook instant messaging, SMS text messaging, and (new and optional) facebook emails into one central place on the website.  The service is currently available on an invite-only basis, and you can request an invitation … Read more

Man Suing Google over Google’s Google Toolbar

Almost a year ago Harvard professor Sean Silverthorne demonstrated that under certain circumstances the Google Toolbar when running on IE8 would not stop reporting users’ paths through the web even when users’ attempted to disable the toolbar. The bug, if you believe it wasn’t a conspiracy and can call it a bug, only affected IE8, … Read more