Mobility Digest – Page 491 – Mobile Technology News

Apple finally approves TrapCall to unmask blocked calls

April 7, 2016April 4, 2011 by Doug Smith

If you are having issues with blocked calls and want to find out who is calling you, then check out this app that has finally been approved by Apple and is already available for Android. It’s called TrapCall by TelTech Systems and it will help you put and end to blocked and private calls. The … Read more

AT&T raises prices on early upgrade for smartphones

October 7, 2025April 4, 2011 by Doug Smith

As the AT&T Death Star approaches T-Mobile for a final assault and to demonstrate the full capability of their battle station, they are raising their prices on early upgrade customers wanting to get the next best thing in smartphones before their two year indentured service is up. AT&T has confirmed to BGR that off-contract early … Read more

Epsilon security breach puts millions of email addresses at risk

April 7, 2016April 4, 2011 by Doug Smith

I bet the first thing you thought when you read this is how in the world could something like this happen to a company like Epsilon that handles tons of very large clients like Best Buy, Citigroup, Barclays, TiVo, and in my case in this mornings email, Hilton Honors: Here’s what they had to say … Read more

ASUS Tablet: Like That. But Better.

July 31, 2017April 4, 2011 by Doug Smith

I just posted an article yesterday about Apple releasing their first commercial ad for the iPad 2. Like it or not, iPad is the Big Dawg and all other tablets are trying to nip at it’s heels. Closest contended would be Android’s Honeycomb Tablets like the Motorola XOOM, but as innovative as the user experience … Read more

Nokia Astound Can Be Run Over a Bus and Survive–Now Give Me One With WP7

April 7, 2016April 4, 2011 by David K

A lot of the excitement of the Nokia-Microsoft relationship is the build quality of Nokia devices. Just check this out as a bus drives over an Astound twice. The video is also shot using an Astound (Nokia has great cameras). You also see they their screens get entirely washed out in bright light though. In … Read more

WP7 Root Tools alpha released (Homebrew)

September 2, 2012April 4, 2011 by Patrick Kortendick

We’ve been corresponding with Heathcliff74 on XDA over the last few days, and he’s let us know that his newest tool, WP7 Root Tools is now available. This tool (unlike other registry editors such as TouchXperience) allows for more access in the registry of Samsung WP7 devices, making previously-unavailable keys now editable. Ultimately, this tool … Read more

Apple releases first iPad 2 commercial “We Believe”

April 7, 2016April 4, 2011 by Doug Smith

With demand soaring and Apple finally releasing the Apple iPad 2 overseas, they must have felt the timing was right to crank out a little TV commercial featuring the iPad 2. In the first commercial by the Cupertino Crew for the iPad 2, they kept it pretty simple but made sure they hit their buzz … Read more

Mobility Digest Review: Hornettek D-Slim Optical Drive

October 7, 2025April 3, 2011 by Kristofer Brozio

We are all about mobility here as I’m sure you may have noticed, the name may have given it away right?! Seriously though we live in a mobile society and we travel light, or at least I try to so one of the things I take with me is a netbook when I need more computing power than my phone can offer. One drawback to a netbooks is the lack of optical drive as I’m sure you know, so we need to either put everything on the hard drive, use a USB drive or purchase a portable optical drive. Today I’m taking a look at a portable DVD drive from a company called Hornettek, and it’s called the D-Slim. The drive is very nice looking with its brushed metal covering, and it connects via USB as you might expect. I put it up against my current drive from Samsung to see how it compares.

Windows Phone 7 users: What version are you running?

April 7, 2016April 3, 2011 by Patrick Kortendick

As most of the world sits in WP7 update limbo right now (especially the U.S.), our staff here at Mobility Digest is still split on the versions that we’re running on our phones. Some of us have received the new updates naturally, some have forced it, and some are still running the stock 7004 version. … Read more

Windows Phone Support Tool analyzes and fixes update errors

October 7, 2025April 3, 2011 by Patrick Kortendick

A new tool released by Microsoft is making WP7 user’s update errors much less of a headache. The tool (released on their support site) fixes the following error codes: 800705B4: The timer ran out on what we were trying to do. 80180080: We couldn’t update your phone because your operating system might be corrupt. Several … Read more

Windows Phone 7 MarketPlace Numbers, Including My Own Comments

October 7, 2025April 2, 2011 by Gil Bouhnick

Ever since Windows Phone 7 was announced (about a year ago) I have changed my mind a few times about it, switch from iPhone back to BlackBerry, then to Android, back to iPhone, and finally landed – my currently favorite phone is Samsung Omnia 7 and after a rough start I really love it. All … Read more

The Old Lady and the iPad

April 7, 2016April 2, 2011 by Doug Simmons

Got an old lady friend slash client who had one of those careers that let her manage to dodge learning how to type or use a computer. So around age eighty or so, and after having developed a moderate stage of multiple sclerosis, she decided to retain my services to get her online and communicating … Read more