Section: Communications, Cellphones, Cellular Providers, Smartphones, Mobile  The Palm Pixi Plus was first made available through AT&T on June 6 and it sold for $50. On June 7, the pricing was erratic as at one point during the day it was priced at $0, but subsequently changed to it’s normal pricing of $50. Today, AT&T has officially lowered the price of the Palm Pixi Plus to $0. It is interesting that AT&T changed the price of the Pixi Plus so quickly after its launch, but this new move will probably convince some AT&T customers to switch to a free smartphone. Not to mention, the new price is on par with Verizon’s pricing for the Palm Pixi Plus. Like with any smartphone, however, if you decide to purchase the phone, you must agree to at least a $15 per month data plan mo data service and the normal 2 year contract.
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 Section: Communications, Cellphones, Cellular Providers, Smartphones 
Logically, one of the most popular gifts on Father’s day is probably a brand new cell phone. Hoping to capitalize on possible cell phone purchases on June 19 in anticipation of Father’s Day, T-Mobile might be making every single phone for free. The details are hazy at best and no one’s really sure how plans and upgrades will work towards eligibility of a new and free phone. According to TmoNews, a document containing the script of a new commercial was leaked and the script mentions that every phone is available for free, but the only catch is the customer must sign up for a family plan. Some of the phones mentioned in the commcercial script include the Garminfone, BlackBerry phones, HTC HD 2, and even the myTouch 3G (which could be sporting Android 2.2 by this time). Hopefully T-Mobile will confirm the news shortly and save a bunch of people the hassle of finding their father a gift on Father’s Day. If the rumor does pan out, it certainly looks like a great deal by T-Mobile. Read [TmoNews] Full Story » | Written by Natesh Sood for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 Section: Communications, Cellphones, Cellular Providers, Smartphones, Gadgets / Other, GPS/Navigation, Web, Web Apps, Websites, Google  A perk of the Android OS is the ability to use Google’s free turn-by-turn app, known as Google Maps Navigation. Unfortunately, many people in Europe have not been able to take advantage of turn-by-turn directions on their Android phone, but Google released Google Maps Navigation 4.2 today in eleven different countries. The eleven countries include Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland.
For users with Android phones running Android 1.6 or higher, you can take advantage of the new map database in these countries. In order to receive the 4.2 upgrade, you need to go to the Android Market and download the update to Google Maps. In addition, in a separate announcement, Google has integrated French, German, Italian, and Spanish languages for voice search. Voice Search allows you to speak out a destination in any compatible language and the app will try to match text to your spoken words. Unfortunately, voice commands with the four additional languages is only available for phone running Android 2.0 and higher. Read [Google] Full Story » | Written by Natesh Sood for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 Section: Audio, Car Audio, Communications, Accessories, Cellphones, Cellular Providers, Gadgets / Other, Transportation  When driving, having a reliable and quality Bluetooth device is a necessary piece of technology in order to practice safe driving. The new Bluetooth device from Moshi connects with your cell phone, providing the driver with a hands-free solution to talking on the phone. With its superior voice commands, users can set speed dials, check battery, redial the last called number, and cancel a call. In fact, the phrase “Hello Moshi” will prompt 13 different possible voice commands.
The unit is designed to attach to the car visor by use of magnets; therefore, it is probably easy to use between cars. To make calls easier to hear, the Bluetooth unit features noise suppression and echo cancellation technology. With 7 hours of battery life on a single charge, the unit should hopefully last through long car rides and long phone calls. As of now, the Voice Control Bluetooth Car Speakerphone is available online through Moshi’s website and retails for $79.99. Product [Moshi] Full Story » | Written by Natesh Sood for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 Section: Gadgets / Other, ebooks  Amazon has recently released the third in a series of stop-motion-style commercials for the Kindle. Basically what we have is another 30 second television commercial for the Kindle which is touting the ability to have “books in 60 seconds.” But when you watch the commercial what you see is a mother at her kids bus stop, the kid getting on the bus, the mother turning into a vampire and flying away then ending up on a beach and turning into an Egyptian who dives into the sand and goes underwater to begin scuba diving and ends up kissing a fish. Wow, quite a bit of fun for 30 seconds. Watch [YouTube] Via [Kindle on Facebook] Full Story » | Written by Robert Nelson for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 Section: Communications, Cellphones, Cellular Providers, Smartphones, Mobile  According to Reuters, Sprint has issued a statement regarding the number of 4G EVO phones it had sold on it’s opening weekend. Gadgetell reported, earlier this week, “In a press release from Sprint, it was announced that the single-day sales record for any phone ever released on Sprint was broken thanks to the EVO.” It seems, perhaps, not so much.
“We originally reported that the total number of HTC EVO 4G devices sold on launch day was three times the number of Samsung Instinct and Palm Pre devices sold over their first three days on the market combined. “We inadvertently erred in the comparison,” Sprint said in a statement on Tuesday.
What’s more, analysts are dumping on Sprint as well. “BTIG analyst Walter Piecyk said he was cutting his estimate for EVO sales in the first weekend to 150,000 from his prior estimate of 250,000 to 300,000.” That’s up to 1/2 fewer sales for you non-math types. With sold out signs at Sprint stores across the USA, the sales figures are not likely to grow much more. Read: [Reuters] Full Story » | Written by JG Mason for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 Section: Web, Web 2.0 / Social Networking 
Twitter continues it’s growth and is now hitting 2 billion tweets a month. It’s an impressive number no matter how you slice it. It works out to 741 tweets per second. Back in December of 2009, Twitter was pushing 1 million tweets a month. In the past 6 months, Twitter has managed to double their volume thanks to developers use of their APIs for things like foursquare. Can Twitter keep this growth going? These numbers are culled from Twitter usage, not the number of Twitter users. The data comes from Pingdom, and here is there methodology: “Methodology: To be able to calculate the number of tweets per month, we tracked down a tweet from the first couple of minutes of each month. Using the sequence numbers of these tweets, we could then calculate the number of tweets for each month. Since finding old tweets is more or less impossible with Twitter's own search engine, we used Google, then verified the tweet time stamp by looking at the tweet itself.” Read: [Pingdom] Image credit: Pingdom Full Story » | Written by JG Mason for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 Section: Communications, Cellphones, Cellular Providers, Smartphones, Mobile The rumors surrounding T-Mobile and the Samsung Galaxy S with Android have been floating around for a while now. That said, some are suggesting that the official announcement is coming soon and we may see a release on June 21st. Of course, with the earlier email teasing from Samsung it may be more realistic to believe June 29th at this point. But either way—it looks like the Samsung Galaxy S will be available with T-Mobile sooner as opposed to later. Anyway, this is still in the rumor stage, however it is coming from TmoNews and a “trusted source” which does lend some credibility. Read [Samsung Galaxy S] Via [TmoNews] Full Story » | Written by Robert Nelson for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 Section: Web, Web 2.0 / Social Networking  Watch out bit.ly! Twitter announced yesterday that it has begun testing its own URL shortener. The company says it's necessary to improve security and also to provide analytics for its Promoted Tweets service. A post on their blog explains how the service works:
All links shared on Twitter.com or third-party apps will be wrapped with a t.co URL. A really long link such as http://www.amazon.com/Delivering-Happiness-Profits-Passion-Purpose/dp/0446563048 might be wrapped as http://t.co/DRo0trj for display on SMS, but it could be displayed to web or application users as amazon.com/Delivering- or as the whole URL or page title.
As of now the service is being tested on some employee accounts but Twitter plans to roll it out to users later this summer. Should URL shortening services like bit.ly be sweating? They have good reason to. If the service works well and is seamlessly integrated into Twitter, users may find they have no reason to use any external services. It's not clear if Twitter's URL shortening service will be available for third party developers to use in their apps as well. If it is, that could make the future even grimmer for services like bit.ly. Will you use Twitter's new service or continue to use external ones? Post a comment and let us know! Read[CNet] Full Story » | Written by Sue Walsh for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 Section: Communications, Cellphones, Cellular Providers, Smartphones, Mobile Assuming we can believe this latest leaked image, then it looks like the T-Mobile myTouch 3G is not going to be getting an upgrade to Android 2.1. And while that may sound like bad news, its actually good because the myTouch 3G is skipping Android 2.1 and stepping right in with Android 2.2 Froyo though as for when this will happen remains a mystery. The details at this point simply state that the update is “coming soon” and that it will be Android 2.2. Other details that are mentioned include that the update will offer a modified version of the Faves Gallery, the Genius Button and full Exchange support for calendar, contacts and email. If nothing else, T-Mobile and their “no phones left behind” pledge sounds pretty nice about now. In the meantime, I am sure all current T-Mobile myTouch 3G owners will begin frequent checks to see if there is an update available. Via [TmoNews] Full Story » | Written by Robert Nelson for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 Section: Video, Content, Web, Downloads, Online Music/Video  Producers of the movie "Hurt Locker' filed court documents demanding a judge issue a court order forcing ISPs to turn over the names connected with over 50,000 IP addresses they say are guilty of illegally downloading the movie. Voltage Pictures says they must have the names to proceed with their case.
“This lawsuit cannot proceed without the limited discovery plaintiff seeks,” Voltage’s attorneys wrote in the most recent filing. “The ISPs are the only entities that can identify the otherwise anonymous defendants. Plaintiff will be unable to protect its copyrighted (film) from continued infringement.”
Time Warner and other ISPs have so far refused to cooperate, saying such a huge volume of requests would take up all of the company's resources and keep them from being able to trace IPs for law enforcement. Voltage obviously hasn't learned from the RIAA's attempts to do the same thing. Their demands were met with stiff resistance from ISPs and the courts and they eventually abandoned the quest. Read [CNet] Full Story » | Written by Sue Walsh for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 Section: Communications, Cellphones, Smartphones, Mobile Another pre-release video, actually two, of the clamshell-styled BlackBerry 9670 have surfaced giving us a pretty nice look at both the handset itself as well as OS 6.0. The nice part here is that that good look was mixed in with some confirmed specs. And those include that the 9670 Clamshell is running an early version of OS 6.0 as well as 5 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, microUSB port, microSD card slot, external display and a 480 x 360 internal display. Honestly, if you are at all interested in the BlackBerry 9670—these are the videos to watch. Check them out below, and then a click on the ‘read’ link may still be in order as there is lots more to check out in addition to the videos. Read [Dripher] Via [Gizmodo]   Full Story » | Written by Robert Nelson for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 Section: Web, Web 2.0 / Social Networking Twitter suffered an outage early yesterday that knocked both the main site and APIs offline for an hour. It's not known what caused the outage but according to their blog, the site is nearly back to normal: We had a system-side issue this morning starting around 0800 Pacific that resulted in twitter.com experiencing two 30 minute back-to-back incidents over roughly one hour. The problem has largely been addressed, but we aren't quite to 100 percent yet.
To Twitter's credit they've shown great improvement in the area of site stability. They logged 52 minutes of downtime last month, for a 99.88% uptime rate, and had only 37 minutes of downtime in April. This is in sharp contrast to last year when the site suffered 5 hours of downtime in August and 6 in October. Let's hope the improvement continues! Read [PCWorld] Full Story » | Written by Sue Walsh for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 Section: Communications, Cellphones, Smartphones, Mobile Samsung has recently sent out an email blast with an invitation to an upcoming event—one that is promising “the next generation in Android smart phones.” Unfortunately the details are pretty light and read as follows; Save the date!
Samsung Mobile brings you the next generation in Android smart phones.
New York City
Tuesday, June 29
6:00 pm EST *Event details forthcoming
That said, some have already begun speculating that this could be for the release of the Samsung Galaxy S, which is rumored to be on its way to T-Mobile here in the US. Full Story » | Written by Robert Nelson for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
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