The Register - Comms: MobileBiting the hand that feeds ITTop-secret Android handset surfaces on YouTube- August 11, 2008 A rare moment of openness for Google's open OS Defying Google's pathologically closed approach to its open mobile platform, someone has posted video of a top-secret Android phone to YouTube.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/11/google_android_video_hits_... 3G to hit 12 million Chinese by 2012- August 10, 2008 So they can watch the London Olympics Analysts EJL Wireless Research estimate that more than 12 million Chinese will be using TD-SCDMA handsets by 2012, though they also claim that Huawei won't be providing much of the infrastructure to support them.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/10/chinese_3g/ Join LiMo, avoid a patent pantsing from the big lads- August 8, 2008 Membership has its privileges LinuxWorld For all its talk of openness, just a quarter of the code in the LiMo Foundation's mobile platform is open source, making it a minefield to navigate in terms of protected patents - 300,000 patents to be precise.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/08/limo_opensource_patents/ Man buys $1,000 worth of iPhone pixels by accident- August 7, 2008 'I blame everyone but myself' An American man has accidentally spent $999.99 on an iPhone app that does nothing but display a glowing red ruby.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/07/poor_man_buys_i_am_rich_ap... T-Mobile dates BlackBerry Bold launch- August 7, 2008 RIM's first HSDPA 3G BlackBerry coming next month T-Mobile will launch RIMs first tri-band HSDPA 3G handset into the UK next month. Also dubbed the Bold, the network provider will release this on its Business 1-Plan.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/08/07/tmobile_bold_september_lau... Apple's secret iPhone app blacklist- August 7, 2008 Cloak-and-dagger app wipes imminent A researcher has discovered a URL buried in the iPhone hardware that appears to point to an application blacklist - potentially allowing Apple to retroactively remove applications it decides no longer fit the bill.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/07/iphone_remote_app_wipe/ Deutsche Telecom sees income dip- August 7, 2008 And UK mobe subs stand still Deutsche Telecom is reporting a good first half of 2008, with income dipping only slightly by three per cent to 30.1bn, though that can be "adjusted" into an "organic" increase of 0.3 per cent. This produced an adjusted net profit of 1.4bn.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/07/deutsche_telecom_results/ Nokia's Trolltech renews Windows mobile vows- August 6, 2008 No Symbian monogamy LinuxWorld Nokia-owned Trolltech has re-committed its Qt cross-platform application framework and toolkit to Windows.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/06/trolltech_windows/ ColorWare's colourful iPhone 3G- August 6, 2008 Grab yourself a multi-tone phone Almost everyone owns an iPhone 3G now, or so it seems sometimes. So if you want to stand out from the Apple crowd, but arent willing to give up the phone, why not have your handset custom huedhttp://go.theregister.com/feed/www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/08/06/colorware_iphone_3g/ Too much money Bling your iPhone with the $1000 app- August 6, 2008 Red sparkly thing only a grand to you iPhone users can now buy themselves a picture of a red gem to display on their handsets, purely to demonstrate they've got enough money to throw $999.99 at such a pointless gesture.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/06/iphone_pointless/ |