WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

Best Buy Offers Free Side Shield 4 iPhone 4 Attenuation

2010-07-28T21:12:11Z

Best Buy customers can get a free Side Shield for the iPhone 4. Starting today,Best Buy iPhone 4 owners can get clear, unobtrusive Side Shield from invisibleSHIELD from ZAGG thatwas designed to address issues with antenna attenuation.

This program will be available free of charge, including installation, to anyone who purchased or will purchase an iPhone 4 from Best Buy and will be extended to all existing Reward Zone customers. The solution will also be available to the general public for the retail price $9.99, including installation. The Side Shield can also be purchased directly from Zagg online.

]]> Everyone can take advantage of 20% off of any iPhone 4 case through August 7.

"Consumers are looking for immediate solutions and the Side Shield is a great option," said Scott Moore, vice president of marketing for Best Buy Mobile. "At the same time, we know that customers are always looking for ways to personalize and protect their smart phones. That's why we are so focused on having multiple options--people want to choose what's right for them."

Apple has a program where it is offering free bumpers via an app for iPhone 4 owners. Wireless and Mobile News' "Review of Reviews" of the iPhone 4 (AT&T) showed many good features, but also concerns for the limited data plans as well as signal attenuation.

More articles in the iPhone Category. Consumer Reports is not giving the iPhone their seal of approval and also found Apple's claim that the signal bars were wrongly calculated was bogus

PC Mag Test Refutes Apple's Droid X Death Grip Attenuation Test

2010-07-28T20:20:19Z

PC Magazine tested several smartphones for death grip signal loss and other than the iPhones. Their tests revealed a little attenuation on the Droid Incredible and Droid X. The Droid X required a super two-handed death grip.

Sascha Segan noted "... we also just couldn't get the Droid X's signal to drop using one hand. As you can see in our video, we had to completely cover the body of the Droid X in an awkward, two-handed grip to get the phone's signal to drop. That's very different from the one-handed grip we found on the iPhone 4."

]]> The following video shows vey ittle signal drop with the Droid Incredible and Droid Incredible. The worst death grip however was on the jelly donut and the banana. The land line handset showed not attentuation at all.

The latest ad for the Droid X claims that because it has two antenna, it does not need a a jacket/case. The myTouch 3G Slide showed the greatest signal change. Apple posted on its website a video showing attenuation on the Droid X from gripping the phone.

The well-reviewed Droid X backed by the Verizon Wireless network is considered to be one the best competitors of the iPhone 4. Droid X owners use five times more data than other Verizon customers.

Android News: Zio Coming to Cricket - Reservations Taken

2010-07-28T20:00:00Z

It's about time that a low-cost all you can get prepaid carrier offers an Android smartphone. The Kyocera Zio M6000 was revealed at CTIA earlier this year. The Cricket website is now taking reservations for the Zio and offering free overnight shipping coupons.

It may be the first Android phone to come to a prepaid low-cost carrier, Cricket. The tri-band CDMA EVDO Rev.handset has Wi-Fi, Stereo Bluetooth and GPS, 3.5-inch screen and 3.2 megapixel camera with video capture at 30 frames per second.

Other features include a digital compass, accelerometer, and support for microSD cards. No price has been shown yet for the Kyocera Zio, It has been suggested the the Android Kyocera Zio would cost between $169 and $219.

]]> Cricket's new national service plans start at $30 and all plans offer unlimited nationwide talk. Other service plans at $40, $50 and $60 offer additional features including unlimited text, picture and video messaging; mobile Web, navigation, mobile video entertainment and 411 capabilities.

For customers choosing service plans of $40 or more, Cricket now offers unlimited international long distance calling to landlines in select cities and towns in more than 100 countries (including unlimited calls to landlines in Mexico) and unlimited text messages to Mexico for an additional $15 a month.

Moto Makes Case that Droid X Doesn't Need a Case/Jacket

2010-07-28T19:39:19Z

On the Motorola facebook page, they revealed the next Droid X, ad and Droid X does not do jackets and doesn't need a special case to cut down on attenuation. Their new ad points out that the Droid X has an antenna on the top and the bottom.

The ad states,

At Motorola, we believe a customer shouldn't have to dress up their phone for it to work properly. That's why the DROID X

comes with a dual antenna design. The kind that allows you to hold the phone any way you like to make crystal clear calls without a bulky phone jacket. For us it's just one of those things that comes as a given when you've been making mobile phones for over 30 years.

The Motorola Droid X advert also points out the Android 2.2 FroYo is coming to the Droid X in the late summer. Rumors have been circulation when Droid X owners will get the coveted update. Droid Life erroneously reported July 19, while others suggest next week. When the update appears on the Verizon support page then we will know it is ready-to-go.

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The well-reviewed Droid X backed by the Verizon Wireless network is considered to be one the best competitors of the iPhone 4. Droid X owners usefive times more data than other Verizon customers.

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Mobile Video Peaks @ 10:00 pm, YouTube Top Video Source, Says Bytemobile

2010-07-28T18:57:41Z

Mobile video can really put a strain on networks. AT&T recently capped it's data plans while Verizon continues to offer unlimited data. Verizon's latest large screen phone the well-reviewed Droid X, offers users on-demand BlockBuster video, with Droid X owners using five times more data than other Verizon phone users. A report from Bytemobile shows how video affects network resources and how people make video choices.

Bytemobile's latest 2010 Mobile Minute Metrics report looked at video usage on network bandwidth. They found that the most popular peak time for video viewing is 10:00pm, there's stalling on even fast networks, users prefer lower quality video to avoid stalling, optimization rules, and YouTube is the top video source. T

The top video resolutions are 176 x 144 - 480 x 360 x with 60.9% and 480 x 360 -
640 x 480 with 34%. Click on chart above to see video types.

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Mobile video consumption peaks around 10:00 p.m., at which point networks experience the most congestion and users experience the most video stalling.
Stalling occurs on the fastest of networks, underscoring the probability that not even next-generation network technology will be sufficient to satisfy user demand for data services.
Mobile users opt for lower-quality videos to avoid stalling and enjoy a better media experience.
Optimization significantly reduces video stalling, thereby noticeably improving the user experience.
YouTube accounts for 36% of the total video traffic on wireless networks worldwide. Adult content and 'long tail' internet content account for the rest.

To download the 2Q 2010 Mobile Minute Metrics report, please click here.

Android an' Droid Apps Less Likely to Retreive Data, Says App Genome Project

2010-07-27T22:04:37Z

The average smartphone user has 22 apps on their smartphone and 50 Billion apps will be downloaded by 2012. While 28% of the apps in iTunes are free, 64% of Android apps are free. These fun facts have been reported by the App Genome Project.

The project also shows differences in sensitive data that is accessed by Android and iPhone apps as well as an explosion of third party code in apps across both platforms.

Their survey showed: differences in the sensitive data that is being accessed by Android and iPhone applications, as well as a proliferation of third party code in applications across both platforms. Stats include:

29% of free applications on Android have the capability to access a user's location, compared with 33% of free applications on iPhone
Nearly twice as many free applications have the capability to access user's contact data on iPhone (14%) as compared to Android (8%)
47% of free Android apps include third party code, while that number is 23% on iPhone*

* Examples of third party code includes code that enables mobile ads to be served and analytic tracking for developers.

]]> Previously,Android was releasing user location data into logs in a way that made it accessible to other applications. That vulnerability has been addressed by Google and is fixed in all versions of Android, v.2.2 and beyond.

At the Black Hat security conference this week, Lookout security researchers will release the full findings from the App Genome project and also demonstrate new vulnerabilities caused by inadvertent developer practices and platform issues.

BlackBerry News: New Tweaks to BlackBerry OS 6 - Switches, Quickies and Uni Search

2010-07-27T21:39:49Z

Changes in the new BlackBerry OS have been revealed giving us new insight to the BlackBerry 6 expected to launch on the new BlackBerry 9800. The new OS offers new ways to switch using the Navigation Bar, quick access areas, and Universal Search.

There are two new 'quick access areas' that are built into the Home Screen. One is allows quick access to the Connections, Alarm and Options screens which people frequently want to adjust or change - with one click from the Home Screen.

The other quick access area on the Home Screen for the most recent messages (email, text, BlackBerry Messenger), phone calls, appointments, Facebook and Twitter notifications. This is done by by tapping the Notification Bar in the middle of the top of the Home Screen. If you click on the Notification Bar, it drops down to show who the notifications are from, along with the first few words from the title. This feature makes it much easier to prioritize which notifications you want to respond to first.

]]> In the new BlackBerry 6, there are now five separate views that a user can easily switch between using the Navigation Bar, depending on their preference and the type of information they're looking for. These include:

Frequent- where your most frequently-used apps are automatically placed for easy acces.
Favorites- where you can choose to add not just your favorite applications, but also to create shortcuts to particular Contacts or web pages (making the important people and information in your life just one click away!)
Media-, for all your media-centric content.
Downloads", for all the apps you download.
All - this is a big vertical list that you can scroll through, similar to the Home Screen today. Users will be able to simply slide left and right (the touch-screen or trackpad, depending on your BlackBerry smartphone model) to quickly get to any of these new view panes.

BlackBerry Phone Home Screen with Universal Search

The BlackBerry Home Screen also now includes a powerful Universal Search application. It's never been easier to find content on your BlackBerry smartphone, regardless of whether you're looking for contacts, messages, music, pictures or appointments. Universal Search was designed to be tightly integrated with your BlackBerry smartphone: simply tap on the Search icon in the top right-hand corner of the Home Screen - or just start typing - and it searches the whole device. As you type, we instantly bring back your results using icons.

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BlackBerry Review of News: New BlackBerry (9800?)Slider, Slides to AT&T August 3

2010-07-27T21:07:27Z

Members of the press and blogosphere have been invited to a RIM and AT&T event next week on August 3.

The event hints a new BlackBerry smartphone which leads invitees and the likes to speculate that the BlackBerry will be the BlackBerry 9800 slider with BlackBerry OS 6, QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, GPS, 5MP camera with and 4GB of internal memory (expandable via a MicroSD card slot).

It has been suggested that the BlackBerry 9800 slider will be hybrid touchscreen/keyboard phone with both touchscreen and QWERTY input.

The weird thing about our review of news on this topic we actually found an online retailer taking orders for the A&T BlackBerry 9800 with the following specs, A2DP, Bluetooth, Calendar, Candy Bar Form, Edge, Email Client, GPS / Location, High-Speed Data GPRS, Megapixel Camera, Memory Card Slot, MP3, Qwerty Keyboard, Slide Form, Smartphone, Speaker Phone, Touch Screen, Video Capture, Video Clip, Voice Dialing, Wi-Fi. They do note that the BlackBerry 9800 has not been released or announced yet.
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We also noticed that leaked photos suggest that the BlackBery Slider 9800 will come in white, black and red.

The BlackBerry Slider 9800 has also been referred to as the BlackBerry Torch and BlackBerry Oasis. It has also been suggested that the BlackBerry 9800 will launch on the AT&T network on August 15.

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iPhone Apps: Star Trek Captain's Log with Social Networking

2010-07-27T20:47:44Z

Star Date Now: There is now the Star Trek Captain's Log app for iPhone 4. The Captain's Log app transforms the iPhone 4 into a Star Trek Captains communicator. Their website claims "Open your Star Trek communicator to begin logging voice recordings, pictures, and GPS mapping locations of your voyages. Choose to share your logs with friends and social networks or keep a log private. As a member of the Starfleet Command, your mission is to explore, seek out new life and civilizations and boldly go where no one has gone before."

Using the Captain's Log communicator, users capture voice recordings, text entries, take photos and map GPS locations of their voyages as they travel. Officers select their preferred Enterprise class level, whether taking the role of Captain, Engineering, Science/Medical, Enterprise, or assuming the identity an enemy Romulan or Klingon officer.

]]> Captain's Log app users can share their logs with friends on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and via email, with other Captain's Log iPhone users, or choose to keep logs as private personal records.

To deliver the most advanced Starfleet communicator to date, Captain's Log utilizes iPhone 4 features including front-facing camera, retina display, multitasking capabilities and gyroscope support, showcasing a 3D model of the Starship Enterprise.

The application works with iPhone and iPod Touch devices running iOS 4.

The Captain's Log application for iPhone 4 is now available on the Apple App Store for $1.99,

Text Doubles, Twitter Free Only, Newspapers Decline, Says USC Digital Future

2010-07-27T20:04:15Z

The latest survey from USC's Annenberg Digital Future Study shows the decline of the newspapers even further and the unwillingness to pay for currently free services such as Twitter.

49% of those surveyed said that use micro-blogging (Twitter) however, when asked if they would pay for Twitter none answered yes.

Users don't want to pay for content and don't click on it either. They found that half of Internet users never click on Web advertising, and 70 percent said that Internet advertising is "annoying," while 55 percent of users said they would rather see Web advertising than pay for content.

"Online providers face major challenges to get customers to pay for services they now receive for free" said Jeffrey I. Cole, director of the Center for the Digital Future at USC's Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.

]]> Mobile Phone and Text Findings of the 2010 Digital Future Study:

For the first time, the Internet is used by more than 80 percent of Americans, reaching 82 percent. Americans now spend an average of 19 hours per week online.
Text messaging has more than doubled in just two years: Overall, mobile users who send text messages average 38 messages per day, compared to 16 in 2007. However, texting is almost exclusively a medium for younger subscribers--the number of messages sent per day is highest among users under 18, reaching 81 per day in the current study compared to 33 per day in 2007.
More than 70 percent of mobile users credit their phone with helping them to maintain their social relationships, up from 64 percent in 2008.

As far as opinions about technology go, it make life better even if it is not reliable.

The percentage of users age 16 and older who said that communication technology makes the world a better place declined to 56 percent, down from its peak of 66 percent in 2002.
Sixty-one percent of users said that only half or less of online information is reliable --a new low.
Fourteen percent of Internet users said that only a small portion or none of the information online is reliable, with only 46 percent of users expressing some trust or a lot of trust in the web in general. Nine percent of users have no trust in the Internet.
Eighteen percent of Internet users said they stopped a subscription to a newspaper or magazine because they now get the same or related content online - down slightly from 22 percent in 2008, but nevertheless a strong indication that print newspapers can be sacrificed by a significant percentage of Internet users.
Only twenty-two percent of users who read newspapers said they would not miss the print edition of their newspaper.

For highlights of the 2010 Digital Future Project or to order a copy of the complete report, visit www.digitalcenter.org.

Android an' Droid News: Google Mining Music for Digital Publishing

2010-07-27T19:40:04Z

The New York Post reports that Google's Andy Rubin has been in negotiations with music digital publishing firms and rapidly acquiring rights to music.

Andy Rubin is the Vice President of Engineering at Google and oversees the development of Android.

It is believed that Google will launch a music service using technology it obtained when it bought Simplify Media. The Post contends that because of negotiations with Harry Fox Music, for 27,000 sonsg, Google Music could open as early as this November. It May, at the Google I/O Conference, a streaming music was demoed by Google.
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Apple's iTunes dominates the digital music market with 28 per cent of the market, followed by Amazon's 28% and Wal-Mart's 12%.

Getting music onto Android phones requires a USB cable and manually copying the files or users can buy music from Amazon.

When you look at Rubin and the Android robot symbol and squint you can see their similarities. The designer of the Android symbol told our editor who commented that "The Android is so cute," also referred to cute.

In order to help Droid by Motorola users, Motorola offers Medialink software for syncing music another option is doubleTwist for music syncing with iTunes.

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Library of Congress Jaibreaks Jailbreaking 4 iPhone, Smartphones and Cells

2010-07-26T21:12:08Z

The Electronic Frontier Foundation claimed a victory with the Library of Congress DMCA, making it okay for owners to jail-break and unlock locked phones.

In its reasoning in favor of EFF's jailbreaking exemption, the Copyright Office rejected Apple's claim that copyright law prevents people from installing unapproved programs on iPhones: "When one jailbreaks a smartphone in order to make the operating system on that phone interoperable with an independently created application that has not been approved by the maker of the smartphone or the maker of its operating system, the modifications that are made purely for the purpose of such interoperability are fair uses."

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"The Copyright Office recognizes that the primary purpose of the locks on cell phones is to bind customers to their existing networks, rather than to protect copyrights," said Granick. "The Copyright Office agrees with EFF that the DMCA shouldn't be used as a barrier to prevent people who purchase phones from keeping those phones when they change carriers. The DMCA also shouldn't be used to interfere with recyclers who want to extend the useful life of a handset."

Along with the exemptions that EFF championed, several other DMCA exemptions were expanded, granted or narrowed including one for documentary filmmakers and college-level educators, as well as some for security researchers.

More than a million iPhone owners are said to have "jailbroken" their handsets in order to change wireless providers or use applications obtained from sources other than Apple's own iTunes "App Store," and many more have expressed a desire to do so. But the threat of DMCA liability had previously endangered these customers and alternate applications stores.

Android an' Droid App Update: Google Maps 4.4 for Android Places Places with Details

2010-07-26T20:53:35Z

The latest version Google Maps for Android mobile 4.4, offers new features - a Places icon to find places nearby, business hours/details and tapping the Navigations icon shows live traffic and 3D maps.

The dedicated Places icon that lets user quickly look up nearby places and pick a place to go using updated Place Pages,

On Android-powered phones with Google Maps 4.4, you'll find the new Places icon in the app launcher with the rest of your apps. Google suggests that users press and drag it right onto your home screen to use it when you're looking for a restaurant, shoe store, movie theater or any other type of local business. Users now get a detailed list of all the nearest places and can choose one to learn more about it on its Place Page.
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The updated Place Page shows informations about a place, whether you're wandering into a new restaurant or deciding from your couch. In addition to photos and reviews, Place Pages now have a bunch of new details, such as prices, parking and menu links to inform your quest for the perfect steak. Search results list now highlights business opening hours in addition to compass direction and distance .Google Maps for mobile 4.4 is available now for Android 1.6 and above. Just search for Google Maps in Market

iPhone App: fabulis LBS Connects Fabbits - Big Gay World in Pocket

2010-07-26T20:35:07Z

Gay men social networking service fabulis now has an iPhone app. Fabulis members, also known as 'fabbits,' can instantly connect with people nearby, engage in real-time chat with members who are online via the iPhone or web, and to browse more than 71,000 gay-relevant local events.

To celebrate, fabulis is awarding anyone who writes either a detailed blog post on their personal blog, or submits a video to their YouTube Channel a free fabulis t-shirt.

Also unique to the app is the "shake-it" or random-friend-maker feature - a colorful slot machine style screen that when shook, connects users based on their proximity. fabulis is available free of charge at www.fabulis.com and in the Apple iPhone App Store.
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The default view, or the "nearby" tab, lists fabulis members in order of proximity to the user's current GPS-based location. Unique to this app is the ability to display members who are both using fabulis on the iPhone or Web - utilizing GPS for mobile users and GEO-IP for Web-based users. Members can also manually click to change their current location to anywhere in the world.
The "following" view provides an alphabetical directory of the members the user is following. This enables the users to carry around their own global gay rolodex.
The browse button enables the user to view members by their fabulis ranking (fabulis ranking is determined by votes from other members and the user's own activities on fabulis), by their descriptive profile tags (e.g. foodie, traveler, designer), or by city.
The shake-it button launches the fabulis slot machine, which returns a random fabulis member nearby allowing instant profile view, chat, and ranking display.

Messages - Enables the user to engage in real-time one-to-one chats with other members who are online via the iPhone or Web.

Plans - Provides instant access to the largest directory of gay-relevant events in the world. More than 71,000 events are currently available on fabulis, and thousands are added daily.

The default "Plans" view shows upcoming popular events nearby to the user's GPS-based-location. The user can also re-sort the list by date, as well as jump to view event listings in other locations.
Clicking on an event enables the user to view details about the event, browse the attendees, and check out user-submitted tips for when to go, what to bring, what to wear, and what to expect and when to leave for each event.

Profile - View the user's own profile, current ranking, info, and pictures.

Shake It - Shaking the iPhone from any part of the app will pull up a random profile picture along with the member's name. Tapping on the picture provides access to the profile, proximity and the ability to connect live using one-on-one messaging.

"fabulis on the iPhone is like carrying the big gay world around in your pocket," said Chief Executive Officer, Jason Goldberg. "We have big hopes for fabulis on mobile devices and this is just the start. "

Verizon Smartphone/Droid Customers Use More Data than iPhoners, Says Validas

2010-07-26T20:07:18Z

A Validas' wireless data study, shows that Verizon Wireless smartphones are consuming more wireless data than AT&T iPhones by a ratio of roughly 1.25:1. Average monthly wireless data consumption for Verizon Wireless Smartphones is 421 megabytes per month, versus 338 megabytes per month for iPhones.

Nearly twice as many Verizon Wireless Smartphone users are consuming 500 megabytes to 1 gigabyte per month compared to AT&T iPhone users with more than 11 percent of Verizon Smartphone users fall into this category, versus just 5.6 percent of iPhone users. AT&T users on the other hand, 71.2% of users use data u, up from 58.4%, with increase in mean usage per user from 111.9 MB to 149.6 MB.

The data numbers will probably grow greater after the figures from the Droid X come in. A Verizon rep reported that Droid X users, use five times more data. There are many features of the Droid X that cause the vast data consumption including BlockBuster Video on Demand.

]]> Validas also finds that slightly more than 54 percent of VZW Smartphones consume less than 200 MB per month, versus slightly more than 52 percent of iPhones. Nearly 46 percent of VZW Smartphones consume more than 200 MB per month, versus nearly 48 percent of iPhones. But, more than 4 percent of VZW Smartphones consume more than 2 gigabytes per month, as opposed to just 1.6 percent of iPhones. Only 2/10ths of 1 percent of both VZW Smartphones and iPhones use more than 5 GBs per month. Further, a nearly even percentage of users consume no data at all in a given month - 3.4 percent for Verizon Wireless Smartphones versus 2.9 percent for AT&T iPhones.

Verizon Wireless currently only offers unlimited data plans and has been hinting that capped plans will be coming for LTE.

The data for this analysis was derived from more than 20,000 consumer wireless bills dated between January and May of 2010. "Smartphones" deliberately excludes BlackBerry devices which, due to data compression techniques, do not follow similar data consumption patterns to those of iPhones and other Smartphones.

More Validas Data about Data:

Growth in data users from 42% to 53% of total subscribers between 2009 and 2010.
• Increase in mean MB usage per user from 96.8 MB to 145.8 MB.
• New Smartphones, excluding iPhone and Blackberry, drove the greatest increases in usage, with an increased mean consumption per user from 139 MBs to 415 MBs, and 87% of subscribers with usage to 94% of subscribers.
• Mean data consumption among aircard users grows 8% from 1,373.3MBs to 1,485.2MBs
• Increase in data users among feature phones from 27.3% to 36.7% with an increase in mean data consumption from 46.1 MBs to 67.9 MBs.
• Verizon Wireless posts the largest percentage increase in mean data usage per user from 48.2MB to 147.2 MB; increase from 33.4% to 42.9% lines with data usage.
• T-Mobile second largest percentage increase in mean data usage per user, from 44.6 MB to 120.6 MB, but virtually no growth in overall percentage of lines with data usage.
• Sprint increased from 36.9% of lines with data usage to 49.9%, but mean usage per user decreased from 166.5 MB to 133.4 MB due to increase in % of users consuming 50MBs or less per month.
• AT&T continues to lead with 71.2% of users with data usage, up from 58.4%, with increase in mean usage per user from 111.9 MB to 149.6 MB.
• VZW posted largest increase in aircard/laptop card mean usage per user, from 1.25 GB to 1.6 GB