Just received an interesting email from AT&T Wireless. If you have a Starbucks gift card that you’ve registered for AT&T WiFi hotspot access at Starbucks locations, AT&T lets you buy phones or accessories from them with a $50 discount. Note that this excludes iPhones.
Start your day with wireless savings. Shop AT&T online and get up to $50 off the purchase of any cell phone or accessory (excludes iPhone).
You can learn more about registering your Starbucks card for free WiFi at:
I thought LifeHacker’s article…
Android Versus iPhone 3.0: The Showdown
…would be just another item with providing a generic comparison of a few features. But, nope, anyone interested in a feature-by-feature comparison of the current iPhone 2.0 firmware features with the current Google Android features and the upcoming iPhone 3.0 features should take a look at the color coded matrix in the article where light-red/pink indicates missing features, a pale green indicates feature presence and a pale yellow includes availability with provisions. According to this scorecard the current iPhone 2.0 units are missing a lot of features, Android has over half of the features with a lot of provisions, and iPhone 3.0 is nearly all green. Nice matrix. Run over there to read it, then come back here 🙂
I was briefly happy to read about the release of…
(Firefox for mobile devices). Why only briefly? This release only for the Maemo platform (Nokia Internet Tablet series) which I don’t use. Oh well. Nice to see progress made on any platform.
Response to a good suggestion on my MobileDevicesToday blog about considering Apple’s tiny WiFi router as a travel router.
Thx for the comment & tweet about Apple’s Airport Express Base Station. I considered buying it but at twice the price of the D-Link, I decided to save some $$$ for a product I will probably rarely use. It’s support of 802.11n is faster if your mobile device supports it. And, while the older Eee PC 1000H supported 11n, the newer 1000HA does not (tops out at 11g speeds). The Airport Express Base Station does have a couple of other interesting features though. And, it may be among the last of the currently in-production travel access point/router products.
Originally posted as a comment by Todd Ogasawara on mediabistro.com: MobileDevicesToday using Disqus.
I just learned about this fact after reading a comment on my MobileAppsToday blog.
I just hit 9 screens. What’s strange is that it will still let you install apps, they just don’t show up! I thought I was insane because I knew I had just installed something but could not find it. Off to delete more!
Originally posted as a comment by LittleTechGirl on mediabistro.com: MobileAppsToday using Disqus.
This is a rebuttal to my MobileDevicesToday.com blogging partner’s comment that Nokia and Windows Mobile does not have flagship products.
Nokia has both current & future flagship phones. Their current flagship phone is the N96 although I’ve noted Nokia product experts (I don’t consider myself one of those) sometimes note they prefer the older N95. Their soon-to-be released N97 (with QWERTY keyboard) will be their 2009 flagship product when it is released in a few months. Microsoft Windows Mobile doesn’t have a flagship product because they do not make phones. For Microsoft to designate one of their many manufacturer’s models as a “flagship” model would alienate their other hardware partners. That said, there are several Windows Mobile smartphones such as the HTC Touch Pro, Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, or Pantech Matrix Pro that might be considered flagships.
Originally posted as a comment by Todd Ogasawara on mediabistro.com: MobileDevicesToday using Disqus.