Palringo, the mobile multiple-IM client, has launched an iPhone version of their useful software. With it, you can conduct instant message conversations with your friends whether they are on iChat, AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, Windows Live Messenger, or Jabber. I’ve covered Palringo before, and have found it to be a very useful way…

As GigaOm has pointed out, India is the largest mobile market in the world. The country has a population of 1.1 billion people and is now coming on the scene economically after a few rough decades. As India’s expanding middle class grows, so does their desire to be connected with friends and family. Om Malik…

After posting earlier about AT&T’s discriminatory practice of only giving pre-paid subscribers a subset of the coverage area that their contracted mobile customers get, I thought I’d expand on the topic. As a participant in the Nokia Blogger Relations program, periodically I receive phones to trial and review. Thus, I’ve looked for GSM providers in…

On a recent trip to Central Oregon and specifically Bend, Oregon, I was perplexed as to why my Nokia E71 would not come out of ‘Offline’ mode. Thinking it was an issue with the phone or my account, I looked into when I returned home. After looking at the coverage map for the Bend area…

Location aware applications and services are the new ‘in’ thing in the mobile universe. With the new iPhone 3G coming out, joining the plethora of Nokia N Series (and now E Series) phones with GPS onboard, consumers are finally becoming cognizant of what location based applications can do in their lives. Nokia Chat, a new…

So CrunchGear shows this image of this add-on for the iPhone that adds A2DP support to the iPhone. This means you can use stereo bluetooth headphones. My question – Why doesn’t the iPhone support A2DP out of the box?! It’s supposed to be an advanced smartphone and they’ve left this part out? Weird. Nokia has…

Garett Rogers of ZDNet posted recently that Google’s Andoid is shedding its allure with developers and therefore won’t be as attractive as an mobile application platform. In turn, Rogers argues, Android-powered phones won’t be as competitive as the newly released iPhone 3G. My reply is “wait a minute!”. Why? Mainly because Android hasn’t appeared tangibly…

Last week, I posted about TruPhone releasing an iPhone client of their very useful TruPhone VoIP service. For those unfamiliar, TruPhone offers free calls while you’re attached to a Wi-Fi network between phones running TruPhone software; much in the same way Skype-to-Skype calls are free from computer to computer. Last week, I was with someone…

Many fanatics who have hopped on the iPhone bandwagon, especially with the second coming last week, has proclaimed that the iPhone will overtake every competitor and dominate the market. There is no doubt the iPhone is a phenomenal device, but anyone who instantly proclaims it to be the death of every other mobile platform is…

Who isn’t sick and tired of calling a company and having to wade through their phone tree. “Press 1 for Sales, 2 for Customer Service”, and so on. Automated phone menus may make life easier for companies, but consumers struggle with them. I was recently sent some material from a company called Fonolo that takes…