T-Mobile Allowing Unlimited Mobile Broadband
T-Mobile is to trying to promote it’s super-fast HSPA+ mobile broadband network by changing the pricing on overages for their two cellular data plans. According to GigaOm, T-Mobile customers with the 200Mb/month plan will have overage fees cut in half. Those who have the 5GB/month plan will no longer pay overage charges, though download speeds will apparently slow after exceeding 5GB in a given month.
Recently, Verizon dropped the cost of the Mobile Hotspot option available for the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi phones, which allows for the tethering of up to 5 WiFi-enabled devices. The cost went from $40/month to free. The move was timed just before the debut of the Apple iPad WiFi-only edition, so it’s possible that Verizon intended to capture that market.
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Report: Motorola Rules Android, iPhone 3G/3GS Rules iPhone
AdMob, a mobile ad platform company that Google is waiting for permission to acquire, released some interesting results about Android and iPhone in their Mar 2010 mobile metrics report.
The gist of the report on the Android segment is that handset maker HTC went from dominating Android phone-based web traffic to being second, now slightly behind Motorola’s Android phones. As for web traffic from iPhone OS devices, the AdMob report shows that 3G and 3GS phones dominate collectively, though the 2nd gen iPod touch is actually used more for web browsing than then 3G.
Via MobileCrunch.
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Apple: What Will They Lose Next?
So first a next-generation Apple iPhone with some interesting features gets into the wrong hands, and now there are reports that iPods with cameras appeared on for sale on eBay. Does Apple have any other cool tricks up their sleeve, that they’re willing to lose so we can all get a glimpse?
The iPods in question, with rear-facing cameras and some sort of new iPod OS, have now disappeared from eBay but were listed briefly, selling at about $102 total (for both). The iPhone in question, lost by Apple engineer Gray Powell, while drinking a birthday beer at a bar, got into Gizmodo.com’s hands (for apparently $5,000). Powell didn’t lose his job (yet), and even got offered a free flight by a German airline to drink beer in Munich. Apple co-founder Steve “Woz” Wozniak had some fun with the situation by posing in a funny t-shirt, above.
Image via CNET, credited to Janet Wozniak.