February 20th, 2008 by Ryan Unger | 1 Comment »

AT&T is offering unlimited voice for $99 and unlimited connectivity and messaging for $35. One year contract is required for new subscribers and data plans are unchanged, though. Analysts are expecting Sprint to, “offer flat-rate calling plans at up to 40 percent discount to it’s rivals” — bringing unlimited wireless minutes into the $60 range for [...]
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February 18th, 2008 by Ryan Unger | No Comments »

Engadget reports that they have received a flood of tips stating that Verizon to offer unlimited voice, data, and messaging packages. It is reported that starting Tuesday, February 19th the following plans should be available: $100 – Nationwide Unlimited (voice) $120 – Nationwide Select Unlimited (voice, SMS, MMS) $140 – Nationwide Premium (voice, SMS, MMS, VZNav, VCAST, email) $150 [...]
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February 10th, 2008 by Ryan Unger | 3 Comments »

I stumbled across the self-proclaimed “World’s Largest PDA Database,” and as soon as I did I thought, “I can finally get a tally of how many Windows Mobile 2002, 2003 or 5.0 devices are on the market!” In total I found 584 devices. Unfortunately, however, there is no data on the penetration of these devices. Why [...]
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January 17th, 2008 by Ryan Unger | No Comments »

As a resident of the United States, I’ve longed for the latest mobile phones from Japan, Korea, and other more “tech-fortunate” countries throughout APAC and Europe. I live in arguably the most powerful industrialized nation on the planet, and yet I still can’t video chat from mobile to mobile like they do in Japan. My [...]
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June 30th, 2007 by Ryan Unger | No Comments »

Via Bill, I recently learned that as of April 30 2007, 13 Flash Lite for BREW supported handsets represent 16 million active Verizon Wireless subscribers (reported by M:Metrics). One of the many benefits with developing with Flash Lite is that you can target multiple devices with the same screen size using one FLA file. In the [...]
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June 14th, 2007 by Ryan Unger | No Comments »

fiercedeveloper.com wrote a short article about Flash Lite’s role in the BREW ecosystem citing the October 2006 deal between Verizon Wireless and Adobe. The article from fiercedeveloper.com can be seen as a sign that Flash Lite may be gaining more acceptance from the media, and that it may soon be seen as the standard for [...]
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June 4th, 2007 by Ryan Unger | 2 Comments »

Punchkick Interactive has authored it’s first article for Adobe.com. Zak Dabbas and myself (Ryan Unger) co-authored Developing Flash Lite for BREW applications for Verizon Wireless. This article covers not only the technical side of developing applications for BREW for Verizon Wireless, but also the marketing aspects of distributing content directly to Verizon Wireless or to [...]
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February 11th, 2007 by Ryan Unger | 3 Comments »

Verizon Wireless is increasing their text messaging rates by 50% and you can use that to get out of your contract. (Starting March 1 it will cost you 15 cents to send and receive instead of 10 cents.) A cancellation script was constructed on another blog for people to use during the call. They use [...]
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December 31st, 2006 by Ryan Unger | 6 Comments »

An article on Mobile Monday discussed the likely possibility that Sprint will join forces with Nokia in a big way for it’s new WiMax network that is expected to roll out by 2008. Does this mean more Flash Lite in North America? Possibly. However, bringing Nokia on as a major phone supplier would not be [...]
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December 29th, 2006 by Ryan Unger | No Comments »

A recent article on Mobile Monday reports, “Beginning early next year, the second largest mobile operator in the US, Verizon Wireless, will sell banner advertisements on news, weather, sports and other Internet sites that users visit and display on their mobile phones.” Full story: http://www.mobilemonday.net/mm/story.php?story_id=5163
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