The Nokia N8 has recently made the required FCC appearance and that means it should be coming sooner than later with an official announcement. All in all, this was simply an FCC listing and did not show us anything overly exciting. The docs listed the phone by the model number, which is RM-596, but did more »

We still have not seen RIM announce an official release date for the BlackBerry Storm, but hopefully the recent trip through the FCC should help to move that along. The latest information still has it coming sometime in November. Not many details were given away in the FCC listing, in fact the details were lighter more »

Earlier today we saw T-Mobile give their official confirmation that the Android powered HTC Dream would be available sometime between October and the end of the year, of course they have yet to confirm an exact release date. The lack of a release date was most likely being held up be the FCC and waiting more »

Coming in a close 3-2 vote, the $3.3 billion purchase of XM from rival Sirius has been given the official seal of approval from the FCC.

This news will now leave US customers with just one satellite radio service, which initially sounds like not the best of news, however at least some from the FCC think this was a good move.

According to a recent statement from FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, “this merger is in the public interest and will ultimately benefit consumers.” As a consumer and a current Sirius subscriber I can only hope that turns out to be an accurate statement.

While the approval has been granted, this decision does not come without some guidelines, which are being set in place to offer protection to consumers.

Still looking at some possible delays for the US AT&T release, the BlackBerry Bold has just gotten its FCC seal of approval. Not much new information coming from the FCC listing, but it does confirm that it will be the GSM with UMTS 850/1900 version, which is what would be needed for an AT&T release. more »