This week was packed with news at the mobile front, so it was easy to overlook a number of stories here and there. Here’s many of the other stuff that happened inside the wide world of wireless for the week of October 17, 2011:
The HTC Rezound (codenamed the Vigor) started showing up in Cellebrite systems, just another indicator of its impending arrival — and certain name. [ Droid-Life ]
AT&T’s current lineup of Windows Phones, reminiscent of the Samsung Focus , LG Quantum and HTC Surround, are actually showing up as EOL — End-of-life — likely in preparation for the trio of incoming devices we saw earlier this week. [ WMPowerUser ]
Cricket added another ZTE feature phone to its lineup this week, called the Memo (shown above). It has got an entire QWERTY keyboard and is on the market for $100. [ Cnet ]
Google Maps for Android was the beneficiary of another update. This time, version 5.11 makes one critical feature change: it offers different-sized maps for phones with different screen resolutions. Thus, when you’ve got a three.5-inch HVGA screen, you are not forced to download a map designed for a 4.3-inch qHD display, saving space in your phone inside the process. [ MobileBurn ]
Vodafone 360, launched in 2009 as a LiMo-based cloud synchronization and backup service, might be officially closed by the top of the year. The carrier stopped 0 developing handsets 0 that took good thing about the plan last year, so it really was a question of time before this happened. [ 1 Wall Street Journal 1 ]
2 Toshiba Mobile Display 2 announced this week that it’s engaged on a brand new sort of mobile display optimized for wide-angle viewing. Dubbed the “Soludina,” it will become shown off at next week’s FPD International in Japan. [ 3 Nikkei 3 ]
Sprint announced a brand new plan called Wireless CapTel that’s designed for those that are hard of hearing. The service, that are used on Android devices, allows the caller to view conversations in real time as word-for-word captions on their phone’s screen. [ 4 BusinessWire 4 ]
Telus will officially launch the 5 4G Samsung Galaxy S II X 5 on October 28th, in line with its website. [ 6 Unwired View 6 ]
Samsung Zipel oven takes instructions out of your Android phone
White House gets behind online ‘bill of rights,’ companies to adopt ‘do not track’
