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BlackBerry Top Smartphones, iPhone #2 in N.A. Says Canalys
It comes as no surprise that smartphones are ruling the marketplace. RIM’s BlackBerry retains it lead over the iPhone while Android smartphones like the Droid are moving into the smartphone market place.Smartphone shipments in North America totalled 47.2 million units...
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iPhone, BlackBerry Curve, Top Smartphones, Android 25.3% Increase, Says Millennial Marketing
Millennial has released their latest S.M.A.R.T. report and the mobile web increased by approximately 4%, to 69.6M users in January,Mobile behavior trends increased time-wise. January's average user session time of 4:57 (min:sec), increased to 5:14 (min:sec) in February, the longest...
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Smartphone Use All Over the Place, Interested in Mobile Coupons and Barcodes, Says Compete
New Compete data is tracking how smartphones are integrated into the daily lives of all types of consumers which bodes well for mobile marketing, especially mobile coupons, Consumers' primary usage of their smartphones is for reasons of personal productivity and...
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Windows Phone 7 Will Be Flashy and Run Flash Player 10.1 (Eventually)
Adobe and Microsoft are working together to bring Flash Player 10.1 to Internet Explorer Mobile on Windows Phone 7 Series, blogged, Mike Chambers, product manager for developer relations for the Flash Platform at Adobe.Windows Phone 7 will not support Flash...
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Smartphone Owners "Get No Satisfaction," Says Fanfare
Fanfare research shows that smartphone owners are having problems with application glitches, compatibility issues, crashing, and freezing and don't understand why. They are not sure if the problems are related to the handset, network, or applications. Over half of respondents...
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Nokia Nuron Full Browser Touchscreen with Free Ovi Maps Coming to T-Mobile
T-Mobile will offer the Nokia 5230 Nuron, a smartphone with apps, maps with turn-by-turn directions, and more. The Nokia Nuron has dynamic Web browsing on a 3.2" touch screen. The device is also the first pre-loaded with Ovi Maps,...
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Windows Mobile 6.x No Updates or Upgrades to Windows Phone 7
Owners of the Windows Mobile 6.x phones will not be able to upgrade to Windows Phone 7. Microsoft will continue to support Windows Mobile 6.x and call it Windows Phone Classic.The new specs for Windows Phone 7 requires 3 buttons(Home...
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BlackBerry Storm, BlackBerry Flip, Curve8830 Retire for Slider Verizon at Nexus?
The future of smartphones, look less like a clamshell, more like the Palm Pre and Nexus One according to these recent reports. There are a number of smartphone devices being retired, a photo shows a new form factor for BlackBerry...
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Android Moto BACKFLIP Smartphone Coming to AT&T March 7 with BACKTRACK
The Motorola BACKFLIP will go on sale from AT&T on March 7. We don't know if you'll flip over backwards for the new Android phone from AT&T the Motorola BACKFLIP, but you can use it with the back of your...
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BlackBerry Bold and Droid Top Radiation Smartphones, BlackBerry Storm and Omnia II Best for Low Radiation
The Environmental Working Group released its latest guide to cell phone radiation levels (www.ewg.org), focusing on the newest, most highly touted smartphones to hit the market in recent months. (The radiation level of Apple's newest iPhone ranks in the middle...
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Android 2.1 Smartphones 2Day: Liquid e
Acer announced the Acer Liquid e, the new version of the already well known Liquid smartphone. Acer Liquid e features the latest Android 2.1 Operating System, high definition screen, Liquid e is the state-of-the-art for multimedia, web browsing, and social...
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HTC HD2 Windows Phone 2 with BlockBuster and Transformer Movies
T-Mobile's CTO Cole Broadman confirmed at Mobile World Congress that T-Mobile will exclusively launch the HTC HD2 and called it "HTC's first entertainment device." The HTC HD2 has a 4.3-inch WVGA multitouch screen and 1GHz Snapdragon processor running Windows Phone...
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Android Motorola CLIQ XT (Quench) Coming to T-Mobile Next Month
Motorola wants to quench users thirst for Android, their new Android phone is the the QUENCH with MOTOBLUR which will be called the CLIQ XT in the U.S.The CLIQ XT is a 3.1 touchscreen that features pinch and zoom, a...
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Samsung Wave Surfs in Bada (Ocean) with Splashy Features
Yesterday, at Mobile World Congress, Samung launched their fist smartphone based on their Bada operating system, the Samsung Wave (S8500). The Samsung Wave swims with features that include a 3.3-inch AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode) touchscreen display and a pushed...
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Windows Phone 7 : More Zune-Like, XBoxy, Binged and Hubbub
Today, at Mobile World Congress, Microsoft revealed their take on smartphone operating systems for WindowsPhones, Windows Phone 7 Series a complete overhaul to Windows Mobile.They say it is whole new fresh look integrates Xbox LIVE games, Zune music and video....
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Garmin-Asus M10 QWERTY Windows Phone
Garmin-Asus also announced another Windows Phone the Garmin-Asus M10. The M10 keeps professionals connected with business and personal contacts, email, calendar and IM, in addition to featuring preloaded mobile navigation from Garmin. The Garmin-Asus M10 runs the latest version of...
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BlackBerry Top Smartphone, Moto Top Cell Maker, Android Growing Fast, Says ComScore
The comScore MobiLens for September and December 2009. has been released. The report showed Motorola to be the top handset manufacturer with 23.5 percent market share. RIM's BlackBerry smartphones had the lead in smartphone platforms with 41.6 percent market share....
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Windows Mobile Phone Updates 2Day: Windows Phone 7 Details
Microsoft will be making an announcement at Mobile World Congress on February 15 to reveal Windows Phone 7. The web is abuzz with what Windows Phone 7 will feature. The main theme is that Windows Phone will be more like...
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Google Mobile Apps Go Enterprise for iPhone Nokia WinMo with Wipe-Outs, Lock-Out & Security
Google has launched new controls that enable enterprise administrators to help ensure corporate policy enforcement across a range of mobile devices for Google Sync for iPhone, Nokia E series, and Windows Mobile devices. Google Sync enables Google Apps users to...
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Green-Hearted Sony Ericsson Aspen Biz Smartphone with WinMo
There' a green business smartphone coming from Sony Ericsson, the Aspen. It's part of the Sony Ericsson GreenHeart portfolio, Sony Ericsson Aspen, allows easy multi-tasking combining a touchscreen and a QWERTY keyboard. Organize and adapt panels to change during the...
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Android an' not Droid Smartphones 2Day: Verizon Devour Coming in March
There is another Android smartphone coming to Verizon, the new Motorola Devour which Verizon hopes, will be devoured by socially-networking, texting and web hungry customers. The Motorola Devour is a soically oriented Droid and is expected to cost less than...
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Smartphone (BlackBerry, iPhone & Other) Users Would Spend More $ on Music and Biz Apps, Says Asknet Survey
An asknet survey of 400 smartphone users has found that consumers are frustrated by the cost, accessibility, and mechanisms supporting mobile e-commerce, in spite of a strong consumer demand for personal and business mobile applications. The survey, conducted simultaneously in Boston...
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LG Superphone LG GW990 MID with Intel Inside and 1025 x 480 Display
At Paul Otellini's Intel CES keynote at CES, Otellini showed off the LG GW990, what some are calling a super phone, because it has the power of a PC and the same number of pixels in the display. The LG...
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Windows Mobile 6.5 Updates 2Day: HTC Ozone and HTC Touch Pro 2
Verizon has released updates to the HTC Ozone and HTC Touch Pro 2 to update them to Windows Mobile 6.5. Over the holidays, HTC was offering a $100 trade-in rebate if you bought one of these phones. The Windows Mobile...
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HTC HD2 with HTC Sense Coming to T-Mobile this Spring
The HTC HD2 is will available exclusively from T-Mobile USA this spring. High-res lovers have been drooling over this very visual smartphone for a while. The HTC HD has a high-resolution, 4.3-inch capacitive touch display, GPS, HTC Sense, Windows file...
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Android an' Droid News 2Day: Dell Mini 3 @ AT&T 82% Don't Leave Home Without 'Em
Dell made its Mini 3 Android-based lineup official, and AT&T will sell them. They revealed the research showing that their customers wanted more smartphone choices. Mini 3 smartphones create an easy-to-use mobile Internet experience. Dell and AT&T will provide ...
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Big Jump in Android Use Due to Droid, iPhone Satisfaction Still High, Says ChangeWave
Recent ChangeWave data shows a major upturn in Android an' Droid interest and use. It also reveals the great surge in smartphone growth and a downturn for future Apple iPhone marketshare with iPhone still maintain high customer satisfaction.ChangeWave's December 9-14...
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Multi-Touchy-Feely, Grippy, Proximity New Concept Phone of the Future: Fuse
Synaptics, recently introduced Fuse, a collaborative mobile phone concept to show the future of user interaction for handsets. The new concept smartphone enables use with one hand, sensing grips and touches from the front, back, side and front of the...
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Wireless and Mobile News' Top Best Read Smartphone Stories and Trends 2009
Wireless and Mobile News keeps track of our most read and loved articles. When we tallied the count, we realized that our daily page-views reveal the top trends in the wireless and mobile industries.Apps Avalanche - The phrase "There's an...
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Smartphone Tips for Holiday Safety
Recently, while attending a holiday concert a friend's purse was stolen, reminding us that you should keep a look out for your valuable belongings including your phone during this rushed time of year.Lookout, a mobile security firm that has free...
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Top Ten Best Coolest Smartphones of 2009: Review of Reviews - iPhone, Droid, Palm Pre and BlackBerry Bold 9700 Top List
2009 showed an increase in features in smartphones with a decrease in prices with "Buy One BlackBerry Get Any" deals selling a lot of BlackBerry smartphones, netbooks and MiFi. As our readers know, we like to review all the reviews,...
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Nokia Apps 2Day: Rihanna App
Nokia launched the Rihanna App. with news, music, photos and exclusive video content direct to Nokia's entertainment-rich handsets including the Nokia N97, Nokia X6 and Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. Video content available through the App will include live performance videos from Rihanna's...
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WinMo Apps 2Day: Bing Mobile App Updated with Voice Search, Maps and More
Microsoft has launcheda new Bing app for Windows Mobile. It is tailored for the quick, on-the-go searches that go hand in hand with mobile devices. Features of Bing Mobile Voice Search - Type Less, search more: Typing can be tough...
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Samsung Omnia II (2) Now Selling from Verizon
Verizon is now selling the Samsung Ominia II (2) a Windows Mobile smartphone, packed with features. The Samsung Omnia II runs on Windows 6.5 with an impressive feature list includes 3.7-inch WVGA AMOLED display, a 5-megapixel camera and 8GB of...
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AT&T Announced 1GHZ LG eXpo with Optional Pico Projector
AT&T and LG announced the LG eXpo will be available beginning December 7. Featuring the first 1 GHz processor in the United States, the LG eXpo will be compatible with AT&T's High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) 7.2 Mbps technology, which...
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Top Ten Black Friday, Weekend and Cyber Monday Cell Phone/Smartphone Tips from Wireless and Mobile News
In the frenzy of Black Friday, Weekend and Cyber Monday, sometimes you can loose sight of what the season is all about and your goals. Here's a list of things to remember on Black Friday, Weekend and Cyber Monday, especially...
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Black Friday & Beyond Deal - $100 Rebates for HTC Tilt2 HTC Touch Pro2, HTC Imagio and HTC Ozone
HTC wants Black Friday and beyond to be profitable for its carriers. Smartphone owners who buy the key-boardtastic HTC Tilt2, HTC Touch Pro2, HTC Imagio or the HTC Ozone qualify for a $100 rebate from HTC .This offer is for...
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HP iPAQ Glisten, Glistens with AMOLED Touchscreen Display
AT&T will sell the new HP iPAQ Glisten, a 3G world phone designed for modern mobile worldly. professionals. The HP iPAQ Glisten is AT&T's first AMOLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode) touchscreened smartphone, with a QWERTY keyboard, voice commands, multimedia and...
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Samsung Omnia II (2) with WinMo 6.5 Officially Announced for December 2
Verizon and Samsung officially announced the availability of the Samsung Omnia II that will go on sale December 2. The "Swype" virtual keyboard is supposed to fan-text-ic by pressing a key then dragging to the next letter, than the...
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Samsung Omnia II (2) Due @ Verizon on December 2
The Samsung Omnia II has been rumored to be coming out for a while. Finally, leaked documents reveal that the the Samsung Ominia II will go on sale at Verizon on December 2.The Samsung Omnia II will be running Windows...
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Smartphones Will Be 60% of Handset Sales in 2014, Says Pyramid
Pyramid Research just published its Q3 2009 Handset Forecasts that show a dramatic increase in demand for smartphones. RIM which has 50% of the current smartphone marekt especially at Verizon. Pyramid estimate smartphones will represent 31% of new handsets sold...
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Smartphone News: Sold-Out HTC Touch Pro2 Back In-Stock at Verizon Online
We know you keyboard lovers have been holding your breath waiting for the HTC Touch Pro2 to be back in stock at Verizon.. The last time this well-reviewed reasonably-priced, keyboard-tastic smartphone came back in stock, it sold-out in a day.Today,...
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Android Invaison: Sony Xperia X10 with UX Mediascape & Timescape
Over the weekend it was rumored that the new Sony Ericsson Xperia Android smartphone would be called the the Xperia 3, that was previously code-named Rachel. Instead Sony has jumped numbers to Sony XPERIA X10.Sony created something similiar to the...
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Android Video 2Day: Rachel Sony X3 Concept Video Jumps
The Android OS doesn't have a built-in system that resembles the syncing ability of iTunes, but Sony has an app for that which is being called "Mediascape."This added-to-Android Mediscape video looks very impressive and commenters call it "slick and sexy."...
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Symbian, BlackBerry, iPhone and Android Poised to Lead Smartphone Market, Says ABI Research
IDC isn’t the only research company that is reporting a positive outlook for wireless in the fourth Quarter. ABI Research is reporting a slowing of the contraction in the market and calls Android the “dark horse” that could capture 10%...
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HTC Touch Pro2, Droid, Cliq, BlackBerry Help Fuel Positive Wireless Outlook
The fourth quarter releases of smartphones including Android and BlackBerry, along with the success of the HTC Touch Pro2 are helping fuel a positive outlook for the wireless market in Q4. We talked with senior research analyst Ramon Llamas at...
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Review Verizon Motorola Droid: Review of Reviews Unboxings & Ratings
Verizon Droid Rated 4 out 5 by Wireless and Mobile News’ Review of ReviewsThe new reviews of the Verizon Motorola Droid just came out and reviewers were all impressed with the fast processor speed, web browser and brilliant display on...
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Droid News 2Day: Verizon Moto Droid Invading Earth 11/6 @ $199
Let the inter-galatic smartphone wars being. Droid will be invading the planet on November 6. Motorola and Verizon unveiled Droid by Motorola today. Most of the features were previously leaked, and they are impressive. Verizon is touting its high-speed web...
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AT&T HTC Tilt2 Smartphone on Sale @ AT&T 2Day $299 $249 w/Coupon-link
Today, the AT&T HTC Tilt 2 smartphone goes on sale at AT&T it's a lot like like the HTC Touch Pro2. In fact, cases that fit the HTC Touch Pro2 fit the AT&T Tilt 2 smartphone. However, the HTC Tilt...
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HTC Touch Pro2 Back-in-Stock, Out-of-Stock - Still Flying Off Shelves
There was good news for all of you texting fans, web-fiends and emailaholics who couldn't wait to get their hands on the keyboard-tastic HTC Touch Pro2. It was back in stock on the Verizon website for what appears to be...
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WinMo Update 2Day: Windows Mobile 6.1 to 6.5 Update Smartphone Models (So Far)
Many Windows Mobile smartphone owners have been waiting to discover if their smartphones will be updated to Windows Mobile 6.5. It's especially daunting for smartphones such as the HTC Touch Pro2 which only came out a few weeks ago and...
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Windows Mobile Samsung Intrepid @ Sprint October 11
Sprint and Samsung announced while at CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment, the upcoming arrival of Samsung Intrepid, a Windows phone powered by Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional. The Samsung Intrepid improves on previous Samsung Windows phones with an user experience that...
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HTC HD2 WinMo Pinchable with 1 Ghz Enhanced Performance & Sensible
While the Android Locusts buzzed around CTIA, Windows Mobile was also quietly powering super-smart phones. HTC unveiled the HTC HD2, the first Windows phone with HTC Sense with a high-resolution, 4.3-inch capacitive touch display, the ultra thin HTC HD2 delivers more visible...
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HTC Touch Pro2 Still Selling Well, More Coming
While the major news story yesterday, was Google and Verizon joining the Android invasion of devices and apps, the real news is that Windows Phone the HTC Touch Pro 2 is a hot-seller at Verizon, and keeps selling out.Our readers...
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Windows Phone 6.5 offers More and Windows Marketplace Opens
Microsoft debuted their new line of Windows phones and their new OS Windows Mobile 6.5.Windows mobile users can now also find useful applications from the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Microsoft expects partners to deliver more than 30 new phones...
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AT&T HTC Tilt 2 WinMo 6.5 Tilting Screen for Heavy Email Use
AT&T will offer the HTC Tilt 2 with Windows Mobile 6.5. Designed for the business professional, the HTC Tilt 2 has Microsoft Office capability and productivity. It's the successor to the first AT&T Tilt. The HTC Tilt 2 features...
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HTC PURE Touchscreen: Pure Windows Mobile 6.5 Smartphone
AT&T is now selling the touchscreen smartphone, the HTC PURE with Windows Mobile 6.5. The HTC PURE offers an advanced touch experience that is optimized for one-hand use, which further evolves the compact smartphone design. Incorporating a large, brilliant 3.2-inch ...
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TouchScreen WinMo 6.5 HTC Imagio with TV @ Verizon October 6
Verizon and HTC have teamed up for the HTC Imagio, a multimedia 3G world smartphone that goes on sale online on October 6. The HTC Imagio is Verizon Wireless' is the first smartphone to support V CAST Mobile TV, the...
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iPhone, Dream N70, Palm Pre and BlackBerry Curve Top Smartphones, Says Admob
AdMob, published its August 2009 Mobile Metrics Repor and smartphone penetration continues to climb worldwide. It lists the top 20 handsets and top 20 smartphones in each geographic region. While Symbian devices such as the Nokia N70 and N95 continue...
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iPhone, Palm Pre, and Android Tops, Smartphones Loved 4 Personal Use, says CFI
Consumer-oriented functionality smartphones score best according to The CFI Group Smartphone Satisfaction Study, Smartphones, Providers, and the Customers Who Love (and Loathe) Them. The study found little relationship between smartphone satisfaction and satisfaction with the provider while the iPhone bested...
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Garmin nüvifone G60 Navigates to AT&T on October 4
AT&T and Garmin announced that the Garmin nüvifone G60 will be available beginning October 4.The nüvifone G60 integrates features of a GPS with a phone and has some really neat geo-tagging uses such as when you send a photo of...
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More HTC Touch Pro2 Due In-Stock @ Verizon this Week
We heard from the Verizon Wireless spokeswoman that there will be more HTC Touch Pro2 available for sale "within the week." We don't have an exact day when more will be available.We reported earlier today that the Verizon HTC Touch...
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Verizon HTC Touch Pro2 Sold-Out: Very Popular Smartphone
Remember we told you about the keyboard-tastic smartphone the HTC Touch Pro2? Well it looks like it was also buy-tastic, because there are reports that the HTC Touch Pro2 from Verizon is out of stock at the Verizon online store!The...
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Samsung Sprint HD with HD Out Coming Out Sept. 27 at Best Buy
Sprint and Samsung announced the the Samsung Instinct HD, the latest in the distinctive Instinct line with a TV out HD connection along with access to Sprint's 3G network, a 5-megapixel camera and camcorder. It has an Opera Mobile 9.7...
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Thirty Mo' WinMo Phones This Year
Benjamin Tan, senior director, GCR Mobile Team Unit at Microsoft China told reporters in China, that there will be thirty new Windows Mobile smartphones launched with Windows Mobile 6.5 this year, according to DigiTimes.Companies that will be launching WinMo phones...
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Keyboard-Tastic HTC Touch Pro2 for $199 after Rebates w/Contract
Verizon Wireless will offer the super-texty kebyboard-tastic HTC Touch Pro2. The HTC Touch Pro2 has an extra-large 3.6-inch titling touchscreen that tilts ans super ergonomic slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The HTC Touch Pro2 won the CTIA Emerging Technology Award in the...
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Sony Xperia X2 Offers Many WinMo, Google and Game Experiences
Sony Ericsson showed their new XPERIA X2 Windows smartphone with built-in MS Office functions, 8 megapixel camera, QWERTY keyboard, aGPsj, mobile web and TV out cable. The XPERIX2 also includes the uSlideView feature, for frequently used phone activities. With 14...
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HTC TouchPro2 with Great Text Apeal to be Sold @ Sprint on 9/8
Sprint will start selling the HTC Touch Pro2 on September 8. It has Windows Mobile 6.1, the TouchFLO user interface and entertainment apps, including Sprint TV with live and on-demand programming, and Sprint's exclusive sports applications NFL Mobile Live and...
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Samsung Omnia II Coming Soon to Verizon
Samsung has put up a teaser page for the next generation Samsung Omnia, the Samsung Omnia II. They claim:Smart Phone, Genius Texting."The Samsung Omnia II will revolutionize the way you text and email - faster and more accurately. Plus, it's...
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Data Plan Required by AT&T, Starting September 6
Low-income people or people who don't use a lot of data will still have to swallow a whole data plan from AT&T when they buy a smartphone from AT&T starting September 6.Starting on Sept. 6, AT&T will require all new...
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Nokia 5800 Naigation Edition Comes with Maps and Voice Nav
Nokia announced the Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition that comes with lifetime voice-guided DRIVE and WALK navigation licenses, quick access to the latest Ovi Maps software, full regional maps and zooming. The Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition is based on the Nokia...
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Deal: Free Activation: Verizon Buy One BlackBerry Get One Free or Notebooks or Other Smartphone Deals
Smartphone and price wars have hit Verizon today with new promotions for free BlackBerry smartphones, phones and more. All you have to do is go over to the Verizon deals page and there are tons of bargains for free devices...
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T-Mobile HTC TouchPro2 Touches Stores, Priced at $349
T-Mobile 's HTC Touch Pro2 goes on sale today and the price is $349.99. It has a QWERTY keyboard, GPS, Wi-Fi, 3.2 Megapixel camera and many email and voice functions.TC Touch Pro2 is the next generation of the HTC Touch...
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Nokia Partners with Nokia for Microsoft Office Mobile Apps and Enterprise Solutions
Nokia and Microsoft will work an enterprise-grade solution for mobile productivity. Today, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop and Nokia's Executive Vice President for Devices Kai Oistamo announced the agreement. Thye will begin collaborating immediately on the design, development and marketing...
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BlackBerry Curve Tops Top Ten US Smartphones Shipped 4 Sales from IDC: Fast & Furious?
IDC released (to one source only) preliminary figures for smartphones shipped for the second quarter of 2009. Top Ten (Shipped) Smartphones in the U.S Q2. (Formerly Exclusive Information )according to IDCBlackBerry Curve iPhone 3G S BlackBerry Pearl iPhone 3G BlackBerry...
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Deal Discount Coupon 2Day: Verizon $99 or Less Smartphones (Except BlackBerry Tour)
Yesterday, we reported the first super price drop by an online storefront on the BlackBerry Tour down to $49 for a new contract. Today, we discovered Verizon has cut prices on popular smartphones to $99 or less. This should help...
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Mocha 3G HTC Touch Pro2 Available from T-Mobile August 12
The touchscreen HTC Touch Pro2, will be available in a mocha finish for T-Mobile customers beginning Aug. 12.The HTC Touch Pro2 is the next generation of the HTC Touch Pro and it works with T-Mobile's 3G network and Wi-Fi (802.11...
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WinMo Marketplace Opens to Developers July 27
Windows Mobile Marketplace is on schedule to open for apps submissions in 29 supported countries on July 27th. Windows Marketplace launches with Windows Mobile 6.5 in the fall. Later this month, Microsoft will announce the details of an app developer...
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Nokia Surge - Social, Flashy, Webby, Video-Sharing and Cheap($29.99 w/Coupon & 2Plans)
AT&T will start selling the Nokia Surge, a socially supercharged smartphone on July 19. The Nokia Surge is designed for clique-clicking with IM, text or email, MMS, AT&T Video Share, or social networks updating. The Nokia Surge has a landscape...
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Winged Pull-Out Split Keyboarded Smartphone Patent Filed by Samsung
Attention all you texters who need to type constantly but want an different shaped keyboard. Samsung has filed a patent with split fly-out QWERTY keyboard.The device is titled "Mobile Terminal Having Rear Keypad." The keypads are spring-loaded and slide into...
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Pre-Order myTouch 3G Google Android @ T-Mobile
T-Mobile will be selling the new Google phone the T-Mobile myTouch 3G first to current customers with a pre-sale program, starting today.Designed by HTC, myTouch 3G features a 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen display and virtual keyboard and autorotate. It also...
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LG Wants to Be Number Two and Is Trying Harder with Smartphones
LG the number two cell phone maker wants to be number two and had plans to create some very competitive products according toYonhap News Agency.In an interview with Ahn Seung-kwon, LG mobile president. LG is planning on working their way...
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Smartphone Buyers Confused, Value Their Mobile Phones and TWI
A Best Buy Mobile survey conducted by GfK shows that many adult Americans plan to buy a smartphone in the next 12 months and they are confused. They do value their mobiles and would go to great lengths to keep...
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HTC Hero, Offers Heroic Adobe Flash for Videos
The HTC Hero is the first Android phone to ship with Adobe Flash technology. This makes it possible to view Flash-enabled websites and ads on the HTC Hero. Close to 80 percent of all videos online delivered with Adobe...
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HTC Ozone with Wi-Fi, Global Roaming Coming to Verizon for $49.99
Verizon Wireless' HTC Ozone will be available on July 29 from Verizon. The QWERTY, Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone has host of connectivity options that include 3G network, global roaming and Wi-Fi. It will cost at $49.99 after a rebate They...
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New Snappy QWERTY Smartphone HTC Snap from Sprint
If you want to organize in a snap the HTC Snap is the first wireless phone to feature Inner Circle, which allows people to prioritize emails from the most important people to them. We saw a demo of this...
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Samsung Jet Pre-Orders Reach Over 2 Million
Pre-orders of the Samsung Jet have skyrocketed, according the Telecoms Korea that reported that Samsung announced pre-orders for the jetsetting Jet had topped two million. That's what you call jet propulsion.That's more than the iPhone 3GS that sold only a...
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T-Mobile Android myTouch to Touchdown for Pre-Order July 8
T-Mobile will launch anther Android smartphone in July, the myTouch 3G, in three colors black, white and a merlot. Designed by HTC, myTouch 3G features a 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen display and virtual keyboard and autorotate. It also features a 3.2-megapixel...
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T-Mobile Dash 3G Redashed from T-Mobile in July
T-Mobile will soon offer their firsst 3G-enabled smartphone, the T-Mobile Dash 3G, with faster data delivery and web browsing via T-Mobile's high-speed 3G network and Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g). The T-Mobile Dash 3G by HTC uses Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.1, is...
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Samsung Launches Samsung Jet with Lots of Palm Pre and iPhone-Like Features
Samsung Electronics unveiled the Samsung Jet, with advanced smartphone features, AMOLED screen, syncing, TouchWiz, Dolfin browser and video multimedia support. Some would say it looks a lot like the Palm Pre in features and or iPhone.It has a WebKit browser....
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Samsung Omnia II, OminaPROs (B7610 B7320) and OminiaLITE Revealed
Samsung is showing its latest smartphones at CommunicAsia 2009 the Samsung Omnia II (I8000), Samsung OmniaPRO series (OmniaPRO B7610, OmniaPRO B7320) as well as the Samsung OmniaLITE (B7300). The new Omnia smartphone line-up follows the success of the very first...
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Samsung OmniaPro B7320 - Messaging Smartphone
The Samsung OmniaPRO B7320 has a compact design and ergonomic QWERTY keypad. It looks like the Samsung Jack and BlackBerry. It runs Windows Mobile 6.1 which can be upgraded later.The Samsung OmniaPRO B7320 is a portable messaging center which lets...
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OminaPRO B7610 QWERTY Work/Life Combo Smartphone
In their latest announcement Samsung called OmniaPRO B7610 the work-life Balance Winner: It's an AMOLED smartphone with touch/Qwerty and 5-megapixel camera. With separate mode for Work and Life, the OmniaPRO B7610 boasts features optimized for both work and play They...
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Verizon Samsung Omnia II I8000 (Verizon) Details and Specs News
Samsung Omnia II I800 (Verizon) is a Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional touchscreen phone, featuring the world's largest 3.7-inch AMOLED display with crystal-clear WVGA resolution (800 by 480) which is a larger than the previous Samsung Omnia.The Samsung Omnia II has Advanced...
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Samsung OmniaLITE Details
The Samsung OmniaLITE is designed for users who demand an easy smartphone interface with full support of multimedia, Internet, and business features. TouchWiz 2.0 User Interface and downloadable online widgets make it highly user-friendly, while its 3D multimedia player interface...
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Verizon Horizon Palm Pre (Cousin), BlackBerry Tour/Storm 2, and Android Smartphones Coming
Verizon will be offering a lot of smartphones in the upcoming months, in around six months. Verizon's CEO Lowell McAdam revealed plans during a Barclays Capital conference in New York. He gave a tour of what to expect from Verizon...
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Nokia N97 Mobile Computer On Sales in U.S. for $699
The Nokia N97, which Nokia calls its flagship mobile computer is being sold in the United States at Nokia stores. Along with a tilting 3.5" touch display, QWERTY keyboard and a fully customizable home screen, the Nokia N97 offers...
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Samsung Unveils 12 Megapixel Samsung Pixon12
Samsung unveiled Samsung Pixon12 (M8910) - they claim it is the world's first 12-megapixel camera phone with full-touch screen. The Pixon12 has advance photo functions and full-touch 3.1-inch AMOLED screen. The Samsung Pixon12 ha a Dedicated Camera Power Key and...
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New LG Phones Coming to Verizon Soon
Verizon Wireless and LG Mobile have cooked up three new phones for summer fun. The new LG enV3 will be available Friday, while LG enV TOUCH and LG Glance will be available June 5 at all Verizon Wireless Communications...
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AT&T to Android with HTC Lancaster - August 3?
Engadget has leaked an AT&T document for the HTC Lancaster, a QWERTY slider smartphone running Android. It appears to a touchscreen like the HTC Touch Pro which they call "The Consumer Social Messaging Device"Th HTC Lancaster offers EDGE and 850...
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Smartphone Sales Up 12.7%, Nokia is Top, Followed by BlackBerry, Says Gartner
Worldwide mobile phone sales totalled 269.1 million units in the first quarter of 2009, a 8.6 per cent decrease from the first quarter of 2008, according to Gartner, Inc. Smartphone sales surpassed 36.4 million units, a 12.7 per cent...
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2x # of Smartphones, Double Integrated Devices, Says AT&T
AT&T claims that, based on independent market research, twice as many smartphone users have chosen AT&T over any other U.S. carrier. They attribute their success to the fastest 3G network and nearly 20,000 U.S. Wi-Fi hotspots offers and AT&T's industry-leading...
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Review of Reviews Nokia E71x (AT&T) Review
Nokia E71x Rated 4 out 5 by Wireless and Mobile News Review of ReviewsThe Nokia E71x is a world smartphone, full of bells and whistles for a great price. Reviewers all wrote that the push email and business functions are...
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Samsung Jack Hits the AT&T Road: 3.2 Mpx Camera, Video Cap, and Wi-Fi for $50 with Coupons & Plans
The Samsung Jack is now the official. This successful successor to the BlackJack and BlackJack II, will go on sale May 19. It offers office, music, and video features with a QWERTY keyboard. If you don't know Jack about iPhones...
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Acer Now Selling Acer X960 3G Smartphone with GPS
Also available now from Acer is another smartphone announced at Mobile World Congress the Acer X960, a 3G Windows Mobile smartphone, with a high‐resolution VGA touchscreen and GPS.The Acer X960 has internet‐search, favorite web bookmarks, emails, and attachment readingThe X960...
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Acer Now Selling Dual Sim Dual Standby WinMo Smartphone
Acer has reveal dmore details about the the Acer DX900, which they claim to be he world's first dual‐SIM and dual‐standby Windows Mobile smartphone supporting both 3G and 2G connections. It is now available in EMEA and most Asian markets.The...
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Launch2net Tethers BlackBerry Storm to Mac Computers
Launch2net is now offering a tethering app to enable BlackBerry Storms and other smartphones to act as a tethered modem to Apple computers.The latest update includes the ability for BlackBerry Storm smartphone users to "tether" their Storm as a broadband...
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Windows Mobile Facebook App Launched
Windows have released a Facebook app especially for Windows Mobile smartphones. They claim it is the first app to enable users to upload video directly from their handsets to their Facebook pages.The best part of the Windows Mobile Facebook app...
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BlackBerry (Storm) Free App of the Day: Pocket Express WinMo Too
We know you BlackBerry (Storm) and smartphone users like free apps that make your life easier and provide useful information. Today we named Pocket Express our Free App of Day because Pocket Express, offers up-to-the-minute news, sports, weather, stocks, travel,...
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BlackBerry 50% of Smartphone Market, Says NPD
The NPD Group reports that the buy-one-get- one" promotion by Verizon Wireless helped RIM's BlackBerry Curve outsell Apple's iPhone to become the best-selling consumer smartphone in the U.S. in the first quarter (Q1) of 2009. RIM's consumer smartphone market share...
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Customers Most Satisifed with iPhone and LG, Says JD Power
The iPhone ranked highest in customer satisfaction among smartphone manufacturers, while LG ranked highest among traditional mobile phone users, according to the J.D. Power and Associates. Apple (iPhone) scored 791 on a 1,000-point scale, performing particularly well in ease of...
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Tellme to Show and Tell Faster Commands & Search on WinMo this Fall
Tellme will be vocalizing search and command in Windows Mobile phones this fall. Tellme claims to be is the first to allow people to press one button, say what they want and get it, whether that is to send a...
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Think Pink iPhone-Rival from Verizon and Microsoft
The Wall Street Journal reported that Verizon and Microsoft are working on a new touchscreen phone to rival the iPhone, yearly next year. While they claim "Verizon has also had discussions in recent months with Apple about partnering on devices...
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LG Viewty Smart 8 Mpx Camera HSDPA Smartphone Coming to Europe in May
The details for the LG Viewty Smart LG GC900 super camera smartphone are now available. It has an 8 megapixel camera with a Schneider-Kreuznach lens.The LG Viewty Smart can take pictures at up to 1600 ISO and record videos in...
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Instinct s30 Avaiable from Sprint with Guitar Hero
The Samsung Instinct s30, the next generation Samsung Instinct haptic touchscreen phone with a voice control button is now available from Sprint.Instinct s30 has built-in instant messaging, improved web-browsing via the default browser and Opera Mini 4.2 as well as...
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Cricket Offers Motorola Hint with Video, Bluetooth and 3G
Cricket is now offering the Motorola Hint QA30. Motorola Hint QA30 is a compact slider with a QWERTY keyboard, 3G connectivity and video capture, playback and video stream. Motorola Hint QA30 also features a large 2.5" color display, a 2MP...
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T-Mobile Sidekick LX with 3G Video and Lots of Social Networking
T-Mobile is taking orders for their new T-Mobile Sidekick LX, featuring 3G for faster data speeds and enhanced mobile access to popular social media sites. The 3.2 inch WVGA display (854x480-pixel resolution) uses Sharp's Aquos technology and swivels open to...
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New Samsung Propel Joystick Wi-Fi Smartphone On Sale at AT&T
The 3G Samsung Propel Pro, a chrome slider smartphone si now available from AT&T . The Propel Pro opens to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard that makes sending text messages and e-mails easy. The Propel Pro's joystick, located in the...
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BlackBerry (Storm) and Smartphone Free App of the Day: Qik Live Video Share
We're still sorting through all the great things we saw at CTIA and realize that we were impressed with the Qik demo at the BlackBerry booth. Qik is a video sharing service that allows you to stream live video from...
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Nokia E75 Ships First Nokia Smartphone with Integrated MSGS
The Nokia E75 is now available and shipping. The Nokia E75 is the first smartphone to ship with the new email user interface, offering full desktop email functionality, and complete integration of Nokia's email and messaging services. The Nokia E75...
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HTC Touch Diamond Smartphone at Verizon
The HTC Touch Diamond will be available tomorrow from Verizon. The HTC Touch Diamond combines a fashionable mobile design with the added benefit of the nation's most reliable voice and data network for fast e-mail and Internet connectivity.The most liked...
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HTC TouchPro2 to Be T-Mobile Wing II, July 22
While trying phones at the HTC booth during CTIA, the new HTC Touch Pro 2 had great text appeal due to its keyboard. Our touch-typist editor who learned to type on a manual typewriter in the dark pre-pc ages, was...
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HTC Shows HTC Snap with Snappy Email Feature
HTC is showing the HTC Snap smartphone, at CTIA in Las Vegas. The "snappy feature" on this smartphone, called "Inner Circle" makes access to frequent email contacts a snap. The HTC Snap has a full QWERTY keyboard, and 3G connectivity...
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Sprint Instinct s30 Coming April 19 with Speech & Games
We have finally gotten the details on the Samsung Sprint Instinct s30 in English! All we had yesterday was that the screen was 3.2 inches. The Samsung Instinct s30 is the next generation Samsung Instinct haptic touchscreen phone with a...
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Samsung S30 Instinct Mini Coming to CTIA and Sprint
Samsung revealed the Instinct Mini aka the Samsung S30 in a Korean news release and will show it at CTIA. The Samsung S30 is expected to launch on Sprint in April. The Samsung S30 has a 3.2 inch touchscreen display,...
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Samsung Impression Impresses with Impressive AMOLED
The Samsung Impression, AT&T claims to be the nation's first commercially available AMOLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode) screen for one of the brightest and clearest displays in the U.S.The Samsung Impression, has a keyboard underneath and is still slim. It's...
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Samsung Propel Pro Slider Smartphone with Joy Stick from AT&T
For texting and email AT&T announced the Samsung Propel Pro, a full-QWERTY silver and chrome compact slider smartphone with a joy stick. Windows Mobile 6.1 allows users to run full enterprise applications on the same platform they use to text...
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AT&T Officially Launches Nokia E71x Smartphone with Video, GPS & Mail for Exchange
Probably the most promising of the AT&T smarphones announced today is the thinnest smartphone on the market, the Nokia E71x, which go on sale in the coming weeks from AT&T for $99.99 and features a black steel finish and award-winning...
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iPhone Leads U.S. Smartphones, Says AdMob
AdMob, in its February 2009 Mobile Metrics Report, says smartphones continued to gain significant market share worldwide over the past six months, rising from 26 percent to 33 percent of requests in February 2009. They believe that the launch of...
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Acer to Offer Android Smartphone A1 in September
According to the publication the Business Mirror, Acer will offer an Android phone in September of this year according to source who did not want to be identified. Previously, it was rumored that Acer was workign on two Android smartphones.The...
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Acer WinMo Smartphones Coming Soon
The Acer Windows smartphones announced at Mobile World Congress are on their way to be being sold soon.. The DX900 will be available by the end of this month, according to Vincent Chen, manager of product marketing at Acer's Smart...
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Free WinMo BlackBerry and iPhone Hail-a-Cab App: RideCharge
Taxi Magic by RideCharge gives smartphone users the ability to book taxis and sedans on their iPhone, Windows Mobile and BlackBerry smartphone."The reponse has been incredible, The downloads have been in the tens of thousands in the first couple of...
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HTC to Reveal QWERTY Smartphone at CTIA
DigiTimes reports that HTC is likely to premier its new QWERTY smartphone, the HTC Maple, at CTIA Wireless 2in Las Vegas according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.HTC appears to be talking to US service operators for j...
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Nokia 5730 Xpress Music Full QWERTY Social-Musical Powerhouse
The new Nokia 5730 XpressMusic is slide-out full QWERTY keyboard for quick messaging, social-sharing and on-the-go entertainment services. It has a 3.2 megapixel camera with video recording and connections to photo sharing services. It works with voice commands, Bluetooth 2.0...
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Rugged Digital Assitants From Motorola MC5590 EDA and MC5574 EDA
Motorola has launched the MC55 line of small and light Enterprise Digital Assitants(EDA) with 3.5 inch displays. Designed for mobile workers inside and outside an organization's four walls, MC55 EDA have two-way radio, bar code scanner, digital camera, and mobile...
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Smartphones Bright Spot in Dim Handset Market, Says iSuppli
Smartphones remain a bright spot with global unit growth as high as 11.1 percent in 2009, iSuppli Corp. predicts, although the outlook for the overall mobile handset market continues to dim. iSuppli's optimistic scenario predicts global smartphone unit shipments...
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Smartphones 23% of Sales, Says NPD Group
According to The NPD Group, market research, consumer sales of smartphones to U.S. consumers represented 23 percent of all handset sales in the fourth quarter (Q4) 2008 compared to just 12 percent in Q4 2007. Led by the release of...
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Nokia 5800 XpressMusic 3G Issues Only in N.Y. and Chicago
The Nokia Blog received the following about "3G network problems" with the 5800 XpressMusic phones reported yesterday.It appears the Nokia 3G network problems were only in New York and Chicago."We have learned that some Nokia 5800 XpressMusic devices are having...
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1/3 Say They Will Upgrade to Smartphone, Says In-Stat
Global smartphone growth this year will be strong globally, but even stronger in the US market. Recent research by In-Stat found the following: By 2013, Smartphones will double their share of all cellphones to about 20 percent, reports In-Stat. Almost...
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ASUS P835 WVGA Touchscreen Smartphone Announced
ASUS, after its alliance with Garmin has launched is own smartphone the P835, a PDA web browsing and multimedia phone with a 5 megapixel camera (video playback), Word Editor, push email, which uses Windows Mobile Professional 6.1.The P835 is equipped...
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Shortcovers Brings eBooks to iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android Smartphones
Shortcovers is an online mobile service that gives iPhone, Blackberry (Storm, Bold and Curve), or Google Android device users access to books, authors, magazines, and other content.The service is provided by Indigo Books and Music and provides apps to read...
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WebEx Conferencing Coming to Smartphones in April
Web conferencing meetings will become truly mobile in April of this year. Cisco WebEx Meeting Center web and audio conferences will be available for smartphones including the BlackBerry Bold, BlackBerry Curve 8900, and BlackBerry Storm f the Nokia E71, Nokia...
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Top Handsets in Decemember, Topped by RIM's BlackBerry Curve
AvianReasearch calculated the top ten handsets in the U.S. in December and reported the four largest carriers represented 85% of the U.S. wireless market on a subscriber basis. Most of the top ten handsets are in fact smartphones. The findings...
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Verizon Samsung Omnia (i910) Review of Reviews 2
Verizon's Samsung Omnia Rated 3.5 out of 5 by Wireless and Mobile News Review of ReviewsThe Verizon Samsung Omnia is a full haptic touchscreen Windows Mobile Professional smartphone with lots of features including 3G access, push email, GPS, Microsoft document...
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Smartphone Users Spent $$$ up to $499 for Apps, Says ABI
Wow, some smartphone users spent a lot of money on apps for their smartphones a whopping 16.5% spent between $100 and $499 .The stats are from survey of 235 US smartphone users who installed applications on their devices in...
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Nokia Adds E75 and E55 for Messaging, Email and Web
Nokia showed two new additions to its Eseries range, the Nokia E75 and Nokia E55, which are the first to ship with the company's new email user interface at Mobile World Congress. Both devices also come standard with Nokia...
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Nokia N86 8MP Camera Phone with OLED, LED, Wi-Fi and Music
The Nokia N86 8MP has a wide-angle Carl Zeiss optics and an 8 megapixel sensor with performance as good as a digital camera. The Nokia N86 8MP is designed to work in both bright and low light conditions, and it's...
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Waterproof i-mate 810-F Imperviously Secure with Compass & GPS
i-mate, launched the i-mate 810-F at Mobile World Congress. The call it "the world's first complete lifestyle mobile with a lifetime warranty". Designed to meet military specifications, the 810-F combines high-end mobile technology and e durability. The phone comprises waterproof...
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Sony Idou Does 12 Megapixel Photos and Entertainment
The Sony Ericsson Idou is a concept smartphone that was displayed at Mobile World Congress with 3.5 inch display and 12.1 megapixel full Cyber-Shoty camera with Xenon flash. It's the only 12 megapixel camera revealed, yet. The Sony Idou is...
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HTC Shows HTC Touch Pro2 at Mobile World Congress
HTC introduced the HTC TouchPro2 at Mobile World Congress. It has HTC's latest TouchFLO 3D interface and Push Internet technology. HTC Push Internet alleviates slow downloading and rendering of web pages on a mobile phone. users can preselect their favoritewWebsites...
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Samsung Omina HD with 3.7" AMOLED Touchscreen and HD Video
Samsung showed off the OMNIA HD at Mobile World Congress this week. It is Samsung's first Symbian full-touch handset, and features 720P HD video recording and decoding, along with an 8 megapixel camera, auto-rotate display, big AMOLED screen and 3D...
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Pantech Matrix Pro Dual Slider Smartphone Coming to AT&T 2/24
AT&T will be introducing the double slide-out Pantech Matrix PRO, next week. The Pantech Matrix Pro has mirror-shiny exterior, integrated A-GPS with AT&T Navigator, Bluetooth and a 2 megapixel camera.The Pantech Matrix Pro also has video share. The operating system...
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ACER DX900 FIrst Dual Sim - 3.5 G and EDGE Smartphone
The ACER DX900 is the world's first Dual-SIM Smartphone to support both 3.5G (HSDPA) and 2.75G (EDGE) SIM cards allowing users to keep track of both personal and business communications. The touchscreen allows one-hand navigation while the 2.8 inch VGA...
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The ACER X960 GPS Smartphone
The ACER X960 is an all-purpose tool designed for those who want multiple features without having to carry several devices. A high-resolution 2.8-inch VGA touchscreen and five-way navigation button allow easy maneuvering. It has an intuitive widget-based user interface that...
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ACER F900 Touchcreen GPS Smartphone
The ACER F900 smartphone was developed to give total control over web browsing. It has a 3.8-inch WVGA touchscreen and new easy-to-use touch keyboard, 3.2 megapixel camera GPS, Fm radio and voice commands.The ACER F900 is able to display more...
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Acer Launches New Line of Smartphones
At Mobile World Congress, Acer revealed an entire line of smartphones. They plan to be one of the top five smartphone makers in the United States. All of the phones will have a new widget-based user interface, on top of...
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Samsung Instinct Firmware Updated - U Can OTA-It Now
A new firmware version is available for the Samsung Instinct - the MR5 CA10. It will will have some new features and fix some bugs.The upgrade includes new RSS reader, dynamic zoom via a new slider control in the browser,...
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Garmin-Asus nuvifone M20 Supter GPS LBS Smartphone Revealed
Garmin-Asus, announced the Garmin-Asus nuvifone M20, a web-browser and premium super navigation smartphone with a Windows Mobile operating system. The Garmin-Asus nuvifone M20 will be on display at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.The nuvifone M20 is powered by Windows Mobile...
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Samsung UltraTOUCH S8300 Touch Slider Phone
The Samsung UltraTOUCH S8300 touchscreen slider will be revealed at Mobile World Congress. Samsung UltraTOUCH S8300 has a 8 megapixel camera, 2.8-inch AMOLED touchscreen and the upgraded TouchWiz interface. The camera has a dual LED flash and 30fps VGA video...
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LG's Arena Will be Seen in Arena at Mobile World Congress
LG Electronics, will show their new LG ARENA (LG-KM900) at Mobile World Congress. They call it a fully loaded multimedia phone with a new "3D" user interface.The LG ARENA has a 3″ 800 x 480 WVGA 262K color touchscreen display,5...
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Mobile Phones Sales Down Smartphones Up, Says IDC
The mobile phone market was really a "downer" with 12.6% lower units in Q4 notes a new report from IDC. The only positive note was for smartphones in 2008, the converged mobile devices segment grew 22.5% over 2007, outpacing the...
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Garmin and ASUSTek Team for Line of nüvifones
GPS icon Garmin and ASUSTeK Computer have partnered to design, manufacture and distribute co-branded location-centric smartphones.The first nüvifone has GPS friend finding, a parking space recorder, dashboard mount, and photo geotagging to allow other people to find the location of...
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Super Slim Toshiba TG01 Revealed with More Speed and Display than iPhone
Toshiba has unveiled their new touchscreen Windows Mobille TG01 smartphone with a bigger display, a higher resolution, faster processor and slimmer shell than any other smartphone, including Apple's iPhone."Toshiba has listened to what users want - great speed, and the...
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Acer to Reveal Smartphones at Mobile World Congress
Several web sources report that Acer will launch new smartphones at Mobile World Congress on February 16.The speculation comes from this description from the plans at Mobile World Congress:"Now Acer enters the Smart Handheld market with an exciting range of...
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T-Mobile Now Offering New Wi-Fi Shadow with HotSpot Calling
T-Mobile is now selling the new T-Mobile Shadow smartphone which is rounder, has hotspot calling, more processing power, a 2 megapixel camera, web surfing, and Wi-Fi. The T-Mobile Shadow smartphone is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1. It the first Windows-based...
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LG Versa (VX9600) to Debut February 22
The LG VX9600 Versa could be called versatile because its parts are detachable. They're calling it the successor to Verizon's LG Voyager. The QWERTY keyboard, gamepad, Wi-Fi module and external speakers all can be separated from the mother ship of...
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Microsoft WinMo 6.5 Honeycomb Seen on Square EDA Exeda
The Exeda smartphone, a square shaped smartphone with a QWERTY keyboard has been getting a lot media coverage, not for the Exeda but because they posted photos of the smartphone running the new Alpha version of the Windows Mobile 6.5...
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Top Best Selling Smartphones of 2008: Microsoft Wins?
The stats are in and analysts are trying to figure out what company was the smartphone champ of 2008?Microsoft claims more than 20 million smartphones were sold in 2008 with its software. Adding totals form Apple’s reported figures, approximately 13-14...
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1 Million Nokia 5800 XpressMusic (Tube) Smartphones Shipped
Nokia reported in conference call that in the last 30 days of the quarter it had sold 500,000 units of its 5800 XpressMusic smartphone, formerly known as the Tube. The phone was only available in limited markets."The response to this...
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1 Million Nokia 5800 XpressMusic (Tube) Smartphones Shipped
Nokia rerorted in conference call that in the last 30 days of the quarter it had sold 500,000 units of its 5800 XpressMusic smartphone, formerly known as the Tube. The phone was only available in limited markets."The response to this...
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HTC Touch Cruise Cruises to US in Spring with Extreme GPS Features
The HTC Touch Cruise has had a makeover and now has a new look and extreme geo-tagging with HTC Footprints. The HTC Touch Cruise has been called a GPS-centric smartphone because HTC Footprints goes beyond geotagging photos. Users can add...
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Seen at CES Mobinnova ICE TouchScreen 3G Smartphone
On display at CES in the Windows Mobile area was the Mobinnova ICE touchscreen Windows Mobile smartphone.Sascha Segan at PcMag wrote, "it's a striking design: when it's off, it's a big, black slab with no visible buttons on the front....
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Palm Pre Wins CNET Awards, A Real-Woman's Smartphone
CNET has named the Palm Pre the Best of Show for the Consumer Electronics Show 2009 and the People's Voice Award.The Palm Pre is the first cell phone/smartphone to win the Best in Show since CNET started presenting the Best...
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LG Incite Recalled from Best Buy Re-Launch Monday
Mobility today has found an internal document explaining why the LG Incite smartphone has been reaclled from Best Buy. Mmmn the recall may be the reason why the LG Incite has been out-of-stock for the past few weeks at the...
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Unlocked Nokia E63 Smartphone Coming to U.S. Soon
Nokia announced that the E63 smartphone will be available in the coming weeks in the U.S. for around $250. The Nokia E63 combines a QWERTY keypad, 3G network speeds and uses Symbian S60 3rd Edition. The Nokia E63 supports a...
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Windows Mobile Will Be on Fewer Smartphones
The New York Times reports that Microsoft, in order to deal with competition in the mobile operating system market, will change its OS and will also license it for fewer devices.A Microsoft rep said that the in limiting the number...
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Palm Previews New Nova Smartphone the Palm Pre from Sprint
Palm showcased it's latest touchscreen smartphone that charges without a cable comes with 8 gigabytes of storage, GPSs, Wi-Fi and a slide-out keyboard the Plam Pre"Our intention was never to build an iPhone killer but to build a killer Palm...
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T-Mobile Announces New Shadow
T-Mobile has announced their new T-Mobile Shadow candy bar slider smartphone. The new T-Mobile Shadow smartphone has a faster processor and offers unlimited calls over Wi-Fi hotspots. The T-Mobile Shadow smartphones also has a 2 megapixel camera with video capture,...
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Does the Logic Bolt Projector Phone Defy Logic?
Logic is showing what they claim to be the world's first projector phone at CES is Las Vegas. The Logic Bolt phone can project an image up to 64 inches across and has a 3 megapixel camera, GPS and a...
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Review of Reviews LG Incite CT810 (AT&T) Review
LG Incite (AT&T) Rated 3.5 out of 5 by Wireless and Mobile News Review of ReviewsThe LG Incite is a touchscreen smartphone that has many more features than the popular LG Vu but is as shiny as the LG Shine....
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HTC S743 Dual Keyboard Windows Unlocked Windows Mobile Smartphone
HTC released the HTC S743 smartphone, with 12-key keypad design with a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard,The HTC S743 is Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone that supports high-speed HSDPA (850/1900 MHz) networks and will be available through select retail outlets, including dell.com...
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MOTOSURF A3100 Touchy-Surfing Safari Debuts at CES
Motorola is also launching the touchscreen MOTOSURF A3100, a Windows Mobile 6.1 Quad-band GSM "touch tablet" smartphone at CES. The MOTOSURF A3100 smartphone supports 3G, WiFi, Google Maps, messaging and email. It has 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera. It is operated via...
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New Amazing Slider Palm Smartphone to Debut Thursday @ CES
Rumors are buzzing about Palm's new device to be launched at CES on Thursday. Crunch Gear published a post, yesterday, that said a trusted source told them that the latest Palm smartphone running the Nova operating system will have a...
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nüvifone Videos Show Super GPS(Via Geotagged Photos) MP3 Player and Touchscreen
Garmin is gearing up for CES has released screenshots and videos demoing the nüvifone touchscreen smartphone with lots of GPS integration.After viewing the videos, it appears the nüvifone integrates dual GPS with navigation via geotagged photos. Other features of the...
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LED Neon-Like Night-Lighted Designer Phone Emporio Armani Night Effect
There were a lot of top lists this year from Time Magazine and Wireless and Mobile News Hottest Coolest Best Smartphones of 2008. Here's a wireless smartphone that gets its own list the Samsung M7500 Emporio Armani Night Effect phone should...
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HTC Won't Make Sony Xperia X2 - Mobinnova for Next Time
According to CNET Asia the decision have HTC make their next Xperia is due to the reported dissatisfaction of Sony Ericsson over the design of Xperia X1.While, the Taiwanese news site DigiTimes reports that, according to the Chinese-language Commercial Times...
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Silver Xperia X1 Cracks in Europe Point to American Recall?
There have been reports in Europe that say the silver Sony Xperia X1 has cracks by the stylus holder. An XDA Developer's forum member found twenty-four other European owners who had the same crack. The American Sony Xperia X19(a), however,...
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Samsung Innov8 Slider Camera Phone Passes FCC
The Samsung Innov8 slider phone has passed the FCC and should make camera bugs happy in the U.S. The 8 megapixel camera has autofocus, facial recognition, image stabilizer, flash, and photo editing. GPSl geotags photos and offer location-based searches. It...
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Review of Reviews Top Best Coolest Hottest Smartphones of 2008
Wireless and Mobile News is dedicated to helping our readers sort out all the information about smartphones out there. At year end, many publications name their top, best, coolest, hottest or perfect smartphones of the year. Just like in our...
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Consumer Reports' Top Smartphones Are Cheaper than Most
Consumer Reports has named their top smartphones: the Samsung BlackJack II, T-Mobile Wing, Motorola Q9c, T-Mobile Shadow and BlackBerry Pearl Flip are the top five in order.There's not a iPhone or Android G1, Xperia in the pack, causing some...
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Picture Perfect 8 MP Samsung Pixon / Memoir Phone Passes FCC
The FCC has approved the 8-megapixel camera phone Pixon, also called Samsung Memoir. t tons of photo features includig auto-focus, face-detecting, blink-detecting, and panorama technology, geotagging, double LED flash and slow motion video. Other features include MS Office viewing, HTML...
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Palm Online App Store Opens
Palm opened their online app store this week powered by PocketGear. They sell both Palm OS and Windows Mobile software titles and includes over 1,000 free titles.There is also a free Palm App store software download. Developer are encouraged to...
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Garmin nuvifone Smartphone with GPS Passes FCC
The FCC has approved the Garmin nuvifone. It is being tested on 1900 MHz and 850 MHz bands. No carrier announcements have been made yet.The smartphone is expected to include web browsing and data connectivity, Garmin GPS applications.Their original news...
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Palm's Nova OS Premieres at CES
Palm the original inventor of the smartphone will be showing its new operating system, "Nova," at the Consumer Electronics Show in January.Palm is hoping that new OS will help the company come-back from its falling market share and profits Palm...
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Review HTC Fuze (AT&T) Review of Reviews
HTC Fuze (AT&T) Rated 3.5 out of 5 by Wireless and Mobile News Review of Reviews The HTC Fuze from AT&T is full-featured Windows Mobile smartphone with a QWERTY keyboard that lacks the number row. Although most reviews thought...
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HTC Touch Diamond in White with Snow Flurries
When you visit the HTC website you will see the HTC Touch Diamond is all it's white splendor, surrounded by white snow flurries. They wish viewers, "A More Connected Holiday Season." White phones are in style, in case you haven't...
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Sony Ericsson to Make Android Smartphone
Sony Ericsson today announced it will support the Open Handset Alliance. The alliance is responsible for open standards for Android phones. Rikko Sakaguchi, CVP and head of Creation and Development at Sony Ericsson confirmed their intention to develop a handset...
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Sony Xperia X1 Shortage Due to Lack of Materials or Recall?
The Sony Xperia X1 smartphone will be very hard to find under trees this holiday season because there is shortage, most likely due to a recall.Unlocked Windows Mobile Xperia X1 phones with iPhone-like features (Wi-Fi touchscreen, GPS) as well as...
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Triple Play Tri-Fold WinMo Phone with 911 Features
Dubbed the Swiss Army knife of phones, the iCEphone (in Case of Emergency) from the Medical Phone packs triple-play power into a Windows smartphone. It has a touchscreen, keyboard, and game console along with GPS , 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth, Push...
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Unlocked Developer Version of T-Mobile G1 Android Phone $399
Developerscan now get a SIM- and hardware-unlocked version of it's G1 Android phone for $399. It's black and has a geometric design on the back.The Android Dev Phone 1 is a SIM-unlocked and hardware-unlocked device designed for advanced developers.It ships...
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Smartphone Growth Slowed to 11.5%, Says Gartner
In the third quarter of 2008, the global smartphone market reached its weakest year-on-year growth since Gartner, Inc. began tracking the industry. Worldwide smartphone sales to end-users totalled 36.5 million units in the third quarter of 2008, an 11.5 per...
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Alltel Offers Moto Hint Smartphone for $99.99
Alltel Wireless will offer the Motorola Hint, a vertical slider phone on November 28th in Alltel retail stores and at alltel.com. The Motorola Hint includes a full QWERTY keyboard with dedicated keys for the 2 MP camera, MP3 player and...
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OMG Samsung Omnia Finally at Verizon for $249.99
For those waiting out the Storm shortage the Samsung Omnia is a possible alternative. The Samsung Omnia will be available for order online at www.verizonwireless.com and in business sales channels beginning Nov. 26. The Samsung Omnia's has a touchscreen, customizable...
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HTC Touch Pro Now on Sale at Verizon
Verizon is now selling the HTC Touch Pro, available online for $349.99 with a $70.00 rebate, significantly higher than other phones in its class.The Windows Mobile phone has the following features:Camera 3.2 MegapixelBluetoothEmail and Web for Smartphone CompatibleQWERTY KeyboardRemovable MemoryTouchscreen...
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1 Million G1's and 3 Million Touch Diamonds Shipped by HTC in 2008
HTC's CEO Peter Chou expects shipments of the T-Mobile G1 will reach one million by the end of 2008.HTC also expects shipments of three million Touch Diamond phones by the end of this year. Both forecasts are greater than their...
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The Verizon BlackBerry Storm Long Line Report
Yesterday, due to a severe server "issue" we were not able to publish. We had a story ready to publish, that predicted a shortage for BlackBerry Storms. Word on the street and web, was that Verizon was receiving only small...
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Verizon BlackBerry Storm Wins Speed Tests
On your marks, get set, iPhone 3G and BlackBerrry Storm, now browse!Walter Mossberg at the Wall Street Journal, tested the BlackBerry Storm over 3G in the Silicon Valley and it was faster than the iPhone. However, on Wi-Fi the iPhone...
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Verizon BlackBerry Storm's Missing Links in iPhone Genealogy
The BlackBerry Storm has more high-end capabilities compared to the iPhone. There are however, some features the BlackBerry Storm lacks in comparison to the iPhone 3G and most missed one according recent articles is:Wi-Fi - why no Wi-Fi? Because it's...
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Verizon BlackBerry Storm Watch: Update Software First
It has been suggested that the BlackBerry Storm units were shipped without the latest software upgrade when it was first launched in November. If you are buying a BlackBerry Storm it makes sense to check for updates. BlackBerry forums also...
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BlackBerry Storm Must-Have Accessories Add-Ons
If you have been reading Wireless and Mobile News Coverage of the BlackBerry Storm that has ten more power features than the iPhone and you are thinking you may buy the BlackBerry Storm, you might want to consider these accessories...
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Insite to LG Incite with Video Share Available from AT&T
AT&T is offering LG Incite with 3G access, built-in aGPS and Wi-F, and Bluetooth. The LG Incite comes with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, Microsoft Office Mobile and Microsoft ActiveSync 4.5 and Windows Media Player 10.It has a 3-inch touch screen...
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BlackBerry Storm Danger Warnings: Do's and Don't's
If the BlackBerry Storm is on your want list, before you buy, it's a good idea to review the BlackBerry Storm Safety Guidelines. There are all kinds of warnings that most smartphone users do not always remember. Cautions include warnings...
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Barack's BlackBerry Dilemma Comical Answer
Snaggy and Nitrozac at The Joy of Tech Comics have granted us permission to show you their comical bent on the solution to Barack Obama's BlackBerry security problem. Clicking on the cartoon will show it in a new window at...
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BlackBerry Storm Promotional Mailer Snags & Snafus
The mailer inviting Verizon users to come into Verizon stores for a private sale that show the BlackBerry Storm has backfired, notes Slash Gear. Although the mailers did not say that there would be BlackBerry Storms available it has left...
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BlackBerry Storm at Best Buy $599 Soon
The BlackBerry Storm should be available at Best Buy by the launch date for $599 it is currently backorderd.When you go to the BestBuy website the BlackBerry Storm is backordered.The Best Buy website lists the BlackBerry Storm as:Equipped with e-mail...
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Obama's BlackBerry Banned from White House?
Barack Obama is an avid BlackBerry user and sends emails to his friends and colleagues from it. He also reads speeches and reports on it. He may, however, have to give up his digital assistant due to concerns about...
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Verizon is Offering 2 Free Months of Service with BlackBerry Storm for Renewers
Larry Dignan at ZDNet reports that with his special invite to get a BlackBerry Storm as Verizon customer, the mailer offers two free months of service.His contract is about to expire and he thinks the two free months is because...
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Verizon's BlackBerry Storm Has 10 More Power Features than iPhone
As the media blitz heats up people are comparing the BlackBerry Storm to the iPhone 3G. RIM was really smart when it designed the BlackBerry Storm and carefully added features the IPhone does not have:Camera: The BlackBerry Storm has a...
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Verizon Offers Samsung Saga Smartphone
Verizon is now offering the Samsung Saga, a smartphone that features a 2.55" advanced touch screen and a full QWERTY keyboard that provides business professionals with an easy way to send e-mail, text and instant messages. The Saga is equipped...
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Nokia E63 QWERTY Phone Launched
Nokia is now showing he E63 smartphone with a QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi connectivity and MS Exchange syncing in ruby red or ultramarine blue. The Nokia E63 also includes Files on Ovi, a service where people can get remote access to their...
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BlackBerry Storm Release Date and Price Official - Nov. 21 for $199
After much conjecture and high hopes that the BlackBerry Storm would be cheap or free, Verizon has finally made public the first day you can buy the BlackBerry Storm, Friday, November 21 in Verizon stores and online for $199 with...
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Cost of T-Mobile G1 with Google Cheaper than iPhone
The T-Mobile G1 smartphone with Google has a Bill-of-Materials (BOM) cost of $143.89, according to a virtual teardown conducted by iSuppli Corp which is cheaper than the iPhone 3G with a cost of about $160.00The estimate includes only the component...
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BlackBerry Storm Release November 24/25, Pre-launch Nov. 20?
Editor's NOTE: This report is now out of date. Verizon officially announced the launch of the BlackBerry Storm on November 21. We don't have word yet if the stores will open early.Boy Genius has gotten a hold of Verizon internal...
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HTC Fuze from AT&T - The Ultimate Smartphone?
AT&T is now offering the HTC Fuze with HSDPA which is a lot like HTC's Touch Pro (Sprint). The AT&T website calls the HTC Fuze the ultimate smartphone.The HTC Fuze smartphone has 2.8-inch VGA screen TouchFLO user interface which allows customers...
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BlackBerry Storm Watch - New TV Commercial - Mad Genius?
There’s a new BlackBerry Storm commercial running on the major major networks. They show a closeup of a hand on the Black Berry Storm using the keyboard and also rotating it from portrait to landscape while the screen automatically changes.BlackBerry...
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Smartphone 13% of Total Phone Market, Says Canalys
Gobal shipments of smartphones hit a new peak of just under 40 million units in Q3 2008, according to the latest estimates from leading analyst firm Canalys. This means smartphones now represent around 13% of the total mobile phone market,...
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BlackBerry Storm International Roaming and Data Rates
Verizon has announced some of international rates for the BlackBerry Storm, its new clickable touchscreen phone.For international travelers, the BlackBerrry Storm comes pre-installed with a SIM card, which allows world service to be activated at the time of purchase or...
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AT&T BlackBerry Bold on Sale in US
The BlackBerry Bold goes on sale today in the U.S. only from AT&T. Operating on the nation's fastest 3G network, the BlackBerry Bold smartphone features a powerful combination of global 3G capabilities in conjunction with international wireless coverage, built-in GPS,...
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BlackBerry Media Storm Warnings - What Will a Free Phone Feel Like?
"THE WORD'S FIRST TOUCHSCREEN BLACKBERRY.WHAT WILL IT FEEL LIKE?The BlackBerry StormComing Soon.exclusively from Verizon WirlessSays the full page ads for the BlackBerry Storm in the local weekly hip newspapers in Los Angeles, making us think that more media is coming...
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T-Mobile G1 With Google Phone Can Be Unlocked for $23.99 BUT- Googling Gone
A website sells a code to unlock T-Mobile G1 phones to use another SIM like AT&T. Unlock-TMobileG1.com charges $23.99 USD for unlocking the T-Mobile G1 via an unlock code. Once the G1 is unlocked, the user can't use his/her Google...
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BlackBerry Bold on Hold 'Til November 4
The launch date of T&T's BlackBerry Bold will be November 4, the company said in an announcement. The phone has a tactile touchscreen keyboard that's clickable....
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First Android Smartphone T-Moble G1 Goes on Sale 2Day
T-Mobile USA announced the national availability of the highly anticipated T-Mobile G1 with Google, the first AndroidTM-powered mobile phone. The T-Mobile G1 combines full touch-screen functionality and a QWERTY keyboard with a rich mobile web experience, dozens of Android Market...
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AT&T Offers Samsung Epix wth Optical Mouse
AT&T is now offering the Samsung Epix, a new smartphone featuring both an advanced touch screen and new optical mouse technology and 3G network. The Epix, provides users with a choice of ways to navigate its touch screen, including the...
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Moto Goes Social with Andriod Smartphone Next Year
Business Week reports that Motorola's social-networked Android phone is almost ready."Motorola has been showing spec sheets and images of the phone to carriers around the world in the past two months and is likely to introduce the handset in the...
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New Clear Flip Motorola Krave ZN4 from Verizon
The Motorola Krave ZN4 is now available from Verizon Wireless. The Krave is the first full-touch phone with a clear, interactive flip so consumers have phone and multimedia features at their fingertips on the outside and inside. Start Trek...
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LG's New Prada Phone Has Sneaky Silver Keyboard
LG and PRADA will release their second handset before the end of the year. The new LG Prada phone has an ultra-thin keyboard that slides from under the handset.The unique QWERTY keyboard available only with the new telephone is designed...
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BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220- First Flipping BlackBerry from T-Mobile
T-Mobile USA is releasing the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 smartphone-the first BlackBerry flip phone-is now available in the U.S., exclusively from T-Mobile.The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 is $149.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a 2 year contract with T-Mobile...
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BlackBerry Storm with Clickable Touchscreen Keyboard Will Officially Launch This Fall
Verizon Wireless, Vodafone and Research In Motion released the news that the BlackBerryStorm will be available later this fall, exclusively to Verizon Wireless customers in the U.S. and Vodafone customers in Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand. The BlackBerry...
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T-Mobile G1 Android Phone Sells Out
T-Mobile has sold out the Google Android G1 phone after tripling their order. They are still accepting presales, but there may be a wait. The spokesperson noted: Given the great anticipation and the heavy pre-sale demand for the T-Mobile G1...
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TheStreet.com Free BlackBerry App
TheStreet.com is offering BlackBerry smartphone users with automatic and free access to the latest stock market news, investing advice, stock picks and quotes from its flagship site, TheStreet.com via free application. Features include: Categorized content sections such as Latest News,...
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Rumor Du Jour Nokia Tube Out October 2
The latest rumor from various sources about Nokia's debut of it's first totally touchscreen phone known as the Tube is that it will announced in London on October 2.The phone is expected to be haptical and have:Symbian S60 Operating System150...
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Five Ways IT Managers Can Prevent Enterprise Wireless Problems
Managing a new enterprise deployment such as a mobile device initiative might seem easy for some IT professionals, but wireless IT has much less in common with traditional IT than they might think. As such, it can bring serious, unexpected...
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T-Mobile Shows G1 Android Phone (Formerly HTC Dream)
T-Mobile today unveiled at a New York press conference the T-Mobile G1, running Android, the open source mobile phone software platform from Google. The phone formerly referred to as the HTC Dream will sell for $179 with a T-Mobile voice...
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Johny X Finds Himself on His Xperia Webisodes
The new Xperia X1, 'Johnny X' thriller webisode series is about a man with amnesia desperately trying to get information about his life back. Johnny X updates his handset with new content to discover his personality and identity, reflecting how...
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BlackBerry Storm Specs to Take the World by Storm
From a BlackBerryStorm leaked talk sheet:The sheet calls the BlackBerry Storm a Game Changer" for: "innovative 'click' touch screen for smooth, precise text input,' making it feel like a keyboard.RIM's highest resolustion screen ever. Quad-band connectivity in more than 195...
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Velocity 111
Velocity also showed the Velocity 111 with these specs Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional Qualcomm MSM7201 chipset QWERTY keyboard GSM/EDGE 850, 900, 1800, 1900 UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA 850, 1900, 2100 320x240 QVGA touch screen 256MB ROM, 128MB RAM Bluetooth 2.0, 802.11b/g WiFi, GPS...
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Velocity's Odyssey Begins with WinMo Smartphone: Velocity 103
Velocity Mobile, a nine month collaboration between one of the world's largest notebook computer manufacturers and a team of veteran wireless designers and engineers,announced the retail availability of its first touchscreen phone, the Velocity 103. Velocity Mobile's easy-to-use Odyssey Interface,...
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No Mo' Antenna on Elektrobit Sat Phones
Elektrobit demoed at CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment, web browsing and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calling - on the industry's first-ever dual-mode satellite-terrestrial HSPA smartphone reference design. The Windows Mobile phone connects to Wi-Fi, AT&T's 3G network or a...
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Ticketmaster for BlackBerry
Research In Motionand Ticketmaster announced an agreement to more closely connect fans to live entertainment. RIM's popular brand of BlackBerry smartphones was exclusively designated as the "Official Smartphone of Ticketmaster."With this agreement, Ticketmaster will move beyond the physical ticket to...
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Free Slacker Radio on BlackBerry
Slacker, Inc. and Research In Motion announced plans for Slacker to provide a free Slacker Personal Radio application, exclusively for BlackBerry smartphones, that will enable listeners to hear Slacker radio stations wherever they go - even when not connected to...
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TiVo and BlackBerry Partner
-TiVo Inc, television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), and Research In Motion partnership to bring customized TiVo services to the BlackBerry wireless platform. The new relationship brings TiVo and RIM together to develop a variety of mobile entertainment services...
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Sprint Lauches HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch Pro
Sprint also annunced the launch of the much-anticipated HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch Pro - two additions to Sprint's robust Windows Mobile portfolio. Combining HTC's captivating 3D touch-screen experience, the broad functionality of Windows Mobile 6.1 and the largest...
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Nokia Supports Microsoft Exchange
Nokia announced that it is expanding its device range which enables Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync to all Nokia S60 3rd Edition devices. 43 Nokia devices will now feature the Mail for Exchange mobile email application, making Nokia's device range the largest...
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BlackBerry Fans to Flip for Flip Pearl 8220 Smartphone?
Research In Motion unveiled the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 smartphone, the first BlackBerry phone to come in the popular flip form factor. The new BlackBerry Pearl Flip provides flip phone fans with all the power of a BlackBerry smartphone in...
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New Asus 552w Smartphone Glides
ASUS today launched the ASUS P552w PDA phone which features Glide - an innovative touch-responsive user interface that makes navigating and performing tasks on a mobile phone more intuitive and interactive. The Glide system uses Windows Mobile 6.1The ASUS 552w...
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Today Last Day for $99 Samsung Instinct @ Radio Shack
RadioShack is launching Sprint’s Samsung Instinct nationwide this Labor Day weekend. As part of the nationwide launch, RadioShack today is last day for exclusive retail price of $99.99 in more than 4,400 convenient neighborhood RadioShack stores. The Samsung Instinct provides...
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Dual Keyboard HTC S740 Smartphone Introduced
HTC introduced the HTC S740 with dual keyboards, fast HSPA speeds, Windows Mobile, Fm Radio, GPS and Bluetooth. The HTC S740 features the fastest mobile broadband capabilities with a maximum download speed of 7.2 Mbps, up to 18 times faster...
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PC-Like N79 Packs Multimedia, with Xpress-on Espresso
Nokia also unveiled the Nokia N79, the latest addition to the Nokia Nseries range that combines customizable design with a fully-loaded multimedia computer. It offers a full range of multimedia experiences including integrated navigation, music with FM transmitter, high-speed connectivity,...
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Let the Nokia N96 Entertain You
Nokia announced that the Nokia N96, unveiled earlier this year at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, will be made available for high-speed 3G HSDPA networks widely used in the Americas during the fourth quarter of 2008. Combining a large...
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BlackBerry Bold Boldly Goes to Rogers in Canada
Rogers Wireless today introduced the new BlackBerry Boldsmartphone to customers in Canada. Designed for business professionals. the BlackBerry Bold smartphone operates on Rogers’ high-speed 3G network and features a newly designed, precision QWERTY keyboard, built-in GPS, enterprise-grade Wi-Fi and multimedia...
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Palm's Treo Pro WinMo Smartphone with Int'l Flare
Palm, Inc. introduced the Treo Pro, smartphone for businesses and says that it willsimplify IT infrastructures and lower costs. It has a streamlined design and Palmshortcuts layered on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. It also offers email, Wi-Fi and GPS...
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BlackBerry Bold Launched in Germany & Other Parts of World
There have been announcements from RIM unveiling the details of the new BlackBerry Bold for Germany, Austria, Australia, Chile and Hong Kong. Although there's official announcement yet about the United States here's what they said about the BlackBerry Bold...
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Palm Sells Two Million Centros
Palm today said it has sold its two-millionth Centro smartphone, Palm is now offering Centro in more than 25 countries in North America, South America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Recent data released by AdMob, the largest advertising network on...
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Samsung INNOV8 with 8 Mpx Camera, 3G Web, Wi-Fi & GPS with Symbian OS
Samsung Electronics and Symbian Limited unveiled the Samsung INNOV8, model : i8510. The entertainment mobile phone is equipped with high-end features and multimedia including an 8 megapixel camera, internet browsing, audio playing, and ergonomics. This is Samsung’s eighth mobile phone...
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Sprint Palm Centro Upgrade
Sprint is now offering an update PalmCentro software.Thie update is a tune-up that improves email, IM, and general device usability under certain conditions.1.07 offers the following performance enhancements:Improved Gmail IMAP compatibility and an updated setup wizard with the new Gmail...
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Sprint Slashes Prices on HTC Touch & Samsung Ace to $100
Sprint has slashed prices on two smartphones the HTC Touch and Samsung Ace. The HTC Touch originally sold for $250.00 with a two year contract and rebate, is now priced at $100 with contract and rebate. While the Samsung...
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Sprint Launches Palm Treo 800w with EV-DO Rev. A, Wi-Fi & GPS
Sprint and Palm launch the the Palm Treo 800w, with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional that supports EV-DO Rev. A data speeds, WiFi and GP. EV-DO Rev. A, allows for a peak network download data rates increase to 3.1 Mbps and...
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New E-Phones from Nokia Come with MS Exchange
Nokia introduced today the Nokia E71 and Nokia E66 - the latest email-optimized devices from the Nokia Eseries product range. The sleek Nokia E71 with full QWERTY keyboard has been called the "world's thinnest QWERTY phone" and is only 1...
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3G Palm Centro $99 @ Verizon
Verizon Wireless announced that the Palm Centro smartphone will be available online and in stores beginning June 13. Centro runs on Verizon Wireless’ high-speed data network, which gives customers the ability to quickly send and receive e-mail messages and attachments...
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OMG the Samsung OMNIA SGH-i900 Is iPhonelisious with 5 Mpx Camera & GPS
Samsung announced the launch of Samsung OMNIA (model name: SGH-i900). .OMNIA, means 'everything' in Latin and 'wish' in Arabic, will be available to the market from June 2008. The new Samsung OMNIA allows users to switch seamlessly between Microsoft Outlook...
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iPhone vs. Samsung Instinct - Instinct Wins, iPhone Defeated?
Sprint is running funny videos comparing the Samsung Instinct to the iPhone with caption "Watch the Instinct defeat the iPhone.For GPS, the Instinct pinpoints the exact location while the iPhone estimates a "ginormous circle".There just ain't no live TV for...
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3G, GPS, Wi-Fi BlackBerry Bold Introduced
Research In Motion introduced the admirable BlackBerry Bold smartphone. It is the first BlackBerry smartphone to support tri-band HSDPA high-speed networks around the world and comes with integrated GPS and Wi-Fi, as well as a rich set of multimedia capabilities...
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Brightpoint to Distribute RIM Products
Brightpoint, Inc. and Research In Motion announced that they have entered into a global master distribution agreement. Under the terms of the agreement Brightpoint may distribute RIM products to various territories globally that may include North America, Latin America, Europe,...
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Non Wi-Fi GPS BlackBerry Pearl 8110 Available from AT&T
AT&T and Research In Motion today announced the launch of the BlackBerry Pearl 8110 smartphone, which includes built-in global positioning system (GPS) support for location-based applications and services. Combined with navigation and mapping applications such as AT&T Navigator, the handset...
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E-Ten 3G Java Glofish 750 810 Smartphones Available in 3 Weeks
E-TEN Information Systems has announced the Glofiish M810 and M750, the first in a new series of Pocket PC Phones that put the focus on portable entertainment, dynamic social networking, and go-anywhere communications ideal for the web 2.0 generation. E-TEN’s...
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Verizon Supplies & Tracks FBI's Int'l BlackBerry 8830 World Phones
Verizon Wireless announced the deployment of 19,500 internationally enabled BlackBerry 8830 World Edition Smartphones to more than 56 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) offices worldwide. The devices are part of the agency’s Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) Mobility Program and provide...
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Nokia "Tube" Touchscreen Phone Due 2nd 1/2 2008
There have been reports that Nokia reps have been discussing a new touchscreen Nokia phone, code named “Tube.”It is expected to launch in the second half of 2008 and include support for Java, and ability to upload photos using the...
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Windows Mobile Updated
Microsoft Corp.announced. At CTIA Wireless 2008, the company unveiled the newest version of Internet Explorer Mobile, which adds desktop-grade Web browsing to Windows Mobile phones. In addition, Microsoft announced Windows Mobile 6.1, an update for its Windows Mobile software that...
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Sprint's Samsung Instinct Has GPS 3G TV & HTML WEB
Sprint and Samsung Mobile today announced the upcoming availability of a new wireless device, Samsung Instinct, which offers full touch-screen functionality with fast speeds available on the nation's largest mobile broadband network. Samsung Instinct, exclusively available from Sprint, has...
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BlackBerry Pearl 8120 Available from T-Mobile
T-Mobile and RIM announced the availability of the BlackBerry Pearl 8120, a handset with the power of built-in Wi-Fi support. The newest Pearl provides consumers with a stylish way to stay connected by adding Wi-Fi connectivity for both voice and...
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Qualcomm Mirasol Displays for Iventec Smart Devices
Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated announced that Inventec Corporation has chosen Qualcomm’s MEMS-based mirasol displays for upcoming portable devices. Inventec will incorporate mirasol displays into high-end smart handheld devices for the worldwide markets, including...
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Voice Enabled Palm Centro Available from AT&T
Nuance Communications, announced that the Nuance Mobile flagship VSuite application is shipping on the Palm Centro smartphone from AT&T. Palm has expanded its use of Nuance Mobile speech solutions to deliver hands-free voice control capabilities to its broad portfolio of...
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More Moto Qs from Verizon, Alltel & US Cellular
Today at CTIA in Las Vegas, Motorola is expanding its mobile device portfolio in the US with the introduction of new smartphones that deliver must-have features and the style consumers’ desire. MOTO Q gets extended reach with the addition of...
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GPS EV-DO BlackBerry Curve Available from Verizon in May
RIM and Verizon Wireless announced the BlackBerry Curve 8330 - a robust, lightweight device backed by Verizon Wireless’ EV-DO network. The BlackBerry Curve 8330 will be available through Verizon Wireless in May. The BlackBerry Curve 8330 features advanced multimedia capabilities,...
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MIU's HDP 2 OS IP Phone
MIU, Korea, has realeased at Hybrid Dual Portable Computer in Korea that is equipped with two operating systems OS(Windows XP/Windows CE 5.0 or Linux Qplus. It has a QWERTY keyboard, 4-inch display with 800x480 resolution, it supports dual-mode function sand...
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RIM Leads Smartphones, iPhones Flat, Says AdMob
AdMob’s Mobile Metrics Reports February’s report released, highlights traffic percentages for Smartphones, trend data for the top five country markets, and manufacturer market share trends. New to AdMob’s February Mobile Metrics Report were percentages of Smartphone traffic worldwide. The statistics...
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Oracle and Nokia Devices Interoperate
Oracle announced new mobile interoperability with Nokia devices and technology, as a result of the ongoing cooperation and co-development between the two companies. Oracle has validated the Nokia Intellisync Device Management solution working with Oracle’s Siebel CRM platform, Oracle(R) Database...
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MemoryUP Boosts Mobile RAM Enhancing Performance
eMobiStudio Inc. announced the release of MemoryUp Standard Edition v2.2, an extension over its MemoryUp v2.0. In the new upgrade, a refined optimization algorithm is developed to automatically adjust mobile RAM refreshing rate in order to further reduce overall mobile...
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AT&T Now Offers Palm Centro for $99
AT&T and Palm Inc. announced the availability of the Palm Centro from AT&T. Centro is available for $99.99 with two-year contract and rebate. Centro offerstext messaging, instant messaging, e-mail or the Web.2 Featuring a color touch-screen and full QWERTY keyboard,...
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International Samsung Ace Smartphone Available from Sprint
Offering customers the ability to stay connected through voice calls, email, and Web browsing around the globe, Sprint ) and Samsung Mobile today announced the upcoming availability of the Samsung Ace, a smartphone powered by the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network...
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Nokia Announces N96
Mobile World Congress 2008, Barcelona, - Nokia unveiled their upgrade to the N95, Nokia N96, a multimedia computer optimized for video and TV. With a large 2.8” screen, 16 gigabytes of internal memory, GPS, 5 MP camera, and support for...
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Sony Launches XPERIA X1 with Windows Mobile
Sony introduced the Xperia X1 at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona. The phone has a touchscreen and an "arc slider" design, in that its screen slides and tilts upwards to reveal the Qwerty keyboard beneath. It also features a...
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Sonim's World's Toughest Phone Toughes it Out in Barcelonia
Sonim Technologies, the US based mobile telecoms company and inventors of the “indestructible” Sonim XP1 mobile phone, announced today that the popular “World’s Toughest Phone Tour” would be making an appearance at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and challenge...
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New Nuvifone from Garmin with Touch, GPS, Web & Maps
Garmin International announced its entrance into the mobile phone market with the nuvifone, an all-in-one, touchscreen device that combines a premium phone, mobile web-browser, and cutting-edge personal navigator. “The nuvifone is an all-in-one device offering unmatched integration of utility and...
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IBM Lotus Connections Bloom on RIM BlackBerry
Research In Motion is previewing BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections — a new software application that runs natively on BlackBerry smartphones to provide mobile users with access to Lotus Connections social software for business. The BlackBerry client application leverages...
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HTC Touch Coming to Verizon on Horizon
Verizon is expected to start selling the HTC Touch as the Verizon XV6900 Touch with sneak peaks appearing in the blogosphere. The Verizon version comes in white and has the same touch capabilities of previous versions such as Windows Mobile...
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New 8GB Nokia 8GB Shown at CES
Nokia showed the Nokia N95 8GB for networks using 850/1900 MHz HSDPA (high speed data packet access) in the Americas at CES. The new Nokia 95 8GB features a 2.8 inch QVGA screen with support for up to 16 million...
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Alltel Offers HTC Touch and 10 Number Circle of Free Calls
Alltel Wireless announced that the HTC Touch, a Windows Mobile 6.0 smartphone, is now available at shopalltel.com and Alltel retail stores. The HTC Touch phone is available for $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate. This discounted price is available...
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LG Viewty Great Handwriting Recognition and 5 Mgpx Camera
The photogenic grandaughter of LG Prada named the LG Viewty, will be coming to a carrier in the near future and it's looking pretty good as well as deserving recognition for handwriting recogntion better than a Palm. I was able...
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iRiver GSM Phone in US Soon
Several news sources including PCMag reported that that iRiver is planning to release a GSM touchscreen phone with a 3 inch 480 x 272 touchscreen, 4GB of flash storage, Linux-based software, Rhapsody and other media support, and 2 megapixel camera...
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ASUS GPS Travel Phone with Travel Log and SOS @ CES
ASUS, announced plans to launch its award-winning GPS smart phone in the United States early this year. The P527 was awarded the CES Innovation Design and Engineering award for 2008. The global GPS phone has Travelog and Location Courier features....
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Mini iPhone Clone Comes to U.S. Neonode N2 in Q2
Neonode will launch their latest mobile phone Neonode N2 in the United States in the second quarter of 2008. The phone uses patented neno user interface and zForce optical touch screen technology, offering users an intuitive and easy way to...
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Verizon Pushes Blue-Green Treo 755p with Direct Push & Google Maps
Verizon Wireless and Palm, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of the Palm Treo 755p smartphone in exclusive deep blue- green is available online and in in stores January . Compared to its Treo 700p predecessor, the Treo 755p has...
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Palm Selling Unlocked Treo 750 Smartphones
Palm, Inc. announced the Palm Treo(750 smartphone, previously available in the United States only on AT&T’s 3G network, is now available in an unlocked version via Palm’s retail (http://www.palm.com/retail) and online stores (http://store.palm.com). The unlocked GSM Treo 750 smartphone...
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XV6800 Windows Mobile Messaging Phone & Modem 4 Sale Now
Verizon Wireless, announced the XV6800 is available online and through Verizon Wireless business sales. The XV6800 will be available in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores on Dec. 5. The Verizon Wireless XV6800 delivers messaging capabilities, including Windows Mobile 6 Professional, which...
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AT&T CEO Says 3G iPhone Available Next Year
In a presentation at the Churchill Club in Santa Clara, California, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said that a 3G Apple iPhone will be available next year, reports Barron’s blogger Eric Savetz....
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BlackBerry Pearl Available from Alltel
Alltel Wireless announced that it plans to have the BlackBerry® Pearl™ 8130 smartphone from Research In Motion available in time for the holidays. Alltel Wireless will be offering the BlackBerry Pearl 8130 for $149.99 after a $100 mail-in-rebate at Alltel...
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Redfly Smartphone Software Also a CES Innovation Winner
Another winner of the CES Innovation Award is the REDFLY Smartphone Interface System that wirelessly extends the smartphone to larger display, full keyboard,mouse and USB ports. Any applications on the smartphone are shown instantly on the new display without modification...
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Moto Q Global (AT&T) Review of Reviews
Moto Q Global Rated 4 out of 5 by Wireless and Mobile NewsAfter the announced availability of the Moto Q global AT&T Windows smartphone, geared towards international travelers, we searched for in depth reviews to review and found some consensus...
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Texas Instruments Tech to Power NextGen Samsung Smartphones
Texas Instruments’ OMAP platform and BlueLink Bluetooth technologies will be used in a variety Samsung mobile smartphones....
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Nouveau Pantech duo Smartphone from AT&T
The Pantech duo is now available from AT&T it features two keypads that slide out: a landscape QWERTY and a portrait phone numerical keypad. The UMTS/HSDPA-enabled Pantech is powered by the Windows Mobile 6 operating system. It sells for $199...
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T-Mobile Shadow (HTC) Review of Reviews
T-Mobile Shadow Rated 3.5 out of 5 by Wireless and Mobile News Review of ReviewsAlthough not all the reviews are in yet, the T-Mobile Shadow from HTC does have a shadow of a chance of becoming popular if people can...
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T-Mobile Launches Shadow for Halloween.
T-Mobile announced that it’s Shadow will be available in time for Halloween. The people-centric smartphone running Windows Mobile will come in sage and cooper. The Shadow features include: Email and texting from the MyFaves page. A spin navigation wheel. Wi-Fi...
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Another Touching Phone Story - Touch by HTC from Sprint
Sprint and HTC Corp. announced the availability of Touch by HTC™, a full touch screen wireless phone integrating Windows Mobile 6 with advanced entertainment features. The Touch by HTC brings together email and business applications with Sprint’s exclusive multimedia content...
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iPhone KO's Treo and T-Mobile
A new study by NPD shows that iPhone buyers were more like to have given up their Treos (by 10X) or T-Mobile Sidekicks (by 3X) for their iPhone while BlackBerry users were not attracted to the iPhone, probably due to...
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Nokia Touches Symbian Market with Touch Tech on S60
Nokia announced that their S60 smartphone will introduce new features including touch technology with tactile feedback. The phone also features Web video and Flash capabilities....
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AT&T Tilt Connecting 3 E-mail Types, Data & GPS in Windows
The AT&T Tilt, their first Windows Mobile 6 smart device, features a slide-out QWERTY keypad design, a 3-megapixel camera, 3G data speeds, 3 e-mail connectivity types, Bluetooth, WiFi, touchscreen, GPS and complete global connectivity will be available on October 5.The...
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Nokia Video Center Links to News/Video Sources
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Nokia is embedding links directly to video sources in its N95 multimedia phone, side stepping the carriers. Deals were struck with CNN, News Corp and Sony Pictures. Nokia will be embedding direct video links to...
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Palm Centro Smartphone Available for $99.99 with 2 Yr Sprint Contract
Designed for individuals and traditional mobile phone users looking for a better way to manage their professional and social lives, Palm, Inc and Sprint day introduced the smallest Palm/phone so far, Palm® Centro™ smart device, at $99.99 (with a two-year...
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New Models of Sidekick Screens Slide and Swivel
A new larger screen Sidekick LX that swivles to reveal a keyboard will be offered by T-Mobile starting October 13, for $300 with a two year contract. Geared for older more sophisticated users the LX also has the ability...
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Convergenent WiFi Phones at AT&T Now and Nokia Later
Nokia announced that it's model 6301 will be able to make Internet calls over Wi-Fi networks when in range. While AT&T releases the BlackBerry 8820 today .The BlackBerry 8820 is packed with incredible new features, such as built-in GPS, Wi-Fi...
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T-Mobile Cuts Monthly Fee for BlackBerry Email Service
According to MarketWatch: T-Mobile U.S.A. announced a $9.99 monthly plan for unlimited email service on all BlackBerry smartphones they sell. Analysts predict that the competition will spur a drop in prices for data services from other carriers. Web browsing is...
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