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Global sales of touchscreen phones are expected to hit 90 million handsets in 2009 accounting for 7% of the total number of phones sold, according to data experts Strategy Analytics.
Tom Kand, Senior Analyst said:
Next year, we expect both Apple and Nokia to ramp up shipments and start to lower the price of touchscreen phones towards [...]
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Nokia will release four new handsets as part of the ‘Supernova’ range expected in the UK, the first quarter of next year or so. No pricing levels were set, though they aren’t expected to differ that much from existing Nokia phones.
The new handsets will target customers who value the appearance of their mobile over the [...]
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Since the iPhone’s release, mobile browser providers have been in a full scale war to enable their users to surf the internet in full HTML glory, directly on their mobile phones. Major PC and Mac browser providers such as Mozilla, Skyfire, and Opera are all contending to provide the world with a premier application for [...]
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You can wait the ever for famous mobile phones to pop up on the big- screen that now three have come along all at the same time. You can see the iphone is a starring attraction of a very ordinary movie The Happening (which was the only worthwhile event of the show), but if you [...]
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Diehard readers of mobile phone blogs may have once come across, a little while ago, a story about an environmentally friendly Bamboo phone. It wasn’t the best review you have ever read. It was expressed that the Bamboo phone was rather a pointless exercise with an analogy that wind farms are useless when [...]
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Samsung has now officially unveiled the new the 8 megapixel Pixon (the name Bresson lost the toss of the coin to). The new Samsung Pixon will be a real contender in the ever-growing arena of eight megapixel handheld devices. With its armoury of features including not just a 3.2″ WQVGA (240×400) touchscreen and its 8 [...]
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No longer is the smartphone the domain of stuffy business people. It’s a living, breathing thing, alive with possibilities, and yes…fun. Regular everyday people are using and developing for the smartphone, which has opened all kinds of possibilities.
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Now, there are iPhone fans, and then there are obsessive iPhone fans. The way in which you respond to the above picture item may reveal exactly which type of fan you are…
Brazilian design team Menino, were the creators of these iPhone coasters and all the usual applications are featured here including maps, calculator, Safari, text, [...]
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Keeping track of your carbon footprint can now be as easy as using your mobile phone, thanks to a new application named Carbon Diem.
Developed by a London based start–up company, the software enables mobile phones to use GPS (global positioning satellites) to automatically detect and calculate whether the phone user is walking, driving or flying. [...]
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In what seems to be a rather interesting trend, more car companies are coming out with their own mobile phones. If you own the car, might as well pick up the phone as well, right? Lamborghini has done it already, and now Porsche has followed with a new device from Porsche Design and Sagem, The [...]
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Visa publicly stated today that it is in the process of developing a mobile payment service for the new G1 phone, which is powered by Google’s Android system. Visa has said G1 and other Android based phone users will be able to receive almost real-time alerts concerning their transactions via their mobile devices. In addition, [...]
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If you want to jump on the touchscreen bandwagon that the iPhone started, but you’re not ready to plunk down such a huge amount of cash for what’s essentially just a phone, the LG Vu might be just for you. The phone was released at the end of Q2 of 2008 and since then, it’s [...]
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It’s almost official, nearly official, well it’s officially nearly official that the first ever Nokia touchscreen mobile phone is edging ever closer to be officially announced - October 2nd to be precise. According to reports, two industry sources have announced that Nokia will be officially unveiling the 5800 ‘Tube’ this Thursday at a media event [...]
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It is now widely accepted that the HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch Pro Windows Mobile smartphones have been a resounding success. With their crystal clear 2.8-in. VGA display providing amazing web site and video viewing, with a tonne of processing power and memory, the HTC Touch Pro and the HTC Touch Diamond will [...]
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If you see even just a tiny piece of truth in the adage, ‘what the mind believes and conceives it will achieve’, or have a penchant for sci-fi and Star Wars games, then this story about the ability to control your mobile phone using just the power of your mind will make you sit up [...]
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