From the monthly archives:
LG aren’t exactly new to this whole cellphone thing, yet the South Korean company wants to reach all types of markets with their products, it seems. The company has just become a Global (and Techology) Partner of Formula 1 racing. Seems like an odd combo, but bear with us here.
Starting in 2009, the partnership [...]
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Apparently, the cellphone market in Japan is rough these days, with the market quite oversaturated and competition really rough, and Nokia agrees, it seems, based on their recent business move.
Nokia has just announced that it will stop selling phones in Japan altogether, effective immediately. That includes any and all marketing, which will cease. It marks [...]
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Most industry pundits claim that people don’t use their cell phones for pictures very often. Don’t tell Samsung and their customers that, as their high-res camera phones sales continue to climb and do surprisingly well.
In fact, according to recent industry reports, Samsung has claimed that global sales of its high megapixel cameraphones (considered 5MP or [...]
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Samsung is starting to develop an interest in the business side of phones, and more proof of that arrived in the form of an announcement that they are to launch a new line of business oriented smartphones called BizBee. And while the name doesn’t exactly conjure up visions of a busy CEO (think more Sesame [...]
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Nokia offered 264 million Euros to buy out Symbian, and it appears this deal is on track, says chief development officer Mary McDowell, and should be just about a done deal by mid-December. This could be a potentially huge move in the mobile OS environment by Nokia.
The offer to acquire the last remaining unowned shares [...]
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The beta has only been out a few week, but now Opera has released the final edition of Opera Mini 4.2, and it’s ready for the masses, or so they say.
Besides bringing performance and feature improvements, the release also marks the browser’s availability for Google’s Android platform and Samsung Instinct touchscreen phone; it should be [...]
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There have been many rumors floating about regarding a odd-looking Motorola phone, called the MOTO QA30 and coming as the first QWERTY slider built by Motorola. With sales of their top RAZR line sagging badly, they need to branch out a bit, needless to say.
Today, the phone became official, under the tag Motorola Hint [...]
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Unwiredview.com has posted their early review of the Samsung Eternity phone from AT&T, and the review is mostly good with a few small caveats.
The screen, the UI (the bright, crisp screen is mentioned) and almost everything about the phone received raves in the write-up. Follow the link above to read more about the [...]
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Finally, Motorola is starting to realize that the glory days of the RAZR are fading like an aging, once great athlete and looks ready to try a fresh approach to things. Or maybe not THAT new; witness a possible prototype spotted in the wild, the Motorola Attila, which looks eerily similar to a certain Apple smartphone.
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If you follow the wireless world, you’ll recall many sites reporting the Samsung Omnia that was spotted with Verizon’s logo on it about a month or so ago, but it’s still not officially released and available for sale.
However, BoyGeniusReport has come up with some live shots of the Windows Mobile 6.1 handset, with the [...]
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Verizon Wireless, the #2 mobile phone company in North America, has issued a press release (which is short and to the point, and with good reason) which announces that a personal cell phone account of Barack Obama, USA’s soon-to-be new President, has been accessed and looked at by several Verizon employees, without consent. Doesn’t speak much [...]
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Since the iPhone was launched last year, all we’ve heard about was how great the iPhone is. For a while, it seemed as though the whole world was caught up in iPhone insanity, and it looked like the iPhone is going to be the big-time handset for everyone just like how the iPod is currently king of [...]
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The iPhone 2.2 firmware update was released in the middle of last night, for some strange reason, and is available in iTunes for existing iPhone owners. The update includes:
Enhancements to Maps
- Google Street View
- public transit and walking directions
- display address of dropped pins
- share location via email
Enhancements to Mail
- resolved isolated issues with scheduled [...]
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Early yesterday it was reported on several sites that NTT DoCoMo and KT Freetel were working jointly on a new Android smartphone that would be released in 2009. Then, later in the day, in a statement issued by Korea’s KTF, they stated that wasn’t true; the two wireless carriers actually were NOT working with each other on a [...]
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If you’ve ever wondered (and who hasn’t?) what would happen if you took the Motorola ZN5, made it a slider rather than a candybar phone, and added 3G, you now have the answer: the Motorola VE66, announced today as coming soon.
It might be more useful to think of actual real life constructive things, but that’s for a [...]
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