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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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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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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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We already know from published rumors and reports that LG wants to launch about 10 different smartphones in the 2009 calendar year. That’s a fair amount for any company, especially with phone sales dropping overall. We also know that the South Korean manufacturer further intends to concentrate more on the cheaper side of mobile phones by coming [...]
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Samsung and LG may have been running out the best high-megapixel phones for a while now, but it seems somebody’s not happy with what they’re doing lately in camera arena. More to the point, Kodak is displeased at Samsung and LG’s business of focusing on various technical parts of their camera business, and has filed [...]
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Samsung announced on several sites they were working on a 12MP camera phone for the future, but it’s Sony that has beat them to the punch and actually announced the world’s first 12 MP CMOS image sensor for handsets, and the technology should be in phones as soon as March 2009, according to Sony.
The Asian half [...]
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The team from Microsoft’s Windows Mobile crew perhaps realized with the evolution of the mobile platform, they needed to step up the pace a bit. Some had started to call this vaporware, which is something MS couldn’t afford to let happen.
But the release is on the horizon: they’ve announced the availability of emulators and documentation for Internet Explorer [...]
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While the iPhone OS 2.1 software update is still settling in among a few users (and it made significant improvements admittedly, for many users), there’s a rumor flying around now that the next firmware version update might be coming a little quicker than most thought. Testing is going well, and according to an inside tester, the [...]
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This is exactly what the mobile web browsing industry needs: a little price war. AT&T tends to be expensive (and doesn’t offer unlimited anything mobile internet wise as far as I know), and other carriers with unlimited plans tend to be expensive. Rumors have surfaced that Verizon may be introducing something to change the playing field [...]
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A very big deal in the world of Wi-Fi (which in turn impacts phones that use it, like the iPhone) went down today: AT&T announced that it will buy Wayport, a managed Wi-Fi services provider for dozens of companies and hotels, for $275 million in cash. Honestly, it could be one of the best deals [...]
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The launch of the G1 in the US was a much-hyped and celebrated occasion. The G1 won’t be the only Android phone within the next few months, but that isn’t stopping HTC from shipping its G1 to a number of Asian providers starting next year, probably in February or March of 2009.
HTC will be providing several [...]
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Yes folks, Verizon’s absorption of US wireless carrier Alltel has just been given the OK from the Department of Justice, and so Verizon execs can heave a sigh of relief for now. They are on their way to becoming the #1 (in terms of subscribers) wireless carrier in the US, and one of the largest in [...]
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