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Sprint announced today a new pink color for its popular Instinct EVDO handset. This new Instinct is currently being priced around $100 with a two-year contract and mail-in rebate.
The new Sprint Instinct is the same as previous Instinct models except for the body color option. It offers a variety of features, including visual voicemail allowing [...]
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One of Sony Ericsson’s newest Walkman mobile phones got one its first public showings at the Consumer Electronics Show this week. It is the W508 and it should be available in different global markets in the second quarter of the year.
The W508 is noted by Sony Ericsson as being customizable via eight different covers which [...]
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Nokia is bringing a new unlocked messaging-style mobile to the United States in coming weeks. It is the E63 and it will cost around $280.
The Nokia E63 is a QWERTY smartphone running the open source operating system Symbian S60 3rd Edition. It runs on 3G networks and can have two home screens set for it, [...]
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One of the new phones being showcased by Nokia this week is set for a later this month debut with T-Mobile. It is the Nokia 7510.
The Nokia 7510, exclusive to to T-Mobile in the United States, is a little bit of a stylish number with lights and an external display which remain hidden until needed [...]
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Another new mobile unveiled by Motorola at CES this week is the Internet tablet-like MOTOSURF A3100. This touch tablet unit should be available in the first quarter of this year, including in Asia and Latin America.
The A3100 sports a fully customizable home screen which makes use of icons that can be can be personalized to [...]
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A new Windows Mobile smartphone which is GPS enabled is being made available from Pharos Science & Applications. This unlocked mobile – the Traveler 137 – will be available sometime in the next few months for around $600.
The Traveler 137, said Pharos, comes in a slender design and sports a 3.5-inch touchscreen display. It is [...]
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Motorola bets some of its users will fall for the notion that if a mobile is made of recycled water bottle plastics it is worthy of being purchased. The mobile phone manufacturer’s eco-friendly phone is the MOTO W233 Renew.
The MOTO W233 Renew is the world’s first mobile made out of the water bottles people once [...]
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This was supposed to be the point of an open-source OS: more makers could get their hats into the ring and produce phones. Well, that is defintely getting a test with this story.
The first official Google Android phone was the HTC Dream G1, a handset which became known as the T-Mobile G1. Now we [...]
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It shouldn’t be a shock that Samsung’s previous forays into luxury phones and “weird” designs hasn’t gone very well. The combination of odd design and high price won’t be a popular one in this economy, but it seems with the introduction of the Ego, Samsung has learned their lesson well.
Today the Samsung Ego GT-S9402 has [...]
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Motorola really needs a hit, and this new phone may possibly be it. The American handset manufacturer has just announced its latest music phone, dubbed the MOTOROKR EM35 and according to the press write-ups it will offer an “exceptional audio experience for music and talk”. Sounds like many of the other phones coming out right now, but [...]
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The Samsung Omnia is rumored to be a pretty hot phone, and is not available across much of the US yet. That deficit will be corrected on December 8, and as extra good news, Verizon Wireless has already decided to reduce its price from $249.99 retail to $199.99 (with a 2-year agreement).
Two factors at work here: the crummy economy pretty much worldwide [...]
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Sony Ericsson and Motorola aren’t the only ones having issues with their upcoming products, and chopping models right before they ship. While Motorola cancelled the RAZR3, Sony Ericsson has axed Paris and BeiBei models that were coming soon, Nokia has also axed an unannounced model that could’ve been one of the most unique designs we’ve [...]
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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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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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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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