Samsung V200, live pictures
Standard kit

Battery (720 mAh and 900 mAh)
Charger
User’s guide
Portable handsfree
Data adapter
Software for synchronization

This year almost all phones from Samsung will be equipped with an integrated digital cameras, but V200 will be the first one. The company stands out this phone against other phones from the line and it’s obvious why, first […]

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Both Verizon and AT&T Wireless will be carrying smartphones using Microsoft software in the near future. This will mark the first entrance of MS powered phones in the US. In Europe they have been in use since 2002.

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Wired is reporting that Adrian Lamo hacked into Cingular’s insurance claims website. Mr. Lamo (a rather high-profile hacker) stated that he could have pulled personal data on millions of customers, but he didn’t feel the need. For 14 year old hacker wannabes, here’s how the pro’s work:
“He said he discovered the problem this weekend through […]

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According to C|NET, Yahoo! IM is coming Cingular subscribers. The service allows customers to chat with parties on a PC (Mobile-to-PC). With services such as SMS, communication is only mobile-to-mobile.

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British Amulet Group fired 2,500 employees recently via a mass SMS. The message said, in part, “you are being made redundant with immediate effect”. [via BoingBoing]

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Siemens SL55, live pictures

Standard kit:

Phone
Charger
Battery
User’s guide
CD with software

Having released Siemens SL55, the company has repeated the experiment in the field of design, in particular, earlier it had released similar model Siemens SL10. Similarity of these devices consists in the identical opening mechanism, the halfs are shifted with respect to each other. The freshest example […]

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The Register has posted a long-term review of Sony Ericsson’s P800. The smartphone has gotten a lot of press lately, but according to the Register it’s not all that. Don’t worry though, they have some nice things to say as well.
You can buy your own P800 for the low-price of $499 (for what it does, […]

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Forbes is running a forward dated piece on AT&T’s practice of spamming its customers with text messages. In such a competitive market, something like sending out junk SMS could hit the bottom line in a pretty short period of time. Especially after numbers become portable in November.

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MobileTechNews notes that KDDI and Okinawa Cellular recently announced plans to launch five new handsets. Among the phones is the Casio A5401CA which includes a built in digital camera with more than 1 pixel of resolution. By our count this makes it the second megapixel camera phone (see first), but the first in Australia.

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Infosync World notes that LG is now the 3rd largest phone maker in the US, with about 19% of CDMA phones. They are pretty new to the market (entered in 1998), so the high ranking is even more meaningful.

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