Sprint today announced the combination of wired and wireless stocks. Interestingly enough, one of the cited reasons for the change was to make it easier for a takeover.
The PCS common stock will be eliminated and each share of PCS common stock will convert automatically into .50 shares of FON common stock on April 23, 2004.

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Qwest announced that it will start up nationwide cellular service Monday. While the service will be powered by the Sprint PCS wireless network, it’s expected to increase already fierce competition in the US wireless sector.
While the service will work nationwide, Qwest will target customers in the Western US where it already provides services. Having a [...]

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Christian Lindholm, Director of Multimedia Applications at Nokia Ventures Organization, posted an article on his website that is full of simple tips to improve your Series 60 experience. Some of the included tips:

One touch dialling
Easy digit entry in alpha mode
Naming your phone

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The FCC today released a status update for number portability complaints [download, PDF]. Overall complaints are fairly low, but AT&T Wireless has a large lead:

AT&T Wireless - 2787
Sprint PCS - 1445
Verizon Wireless - 933
T-Mobile - 854
Cingular Wireless - 849
Nextel - 420

It should be noted that many times, a complaint is lodged against two carriers by [...]

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According to AT&T Wirless customer Jonathan Hudson, AT&T Wireless is making him give up his Sony Ericsson T68i for a Sony Ericsson T226. Getting a new phone isn’t normally a bad deal, but the T226 doesn’t have the same features as the T68i (Bluetooth, IR, a built-in modem or voice activated dialing).
According to a forum [...]

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Motorola V80, live pictures

We’d like to review characteristic features for Motorola v80, we will not speak about the phone’s functions since they [...]

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PCWorld’s Peter Sayer has a piece on a new memory card from SanDisk / Motorola that makes the miniSD seem big.
“At around.5 inches by.4 inches in size, the new cards are smaller than the current champion of miniaturization, the miniSD card, announced less than a year ago. By comparison, miniSD cards measure.8 inches by.7 inches, [...]

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Chalk this up in the history books–US cellular customers got something before Japanese cellular customers. Back in October 2003, we mentioned that Japan may be getting number portability. According to Retuers, it looks like a go. It could happen as soon as 2006, but a firm date was not set. About 20 countries have number [...]

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Symbian this week announced the availability of version 8.0 of its mobile phone operating system of the same name. The announcement was made at 3GSM, along with the introduction of a few Symbian devices: Panasonic X700 and Communicator 9500.
Improvement over version 7 are as follows:

New ‘hard’ real-time capabilities
Enhanced Java support
SDIO - gives developers the chance [...]

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Sendo launched two phones at 3GSM World Conference: the S600 and M570 MMS. Both phones are pretty advanced and deserve a closer look:
S600

65K color display
VGA camera with 5x zoom
Enhanced MMS, “only five key presses needed to create and send a photo message, including taking the picture.”
4MB of free memory
Java

M570 MMS

65K color display
4MB of free memory
Enhanced [...]

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Cingular announced that it is carrying Research In Motion’s BlackBerry 7280 and 6280 mobile devices. We mentioned the BlackBerry 7280 in October 2003. It sports a color display, which sets it apart from most other RIM devices. The 6280 is monochrome.
Pricing is quite low: $299 for the 7280 and $249 for the 6280.

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As part of a rash of announcements [see 1, 2], Motorola has announced its newest 3G handset–the A1000. The phone attempts to meld raw power with sex appeal.

Video conferencing capabilities
Word, Excel, Powerpoint and PDF document viewing capabilities
1.2 mega pixel digital camera with 4x digital zoom
Capture and playback with MPEG4 and MP3 files and dual-audio speakers
VPN [...]

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Motorola announced another addition to its smartphone line up–the MPx. Others in the series have had numbers (e.g. 200, 100), the Motorola MPx. What it lacks in a flashy name, it makes up for in features:

Microsoft Windows Mobile OS
QWERTY keyboard
2.8 inch, 16-bit color displa
Up to 1GB of memory
1.3 mega pixel camera with flash
WiFi / Bluetooth

The [...]

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Motorola has announced the MPx100. The phone uses Microsoft’s Windows Mobile OS and sports a candy bar form factor. Unlike the MPx220, the MPx100 includes Bluetooth and a camera. The specs are as follows:

Windows Mobile Outlook email and PIM synchronization
Pocket Internet Explorer
Java
IrDA / Bluetooth
Up to 512MB of expandable memory
1.3 mega pixel camera with flash
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Openwaved teamed up with Microsoft to build software that allows users access to their Hotmail and MSN Messenger accounts while on the go. It’s not uncommon for AOL’s AIM program to be installed on mobile phones, so this is a big deal for Microsoft who’s MSN Messenger is only available on Microsoft powered smartphones. However, [...]

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