Virgin Group announced a deal to brings its service to Canada. Like Virgin Mobile USA, Virgin Mobile Canada will operate as a prepaid MVNO (buy bulk time on another carrier’s network). The partnership is with Bell Mobility.
We’ll post more info when the new service launches later this year.

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NTT DoCoMo’s FOMA service has passed the 3 million subscribers mark. With a fixed-rate unlimited data plan coming soon, it’s likely that this number will grow even fast than its already blistering pace. Two months ago the total was 2 million.
The increase is thought to be related to the 900i series of phones recently introduced [...]

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PalmOne has announced a Java runtime for the popular Treo 600. The software which is made by IBM can be purchased for $5.99 through the Software Connection. More information is available from TreoCentral.
Moreover, Sprint PCS has teamed up to run demo days for the Treo 600. After the free event in cities across America, you [...]

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Breaking news from French mega-carrier Orange: CEO Solomon Trujillo has stepped down after only 15 months on the job. The new CEO will be current COO Sanjiv Ahuja. More from the BBC.

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The Motorola V300 is now shipping from Amazon.com. For quite some time it was backordered. It is still free after rebate. Moreover, the V300 has fallen down one notch from its #1 perch on the sales sheet. The Sony Ericsson T610 is now on the top, most likely due to getting $80 back after rebate.
You [...]

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Opera Software says your mobile phone will soon be able to control a video recorder. Recorders such as TiVo are quite popular, and are expected to take a large jump in market share in the next several years.
The company is of course talking about its own software: the Mobile Interactive Programming Guide (IPG) will allow [...]

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Samsung announced that it is now mass producing 2 inch SLS-LCD displays meant for mobile devices. It has a high resolution of 200 pixels per inch and delivers a resolution of at least 250:1.
SLS stands for Single Crystal-Like Silicon, and is a newer technology in flat panel displays. There is no time table for when [...]

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Qualcom announced that LG will make mobile phones that use its “BREWChat” push-to-talk technology. The technology uses voice-over IP (VoIP) to accomplish PTT. Few details are known.

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Swedish 3G carrier ‘3′ will offer free in-network calls and data transfer. The move is an attempt to gain market share
“The offer is available for existing and future subscribers who sign up for services starting at 99 Swedish kronor (11 euros, 13 dollars) per month, the telecoms operator said in a statement.”

Currently having free in-network [...]

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The wait is finally over–AT&T Wireless is now shipping the Motorola V600. The phone retails for $299 with a 2-year contract. There are no known rebates to bring the price down. Here’s a quick run-down of the Motorola V600’s features:

176ื220 pixel 65,000 color TFT display
VGA resolution camera (with zoom)
Bluetooth
MP3 ringtones

The phone should hit store shelves [...]

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Alcatel, a French telecommunications equipment maker, and US based sillicon giant Intel announced an agreement to try and make WiMAX compete with GSM and 3G. The two companies hope to have something out to market in the second half of 2005.
Like Wi-Fi, WiMAX allows for wireless connections to the Internet, but boasts speeds [...]

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According to a new study by Gartner, 90% of mobile devices lack protection from hackers. This was most recently shwon by the “bluejacking” phenomenon, though that was largely harmless.
The most commonplace scenario occurs when a user accidentally loses his or her mobile device — full of confidential enterprise data — which leads to a serious [...]

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T-Mobile USA yesterday announced that it will begin to carry Research In Motion’s BlackBerry 7730 at the end of April. The device is currently only available in Europe, and was announced in November 2003. The features are pretty standard for a color BlackBerry:

65,000 color screen
Cradle-free wireless email synchronization
16 MB flash memory plus 2 MB SRAM
Use [...]

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AT&T Wireless has started to ship the Nokia 6820. The phone was announced back in October 2003, but is an AT&T Wireless exclusive. It is an updated version of the Nokia 6800.
The biggest feature of the Nokia 6820 its fold-out QWERTY keyboard that works exactly like the one in the 6800. New features to the [...]

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Microsft announced the Second Edition of its mobile Windows Mobile 2003. Increased display flexibility was added, which should help keep all MS powered smartphones from looking similar. Look for it first on the Motorola MPx.

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