The cover story for June 7’s Newsweek Magazine is The Next Frontiers: Way Cool Phones. Included in the piece is an interesting quote by the Palm inventor:
One day, 2 or 3 billion people will have cell phones, and they are all not going to have PCs,” says Jeff Hawkins, inventor of the Palm Pilot and [...]

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The much talked about Samsung A790 (does both CDMA and GSM) is now available to Verizon Wireless business customers. It should be out for individuals soon. It’s the first phone to work both on CDMA and GSM networks.
Not yet available to consumers or through Verizon Wireless’ stores, the Samsung SCH-a790 is equipped with both the [...]

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Handset
Battery
Manual
Headset

Samsung often produces models that are similar one to another like two drops of water, and the difference between them is usually either design or small feature/functions changes. The same thing can be said about the new model P100, which is practically full copy of V200, which was the first phone with camera from Samsung. [...]

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Handset
Battery
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User Manual

Motorola has true bestseller in its active - Motorola C350. Despite the fact that the model was functionally poorer than the earlier introduced products, it has conquered the market due to minimal price. For most users Motorola C350 became the first phone with color display. The company was preparing for quite a while [...]

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BEA Systems recently demonstrated a new type of mobile brower to PC World Magazine. It aims to provide mobile users the same utility from the internet as desktop users.
Dubbed Alchemy, the technology extends the idea of a Web browser by adding an additional memory cache for fetching and storing information that a user might want [...]

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USA Today has a piece in today’s issue about the increasing number of cellular service resellers. We reported just last week that once Cingular gets the assets of AT&T Wireless, AT&T will start up a reseller under the AT&T Wireless name. Other examples are Virgin Wireless and TracFone.
The wireless reseller, known as a mobile virtual [...]

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Nokia today started shipping the Nokia N-Gage QD for markets in Europe, Africa and Asia Pacific. The price with contract is as low as €49.99. Here are some features of the mobile phone / game deck:

Hot-swappable MMC
Longer battery life
Improved gaming controls
Brighter screen
More powerful smartphone features
N-Gage Arena launcher application

Expect to see the N-Gage QD in America [...]

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The Wall Street Journal is reporting [subscription] that Cingular Wireless will soon start testing a high-speed data service. Don’t get too excited though, it isn’t expected to become commercial until 2006.
Cingular will use so-called UMTS technology for its initial trial of its “3G,” or third-generation, technology. The company will start its initial trial in its [...]

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Vodafone Group PLC posted a ฃ9.02 billion loss for the fiscal year ending March 31. This is compared to a ฃ9.82 loss from the prior year. The company also made it clear that it wants to buy back minority stakes in its fledgling Japanese subsidiaries. Most of the problems with Vodafone’s Japanese business are blamed [...]

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Sprint PCS yesterday cut the price of push-to-talk (PTT) service. The service, dubbed, Sprint PCS Ready Link, can now be added to personal accounts for as little as $10.
Sprint is also offering special service plans to business customers ranging from $36 to $67 a month that include unlimited two-way calls, up to 1,000 anytime voice [...]

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As expected, Cingular Wireless and T-Mobile USA have agreed to end a network sharing partnership. We first noted this on May 18th, but the news officially came out today. The agreement to end the partnership hinges on Cingular’s takeover of AT&T Wireless. The thought is that once Cingular controls the AT&T Wireless network, they will [...]

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Handset
Charger station
Charger
Wire garniture
CD with software
Documentation
Headphones

MiTAC is known to us as a big notebook and handheld computer manufacturer. Considering the announced actions, MiTAC is going to enter the smartphone market seriously. The topic of today’s [...]

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Today marks the start of nationwide wireless number portability for America. November 24, 2003 marked WNP for the top 100 US markets. If you are planning on switching your carrier, read our collection of tips or head to the PhoneScoop resource center.

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With nationwide wireless number portability coming to US comsumers tomorrow, we thought a few tips would be appropriate:

Amazon.com has a page on how to transfer your number if you want to get a new phone/contract through them. Very detailed.
While LNP hasn’t been all that popular, it was only for the top 100 markets. Problems [...]

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The Wall Street Journal is reporting today [subscription] that Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell has retracted his vote for Nextel’s spectrum plan. We have covered the story before, the last time being in March.
Mr. Powell’s reversal on the vote is a major blow to Nextel, but there is still more time until a final [...]

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