Vodafone K.K. announced that the Sharp V602SH will begin shipping on July 2nd. We first mentioned this phone in May, along with four other phones in Vodafone K.K.’s summer lineup. The Sharp V602SH is the first mobile phone with a optical zoom. Other camera phones with a zoom feature use a technology called “digital zoom”. [...]

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You can buy the Motorola A630 with T-Mobile service for just $99.99 through WireFly.
Motorola today introduced the Motorola A630 at an exclusive party in New York City on the rooftop of Hotel Gansevoort (pictures from the party). It’s a camera phone that the company hopes will help boost the Motorola brand image, analyst are upbeat [...]

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Alcatel OT 756, live pictures
Standard delivery kit:

Phone
The battery charger
Manual

Alcatel Company gained more recognition among the mobile phones’ [...]

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Matt Slagle, an AP technology writer, has written a review of the Nokia N-Gage QD. The original N-Gage was met with poor reviews thanks to a awkward design. Having a $299 pricetag didn’t help. This time around some things have changed: no more side talking, hot-swappable MMC and a smaller design. But in the eyes [...]

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Not that it was a secret, but Motorola has finally posted some information on the Motorola MPx220. It’s the successor to the MPx200, and has been rumored for well over 6 months. A rough draft press release was leaked a few weeks ago, leading to even more speculation. Here are some of the bigger features:

64MB [...]

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Hungarian scientists are saying that mobile phones may damage men’s sperm. Fertility experts don’t buy into the research which says that carrying a mobile in hip pockets or a holster on the waist could cut sperm count by nearly 30 percent.
Fejes and his team analyzed sperm from 221 men and questioned them about [...]

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The Sony Ericsson Z1010, a UTMS (3G) handset, is now shipping from Vodafone. We heard back in November 2003 that it was “close to launch”. It is the first 3G phone from Sony Ericsson. Here are the core features:

Videotelephony
exchangeable 32MB memory card
Bluetooth and IR
Media player for MP3 and video
Digital camera

The Sony Ericsson Z1010 is available [...]

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T-Mobile quietly released information about the upcoming MDA III on its website. It’s an upgrade to the MDA II, and adds features like WiFi and a slide down thumb board. Here are some of the other features:

Bluetooth
Increased battery life (up 25%)
BlackBerry push email

In Germany, the MDA II has a 40% market share of “PDA Phone” [...]

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Macromedia has announced a new version of Flash Lite, its Flash Player software for mobile phones. NTT DoCoMo was the only carrier that shipped phones using Flash Lite 1.0 (in its 505i series). Version 1.1 adds SVG Tiny (SVG-T) support, improved audio support, APIs to tie Flash applications into mobile phones and network connectivity.
Flash Lite [...]

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During the last it has became a tradition that information about Nokia leaked long before its official announcement. This time one of Asian sites published photo of [...]

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A rumor is making its way around that cable giant Time Warner Cable wants into the cellular market. It would enter as an MVNO, and piggy back on an established carrier’s network. Offering wireless service would enable Time Warner to create multimedia packages that include high-speed internet access, wireless phone service, landline phone service (via [...]

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Cingular has decided to speed up its 3G rollout. The last information we had pegged 2006 as the likely time period for Cingular to turn on 3G, but the company said today that the rollout will begin in 2005.
Also worth note, is that Cingular will roll out an enhanced version of UMTS (3G) called High [...]

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The FCC has posted pictures and manuals for a new version of Danger’s HipTop (marketed as the T-Mobile Sidekick in the US). The final version shipping from T-Mobile will be called the Sidekick II. A file listing of available attachments is located here.
Here are some basic specs:

USB port to be used, “primarily used by developers [...]

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As expected, Sprint PCS today announced plans for an EV-DO high-speed wireless data network. EV-DO has speeds of 300-500 kilobits per second and peak rates of up to 2.4 Megabits per second for downloads. Verizon Wireless is the other US carrier working on EV-DO.
Sprint expects to deploy EV-DO with initial service available in select markets [...]

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