At the MotoSummer 2004 event in New York City, Motorola officially confirmed the MPx100 has been cancelled. We covered a rumor about this topic two weeks ago. The company cited demand for clamshell models as the reason for the MPx100’s cancellation.

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MobileTracker has been getting reader reports that Cingular is going to discontinue the Motorola V600. Cingular has been shipping the V600 since May.
Once the current stock of units is sold no more will be re-ordered. As of this time you can still purchase a V600 from Cingular.com. We will update this story when more information [...]

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Our friends at Gizmodo are getting reader reports that the Motorola V710 is now in stock at Radio Shack. The V710 was highly anticipated due to it being one of the first CDMA phones with Bluetooth. For new customers who sign a 2-year contract, Radio Shack is charging $319.99 after rebate for the Motorola [...]

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A Motorola executive is quoted in a Finnish business paper as saying that Motorola will once again be the world’s largest mobile phone maker. Nokia has held the top position (which it took from Motorola) since 1998. Nokia’s market share sits at 28.9% while Motorola is back at 15.4%. No time frame was given.
In a [...]

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Danger and T-Mobile’s Sidekick 2 is featured the August 2nd edition of NewsWeek. The price quoted is $229 which is $20 cheaper than the suggest retail price of the still selling Sidekick.
The NewsWeek feature is the first actual published information about the phone. MobileTracker noted that the Sidekick 2 was approved by the FCC [...]

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Motorola’s deal to get Apple’s iTunes player onto its mobile phones may have hit a snag–data hungry carriers. Since songs would be placed on phones via USB or Bluetooth mobile carriers won’t see any money. Forbes.com says analysts believe that operaters will put a stop to this deal and any others like it:bq. “The [...]

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NTT DoCoMo today announced the release of the FOMA Raku Raku. It’s a lower-end 3G camera phone capable of making video calls. Here are the specs:

.3 megapixel camera
2.4-inch 65K color QVGA LCD
Read Aloud function that enables voice readouts
“Voice mail” function that allows users to send and receive voice messages

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The Nokia N-Gage QD is now shipping in the US. It is being bundled with Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater and is selling for $99-$199 depending on whether you get a contract or not. At this time the N-Gage QD can only be activated on T-Mobile, but AT&T Wireless is expected to start selling them soon.
At [...]

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Motorola had a new phone blitz earlier today, but did not mention the Motorola V620, an update to the popular V600. PhoneScoop provides a few details about the phone: it’s black and it has video recording. Other than that not much else is known, but we should see an official announcement from Motorola soon.
It should [...]

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Verizon Wireless will tomorrow launch its EV-DO powered BroadbandAccess data service in Las Vegas, Nevada. It will provide users with internet speeds of 300-500 kilobits per second. San Diego and Washington D.C. are the other cities that have Verizon’s BroadbandAccess. More cities should come online soon.

BroadbandAccess service is priced at a flat rate of $79.99 [...]

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T-Mobile USA has finally started to ship the Motorola V600. MobileTracker reviewed an unbranded Motorola V600 in May. The phone is selling for $299 without rebates from T-Mobile, contract needed.
You can purchase the V600 for as little as $49.99 after rebate from AT&T Wireless.

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T-Mobile USA has quitely ended an unpublicized program that gave all of its subscribers unlimited WAP access for free. According to the mobile phone discussion site Howard Forums, many T-Mobile subscribers that try and use the service now get a page asking them to sign up for T-Zones, T-Mobile’s data service.
Since the service was free, [...]

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In a sign that the Treo 610/ACE could be announced soon, Amazon.com is selling that AT&T Wireless version of the Treo 600 for $149.99 after rebate. This beats the last Treo 600 bargain we featured by a cool $200.
[via TreoCentral]

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While not news to MobileTracker readers, Motorola has taken the covers off its first WiFi phone–the Motorola CN620. We noted that the CN620 got FCC approval on the first of this month.
You should be able to purchase a CN620 by fall 2004 or early 2005. However no carrier has agreed to carry the phone–yet. It [...]

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During a day filled with new phones, Motorola announced two new 3G handsets. The V975 and C975 both sport features like 2-way video conferencing and a VGA camera with 4x zoom. They should be available in the fourth quarter of this year.

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