Verizon Wireless will tomorrow start to ship the Audiovox CDM-9900. The Audiovox 9900 is a higher camera phone with video recording. Specs include:

240ื320 pixel (QVGA) 260,000 color Poly-Silicon TFT main display
65,000-color STN LCD subdisplay
VGA resolution camera with flash and video recording
Speakerphone
6.5 MB memory

Update: MobileTracker has posted exclusive hands on photos of this phone. Review forthcoming.
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NTT DoCoMo today announced a revolutionary new fuel cell charger for its FOMA series of 3G phones. It’s still in the testing phase, but is expected to greatly increase the possible usage time of FOMA mobile phones.
The micro fuel cell is a standalone device shaped like a cradle for recharging handsets. It generates electric power [...]

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T-Mobile today began sales of the BlackBerry 7100t. The device was announced earlier this month and is a diversion from Research In Motion’s convential design–the 7100t looks like a phone. Features of the device include:

Innovative 20-character keyboard (includes predictive text engine called SureType)
Bluetooth
speakerphone
Yahoo! IM, AOL IM and ICQ
Java
240ื260 pixel display with 65,000 colors

The BlackBerry [...]

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Research In Motion this afternoon announced its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2005. RIM of course is the maker of the popular BlackBerry device/platform.
Revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2005 was $310.2 million, up 15% from $269.6 million in the previous quarter and up 147% from $125.7 million in the same [...]

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Princeton Review’s Prep for the SAT is now available for mobile phones. Currently only available to Verizon Wireless customers (but soon to other carriers), the application is intended to help raise SAT scores. The application was developed by VOCEL and includes “push-technology” that allows updates to be sent out.
Students can now use their mobile phones [...]

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Some new pictures of the upcoming Treo 650 (specifically a Sprint PCS branded Treo 650) have been leaked onto TreoCentral.com. We posted a picture set late last month, though that unit was not branded.
Note of interest: the Treo 650 does not run PalmSource’s new Cobalt OS.

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Confirming our previous report, the Motorola A630 appears to be days away from launch. Mega retailer Amazon.com has posted the phone on its web site. Availability of the unlaunched phone is listed as, “In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served.” Last week we noted that the A630 appeared on [...]

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The MDA III has started to ship from T-Mobile Germany. Details of the Microsoft powered smartphone appeared in June:

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

Don’t import the MDA III without realizing it ships with the German standard QWERTZ keyboard and the OS is in German (it cannot be changed). Expect to pay The price of [...]

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Catahoula Streaming Audio is a new application from Quadline that lets you stream MP3 and WAV audio files to Sprint PCS mobile phones. It remains to be seen if Sprint PCS wants to allow this on its “unlimited” data plans. Sprint PCS currently does not allow users to use their mobile phones to get internet [...]

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Verizon Wireless today announced that its subscribers now have access to AOL email accounts via Verizon Wireless’ Get It Now. The service costs 99ข a month as part of an introductory offering. The application is compatible with the Kyocera Slider SE47 and LG Electronics’ VX4600 and VX6000 models. Directions to download the email client are [...]

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Nokia 7260. Live pictures
Standard kit:

Handset
Charger
Handsfree headset
Manual

Nokia has announced three new models at the same time, they are Nokia 7260, Nokia 7270, Nokia 7280. This mass renewal in fashion class tells about the fact that the manufacturer doesn’t account on each of the products individually but on the whole line in general. Here is [...]

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Research In Motion (RIM) today announced the BlackBerry 7290, an updated version of the BlackBerry 7200. This is the first device from RIM to ship with Bluetooth. Features of the 7290 include:

Bluetooth
Quad-band GSM
65,000 color screen (brighter than 7200’s)
Improved QWERTY keyboard, highlighted number keys for easy dialling and typing
32MB memory

Look for the BlackBerry 7290 starting early [...]

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The Washington Post has an article today about a woman who was arrested in a DC metro station for a loud cellphone conversation. To make the story even more strange, the woman was 5-months pregnant!
The police officer told Aaron, who is five months pregnant, to lower her voice. She told the officer he had no [...]

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Motorola today announced an investment in Bluefire Security Technologies. The money will be used to, “Accelerate the development of its [Bluefire's] Mobile Firewall Plus suite of security applications.” The software attempts to secure data on mobile devices:
As more and more mobile device owners use their devices to connect to their home, office and Internet, they [...]

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O2 has announced a unified mobile data solution for businesses. The technolgy combines 3G, Wireless LAN and GPRS in an attempt to get business professionals online anywhere. Software from the company called O2 Connection Manager chooses the best connection available through O2’s integrated datacard. However pricing will be complicated since it varies for each method [...]

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