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Entries from April 2005

ALLTEL giving away $1 million ‘dream home’

April 29th, 2005 · No Comments

ALLTEL is giving away $1 million to one lucky customer for a, “Dream home.” The TXT2WIN $1 Million Home Sweepstakes features Ty Pennington from the ABC show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.
ALLTEL customers can enter the sweepstakes by sending the text message “home” to the number “123456.” The chance of winning increases for every text, picture, […]

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Tags: Industry Q&A's

Review GSM phone Pantech PG-3200

April 29th, 2005 · 1 Comment

Pantech PG-3200. Live pictures
Package:

Handset
Battery
Charger
Manual

The phone Pantech PG-3200 is a miniature clamshell with two colour screens and a VGA camera with the dimensions of 75×38×21.5 mm and weighing 70 g. Due to its size, the handset is certainly intended for women most […]

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Tags: Pantech · Review

Australians using mobile phones to monitor ‘teen angst’

April 29th, 2005 · No Comments

Australian researchers are preparing a study that will use mobile phones to help monitor adolescent depression and suicidal factors.
Under the program, teenagers download specially-designed software on their mobile phones which asks a series of questions twice a day to gauge the youths’ moods and susceptibility to depression.

400 teenagers will participate in the study for 12 […]

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Man’s life saved by camera phone

April 28th, 2005 · No Comments

Some corporations ban camera phones for security purposes (corporate espionage!), but Matthew Stevens is alive because of the tiny camera embedded in his mobile phone. Mr. Stevens was bitten by a Brazilian Wandering Spider, which if not treated correctly can be fatal. Despite the shock of being bitten, Stevens snapped a photo of the spider […]

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Tags: Unique · Camera

Mag: Samsung A800 on Sprint PCS soon

April 27th, 2005 · No Comments

The May edition of Wired magazine features a mini-review of the Samsung A800 with a Sprint logo on it. The 2-megapixel camera phone was shown off at CTIA (see MobileTracker’s coverage), but a carrier wasn’t specified. Though magazines sometimes feature phones that never come out as intentioned, as was the case with the NEC […]

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Tags: Sprint Nextel · Samsung · Rumor

LG MM-535 shipped by Sprint PCS

April 27th, 2005 · No Comments

Sprint PCS on Tuesday began shipping the highly-anticipated LG MM-535. Sprint PCS announced that it would be carrying this phone back in March. Features of the MM-535 include:

Megapixel camera (with flash and video capture)
Slide-style design
176 x 220 pixel 262K color display
20MB internal memory plus miniSD card slot
MP3 player

Sprint PCS is selling the LG MM-535 […]

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Tags: Sprint Nextel · LG Mobile Phone

Nokia N90 announced, high-end camera phone

April 27th, 2005 · No Comments

Nokia has announced the N90, a high-end camera phone with Carl Zeiss optics. The twist-style phone features two displays and a lot of extras:

352 x 416 pixel main display
Bluetooth
2 megapixel autofocus camera with flash and video capture
31MB memory plus RS-MMC slot (64MB card included)
GSM 900/1800/1900, EDGE and WCDMA

The Nokia N90 is slated to ship in […]

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Nokia N91 announced, hard drive music phone

April 27th, 2005 · No Comments

Nokia today officially announced the N91 which was shown in spy shots earlier this week. It’s a high-end music phone with a built-in hard drive. The case is made out of steel, like the 8801.
Features of the Nokia N91 include:

4GB hard drive
3.5mm headphone jack
Line-in for recording
Bluetooth
WCDMA/WiFI/USB

Playback time for the music side of the phone is […]

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Nokia N70 announced

April 27th, 2005 · No Comments

Nokia today took the wraps off the N70, a handset similar to the 6680. Like the other N series handsets announced today (N90 and N91), the N70 is a Series 60 handset.
Features include:

2-megapixel camera
RS-MMC card slot
Bluetooth

The Nokia N70 is expected to be available in the third quarter of 2005. Additionally, a variant of the […]

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Nokia 6638 approved, CDMA Series 60

April 27th, 2005 · No Comments

The FCC has approved (FCC ID QMNRM-18) the Nokia 6638, the first CDMA Series 60 phone. Visually, it looks just like the Nokia 6630 with the addition of a [very long] antenna. Since the 6638 is a CDMA handset, Nokia is most likely aiming for a US release.
Features are typical for a Series 60 smartphone:

176 […]

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Tags: Rumor · Nokia