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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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Siemens’ mobile division will spin-off into its own company according to a plan released today during the Siemens Q1 earnings announcement. The unit has been losing money for over a year and was widely speculated to be in a transitional phase.
Full plans were not released, such as investment partners. Siemens will likely not hold a [...]

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Nokia 6230i. Live pictures
Package:

Handset
Manual
Disk with software
Charger
MMC card (the caoacity depends ont he region, usually 32 MB)

Nokia tends to prolong the life time for their models in the business segment and that is what happened to Nokia [...]

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Rumors have been circulating of a Nokia branded music phone, but now there are spy shots being added to the mix. A Chinese forum user posted pictures of a Nokia handset that claims to sport a 2 megapixel camera and advanced music features. The photos have been reposted at HowardForums. It’s a slide style handset [...]

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Nokia today announced the 5140, which looks to be an updated version of the 5140. The Nokia 5140i is the first phone from Nokia to comply with upcoming EU environmental legislation (RoHS, 2002/95/EC). More information on the legislation is available below.
Features of the sport-savvy Nokia 5140i include:

MP3 ring tones
FM radio
VGA camera
Fitness Coach application

Look for [...]

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Sprint today announced the introduction of the Sprint PCS Vision Phone VI-2300 by Sanyo. The Sanyo VI-2300 accompanies the Sanyo SCP-200 in Sanyo’s new attempt to offer mobile phones in a variety of colors. The two phones come in a combined nine different colors. The Sanyo VI-2300 will launch in silver and then branch out [...]

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