SanDisk and Sony today showed off the latest in a seemingly never ending parade of flash memory formats–the Sony Memory Stick Micro. The format is meant to compete with microSD and MMCmicro which are both small enough to sit on top of a penny with room to spare. SanDisk says the size of Memory Stick [...]

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Research In Motion announced that the preliminary report from the US Patent Office shows that NTP has lost another patent to RIM’s challenges. This will likely have a large efect on the lawsuit NTP brought against RIM for patent infringement. A settlement was reached but RIM backed out once it appeared the patents wouldn’t hold [...]

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Research In Motion released its second quarter results for fiscal 2006 yesterday. The numbers look good as BlackBerry continues to make market share gains.

Revenue hit $490.1 million, up 8% from $453.9 million in the previous quarter and up 58% from $310.2 million in the same quarter of last year. The revenue broke down to [...]

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CTIA IT 2005 — Cingular and RealNetworks announced an agreement that will have Cingular using Real’s Helix OnlineTV platform to deliever video. Cingular will be launching a video streaming service once its HSDPA 3G network gets off the ground later this year.
Real will provide Cingular, the nation’s leading wireless carrier, with a comprehensive [...]

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More details about the BlackBerry 8700 have turned up. So far the rumors point to a 2005 launch for the 8700, which should be announced sometime in October.
Spec wise, here’s how the 8700 stacks up:

320 × 240 screen
Quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE
Bluetooth 2.0
16MB RAM / 64MB Flash
Thinner and Narrower than 7200 series

Yesterday there was news that RIM [...]

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Cingular has announced the Nokia 9300, a high-end Communicator device under the Series 80 family. The Nokia 9300 from Cingular will ship with BlackBerry Connect, making it the first non-RIM handset with the BlackBerry Connect software sold in the US.
Features of the Nokia 9300 include:

EDGE high-speed data
QWERTY keybaord
80MB memory
640×200 screen, 65K colors
Bluetooth

Cingular will ship [...]

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Nokia HS-3W. Live pictures

Nokia is a novice in a bluetooth-headset market but that doesn’t prevent it [...]

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Package

Handset
Battery
Manual
Charger

The company of Motorola is well known for its low-end solutions, and very often the launch of this or that model determined the whole [...]

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ESPN revealed some more details about the launch of Mobile ESPN, a sports themed mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). The first change is that the service will now be called Mobile ESPN–prior to today it was called ESPN Mobile. Nationwide rollout of Mobile ESPN is set for Sunday, February 5, though there will be a [...]

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Virgin Mobile USA today announced a music phone, the Kyocera Slider Sonic. The Sonic is based off of the Slider Remix, but has added music features to keep it in step with the rest of the mobile industry. This phone showed up on Virgin’s website recently, but we now know a few more details.
Feaures of [...]

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Sprint Nextel has finally announced the Motorola i930, a Windows Mobile based iDEN handset for Nextel service. Motorola has shown off the i930 at trade shows for more than a year without any serious word on when it would come out.
The last time we mentioned the i930 was back in May when it [...]

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Cingular has launched the Nokia 6102, shortly after its launch at T-Mobile USA (T-Mobile launched the 6101, which is the same phone except for GSM 850 which was added in place of GSM 900 for Cingular). Features of the clamshell style Nokia include:

EDGE high-speed data
128 × 160 pixel screen with 65K colors
Speakerphone
Yahoo! IM [...]

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At the 3GSM Asia show in Singapore, Motorola announced a major agreement with the GSM Association to supply six million low-cost phones to emerging markets. As part of the deal Motorola is expanding its C-series of phones with more options. The following models were announced at the show:

C118 - Bare bones, focused on battery life [...]

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CTIA IT 2005 — Kyocera today unveiled severeal new models, including the Xcursion KX160. The KX160 is a CDMA clamshell phone with mid-level features. It’s expected to become available in November.
Features include:

Bluetooth
VGA camera with flash
128×160 pixel display
Speakerphone

The other models announced by Kyocera today include an update to the Remix KX5 that adds Bluetooth [...]

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Verizon Wireless has announced a settlement in the class action lawsuit brought by people who purchased the Motorola V710 under the impression that its Bluetooth profile allowed a full range of features (it instead just supported a wireless headset). If you got a V710 through Verizon on or before January 31, 2005 you’re entitled to [...]

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