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Entries from December 2005

Review GSM smartphone Motorola MPx220

December 31st, 2005 · No Comments

Motorola MPx220. Live pictures
Standard [...]

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Review GSM phones LG S5000 and S5200

December 21st, 2005 · No Comments

Now the year 2005 is approaching its end and holidays, when we give presents, are coming up. And here is a line of new phones, which the company of LG prepared for these holidays. LG P7200 is one of them and a new line appeared, which is an S (Stylish) line. Such models as S5000 [...]

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Review GSM phone Samsung D300/D307

December 15th, 2005 · No Comments

Handset
Standard 570 mAh batter
Additional 800 mAh battery (not for all regions)
Wire stereo headset
Charger
Disk with software

Samsung D300/D307 is a phone with a QWERTY-keyad and support for BlackBerry maling format. The only difference between the D300 and D307 is that the first model is foreseen for European market and supports 900/1800/1900 diapasons, and the second is for [...]

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Review GSM phone Samsung D800/D820

December 15th, 2005 · No Comments

The company of Samsung is a rare manufacturer who may presume parallel development of similar products based on various hardware and software platforms. The history of mobile phones by Samsung began with the small projects, but the following expansion of R&D complex and its partial transformation in Suwon with simultaneous start of other technological platform [...]

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Review GSM smartphone Nokia N71

December 14th, 2005 · No Comments

Package:

Nokia N71
Nokia Battery BL-5C
Nokia Compact Charger AC-3
Nokia Connectivity Cable CA-53
Nokia Stereo Headset HS-23
Nokia Audio Adapter AD-15
128 MB miniSD memory card
CD-ROM (containing Nokia PC Suite 6.7 and Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition)
User guide, Quick Start guide, and Add-on Application guide

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Motorola PEBL launched by T-Mobile USA

December 14th, 2005 · No Comments

T-Mobile USA launched the Motorola PEBL today, shortly after putting it up on the online store as “coming soon”. The PEBL is a smoothly designed clamshell that was fashioned after pebbles found in streams (seriously).
Feature wise, the PEBL stacks up as a fairly typical Motorola handset:

Quadband GSM
Bluetooth
5MB memory
176 × 220 pixel 262K color screen
VGA camera

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Visto inks licensing deal with NTP

December 14th, 2005 · No Comments

Wireless email upstart Visto today announced a patent licensing deal with NTP. NTP is of course in a viscous patent lawsuit with wireless email leader Research In Motion. Terms of the deal were not announced, but Visto will not be protected for the life of NTP’s patents. The agreement was an obvious dig at RIM:
The [...]

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Tags: Data

Cingular 2125 (HTC Faraday) launched

December 13th, 2005 · No Comments

The HTC Faraday has been launched by Cingular under the name “Cingular 2125″. The 2125 is a feature packed Windows Mobile handset that’s an update to the popular SMT 5600.
The Cingular 2125 sports:

Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone edition
Quadband GSM plus EDGE
Bluetooth
1.3 megapixel camera
64 MB SDRAM/64 MB Flash ROM

Cingular is selling the 2125 for $199 after [...]

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Samsung t809 launches on T-Mobile

December 13th, 2005 · No Comments

The Samsung t809 has officially been launched by T-Mobile. The thin slide-style handset it Samsung’s answer to the RAZR, but packs a feature set that holds its own with the upcoming V3i.
Features of the handest include:

.58″ thick (that’s only .04″ thicker than the RAZR V3)
2.1″ screen with 262K colors
Quadband GSM with EDGE
Bluetooth
1.3 megapixel camera
microSD [...]

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Nokia 6061 launched by Cingular

December 13th, 2005 · No Comments

Cingular launched its second Nokia flip phone today, the 6061. While the global leader in terms of market share, the vast majority of Nokia handsets are candybar style.
The Nokia 6061 is an entry level phone with fairly standard features:

128 × 160 pixel screen with 65K colors
MP3 ringtones
AIM/ICQ/Yahoo Instant Messaging

Cingular is selling the 6061 for [...]

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ALLTEL to spin-off wireline biz

December 9th, 2005 · No Comments

Regional carrier ALLTEL today announced plans to spin-off of its wireline business with existing wireline provider VALOR Communications Group. This will allow the company to focus on its wireless service and become a more attractive target for acquisition.
A few notes about the deal:

VALOR Communications will assume approximately $4.2 billion in ALLTEL debt
Transaction is Tax Free [...]

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NTP, RIM settlement drama

December 9th, 2005 · No Comments

The ugly legal battle between Research In Motion and NTP concerning some patents continues to provide angst to investors, there’s news today of yet another rejected settlement offer. Forbes is reporting that NTP will settle for 5.7% of RIM’s revenue through 2012. In the last fiscal year RIM reported revenue of $1.35 billion, making [...]

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Tags: BlackBerry

Review GSM phone Samsung SGH-P300

December 8th, 2005 · No Comments

The company of Samsung started creating a new “slim” line in a big way after a great success of Motorola RAZR and the announcement of a blade-series on the 3GSM congress in February. And a desire to stand out and create products unlike of those announced was placed at the head. All the solutions based [...]

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JAMDAT sells to EA for $680 million

December 8th, 2005 · No Comments

Mobile phone game maker Jamdat Mobile will be acquired by game giant Electronic Arts for $680 million. That is a 19% premium over the last closing price for shares of Jamdat. Some of Jamdat’s more popular titles include: Tetris, Bejeweled, and Jamdat Bowling and Need for Speed. EA plans to bring some of its flagship [...]

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Motorola Q confirmed for Verizon Wireless

December 8th, 2005 · No Comments

The Motorola Q has been confirmed to be picked up by Verizon Wireless. There have been rumors of such a deal since shortly after the device was announced, but a unit displayed at a Microsoft summit clearly featured the Verizon Wireless logo.
Verizon Wireless is also going to be the exclusive launch partner for the [...]

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Tags: Motorola · Verizon Wireless