The LG F9200 was launched today by Cingular (in addition to the SLVR L7). We caught up with the F9200, which is an update to the F9100, at CES and were impressed with its feature set for a consumer level phone.
Those features include:

Full slide out QWERTY keyboard
Email client compatible with Yahoo!, Hotmail and MSN
Dual band [...]

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Cingular Wireless today launched the Motorola SLVR L7, Moto’s latest attempt to duplicate the success of the RAZR.
The SLVR is a candybar style handset, but only measures 11mm thick. It’s also only the second phone from Motorola with iTunes on board. Cingular will continue to carry the other iTunes model, the Motorola ROKR E1. [...]

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Wireless email is the subject of yet another lawsuit, this time Visto is suing Good Technology over patent infringement. The suit claims Good Technology has infringed on multiple patents held by Visto.
“Visto’s commitment to providing our customers with world-class remote email and data access services depends on our ability to protect the intellectual property [...]

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T-Mobile USA is now stocking the Motorola PEBL at retail stores. Since last month the handset has been sold exclusively online by the carrier. Design wise the PEBL is modeled after a water-smoothed peddle and feature wise the phone stacks up as a fairly normal Motorola.

Quadband GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
Bluetooth
176 ร— 220 pixel 262K color [...]

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As the only wireless sponsor of the NFL, Sprint Nextel is gearing up for a big showing next Sunday when Superbowl XL takes place. The company announced lots of mobile content for the big game:

Live coverage of press conferences o Sprint TV. Check the NFL Network (channel 9).
7 Days of Stones featuring a week [...]

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Verizon Wireless today introduced the Motorola V325, a mid-leve clamshell. It’s the first handset that is compatible with VZ Navigator, which is a turn-by-turn direction service that was launched in tandem with the V325.

Compatible with new VZ Navigator
30MB built-in memory
Speakerphone
VGA camera

The Motorola V325 is available for $79.99 after $50 mail-in rebate and a [...]

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Verizon Wireless last week launched a pink version of the Motorola RAZR V3c. The pink V3c is a lot more mellow than the magenta colored V3 that T-Mobile USA stocks.
Features stay the same as the regular V3c:

1.3 megapixel camera
Bluetooth
EV-DO high-speed data
Speakerphone

The Motorola RARZ V3c in Pink is available now for $249.99 with a 2-year [...]

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Both Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless operate mobile music stores–you can search, purchase and listen to music right on your phone. Feature wise the stores are pretty similar:

Powered by EV-DO so downloads are fast
Dual-mode downloads so you can have a copy on your computer
Use a compressed audio format that makes files about half the size [...]

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Nokia announced its fourth quarter results for 2005–more market share and less profit. The leading mobile phone manufacturer shipped an impressive amount of phones, but price pressure lowered the average price per handset by twelve euros.
Key figures from the financial release:

83.7 mobile handsets sold, for a market share of 34.1%
Net profit of $1.31 billion
North [...]

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Samsung announce d a new super-reflective LCD that is easy to read outside, even in direct sunlight. The new screen measures 1.72 inches and is technically called a SR LCD screen. Samsung claims it’s three times as bright as a normal mobile display.
Samsung Electronics has applied silver with high reflectance instead of aluminum to [...]

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Research In Motion and suitor NTP will appear [paid subscription req] in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia February 24th to decide a shutdown of US sales and service of BlackBerry. A shutdown has been possible for quite some time, but a decision could finally be reached on or shortly after this [...]

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T-Mobile USA announced its fourth quarter 2005 customer results today. The company experienced record growth and lowered churn to make for a total of 21.7 million customers. That still puts them well behind the top three carriers (Cingular, Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel) who each have more than 40 million customers.
Important figures from the [...]

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Cingular announced its fourth quarter earnings results this morning. This is the final release that will show confusing numbers thanks to the AT&T Wireless merger, it happened in October 2004 which affects the year ago numbers.
Important figures in the release:

Cingular had 54.1 million total subscribers at the end of the year
Average revenue per user [...]

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Opera Software today released its mass market mobile browser, Opera Mini. Until now the software was only available in Norway and other select European countries. Unlike Opera Mobile, Opera Mini is designed to be used on the vast majority of phones that ship in the US–any modern phone with Java. In the US that means [...]

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Several of Vodafone’s ten largest shareholders are demanding the company sells its 45% stake in Verizon Wireless and use the cash to improve the balance sheet. The Times Online reports that investors are frustrated that Verizon Wireless is independent of Vodafone’s management, doesn’t pay dividends and uses a different network technology (CDMA instead of GSM). [...]

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