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Entries from March 2006

Review GSM/UMTS smartphone Sony Ericsson M600

March 31st, 2006 · No Comments

Sony Ericsson M600 live photos>>>
The success of BlackBerry’s solutions has become a guiding line for many manufacturers, which have already taken a note of such [...]

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Tags: Review · Sony Ericsson

Long term study on brain tumor risk from mobiles

March 31st, 2006 · No Comments

Another day and another study, this time one that decides mobile phones can cause brain tumors. Researchers at the Swedish National Institute for Working Life have concluded there is a link:
Kjell Mild, who led the study, said the figures meant that heavy users of mobile phones, for instance of who make mobile phone calls for [...]

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Tags: Backpage

Qualcomm achieves 7.2 Mbps HSDPA call

March 31st, 2006 · No Comments

Nortel and Qualcomm together completed an industry leading 7.2 Mbps data call over HSDPA. HSDPA is the 3G technology that Cingular Wireless is currently upgrading its network to.
The companies completed the initial series of pre-commercial category 8 HSDPA data calls using test terminals based on QUALCOMM’s Mobile Station Modem MSM6280 solution and HSDPA network [...]

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Tags: 3G · Backpage · Data

Mobile ESPN announces MLB content

March 31st, 2006 · No Comments

Mobile ESPN announced its exclusive content lineup for the 2006 Major League Baseball season. Since the carrier was launched after the end of the 2005 season, baseball wasn’t a major part of the initial content.
Mobile ESPN’s MLB coverage includes:

In-game video highlight clips of each ESPN telecast game (150 games)
Scoreboards with game status information and real-time [...]

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Tags: Data · MVNO

Sprint announces EV-DO expansion plans

March 30th, 2006 · No Comments

Sprint Nextel today revealed its expansion plans for EV-DO (or Power Vision as their marketing team calls it). The network is expected to reach 190m people nationwide by the end of the year. Starting in Q1 2007 Sprint will begin the upgrade to EV-DO Revision A and hopes to reach 220m people with the upgraded [...]

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Tags: Data · Sprint Nextel

Motorola Q to be MIA at CTIA, report

March 30th, 2006 · No Comments

Scott Moritz over at TheStreet says the Motorola Q will not debut at CTIA like many insiders were expecting. Verizon Wireless will have an exclusive on the thin-line PDA at launch, but consumers will have to wait at least a little longer:
The stage was set for an announcement that Verizon Wireless — a joint venture [...]

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Tags: Motorola · Rumor · Verizon Wireless

Visiongain: Apple iPhone likely to launch with Helio

March 29th, 2006 · No Comments

Pam Duffey, telecoms analyst at Visiongain, believes that Apple will design and brand its own mobile phone and that this handset will launch with upstart MVNO Helio. Helio is the partnership between Earthlink and SK Telecom that aims to bring high-tech Korean phone technology and services to US consumers.
“There exists a relationship between Apple and [...]

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Tags: Apple · MVNO · Rumor · iPhone

Parlour Boys win V Cast / MySpace band contest

March 29th, 2006 · No Comments

Indie rock band Parlour Boys won the Calling All Bands contest hosted by Verizon Wireless and MySpace to get their music promoted on V Cast Music. Parlour Boys isn’t signed to a record label and beat out 4,000 other bands entered into the contest. Parlour Boys’ song Lovers will be turned into a full-length download, [...]

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Tags: Backpage · Verizon Wireless

Sprint looks to music subscriptions

March 29th, 2006 · No Comments

Sprint Nextel is considering a music subscription service according to comments from CEO Len Lauer at the World Congress of Sports conference. Subscriptions have had limited success in online music delivery, with most rivals to Apple’s iTunes having some sort of subscription service (though in market share terms its popularity is still limited).
“We’d like [...]

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Tags: Sprint Nextel

RAZR becomes top selling Euro handset

March 29th, 2006 · No Comments

According to the latest sales data from Telephia, Motorola’s RAZR handset was the best selling phone model in Europe during the first quarter of 2006. Sales of the thin handset surged 100% and accounted for 6.2% of all units in Europe. The strongest sales were in the UK, Italy and Spain. US marketshare for the [...]

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Tags: Motorola · Nokia

Review of GSM handset LG C2500

March 29th, 2006 · 5 Comments

Package:

Handset
Battery
Stereo headphones
MiniUSB-cable
Charger
User Manual

It’s not a big secret for anyone that once you create a good product, you will be able to use it over and over again. Sometimes such products [...]

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Tags: LG Mobile Phone · Review

Sprint Nextel launches Find It LBS

March 28th, 2006 · No Comments

Sprint Nextel launched a new Location Based Service (LBS) dubbed Find It that helps point users to places of interest. Find It uses the GPS built into cell phones in combination with a database of places like restaurants, gas stations and ATMs. After finding a nearby location it can give you directions from your current [...]

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Tags: Data · Sprint Nextel

MicroSD takes top spot for cell phones

March 28th, 2006 · No Comments

MicroSD is the leading removable memory format in cell phones according to a new report from research group Strategy Analytics. The report notes that almost 75% of phones sold in 2010 are expected to come with a memory card slot.
Commenting on the trends in card capacity, Stephen Entwistle, Vice President of the company’s Strategic [...]

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Tags: Backpage

T-Mobile USA overhauls website

March 28th, 2006 · No Comments

T-Mobile USA revealed an all new design for their website this week. Among the changes is a unique scrollbar interface that lets you view plans easily by either price or number of minutes.

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Cool.Prepaid halts sale of Motorola handsets

March 28th, 2006 · No Comments

Cool.Prepaid, one of the latest Mobile Virtual Network Operators, launched recently stocking all Motorola handsets. Yesterday it was revealed that Motorola terminated its relationship with Cool.Prepaid, effectively cutting it off from all its phones, including the flagship RAZR that it was advertising. The phones are currently still stocked in Sears stores, but there is no [...]

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Tags: MVNO · Motorola