Nokia has made another content acquisition, this time it’s Germany-based gate5. Earlier this month Nokia bought out Loudeye to help build a Nokia music store. Nokia is predicting rapid growth in the personal navigation vertical and hopes to jump on board:
The acquisition of gate5 is an important step in developing the new product category [...]

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Yahoo! has released a Windows Mobile version of its Go For Mobile application. The application first debuted for S60 smartphones at CES earlier this year. It offers a direct connection to many popular Yahoo web services:

Mail
Search (local, web and images)
Photos
Address Book and Calendar
Sports, news and finance

The software is available now and is free. It’s compatible [...]

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Mobile ESPN has announced live video of up to 25 college football games per month during the upcoming season. Starting next month the upstart mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) will have an exclusive on the top market college games. The coverage kicks off with Florida State vs. Miami on September 4th. The mobile video should [...]

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Sony Ericsson may be working on its own music download service to compliment its Walkman line of phones. Company spokesman Aldo Liguri noted that Sony Ericsson is, “Developing the PlayNow service further. It is part of our bigger music strategy.” PlayNow is currently limited to just ringtones.
Phone makers have traditionally stayed out of the [...]

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Motorola has posted a software update for the Q, which is currently available in the US exclusively through Verizon Wireless. The update includes both security fixes and new features. Most welcome will be the addition of dial-up-networking (DUN) support through Bluetooth or USB. While the feature needs an accompanying data plan, it has been a [...]

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European discount airline Ryanair has announced it will offer an in-flight mobile network for its passengers. Upgrades to its 737 jets will start in mid-2007 and continue through 2008. The company plans to provide Mobile OnAir service in all of its 200-plus aircraft.
Since Ryanair will control the network, passengers will have to pay a [...]

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Sales package:

Nokia N73
Nokia Battery BP-6M (1100mAH)
Nokia Charger AC-4
Nokia Charger Adapter CA-44
Nokia Classic Stereo Headset HS-23
Nokia Connectivity Cable CA-53
Wrist strap and lens cleaning cloth
CD-ROM: Nokia PC Suite & Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition
User Documentation: User guide, Get Started guide, Get Connected guide & Additional Applications leaflet

The segment of “multimedia computers”, as Nokia calls its [...]

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Over a year and a half after pleading guilty to stealing customer information from T-Mobile USA, Nicholas Lee Jacobsen has been sentenced to one year of house arrest. Jacobsen stole information on about 400 T-Mobile customers who used the popular Sidekick device, see our original story for more details. Among the compromised users was a [...]

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Review of GSM/UMTS-smartphone Nokia N73>>>
Left behind by Sony Ericsson at the initial stage of development of camera-centric handsets, Nokia has started cutting down the gap rapidly – in 2005 the company’s solutions could not boast any breakthroughs in this field, which enabled its competitors to fill up the empty space in this niche. But in [...]

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Sprint Nextel has launched the country’s first EV-DO Rev A mobile broadband card, the Novatel Wireless S720. While it conforms to the new speedy Rev A technology, don’t expect faster speeds quite yet. Sprint doesn’t expect to activate its Rev A network until later in the year. However the card will work fine on the [...]

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Not waiting to be scooped by rumor sites, T-Mobile has posted a coming soon message for the Samsung t719. The t719 was one of the most unique handsets shown off at CTIA thanks to its hybrid-QWERTY keyboard inside of a fairly typical clamshell design. Samsung licensed the keyboard and email software from Research In Motion [...]

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Live photos of Samsung D900
Review of Samsung D900’s 3 Mpix camera
Standard kit:

Handset
Charger
Wire stereo-headset
Bluetooth-headset Samsung WEP200 and charger (depends on region)
User’s Guide
Disk with software
TV Out cable (depends on region)
USB-cable (depends on region)
microSD 256 Mb memory card (storage size and availability depend on region)

Recently Samsung was having hard time, as it was losing [...]

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Mobile search provider 4INFO has added TV Guide data to its service. Accessible through both WAP and SMS, 4INFO covers several consumer search verticals such as sports scores, weather, flight tracking and more. USA Today’s parent company, Gannett, invested in 4INFO and promotes the company in USA Today.
The new TV search feature allows users [...]

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Bidding in the Advanced Wireless Services auction has started to slow down, but the total has reached nearly $13 billion. Original estimates for the auction put the high estimate at $15 billion. Overall bidding has slowed, but there is still competition on a few choice licenses.
T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless have both concentrated on [...]

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Verizon Wireless has launched the Nokia 6215i. Despite the Nokia branding, the 6215i is actually made by Pantech and originally went by the moniker PN-315. Nokia’s CDMA strategy has been up in the air after Nokia called off a proposed partnership with Sanyo. Nokia has a contract with Pantech to brand two handsets, the 6215i [...]

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