Seagate today announced a new portable hard drive platform designed to provide additional storage for mobile phones. DAVE is slightly smaller than a RAZR and features a 10 or 20 GB hard drive, a USB port, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Seagate has created applications to wirelessly connect to the hard drive from [...]

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Cingular today announced a new pricing structure that will allow subscribers to try Push To Talk (PTT) without having to commit to a month-long unlimited plan. Customers can instead for PTT calls on a per-minute rate of 15 cents. Because PTT sessions don’t usually require users to press the end key [...]

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Leap Wireless has partnered with Musiwave to bring music downloads or streaming to Cricket. Although they don’t partner with any other American carrier, Musiwave provides over-the-air full track downloads to many of the largest European operators. Cricket was not specific about what type of services Musiwave will provide, however they did [...]

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Famous investor Carl Icahn is a large shareholder in Motorola and spoke with CNBC this afternoon, noting that he is running for a seat on the board. Icahn owns approximately 1.4% of Motorola’s outstanding shares and was outspoken about the $12 billion in cash Moto is keeping around for a rainy day.
“If they want [...]

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Verizon Wireless’ innovative Chaperone service has been launched for new handsets. The child-tracking program was previously only available on the LG Migo. Chaperone is now available on the following handsets: LG 3450L, LG VX8300, LG Chocolate and the Motorola KRZR K1m.
Chaperone uses GPS to keep tabs on kids. Parents can log in and see [...]

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Verizon has introduced new callings plans that bundle wireline and wireless phone service. This comes just two weeks after AT&T Unity was introduced. Like Unity, Verizon’s new Freedom plans bundle all the available services from the telecom juggernaut. Verizon’s partnership with DirecTV is also included in the deal so it’s possible to combine landline, internet, [...]

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Kodiak, the company behind Alltel and Cingular’s Push To Talk over Cellular (POC) technology, has announced a new phone application that unifies calling, text and voice messaging. The application, which can run natively on a variety of devices and operating systems, reads the phone’s built-in address book and allows you to [...]

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Nokia has received a patent for coating phones with an ultra tough diamond-like substance created with a graphite plasma. The plasma is bonded to the plastic phone casing with an electrical arc to create a coating that is both durable and anti-static to repel dirt and dust. This is similar to [...]

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Apple rumor site ThinkSecret is reporting that the iPhone may begin shipping prior to June. At its MacWorld introduction earlier this month, Apple CEO Steve Jobs noted that the unusually (for Apple) distant launch date was because Apple wanted to announce the product before the FCC had a chance to spill the beans. The iPhone [...]

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Cingular has been catching some bad press after it came out the company billed a senior citizen $31,000 for international calls that would have been impossible to make. Oliver DeSofi was shocked to see his monthly bill (normally $150) listed at $21,420. After calling to clarify, Mr. DeSofi was notified that more calls had been [...]

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Motorola has signed an agreement with Texas Instruments for chips to power future mobile phones. Previously Motorola has relied on silicon from Freescale, a company that Motorola spun off in 2003. Motorola has been slow to get advanced 3G phones to the market and has made that task a major goal for 2007. However this [...]

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T-Mobile USA has announced hitting the 25 million subscriber milestone. The carrier is still the smallest of the four nationals by a long shot, but is adding customers at a fast clip. Cingular, the nation’s largest carrier, recently announced surpassing 60 million subscribers.
T-Mobile made the customer announcement along with its Q4 2006 earnings statement. [...]

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Motorola this week confirmed previous rumors and photos of a MOTORAZR maxx for Verizon by making a manual available for download from the company’s public web site. The manual confirms many of the features previously seen in pictures as well as revealing a few new aspects. The MOTORAZR maxx Ve is [...]

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Cingular today launched Motorola’s V3xx, a 3G version of the popular RAZR. The V3xx is not easily distinguishable from other RAZRs, however it is notable in its own right. It is the first 3G phone for Cingular capable of 3.6 Mbps HSDPA. Previous handsets, including smartphones such as the BlackJack or [...]

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The carriers and manufacturers who last year announced they would organize around mobile Linux officially announced their group today. Motorola, Samsung, NEC, Panasonic and carriers NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone are the first members of the LiMo Foundation. Last year this group announced they would work together to solidify a mobile focused [...]

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