A fight over state versus federal jurisdiction of wireless carriers may head to the Supreme Court. Sprint and T-Mobile have asked the court to review a decision by the 11th Circuit Court regarding the carriers’ right to charge consumers additional “recovery fees” for taxes and and other charges levied on carriers [...]

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According to a coverage map on its Web site, Verizon Wireless will launch its V CAST Mobile TV service in select markets beginning March 1. However the coverage map does not show any VCAST TV availability anywhere in the nation, nor is further information available from Verizon. The carrier had previously [...]

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Sprint today began offering new calling plans in the San Francisco Bay area designed to take on MVNOs like Helio and Amp’d. Sprint will offer two Unlimited Access plans. The first offers unlimited voice calls, messaging, and on-phone browsing for $120 per month. A second adds unlimited data access on a [...]

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Sales package:

Smartphone
Music Headset HS -28 (with remote) stereo-headset
970 mAh battery (BL-5C)
Charger
USB data cable (DKE-2)
Nokia Charger Adapter Cable CA-44
CD-ROM with software
User Guide

In this article we put through its paces one of the strangest upgrades in Nokia’s history. Why Nokia N91 didn’t get “i” index like the rest [...]

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Following Microsoft’s model, Palm and Nokia have established downloads to help users of their smartphones update and avoid any daylight savings time (DST) issues. With DST ending 3 weeks earlier this year many smartphones and other devices are at risk of displaying the incorrect time, which could lead to problems for [...]

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Insolvent BenQ Mobile, previously one of the world’s top sellers of mobile phones, will be broken up and completely liquidated. With the last potential bidder for the company’s assets withdrawing its interest, BenQ feels there is no future for the brand and will shutter its doors. BenQ Mobile was originally the [...]

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T-Mobile released the Samsung SGH-t219 today. An entry level clamshell, the t219 is a tri-band GSM phone with a small grayscale exterior display and 1.77-inch 64k TFT LCD main display. Compatible with T-Mobile’s myFaves service, the phone has the standard basic SMS and MMS features, and also includes AOL, ICQ, Yahoo [...]

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3GSM World Congress – The Motorola W205 is a new consumer focused handset with only basic features. It’s not as low-end as the FONE, but the feature list reads more like 2003 than the current day.

Quad band GSM
128×128 65k color CSTN screen
Speakerphone
Memory for 750 SMS messages

Motorola will begin shipping the W205 phone in the [...]

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3GSM World Congress – The Motorola W510 builds on styling cues from the KRZR, but offers a slightly tweaked feature set.
Features of the handset include:

Quad band GSM plus EDGE
1.3 megapixel camera
microSD card slot
Stereo Bluetooth
peaker independent voice recognition

Motorola expects to begin shipping the W510 later in the first quarter. Carriers were not announced. The W205 [...]

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3GSM World Congress – The Nokia E61i was the third new E-Series handset announced at 3GSM this year (see Nokia E65 and Nokia E90 Communicator for more info on the other handsets). The E-Series is Nokia’s business targeted handset vertical and the phones ship with more mobile email and productivity apps than the multimedia-centric N-Series. [...]

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3GSM World Congress – The Nokia E65 is a new model in the business oriented Nokia E-Series. The E65 packs business features into a slim 15mm package. The slide-style handset

Quad band GSM plus WCDMA 2100
WiFi, Bluetooth and IR
QVGA screen with 16m colors
2 megapixel camera
microSD card slot
One Touch key for easy access to business apps

The [...]

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Skype recently petitioned the FCC to force wireless network operators to completely open their networks to all devices and applications. Carriers currently limit which phones and applications run on their networks and specifically prohibit Skype-based calls. Skype claims that by more stringently applying existing laws (1968 Carterfone decision), consumers could purchase [...]

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Sales package:

Handset
850 mAh Li-Ion battery
Charger
User Guide
CD with software (PC Studio v2.0)
USB data cable
Stereo-headset

Today launching cheaper counterparts of prime models has become a tradition. If you come to think of it, why would the company take the pain of creating something all-round new if it can offer a resembling device sporting cut functionality at lower [...]

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The FCC today also revealed a new Pocket PC Phone from HTC. Aside from the usual navigation keys, the GENE 100 only features a touch screen for input - there is no slide out keyboard or a numeric keypad. It is a small candybar style phone with quad-band GSM/GPRS (possibly EDGE), [...]

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A new dual-slider with Helio branding on it was seen on the FCC web site today. Internally called the Pantech PN-810, the phone features a three-layer design. The top layer holds the main screen and function buttons. If the top is slid up, the middle layer reveals a standard number pad, [...]

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