The FCC today voted on rules for use of the 700 MHz spectrum which will come up for auction next year. Early reports from the meeting indicate Chairman Kevin Martin’s proposal for open access will be a condition on about one-third of the lots - winners of those airwaves will have [...]

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Prexar, USA Telephone’s mobile unit, has agreed to buy certain portions of Amp’d Mobile’s wireless assets and will take on Amp’d’s customers. Former Amp’d subscribers will likely be able to keep their phones and phone numbers, and can sign up for new services from Prexar through the company’s Web site. Prexar [...]

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RIM today announced a Blackberry 8310 for Vodafone Germany. The 8310 has the exact same form factor as the Curve available on AT&T but adds GPS to the feature set. Users will be able to get driving directions and find points of interest using pre-installed navigation software with the built-in GPS. [...]

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Telexy Networks has released SymbMB 2.0, which lets Symbian-based smartphones use Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or 3G networks to share files securely. Users create a specific folder where they can deposit data, music or photo files. This folder is then shared with a recipient’s phone over a secure connection and that person [...]

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AT&T is launching a new music service today that makes an additional 2.7 million songs from independent artists available to subscribers. eMusic Mobile is the company providing the service, which allows for over-the-air downloading of songs directly to user handsets. Sold in packs of five for $7.49 (~$1.50 per song), users [...]

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The X800 is a new glofiish phone from E-Ten that pairs Windows Mobile 6 Professional with tri-band HSDPA and quad-band GSM/EDGE radios. According to documents seen on the FCC site, it also hosts 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, an FM tuner, and a SiRF Star III chip for GPS. The X800’s 2.8-inch [...]

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Verizon Wireless acquired Rural Cellular, a regional network operator covering parts of New England, the Mid West, the South and the Pacific Northwest, for $2.67 billion. Rural Cellular operates both CDMA and GSM networks to cover its 716,000 subscribers in those regions. Verizon has said that it will switch Rural’s GSM [...]

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Motorola yesterday previewed two new walkie talkie phones for Sprint.

ic602: A successor to the Blend / Buzz line of CDMA / iDEN hybrid phones. Features the same clamshell design but adds a camera to the Buzz’s monochrome external screen.
i335: An entry level ruggedized candybar phone for the iDEN network with a [...]

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Live photos of Samsung C520

Sales package:

Handset
800 mAh Li-Ion battery
Charger
Wired stereo headset
User guide

Samsung’s range features most entry-level models targeted at women as well as unisex offerings. Some have visual appeal, some grab attention not with design itself, but flamboyant trims, which not every vendor can offer. But the fact of the matter is that no other [...]

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Sprint and Google have agreed to work together to provide a set of software services that will work on the WiMAX network that Sprint is launching later this year. In particular, Google will build a portal that includes search functions and social networking tools, as well as its Google Apps suite [...]

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Following AT&T’s reversal last week, Verizon Wireless is also now saying it will agree to some of the open access measures for the 700 MHz auction proposed by FCC Chairman Kevin Martin. Specifically, it said it will support the idea of open access on a portion of the 700 MHz spectrum. [...]

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Three separate models of the forthcoming smartphone were approved yesterday by the FCC. All three versions come with GSM 850/1900 and HSDPA 850/1900 radios, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. The biggest difference between the three models is the camera. According to the FCC documents, the Kaiser 100 has a 3 megapixel camera [...]

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AT&T has begun to offer a service that protects some user data on a broad range of mobile phones. The service, which is called AT&T Mobile Backup and costs $1.99 per month, will let subscribers backup and store their contact data on AT&T’s web site. Contacts that are added to the [...]

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Vodafone activist investor Efficient Capital Structures lost its bid to sell off the company’s 45% stake in Verizon Wireless. In yesterday’s vote, only 5% of the shareholders approved of ECS’s plan. The majority of shareholders reaffirmed Vodafone’s commitment to maintain its investment in the joint venture with Verizon Communications by disapproving [...]

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Alltel has made mywaves’ video content available to its subscribers for $3.99 per month. The mywaves BREW application, which subscribers download to their phones, lets users pick and choose from professional to personal videos that span genres such as comedy, music and technology. This includes access to channels such as CNN, [...]

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