While only just having been confirmed as a 2008 release, the second-generation iPhone may already have experienced its first delay, according to an analyst from Friedman Billings Ramsey & Company. Mehdi Hosseini claims that among information gathered in “recent checks,” it was learned that the next iPhone may have originally been planned for launch in [...]

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Today MetroPCS announced the Samsung r410. This sideways slider reveals a full QWERTY keyboard for messaging when opened and comes with multiple messaging applications. It is limited to 1xRTT data and has a VGA camera with multi-shot capability. The r410 also has Bluetooth and a speakerphone.

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Today Google said that it is definitely going to take part in the FCC 700 MHz auction that begins on January 24 of next year. Google will bid on the “C” block of spectrum, which is the block set aside with open access rules. The deadline for declaring intent to bid is December 3. Google [...]

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Just in time for the holiday season Verizon Wireless has announced a new color for the LG chocolate phone called Blue Mint. Mint makes the color sound a bit girly to me, but the blue is actually a nice navy shade that looks manly enough.
Features of the phone are the same as the other LG [...]

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Ed Zander, Motorola’s CEO, has agreed to step down from his post effective January 1. Zander has been with Motorola since January 2004. Motorola has had a tough year and seen sales figures and revenues drop over the last 12 months. The handset division will close out 2007 at a loss. The company recently slipped [...]

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Research in Motion’s previously leaked BlackBerry 9100 will race to beat Apple in technical features ahead of an upgrade to the iPhone, BGR claims in an alleged leak. The device will have a touchscreen with the same 320×480 resolution as the iPhone’s and will have 3G cellular Internet over HSPA — a feature that is [...]

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Before the Thanksgiving holiday, SK Telecom and private equity firm Providence Equity Partners offered to invest $5 billion in Sprint. The terms of the proposal would have had former Nextel CEO Tim Donahue return to helm the company. Donahue planned to bring in an entirely new management team. Sprint turned down the offer without discussing [...]

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A story has been making the rounds in technology circles after a man in Korea was reportedly killed when his LG Mobile phone exploded. A coworker of the man who was killed has now come forward and admitted it was a hoax.
The hoaxy part wasn’t that the man was killed, rather that the exploding LG [...]

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At a recent media summit, Blockbuster CEO James Keyes said the movie rental chain is speaking to all the major handset manufacturers in hopes that they can make the process of downloading and watching movies on mobile phones easier. Blockbuster is also speaking with mobile software companies. Keye’s did not elaborate on how the process [...]

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Fergie’s latest music video, “Clumsy”, which has been playing on MTV for weeks and is available on the iTunes Music Store, features an unannounced Motorola phone. The phone is likely the rumored ROKR E8 Elba, Motorola’s next flagship media phone. It can be seen clearly in a nine-second segment of the video between the 3:10 [...]

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AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson told reporters at a recent meeting that a 3G version of the Apple iPhone will be available in 2008. He said he could not verify exactly when the 3G version of the iPhone will be available, or how much it will cost, only that it will be available sometime next year. [...]

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The FCC site has posted the info on a new Windows smartphone with the QWERTY-keyboard – AMOI GSM6711A made by the Chinese company AMOI Electronics.
The materials on the FCC site don’t unveil the technical details, such as the version of Windows Mobile OS and the display type (touchscreen or LCD).

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Today Verizon Wireless announced that it has officially selected Long Term Evolution (LTE) for its 4G wireless technology. LTE is the evolutionary path for current GSM and HSPA technologies, rather than the CDMA technology currently used by Verizon Wireless. By choosing LTE, Verizon Communications and Vodafone, owners of Verizon Wireless, can pool resources and offer [...]

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The Microsoft Zune 80 may be better than Apple’s 80 GB iPod Classic in a lot of ways but in terms of battery life, the Zune 80’s is fairly mediocre. A test performed by CNET shows that the Zune 80’s battery life is nowhere near close to the 30 hours Microsoft claims it has. With [...]

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Sharp is preparing the European release of its GX34. This clamshell phone is the successor to the low-end Sharp GX33. The GX34 has enhanced capabilities, it can be related to the mid-range. The logo on the top cover gives us a hint that the phone will be available from Vodafone.

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