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Entries from August 2008

FCC Reveals Nokia 6650 for AT&T

August 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Documents made public by the FCC today show a version of Nokia’s 6650 clamshell 3G smartphone sporting an AT&T logo. The 6650, announced overseas in March, sports a stainless steel cover, HSDPA data, GPS, 2 megapixel camera, QVGA display, and memory card slot. The smartphone runs the latest version of S60: 3rd Edition, Feature Pack [...]

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Tags: 3G · AT&T Wireless · FCC · GPS · Nokia · Smartphone · WCDMA

T-Mobile’s G1 Android phone seen in photos

August 31st, 2008 · 4 Comments

T-Mobile’s G1 smartphone has finally been spotted in a real-world photo, courtesy of an anonymous tip sent to Engadget. The design matches the FCC images and outside renderings exactly and carries both the T-Mobile branding as well as a near-final version of Google’s upcoming mobile operating system; the touchscreen, trackball, and hidden QWERTY keyboard are [...]

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Tags: 3G · Android · FCC · GPS · Google · Smartphone · T-Mobile

Stuffed Teddy Bear Concept Phone

August 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Spotted on Trends in Japan, a concept phone in the shape of a stuffed teddy bear -that holds a SIM card and enables you to make and receive calls.
It was shown off at the Good Design Expo by mobile provider Willcom.

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Tags: Cellphones · Concepts · Gadgets · Willcom

Signature line of handsets from Vertu to come equipped with 3G

August 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Mobile phones sporting 3G capabilities - face-to-face video calling, and faster download speeds than 2.5G handsets, have been available as early as the start of 2003. Vertu haven’t equipped many of their handsets with 3G, well, there was one - the Ascent Ti, though it had no support for video calling capabilities. Their Signature line [...]

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Tags: 3G · Luxury · Vertu

AT&T Offers Premium Pocket Express for Free

August 31st, 2008 · No Comments

AT&T and Handmark are offering a free one-year subscription to Pocket Express Executive for AT&T customers with a Blackberry or Windows Mobile device. The Executive edition normally costs $7.99/month and adds movie showtimes, stock tracker, mapping, and 411 search to the news, sports, weather, and travel info offered by the free edition.

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Tags: AT&T Wireless · BlackBerry · In The News · Windows Mobile 6

CEO of Sony contemplating breaking off from Ericsson?

August 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Sony’s CEO, Howard Stringe, is said to be thinking of breaking away from Ericsson, who collectively form mobile phone giant Sony Ericsson. Stringer admitted in an interview with a German newspaper that this hadn’t been one of their better years - what with poor sales, profit warnings, and the like. He then went on [...]

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Tags: In The News · Sony · Sony Ericsson

Touchscreen Cell Phone with Projector Looks Familiar

August 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments

What happens if you take a Nokia phone and an iPhone, mix them together, and then top it off projector? Well, you would probably end up with this tri-band smartphone.

Tri band multimedia cellphone with interactive touchscreen, WAP, bluetooth, and big 1800mAh battery for extra long talk time and phone usage between charges.

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Tags: Cellphones · Gadgets · Portable Audio · Portable Gaming · Smartphone

Google Announces Android Market

August 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Today Google announced the Android Market, which will be an open content distribution system where users can find, purchase, download and install content on their Android-powered phones. Google will host the service and allow developers to use it to get their applications into the hands of end users. It will have a rating and feedback [...]

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Tags: Android · Google · In The News

Sony Announces New Walkman MP3 Players

August 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Sony announced new Walkman DAPs today including the NWZ-S736F, NWZ-S738F, NWZ-E436F, and NWZ-E438F. The two new S-series players offer drag and drop loading simplicity and support for various audio and video codec’s. The two players are also the first Sony players to offer SenseMe channels to analyze the music collection and suggest channels based on [...]

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Tags: Gadgets · Portable Audio · Portable Video · Sony

BlackBerry Bold hitting AT&T on October 2?

August 29th, 2008 · No Comments

With hope of a summer release fading with the passing of each and every day, Boy Genius Report cites a “pretty solid bit of info” that the BlackBerry Bold is now pegged for launch on AT&T on Thursday, October 2. So if you see a throng of three-piece suits starting to gather around your local [...]

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Tags: AT&T Wireless · BlackBerry · Smartphone

iPhone Security Flaw Exposed

August 29th, 2008 · No Comments

A flaw in the iPhone’s software can allow anyone to bypass the password-locking feature of the phone and get access to the phone’s Favorites menu. Once in the Favorites menu, other parts of the iPhone can be accessed, such as Mail, Safari and SMS. This flaw negates the password-lock feature and exposes user data to [...]

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Tags: Apple · SMS · Software · iPhone

HTC manufacturing Palm’s Treo Pro handset

August 29th, 2008 · No Comments

HTC have essentially made Palm’s forthcoming Treo Pro handset for them. Not surprisingly, the main reason for this is HTC’s extensive experience with Windows Mobile-based smartphones. This wouldn’t be the first time that HTC have made a handset for another manufacturer - they more-or-less made the XPERIA X1 for Sony Ericsson. Of course, HTC’s main [...]

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Tags: HTC · PDA Phone · Palm · Windows Mobile 6

Gamepark GP2X Wiz Linux Gamer Loves Homebrew

August 27th, 2008 · No Comments

The GP2X WIZ portable system is now available at Dynamism for $179.99. Gamepark made the Wiz a lot more compact than the previous GP2X. The new GP2X Wiz is the usual emulator portable gamer with NES, SNES and Genesis support and playing MPEG4, XVID, DIVX and MP3, OGG, WAV as well. The WIZ features a [...]

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Tags: Gadgets · Portable Audio · Portable Gaming · Portable Video

VOIP with Style

August 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The award winning Tatung VOIP, is one classy phone with aims to making internet phones user friendly, writes Yanko Design.
By Nova Design, it’s currently on exhibition but hopefully it will go into mass production.

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Tags: Cellphones · Concepts · Internet

AT&T Offers New iPhone International Roaming Plans

August 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Customers who wish to travel outside the U.S. with the 3G iPhone can now pay $120 for 100MB of data in or $200 for 200MB of data in 67 different countries. These rates are in addition to normal data plans.

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Tags: 3G · AT&T Wireless · Apple · Data · In The News · iPhone