Verizon Wireless has added a new Windows Mobile powered smarthphone in its line up witht he MOTO Q 9c. Although the MOTO Q 9c has already been available in other carriers, Verizon still wants to add it up to beef its smarthphone line up. An to entice its customers, Verizon is offering the MOTO Q 9c at a reduced price of $199.99 under two-year contract with Verizon. That’s pretty cheap for a smarthphone, right? So, here’s the skinny on what you’re going to get for $199.99 as the features of MOTO Q 9c is definitely a winner for its Verizon price. These features include; 11.9 mm ultra thin body, 64MB end user memory, 2.4” 240×320 internal TFT display with up to 65k colors, Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 OS, Documents to Go applications such as World, Excel, Powerpoint and PDF, VZ Navigator GPS function with turn-by-turn directions, Internet Explorer Mobile, […]
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Sprint Nextel Corp., the No. 3 U.S. wireless service provider, said today it had a larger first-quarter deficit as revenue fell, it lost more than a million subscribers and it absorbed charges for severance and other costs.
Sprint said its total subscriber base fell by 1.09 million to 52.8 million, including the loss of 1.07 million post-paid customers who pay a monthly bill - actually smaller than the 1.2 million in post-paid losses the company had forecast last quarter.
The company reported a wider loss as customers defected to larger rivals and forecast only marginal improvements in the current quarter. Sprint reported a loss of $505 million, or 18 cents per share, in the three months ended March 31 compared with a loss of $211 million, or 7 per share, during the first quarter of last year.
Revenue fell 7.5 percent to $9.3 billion from $10.1 billion a year earlier.
During the first quarter, […]
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Sprint and Google are partnering to bring services such as Google Maps for Mobile and YouTube to Sprint customers. As part of the deal, Google will also become Sprint’s preferred mobile search provider.
“Our partnership with Google is a great example of how Sprint is making the mobile Internet experience even more customer-friendly and useful to our customers,” said Kevin Packingham, vice president of product management at Sprint. “Sprint looks forward to extending its partnership with Google, and to bringing customers a mobile experience enhanced by the speed of the Now Network, complimented by the services of Google.”
This is not the first time Sprint and Google have worked together. In November 2006, Sprint made Gmail available from its portal. Late last year, Sprint joined Google as a founding member of the Open Handset Alliance, currently developing the Google’s Android open mobile platform. And just last week, the two companies contributed to […]
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Research in Motion (RIM) and Thomson Reuters today announced plans to launch the BlackBerry Partners Fund, a $150 million venture capital fund, to invest in mobile applications and services for the RIM’s BlackBerry platform and other mobile platforms.
The fund will be co-managed by JLA Ventures and RBC Venture Partners, the Royal Bank of Canada’s venture capital arm.
“The mobile world has evolved well beyond phone calls and simple messaging to require more empowering and liberating solutions that connect people to everything that matters most to them, wherever and whenever they want,” said Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO, Research In Motion. “RIM, RBC and Thomson Reuters share the common belief that mobile applications and services will propel the industry forward and the BlackBerry Partners Fund is being formed to help fuel innovation and activity in the mobile ecosystem.”
The creation of the fund comes on the heels Apple’s recently announced iFund, a $100 million cash […]
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RIM BlackBerry Bold (9000)
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Waterloo, Ontario-based smartphone maker RIM announced the new BlackBerry Bold (9000) flagship smartphone today, its slickest, speediest, most powerful and most connected BlackBerry to date.
Research In Motion (RIM) said its Bold smartphone is the first BlackBerry to offer high-speed mobile Internet access using tri-band HSDPA networks, Wi-Fi and integrated GPS. It also has twice the screen resolution (480 x 320 px) of the current BlackBerry Curve model, making for a very sharp display. The Bold matches the resolution, but not the size, of the screen on Apple’s iPhone, which has emerged as a potent competitor in the “smartphone” category.
“The new BlackBerry Bold represents a tremendous step forward in business-grade smartphones and lives up to its name with incredible speed, power and functionality, all wrapped in a beautiful and confident design,” said Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO, Research In Motion.
With its glassy display area, flat […]
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RIM BlackBerry Bold (9000)
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Waterloo, Ontario-based smartphone maker RIM announced the new BlackBerry Bold (9000) flagship smartphone today, its slickest, speediest, most powerful and most connected BlackBerry to date.
Research In Motion (RIM) said its Bold smartphone is the first BlackBerry to offer high-speed mobile Internet access using tri-band HSDPA networks, Wi-Fi and integrated GPS. It also has twice the screen resolution (480 x 320 px) of the current BlackBerry Curve model, making for a very sharp display. The Bold matches the resolution, but not the size, of the screen on Apple’s iPhone, which has emerged as a potent competitor in the “smartphone” category.
“The new BlackBerry Bold represents a tremendous step forward in business-grade smartphones and lives up to its name with incredible speed, power and functionality, all wrapped in a beautiful and confident design,” said Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO, Research In Motion.
With its glassy display area, flat […]
Original post by Mobiledia
J.D. Power and Associates has released the results of a new survey on customer retail sales satisfaction. The report ranks the various national carriers and has T-Mobile coming out on top.
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The Sony Ericsson R300 Radio was announced at the 2008 Mobile World Congress and has now passed through the FCC’s approval process. This candybar handset features an AM/FM radio with a recording feature and a loudspeaker.
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Microsoft has announced its Fone+ project, designed to help bring technology and computing to developing nations. Fone+ is essentially a low cost Windows Mobile-powered handset with TV output option.
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JumpVault keeps data safe even if devices are lost or stolen
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The Plantronics Voyager 855 is a headset with a split personality. It looks and acts like a regular headset that, when attached to its included secondary earpiece, becomes a set of A2DP stereo headphones. Ricky tries it out and likes what he hears.
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The FCC has approved the Sony Ericsson C902, a cameraphone with the Cyber-shot branding. The 5 megapixel camera on this candybar features auto-focus and face recognition technology, which should take great quality photos.
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Original post by Ricky Cadden
Sprint has launched the BlackBerry Curve 8330 from Research in Motion on its website today. This QWERTY smartphone offers high speed data support, a 2 megapixel camera, and GPS navigation capability.
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Original post by Michelle Ruhfass
TT DOCOMO, INC. and its regional companies announced today that they will begin marketing “PRADA Phone by LG”
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The Samsung U900 Soul has now been launched on Orange
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AT&T has just launched its new streaming mobile TV service, the phone company also launched two multimedia phones that support the service. One of these two mobile phones, is the LG Vu. If you would recall the LG Prada concept phone, the LG Vu sports almost the same sleek, black design. But of course, in terms of features, the LG Vu is far superior that what the Prada phone can offer. The LG Vu boasts of advanced mobile phone features that fuses design and technology. The LG Vu gives out crystal clear TV streaming, web browsing, picture and video viewing, music entertainment, imaging and video capturing as well as connectivity featuers. Among the LG Vu’s features include; a large interactive 3-inch touch screen, music player with equalizer, Bluetooth, , microSD memory port, 2 megapixel camera that supports still images and videos, one-touch speakerphone, mobile email, streaming digital radio. Like we […]
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Yes, the market for cell phones equipped with GPS is growing at a fast rate. Nokia today announced that they will sell 35 million such handsets in 2008.
“We expect to ship about 35 million GPS-enabled Nokia devices in 2008, which is equal to the entire GPS device market in 2007,” CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo told the annual shareholders’ meeting.
Nokia’s $8.1 billion acquisition of U.S.-based navigation firm Navteq (NVT.N: Quote, Profile, Research), which is still pending regulatory approval in the European Union, is a good deal, Kallasvuo said.
“When we look at it with the eyes we have now, when regarding pedestrian navigation, map services, digital maps, we are even more excited about the opportunities than when making the decision,” Kallasvuo said.
GPS equipped phones are a big part of Nokia’s strategy for growth in North America for 2008. They recently stated that they’ll be offering a lot more […]
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The "new" PSP Skype Headset
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When we reviewed the Sony PSP Headset a few months ago, we determined that it worked perfectly fine with the console’s newly enabled Skype feature–so long as you scrounged up the accessory extension cable needed to enable the two-way communication
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Verizon Wireless is set to start offering the Motorola Q 9c to its customers tomorrow. Like the model currently being offered by Sprint, the Verizon Q 9c runs the Windows Mobile 6 Standard operating system and sports a full QWERTY keyboard.
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Original post by Michelle Ruhfass
36 Communities Now Reachable from One ShoZu Screen on User’s Mobile Device
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Original post by Michelle Ruhfass