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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36 Communities Now Reachable from One ShoZu Screen on User’s Mobile Device
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T-Mobile USA has released its Q1 2008 results, showing nearly 1 million net new customers and a total customer count of 30.8 million, a 200% increase over 6 years. The carrier also posted increased revenues and decreased churn rates.
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If movie theaters are indeed facing extinction as some believe, Columbia Pictures and Regal Entertainment deserve credit for experimenting with free and readily available technology to help stave off the pending obsolescence.
To promote Adam Sandler’sYou Don’t Mess With Zohan, moviegoers will encounter a novel prop in …
Original post by Mike Yamamoto
Telekom Kenya and Ericsson Kenya recently announced plans to build a 3G wireless network in East Africa.
Ericsson was hired to build and maintain the network while Telekom Kenya recruits and provides training
to their technical staff.
The project is expected to cost around $145 million dollars to start. Over the next three years Telekom Kenya is planning on investing another $307 million in the project.
The new network is expected to be finished by years end.
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Motorola’s extensive Bluetooth accessory range tested for compatibility and pairing with many of the UK’s top selling mobiles & devices
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Nokia Siemens Networks has recently conducted the world’s fastest data call in conjunction with Mobilkom Austria. Using I-HSPA, Nokia Siemens Networks was able to get 10.1 Mbps of download bandwidth to a mobile device.
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Original post by Ricky Cadden
Verizon Wireless has announced an update to its GPS navigation service, Verizon Navigator. The update adds traffic information as well as location-based services, such as local gas prices and weather reports.
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Original post by Ricky Cadden
This high-end CDMA phone sports a full finger-touch interface plus a slide-out QWERTY text keyboard. Key features include a high-resolution display, 2 megapixel auto-focus camera, EVDO data, GPS navigation, memory card slot, video capture, stereo Bluetoth, and a standard 2.5mm headset jack.
Original post by Arnold Zafra
The Samsung Glyde is a powerful cell phone with decent performance, but its touch-screen design and controls don’t complement its features.
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Presenting the Samsung Glyde…
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Samsung and Verizon Wireless on Thursday announced the Samsung Glyde (aka the SCH-U940), a touch-screen cell phone based on the Samsung SGH-F700. All signs originally pointed to a May 9 release date, but Samsung and Verizon had an itchy trigger finger. …
Original post by Kent German
Samsung’s new SCH-u940 Glyde was just announced as being available on Verizon Wireless today. We’ve put together a slightly abbreviated review of this finger touch and QWERTY equipped little slider. Read on for the details.
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Original post by Michael Oryl
Verizon Wireless has just announced the release of their VZ Navigator - Version 4 - an upgraded mobile program that can help consumers save money by avoiding traffic jams and helping them find where the cheapest gas prices are, just to name a few.
At the time of this writing, VZ Navigator is active in about 75 metro areas and offers the following capabilities:
- Traffic Integration – Customers in 75 cities can access routes that are calculated using both historical and real-time reported traffic information. Historical information allows customers to see on average whether the traffic is impacted by traffic lights, heavy traffic or school zones. Incident and flow information tells customers how traffic is flowing and includes details about reported accidents, disabled vehicles and congestion. VZ Navigator’s historical data covers over 750,000 miles of roads in 48 states. The traffic tracking center continually monitors conditions along the customers’ routes, […]
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Hong Kong-based Brando’s obsession with combining gadgetry has been long documented in this space, from its
mouse massagers to aromatherapy speakers. And every once in awhile one of its lab rats actually turns out to be something useful. Not this time.
The “Stylus Hanging Bluetooth Headset” is …
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Samsung Glyde (SCH-U940)
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Verizon Wireless today announced that the Samsung Glyde will be available on May 9. The Glyde is a multimedia and messaging phone that offers a compact, touch-screen device with a full QWERTY keyboard.
The Glyde integrates a 2.8-inch touch-screen with tactile response and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. It comes equipped with Verizon Wireless’ services such as VCAST Music and Video. With VCAST Music, users can access more than 3 million songs that can be purchased and downloaded to the Glyde. VCAST Video gives customers access to news, sports and entertainment. Other features include a 2.0-megapixel camera with flash, microSD card slot, which supports up to 8 GB of external memory, and Bluetooth stereo headset support.
Additional features of the Glyde include:
- HTML browser with touch navigation
- 2.0-megapixel camera and camcorder with flash and zoom, brightness adjustment, self-time (off, three, five or 10 seconds), color effects (normal, black […]
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Talk about serendipity. Just yesterday Crave posted items on workstation fitness equipment and manually cranked chargers, and now there’s a product that combines both concepts.
This pedal-charging device from Japan is like the under-desk “Power Stepper” but does it one better: Not only will it fulfill the …
Original post by Mike Yamamoto
Samsung Korea has released a new slim and compact smartphone that may not look as good as the overly hyped HTC Diamond, but certainly packs advanced mobile phone features that could give the Diamond a good competition. With its simple compact bar-type design, mobile phone users who love the classic look of most Nokia cellphone would definitely love the Samsung i200 smartphone. Measuring a mere 11.8 mm thinness, the Samsung i200 boasts of high-end features that include a large 2.3” QVGA TFT screen with glossy coating that provides maximum enjoyment to users who are fond of viewing multimedia contents in their mobile phones. The Samsung i200 is also HSDPA compatible and can give out 3.6mbps data communications speed. This mobile phone beauty is also has a unique light sensor that help users minimize power consumption of the mobile phone. The Samsung i200’s multimedia features are further boosts by a […]
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America Movil, the top mobile phone operator in Latin America, said today that it has inked a deal to bring the Apple iPhone to more than a dozen countries starting later this year.
Mexico-based America Movil, which operates in 16 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as the United States, did not disclose financial details - including whether it would be the exclusive iPhone provider in the targeted countries.
Apple has so far struck exclusive deals for the iPhone with AT&T in the United States, O2 in Britain, T-Mobile in Germany and France Telecom’s Orange wireless arm in France.
The company plans further expansion later this year through the partnership with Mexico City-based America Movil, which boasts 159.2 million subscribers in 16 countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.
In the past couple of weeks, Apple has also signed deals with Rogers Communications to sell the […]
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