On September 9th Nokia will open its second US Flagship Store in New York's exclusive Fifth Avenue shopping district at 5 East 57th Street. Nokia's first Flagship Store was opened in Hong Kong last July.

Featuring the widest selection of Nokia devices available, Nokia Flagship Stores feature an interactive, high-energy retail environment dedicated to educating customers and pairing them with the perfect wireless device.

The New York location is Nokia's fifth global Flagship Store, following successful launches in Moscow, Chicago, Hong Kong and Helsinki.
 
The New York Nokia Flagship Store invites guests to explore its three levels of retail space, each level dedicated to a different consumer experience. Immediately upon entering the store's first level, shoppers will find the entire Nokia product lineup. Each product is prominently displayed on a backdrop of multimedia displays and color-shifting walls, yet the myriad of printed point-of-purchase materials so commonly found in most wireless retail stores are noticeably absent.

Nokia and gate5 AG today announced that an agreement has been signed for Nokia to acquire gate5. gate5 is a leading supplier of mapping, routing and navigation software and services.

By acquiring gate5, Nokia will offer consumers maps, routing, navigation and other location based applications on its mobile devices.
 
gate5 is a leading supplier of mapping, routing and navigation software and services. gate5 was founded in 1999, is privately owned, has its headquarters in Berlin, Germany and has approximately 70 employees. gate5 provides software to leading personal navigation device manufacturers around the world. 

Mobile ESPN will broadcast 25 live college football games month in real-time on their mobile phones.

ESPN's mobile phone service said it'll be the first to offer a lineup of live college football games streamed to mobile phones. The games, provided through the ESPN and ESPN2 TV sports channels, will be available to Mobile ESPN customers who subscribe to the service’s $24.99 Total Sports Package at no extra charge. The first in that series will be the Monday’s game between Florida State and Miami.

Mobile ESPN is the first and only wireless service to offer a comprehensive line-up of live college football games, and will kick it off with ESPN Full Circle: Florida State vs. Miami, on Monday, September 4.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced its plan to demonstrate 4th Generation (4G) mobile technology at the annual Samsung 4G Forum in Jeju Island, Korea for the first time in the world.

Demonstration will take place at the specially designed bus in mobile circumstances reaching 100 Mbps data transmission as well as at the display area inside forum venue to show speeds of 1Gbps of data transmission.

The bus demonstration will give participants a first-hand experience of this latest technology. A demonstration bus will be moving at speeds of 60 km/h to show multi-cell Handover* with data speed of 100Mbps.

A live broadcast of the Forum, VOD, and internet access will be shown simultaneously in a demonstration bus allowing delegates to experience the stability and speed of 4G connectivity of 100Mbps data speed.

  Yahoo! Inc. has made its Yahoo! Go for Mobile service available for consumers to download onto Windows Mobile-powered phones.

Starting today the millions of consumers around the world with Windows Mobile-powered phones, such as the Motorola Q, can use Yahoo! Go for Mobile for the first time.

Yahoo! Go for Mobile, which first launched earlier this year (http://go.yahoo.com/mobile), is an integrated suite of Yahoo!'s leading services including Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Search and Yahoo! Photos that gives consumers quick access to their personalized Internet content on their mobile phone.

Yahoo! has also signed global distribution deals with leading device manufacturers to reach millions of additional consumers by embedding Yahoo! Go for Mobile on select devices.

Yahoo! Go for Mobile is a comprehensive application that extends consumers Internet community and content seamlessly to their mobile device. Key features of the service include:

Today Samsung unveiled a new line of 3G mobile phones. Part of Samsung’s Ultra Edition design-led range, these stylish mobiles expel the myth that 3G handsets have to be cumbersome and heavy.

Launched today at the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Ultra Edition 3G range includes the world’s slimmest 3G mobile handset ever, the Ultra Edition 8.4 (Z370). These groundbreaking mobile phones offer to maximise access to all of the benefits that 3G networks can offer, but with a look that is better than ever before.

The Ultra Edition 3G mobile range has been built upon the signature inspirational design concepts that Samsung has become famous for, the stylish slider, sophisticated clamshell and classic candy bar. Each design has then been further enhanced to empower the user to experience and fully engage with all of the content and applications that are currently available on 3G and some of them, on HSDPA networks.

Verizon Wireless and Samsung today announced the availability of the SCH-a870, a new value-inspired camera phone designed with the mobile family in mind.

The SCH-a870 combines Samsung's popular clamshell design with a host of capabilities such as Bluetooth® wireless technology, speakerphone, Location Based Services such as VZ NavigatorSM, VoiceSignal™'s speech recognition, Web browsing and camera and video functionality. In addition, for those interested in gaming, the SCH-a870 comes with VibeTonz® technology which will allow customers to download and feel the beat of games and ring tones.

"The a870 was designed to satisfy the needs of today's mobile family," said Peter Skarzynski, senior vice president, Samsung. "It is a feature rich camera phone that we believe is not only best in class, but sets a new standard for today's value driven mobile phones."

Verizon Wireless has launched the Nokia 6215i. The 6215i is manufactured by Pantech and originally went by the PN-315. Nokia has a contract with Pantech to brand two handsets, the 6215i and the 6315i.

Voice

•  Voice dialing, Voice commands,  Voice recording3
•  Integrated handsfree speaker
•  Vibrating alert
•  Photo caller ID - attach a picture or ring tone to contacts in your phone book

Multimedia Messaging Service

•  Send messages with text, sound and photos via MMS1,14
•  Email, EMS, text and instant messaging1
•  Write faster with predictive text input

Cingular has launched its second HSDPA capable handset, the Samsung ZX20.  The ZX20 is an an update to the ZX10, adding HSDPA and Bluetooth. HSDPA is a 3G data transmission technology that speeds by UMTS and is approximately comparable speed wise to EV-DO.

Phone Features:

• 1.3 MP rotating camera and video phone
• Music player - Plays MP3, MPEG4, AAC+
• Ultra fast 3G high speed data capable
• Bluetooth® Wireless connectivity
• Watch TV & news with Cingular Video service
• Instant messaging - AOL®, Yahoo!®, MSN®
• Quad-band world phone with domestic UMTS and HSDPA
• Multimedia messaging - Send photos, text & sounds

Verizon Wireless has launched the Samsung A870, an mid-level clamshell. The handset doesn't feature EV-DO which puts it on the low-end side of Verizon's mid-tier.

Size

• Dimensions: 3.6" x 1.8" x .85"
• Weight: 3.4 ounces

Specifications

• With standard battery
• Dimensions: 3.6" x 1.8" x .85"
• Weight: 3.4 ounces

Samsung Electronics today announced its launch of the ‘Super music phone’ (Model: SCH-B570) in Korea.

The latest Samsung’s B570 comes with the cutting-edge technology which offers various functions and huge memory capacity. With the B570, users can enjoy music and even mobile TV anywhere. The B570 allows users the world’s largest storage capacity for a handset with the built-in 8GB hard disc drive which can store about 1,600 MP3 files (4MB/song) or 16 Personal Media Player (PMP) movies (400MB/file) or more than 20,000 digital photos (300K/file).

True to its name, super music phone offers sophisticated audio functions.

Sony Ericsson today announces the Z610; a stylish 3G phone that blends performance with stand-out design. The sleek mirror finish on the front cover gives the phone a jewel-like quality that is complimented by a hidden ‘magic mirror’ display which can only be seen when in use.

This striking phone delivers on its good looks: its advanced feature set includes a 2.0 Megapixel camera and broadband-speed 3G connectivity. With such a unique design and a choice of three eye-catching colours – Luster Black, Rose Pink & Airy Blue – Z610 is the clamshell to be seen with.

The magic of the Z610 is revealed when a call comes in or the user receives an SMS or MMS. The hidden external display illuminates, giving the effect that the caller-ID information is floating on the face of the phone itself.

• Concurrently locating every mobile phone in a GSM network
• Determining roadway speed for all highways and surface streets having mobile phone coverage
• Delivering personalized traffic navigation services to commercial and individual consumers

Sprint and Rave Wireless (www.ravewireless.com) have partnered to offer a first-of-its-kind, comprehensive suite of mobile solutions that deliver instant communications, enhance student safety and generate a greater sense of community at higher–education campuses across the country.

Beginning in the fall semester of 2006, students at Allen University in South Carolina and University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), will have greater access to features such as group text messaging and polling, campus directories, university events calendar and class schedules thanks to customized handset data applications created by Rave Wireless.

Yahoo! Inc., and go2® Directory Systems (www.go2.com), a leading provider of local search, directory and movie guide information over mobile devices in the U.S., recently announced a mobile search advertising agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Yahoo!’s sponsored search listings will be featured in go2’s mobile search results. This is the first comprehensive US partnership to bring Yahoo!’s high quality sponsored search results and deep experience to mobile devices.

This new relationship will extend Yahoo!’s sponsored search reach into go2’s mobile content network, enabling Yahoo! advertisers to reach consumers searching for local products and services via their mobile devices.

Sponsored search advertisers typically include highly relevant information about their businesses for mobile users, including hours of operation, parking instructions, discounts and specials.

Today AT&T and Yahoo announced the upgrade of their photo service.

The new version will make it easier for subscribers to share photos over PCs and mobile devices.

AT&T Yahoo Photos will include features such as photo-tagging and online "playlists" of photos that automatically recognize and add tagged photos to online albums.

A new survey commissioned by AT&T provides feedback on using digital photos with online tools, ideas on digital "photo personalities," ways to share and reasons why people like working with digital photos, among other topics.