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NTT DoCoMo Announces 2 Smartphones w/ Microsoft Mobile
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and its eight regional subsidiaries announced today the development of two smartphones equipped with the Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 Japanese-edition operating system. The FOMA F1100 and FOMA HT1100 allow users to interface with PCs through proven applications such as Outlook Mobile and Internet Explorer Mobile, while the scalable plug-in environment means access to a growing number of applications. The HSDPA-capable handsets employ McAfee security scan to ensure high-speed, protected browsing of PC websites and email management. The security scan function identifies and isolates malicious data before it is downloaded. Data entry on the F1100 and HT1100 is accomplished with a standard ten-key input layout — as such, these handsets combine smartphone capability with mobile phone convenience. DoCoMo plans to begin marketing the handsets during the first quarter of calendar year 2008. | 
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Opera Mini 4 mobile Web Browser Upgraded for BlackBerry
Opera today released the new beta of Opera Mini 4 mobile Web browser (last upgrade: June 07). The new beta version of Opera Mini 4 introduces several exclusive optimizations for BlackBerry devices, including a new user interface and menus for a more comfortable Opera Mini look and feel. For BlackBerry users worldwide, or anyone wanting a better, faster and free mobile Web browser, the new Opera Mini 4.0 beta is available from www.operamini.com/beta/. For all users, the new beta adds some often-requested features that improve usability and enjoyment. Opera Mini's new "Landscape mode" gives you a wider view of the page. A new multi-search Start Page makes searching even easier while on the go. The ability to add your own search engine to the Start Page, a feature pioneered in Opera's desktop browser, is now available in the latest beta of Opera Mini. | 
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Improve Your Cell Phone Signal Indoors with zBoost
Do you have problems with cell phone service in your home? As soon as you enter the door or begin to walk around the dreaded signal bars go away thus losing your signal thus losing that very important call. To fix the annoying problem, instead of going through the pain of changing cell phone carriers, consider using the Wi-Ex zBoost to improve indoor cell phone coverage. zBoost captures the wireless signal outside, brings it inside and enhances, or boosts it; thus extending a Cell Zone in your home or office or your car. zBoost repeats and amplifies the signal and is frequency dependent. zBoost works with most phones and carriers (except Nextel) and comes in 4 models. Check www.wirelessadvisor.com to determine what frequency your carrier is operating in your zip code. | 
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India Using Cell Phones to Reduce Traffic Problems
Bangalore, India is leading the pack to help alleviate their traffic problems using cell phone technology. Traffic in Bangalore is horrible so the Bangalore Traffic Police, Mapunity (developer of geographic information systems and services) and Airtel (provider of telecommunications services) have come up with an urban traffic information system for Bangalore city known as Bangalore Transport Information System (BTIS).
With BTIS (lunched last June), real-time traffic information is generated from the cell phone tower logs of Airtel's city-wide network, and made available to commuters to see live congestion hotspots, find directions and plan their travel routes. The entire information system is available through SMS to Airtel customers using a shortcode and to others by dialing a ten-digit number. This live traffic information system is the first of its kind in India. It addresses the growing need of traffic administrators for centralized traffic monitoring and control infrastructure.
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LG to Showcase Several New Handsets at IFA 2007
LG Electronics will showcase its latest lineup of handsets from August 31 through September 5 at IFA 2007 in Berlin. IFA 2007 will be the first public place to show two more breakthrough handsets by LG: a professional-level camera phone, the Viewty (LG-KU990), and the LG-KS20, a new HSDPA smartphone with a large color touchscreen. Another major attraction is the second handset in LG’s Black Label series, LG Shine, featuring the newly-launched LG Shine ‘Titanium Black’.
One of the most anticipated events at IFA 2007 is the debut of the Viewty. It not only beats out all other camera phones, but provides unique features, like the ability to edit and upload photos and video, that are not even available on high-end standalone cameras.
The LG-KS20, LG’s brand-new HSDPA smartphone with a large color touchscreen will make its debut at IFA 2007 as well. Its super-fast network access capabilities and intuitive touch input technology combine to enrich the mobile internet experience for users, and further demonstrate LG’s commitment to lead 3G mobile technology.
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Diebold Granted 5 Patents for Mobile Banking
| Diebold has been granted five U.S. patents covering a variety of applications that enable mobile devices to interact directly with bank ATMs. These technologies extend beyond current mobile banking practices that permit using mobile phones to conduct online banking transactions such as transferring funds or checking account balances. The new technologies covered by the patents will allow consumers to use their mobile devices to locate and get directions to the nearest ATM, "order" cash withdrawals remotely, generate electronic checks to pay for goods or services, transmit wireless payments and conduct other transactions more securely and conveniently than they do presently. Approximately 8 billion ATM transactions are performed annually in the United States, according to the Dove 2006 ATM Deployer Study. Those transactions add up to $600 billion in cash dispensed each year. | 
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Wirefly Launches Mobile Phone Trade-In Program
| Wirefly today announced the launch of Wirefly.org, an initiative to let consumers trade in their old cell phone or iPod devices for cash, or donate the value of their trade-in towards a charity of their choice. Some of the charities and organizations that Wirefly supports are the Lance Armstrong Livestrong Foundation, Red Cross, ASPCA, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, and Fisher House, helping America’s military families. Developed in coordination with cell phone trade-in solutions leader Flipswap, Wirefly launched Wirefly.org to promote the safe recycling and reuse of old cell phones in a manner that benefits consumers, the environment and charitable organizations. The average American replaces their cell phone every 18 months leaving millions of unused cell phones in America today that have outlived their purpose. | 
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Nokia Introduces Ovi - Nokia Internet Services Brand
| Nokia today introduced Ovi, the company's new Internet services brand name. With the introduction of Ovi, Nokia is expanding from a focus on mobile devices to offering a range of Internet services. Ovi, meaning 'door' in Finnish, enables consumers to easily access their existing social network, communities and content, as well as acting as a gateway to Nokia services. As part of Ovi, Nokia announced the Nokia Music Store and N-Gage, two services that make it easy for people to discover, try and buy music and games from a blockbuster range of artists and publishers, including exclusive content only available through Nokia. Also under the Ovi umbrella is Nokia Maps, a navigation service that offers maps, city guides and more directly to compatible mobile devices. Nokia aims to bring more Internet based services to Ovi in the coming months. | 
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Nokia Announces the Nokia Music Store
Today Nokia unveiled the Nokia Music Store that will compete with iTunes and other online and over the air music services. With millions of tracks from major artists, independent labels as well as local hits, the Nokia Music Store offers people the chance to enjoy music directly on their Nokia device or personal computer.
With a single account, music lovers can access the Nokia Music Store via their desktop computer or directly from optimized Nokia devices beginning with the Nokia N81 and Nokia N95 8GB. You can browse for new music, get recommendations or search for your favorite artists, songs or albums all from the palm of your hand. Once a track captures your attention, you can add it to your wishlist to buy later or purchase it immediately for download to your device without having to download the same song again on your computer. You can also transfer purchased songs via your PC to compatible Nokia devices, including the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic and Nokia 5610 XpressMusic. You can pay by a variety of payment options, including credit cards, PayPal and pre-paid vouchers. | 
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Nokia Unveils 4 New Handsets for Music, Games & Entertainment
Nokia today unveiled four new mobile devices specifically optimized for entertainment, music and games. Each device offers dedicated music or gaming keys, expanded memory, large screens and extended battery performance to provide quick and easy access to entertainment content. The devices are expected to begin shipping later this year. The handsets are: - Nokia N81 and Nokia N81 8GB
- Nokia N95 8GB
- Nokia 5310 XpressMusic
- Nokia 5610 XpressMusic
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Simplest Cell Phone Powered by Single AA Battery
Are you a simple person? Or are you really cheap? All the flash and stuff that comes with a cell phone means nothing to you and all you want is to use your cell to just talk to someone.
Well it seems other people feel the way you feel. According to Mobile Magazine, Sanyo and Wilcomm have partnered to create the simplest cell phone on the planet. The cell phone (see picture to the right) doesn't even come with a screen. It also doesn't include a battery. Power comes from a single AA battery that gives 5 hours of talk time and 200 hours of standby time.
There is no Bluetooth, camera, video, speaker phone, voice menu, text messaging or Internet here. Just a very basic cell phone like the old land-line home phones. It's just to talk. No word as to when this may be available in the U.S. or pricing. However, I suspect it will be really really cheap! Wonder if anyone will buy it! Would you?
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Samsung to Build Sprint WiMax Network in New York
Sprint Nextel announced today that Samsung Telecommunications America has been awarded the New York area market for mobile WiMAX network infrastructure in preparation for Xohm mobile Internet services availability to customers in that region beginning in late 2008. Sprint is developing with ecosystem partners a nationwide advanced wireless broadband network designed to mobilize the Internet, bring wireless innovation to devices and deliver new mobile multimedia applications to consumer, business and government customers. The mobile WiMAX network can deliver broadband access with speeds up to five times faster than current third-generation wireless networks and will be marketed under the Xohm (pronounced "zoam") brand. Samsung was previously awarded the Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston and Providence, R.I., markets. | 
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HTC Announces the HTC TyTN II for Europe
HTC Corp. today unveiled the HTC TyTN II to be launched in partnership with operator partners across Europe (Orange, T-Mobile, Telefonica Group and Vodafone), as well as direct under the HTC brand. The HTC TyTN II builds on the first HTC TyTN (June 2006). The HTC TyTN II features global high speed HSDPA connectivity, in-built GPS for personal navigation and an innovative adjustable screen angle. The HTC TyTN II packs all the power of Windows Mobile® 6 inta unique new form factor, continuing HTC's 10-year heritage of innovation in device design. The 2.8-inch color screen slides back treveal a full QWERTY keyboard, then tilts up tposition the screen perfectly for reading and creating emails, using applications, or even just playing videos and games. | 
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vTap Mobile Video Search to Launch on 9/10/2007
Coming soon to a cell phone near you is vTap; which will be launched on September 10, 2007 by Veveo, a startup, based in Andover, MA. vTap will allow mobile phone users to watch videos from all over the Internet. Veveo has developed a system to crawl the Internet for video content which then builds a smart index using the company's own algorithms. Cell phone users then get the video content by an application called vTap, which uses a predictive solution to present the videos.
The vTap search solution is character-based and therefore requires very little text input effort like the T9 predictive text input system commonly found on most mobile phones. Users do not have to type in full keywords. The intuitive technology can also be personalized to each customer’s preferences, to “remember” the essence of past requests and apply the learning to speed up subsequent queries. Advanced clustering algorithms organize search results in a way that’s easy to browse, even on devices with extremely limited on-screen navigation functionality.
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View PC Files on Your Apple Iphone via Files2Phones
| 1stWorks today announced the launch of Files2Phones; a powerful application that instantly displays the contents of files on a remote PC to your iPhone securely, using SSL technology to protect your data. Any application or file type, Word documents, PowerPoints, Spreadsheets, pdfs, even CAD drawings - any file that can be opened on your PC can now be viewed remotely on your iPhone. To set up F2P, simply drag and drop the local directories or individual files you want to make available remotely into public, private or guest folders on your Windows PC. The files are immediately added to your personal F2P directory at your .myf2p.com page - where they can be viewed using the iPhone’s Safari browser and all display transfers use .png format for maximum efficiency in compression and performance. | 
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Nokia to Revive N-Gage for Nokia Smartphones
This week, Nokia will revive N-Gage as a multiplayer gaming service that will work on its popular line of smartphones. The service will offer games from major publishers like Electronic Arts, as well as smaller developers like Digital Chocolate that focus on the mobile gaming market.
Owners of phones that run N-Gage software will be able to play games against friends, sample, buy and recommend new games from their phones, and compete in large tournaments. The new N-Gage permits users to see what games their friends have on their phones and whether they are online. They can also see how many points a person has earned in the game, as well as how much time they devote to solitary play versus group play.
Customers will be able to sample games free before buying them. The selection will lean toward the casual side of gaming, with soccer and fishing titles and the popular puzzle game Bejeweled, among others. Nokia has not yet discussed prices.
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myServiceForce.com FieldMasterPro now Available on Alltel Smartphones
Alltel Wireless today announced that myServiceForce.com’s FieldMasterPro is now available for small business customers using Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphones. The FieldMasterPro application offers a complete work order management solution for the field service industry that combines an Internet-based service and dispatch system with powerful wireless-based field technician work order completion services.
FieldMasterPro assists companies in field service industries such as HVAC, plumbing, building maintenance and appliance repair. This application is an inexpensive, turnkey software solution for management, field technicians and administration to remain in sync – improving overall productivity and efficiency enterprise-wide. The easy-to-use software features the ability to eliminate field technicians’ paperwork and immediately invoice customers resulting in efficient billing and improved cash flow. Furthermore, FieldMasterPro schedules customer service calls resulting in easy technician tracking and management. | 
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Nokia Launches Accessories for Nseries Handsets
Nokia has launched several accessories for their Nseries handsets. They include the Bluetooth GPS Module LD-4W, Bluetooth Stereo Headset BH-903, Bluetooth Headset BH-902, Bluetooth Speakers MD-7W and Power Pack DC-1. These accessories will be available globally from the fourth quarter of 2007. Nokia Bluetooth GPS Module LD-4W The Nokia Bluetooth GPS Module LD-4W combines Nseries style in a slim and attractive core with navigation, so you can find your way around easily with your compatible mobile device. Continuing on our mission to bring location based services to even more people, this GPS module is compatible with a wide range of Nokia devices and Nokia Maps. Take your time getting to your destination - this lightweight (31 g) GPS module has up to 10 hours of operating time. The sleekly designed black and metallic module comes with a LED indicator to alert you to GPS activation, power and battery status, and Bluetooth connectivity status. The GPS module will be available globally and cost an estimated 125 euro without taxes. | 
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Nokia Launches the Nokia 500 Auto Navigation
| Nokia has launched the Nokia 500 Auto Navigation, the latest Nokia automotive navigation and communication enhancement. The Nokia 500 Auto Navigation allows you to get to your destination quickly and easily, see who is calling, and make quality handsfree calls. The Nokia 500 Auto Navigation is Nokia's first handsfree dedicated personal navigation device for convenient in-car navigation and communication. In addition to integrated GPS and competitive in-car navigation features, the device also acts as a complete Bluetooth handsfree system for your compatible mobile phone. Its wide (4.3 inch) color screen makes it easy to search through your contacts and make and receive calls, and the handsfree speaker system with Digital Signal Processing (DSP) provides excellent audio quality. | 
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