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Nokia Recalls 46 Million BL-5C Batteries
Nokia has issued a product advisory for the Nokia-branded BL-5C battery manufactured by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. Ltd. of Japan between December 2005 and November 2006. The product advisory does not apply to any other Nokia battery.
Nokia has identified that in very rare cases the affected batteries could potentially experience over heating initiated by a short circuit while charging, causing the battery to dislodge. Nokia is working closely with relevant local authorities to investigate this situation.
Nokia has several suppliers for BL-5C batteries that have collectively produced more than 300 million BL-5C batteries. This advisory applies only to the 46 million batteries manufactured by Matsushita between December 2005 and November 2006. There have been approximately 100 incidents of over heating reported globally. No serious injuries or property damage have been reported. | 
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Nokia Announces the Nokia E51Smartphone
Nokia today introduced the Nokia E51, a slim and elegant handset that adds greater simplicity, faster access and tighter integration to key applications, while maintaining the smartphone capabilities and stylish design that customers have come to expect in a Nokia Eseries device. Nokia continues to simplify the use of its business devices via the following: - A home screen including user-selected icons to the most used applications
- One Touch keys with one-click access to key functionalities including email, contacts, calendar and the home screen
- Set-up wizards offering step-by-step guidance for setting up email accounts, configuring Internet calling and accessing wireless local area networks
- Integration with a wide range of business email solutions, including Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email and Mail for Exchange to communicate with Microsoft Exchange Server, and consumer email
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Trolltech Announces Linux Based Qtopia Phone Edition
| Trolltech today announced the Qtopia Phone Edition which is the application platform and user interface for Linux based mobile phones. The Qtopis Phone Edition is used in the Neo1973 mobile phone from Taiwanese manufacturer FIC and open-source software provider OpenMoko. In addition to Trolltech’s Qtopia Greenphone, developers have an additional reference platform and form factor for development and testing of new mobile Qtopia applications. The Neo 1973 is an open platform phone that combines the hardware expertise of FIC and the software integration and software environment from OpenMoko. As part of the port of Qtopia to this phone, Trolltech was able to leverage some of the Linux software developed by OpenMoko to create this offering.
To coincide with the porting of Qtopia to this open platform, Trolltech is also announcing that for the first time Qtopia Phone Edition--and all its components--will be completely available under both the open source GPL license (version 2) and a commercial development license.
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T-Mobile USA Buys SunCom Wireless
Deutsche Telekom announced today that it's mobile phone division T-Mobile USA had agreed to buy SunCom Wireless for an aggregate of approximately $ 2.4 billion in cash and assumed debt. This includes cash payment of approximately $ 1.6 billion and $ 0.8 billion net debt.
The acquisition will further enhance T-Mobile’s network coverage in the southeastern United States and the Caribbean through the complementary addition of SunCom’s markets and customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. SunCom operates a GSM/GPRS/EDGE network and has provided roaming service to T-Mobile in these markets since 2004.
Following the closing of the transaction, T-Mobile USA expects to fully integrate SunCom’s assets into the T-Mobile network. T-Mobile is committed to providing SunCom customers with a smooth transition to T-Mobile’s high-quality, innovative wireless services and products, such as its popular myFaves offering; its broad geographic reach on its highly regarded wireless network, and its industry-leading customer service. | 
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Sprint Launches AIRAVE for Weak Reception
Sprint customers in select areas of Denver and Indianapolis will now be able to enjoy enhanced wireless coverage and unlimited minutes in their homes with today's limited launch of the Sprint AIRAVE by Samsung in the two cities. The Sprint AIRAVE is the first commercially available femtocell, a compact base station that works with any Sprint phone and a broadband Internet connection to provide enhanced in-home wireless coverage plus unlimited calling. Starting today, Sprint customers in select areas of Denver and Indianapolis will be able to purchase the AIRAVE at area Sprint stores for $49.99. Sprint plans to make the AIRAVE available later this year to customers in the remainder of Denver and Indianapolis, along with Nashville, and to customers nationwide in 2008. For more information regarding the AIRAVE's availability in their area, customers should visit www.sprint.com/airave. There customers can enter their ZIP code to find out if they are in a limited launch area. Customers not in a limited launch area can then register on the site to receive notification when AIRAVE is available to them. | 
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Nokia Buy Mobile Advertiser - Enpocket
Nokia and Enpocket today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Nokia to acquire Enpocket. Enpocket provides mobile advertising technology and services that allow brands to plan, create, execute, measure and optimize mobile advertising campaigns around the world. By acquiring Enpocket, Nokia will accelerate the scaling of its mobile advertising business, leveraging Enpocket’s platform and strong partnerships with advertisers, publishers and operators. In addition to key assets, through this transaction Nokia is gaining a team with strong expertise in global mobile advertising across disciplines.
Enpocket is a privately-owned company, established in 2001 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The innovative technology that drives the Enpocket platform is a mobile advertising campaign management and delivery system distinguished by advanced consumer insight, targeting, and measurement. The platform can deliver mobile advertising across multiple formats including SMS, MMS, mobile Internet advertising, and video. | 
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Get Music Videos Streamed to Your Cell Phone
XYZMOBI.com is now streaming music videos to cell phones. XYZMOBI.com will soon add more genres and specialty programming beyond music videos to the Company's existing mobile content. To view, you will need a 3G compliant cell phone with mobile Internet access. The service works with Sprint's EVDO service, AT&T's mobile service, 3G Verizon Treo phones with full web access, or any 3G video compliant mobile phones. To view or for more information please visit XYZMOBI.com
Based in Austin, Texas and launched on August 20th, 2007, XYZMOBI.com is owned and operated by XYZMP3.com. XYZMOBI offers streaming video content direct to mobile phones and is a promotional vehicle for XYZMP3.com. XYZMP3.com offers musicians, record labels, distributors and artists a free online storefront to sell and distribute music. CEO Roland De Leon says, " XYZMP3.com was conceived by a musician for musicians. Bands now have a safe and secure venue to distribute, sell, and control their own online distribution and sales. | 
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SafeCell In-Flight Mobile Phone System is Tested
ASI Entertainment Inc. announced today that it has flight tested SafeCell, the company's patent-pending in-flight cell phone system.
SafeCell is a low cost cell phone system designed to convert an existing cell phone into a Wi-Fi communicator for use in-flight or on the ground and can deliver low cost SMS, voice and data service.
SafeCell incorporates a unique shielding system that inhibits the cell phone from causing interference with the aircraft avionics or ground network. The SafeCell system connects via the Bluetooth, so it operates with any modern cell phone. Including new generation cell phones that already have Wi-Fi interface like the new iPhone.
SafeCell also incorporates a software application which is downloaded to the cell phone. The software controls the user interface and operator just like your normal SMS system.
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Kyocera to Buy Sanyo Mobile Phone Business
Kyocera Corp is about to purchase Sanyo Electric's money losing mobile phone business for about 50 billion yen ($435 million). Both companies share prices went higher in approval of investors looking at it as a welcome sign of consolidation in Japan's already overcrowded handset market.
Japanese handset manufacturers such as Sanyo and others face stiff competition from larger competitors such as Nokia and Motorola, as well as a maturing market. Sanyo has been restructuring with the help of Goldman Sachs and the sale of the mobile phone unit would be the latest step by Sanyo to rid non-core or struggling businesses to focus on key operations such as rechargeable batteries.
Sanyo, which has lost money for the last three business years, has sold its stake in leasing firm Sanyo Electric Credit Co to General Electric Co this year and is seeking a buyer for its microchip unit. | 
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Virgin America & AirCell to offer Air-to-Ground Internet Service
Virgin America, a new airline that began service on August 8th, today announced that it is partnering with AirCell to offer air-to-ground broadband internet service on Virgin America flights sometime in 2008. Guests onboard America's newest airline will be able to access the internet either through their wifi-enabled personal devices or through the Red Inflight Entertainment system at every seat. Customized for Virgin America, the system is anticipated to allow guests to connect to the internet with the AirCell Broadband Service, using either their Red seatback video screens or their own wifi enabled portable gaming devices, laptops, PDAs or Smartphones. As such, in addition to the many entertainment choices currently offered by Red guests will be able to check and send web-email from their seatbacks through Red's TALK, the airline's onboard chat system, using popular instant messaging services such as MSN, Google talk, Yahoo! Skype, and AIM. | 
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Study Finds Cell Phone Usage Doesn't Cause Brain Cancer
UK's Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research (MTHR) Program published a report today stating that after a six year study they found mobile phone usage have no association with any biological or adverse health effects. This is UK’s largest research investigation
The six year research found no association between short term mobile phone use and brain cancer. Studies of volunteers showed no evidence that brain function was affected by mobile phone signals or the signals used by the emergency services (TETRA). The MTHR program management committee believes there is no need to support further work in this area.
The research also included the largest and most robust studies of electrical hypersensitivity undertaken anywhere in the world. These studies have found no evidence that the unpleasant symptoms experienced by sufferers are the result of exposure to signals from mobile phones or base stations.
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Verizon Wireless Sues Over FCC Open-Access Auction Rules
Verizon Wireless isn't happy with the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 700 MHz recent open-access rules and has filed a lawsuit which creates uncertainty with the upcoming auction of the more than a thousand wireless airwaves licenses.
Last month the FCC added open-access requirements to a third of the spectrum to be auctioned. However, the mobile-phone industry is very opposed to attaching conditions to any of the 700 MHz spectrum, claiming that the conditions attached “violates the U.S. Constitution, violates the Administrative Procedures Act … and is arbitrary, capricious, unsupported by the substantial evidence and otherwise contrary to law.” However, the mobile-phone industry was caught off guard when AT&T unexpectedly supported FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s 700 MHz plan. | 
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WeatherBug & Verizon Parnter to Offer Weather Information
Verizon Wireless and WeatherBug, a provider of live, local weather information, announced today that WeatherBug has been selected by Verizon as the company’s exclusive weather partner for several of its mobile entertainment and information services. Verizon Wireless customers can now receive WeatherBug’s live, neighborhood weather – the most precise coverage available – via text messages, through the Get It Now virtual store, on V CAST Video and through Mobile Web 2.0. In addition, WeatherBug content will be available on certain Verizon Online Web sites serving both FiOS Internet and Verizon High Speed Internet customers. The WeatherBug Network is the world’s largest. It combines live weather sensors and cameras located primarily atop schools, with publicly available weather data from around the world, to deliver weather information with a degree of accuracy, precision and timeliness unmatched in the industry.
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Play Nintendo Wii Type Games on Your Cell Phone
Did you know you can play Nintendo Wii type games on your cell phone? Well forget about it being available in the United States. The Asian cell phones are so far ahead of the United States cell phone that it may take years before it's available in the U.S.
Available from Japan's NTTDoCoMo, Chokkan Games are played using intuitive motion, such as tracing a finger, tilting or waiving the handset. (See Video) Game content will determine the type of intuitive motion used during play.
The Chokkan Game for P904i and SH904i uses GestureTek Inc.'s GestureTek EyeMobile as the interface. Chokkan Game support is available on NTTDoCoMo's P904i, D904i, F904i, N904i and SH904i.
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NTT DoCoMo Develops Low Power Chip for Super 3G Handsets
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that it has developed and successfully tested a trial large-scale-integration (LSI) chip incorporating advanced power-saving signal-processing technologies that enable the chip to work at a sufficiently low power consumption and to be made small enough to fit into forthcoming Super 3G handsets and beyond.
In the test, DoCoMo's LSI achieved a transmission rate of 200Mbps with high precision over a high-speed wireless network, while power consumption did not exceed 0.1W thanks to DoCoMo's proprietary signal-processing technology.
The LSI demodulates and separates MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) -multiplexed OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) signals transmitted in the 20MHz bandwidth from four antennas. Signal processing is based on MLD (maximum likelihood detection) technology that DoCoMo has originally developed for 4G wireless access.
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Alltel Launches the MOTORAZR2 V9m
Alltel Wireless today announced the MOTORAZR2 V9m, the highly-anticipated next generation MOTORAZR, is now available. This powerful phone is designed to provide customers with superior wireless technology and entertainment. With a best-in-class external screen featuring touch-sensitive controls, users can easily access their recent calls, music and messaging without ever opening the flip.
The sleek MOTORAZR2 V9m features Alltel’s exclusive award-winning Celltop technology, which offers customers an easier way to access, manage and organize a wide range of information already available on their phone. Celltop contains 10 pre-loaded “cells” that provide shortcuts to the weather, news, sports, ringtones, call log, search, stocks and inbox. In addition to Celltop, the MOTORAZR2 V9m is also loaded with:- XM Radio Mobile - giving customers 20 of the best radio music channels right on the phone
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Compare Prices When In-Store Shopping via Cell Phone
Sprint Nextel has teamed up with mShopper to offer customers the ability to compare in-store prices with their cell phones. Sprint Nextel will be providing a mobile Web portal for shoppers to compare prices for approximately 7 million products from 30 online retailers which include shoes.com, Target, bluefly.com and Wal-Mart. Users will not incur any additional subscription fees for the service, however, they will be charged for Internet access.
Price comparison shopping with your cell phone is a great idea! Now when you are looking for that big screen TV and you wonder whether or not it's a good price, just grab your cell phone and do some price comparison without going home to get on your computer or driving from store to store. You may find that the store down the street is selling the same TV for less, thus saving you money and shopping time!
A few other companies from giants like Amazon and Yahoo to start-ups like Frucall and mPoria are aggressively entering the mobile e-commerce market, so the Sprint Nextel and mShopper partnership will have its competition.
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Wirelessly Download Museum Masterpieces to Your Cell Phone
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) announced the launch of its MFA Mobile program;the first of its kind in the United States. Developed by Hill Holliday, MFA Mobile allows users to wirelessly download Museum masterpieces to cell phones and other mobile devices. Through MFA Mobile, users are able to personalize a mobile device with works of art from the Museum's extensive collection of art, ranging from a Claude Monet water lily or Edward Hopper lighthouse to an Egyptian sculpture or African mask. The program launched today on the Web at http://mfa.org/mobile, on the mobile Web at http://mobile.mfa.org and through out-of-home advertising, bus shelters and direct marketing materials also developed by Hill Holliday.
With MFA Mobile, users can select a single wallpaper or become a monthly subscriber and receive up to five downloads plus a bonus wallpaper each month. | 
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South Korean Handset Market Among the Most Sophisticated
According to a recent research report by In-Stat, the South Korean handset market is among the world’s most sophisticated. All three mobile operators, SK Telecom, Korea Telecom Freetel, and LG Telecom, have adopted CDMA technology and have already migrated to a high-speed CDMA200-1X EV-DO network. Based on the advanced network infrastructure, comprehensive value-added services, including mobile banking, mobile finance transactions, mobile wallet, multimedia and location-based services, have all been introduced and are well accepted among Korean mobile users. As of April 2007, the combined offering of SK Telecom, KTF, and LG Telecom included more than 500 phone models.
Korean cellular operators are continuously exploring better revenue possibilities associated with emerging technologies. WiBro, the Korea version of WiMAX, has been in commercial service since 2006. | 
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