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Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Now Available in Select Markets
Nokia announced today that the highly anticipated Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is now, or soon will be, available in select markets globally, including Russia, Spain, India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Finland, among others. The latest in Nokia's XpressMusic range, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic delivers an affordable music device with a touch screen interface to the mass market.
Aiming to put music into the hands of millions, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic offers all the music essentials including a graphic equalizer, 8GB memory for up to 6000 tracks, support for all main digital music formats, and a 3.5mm jack. Built-in surround sound stereo speakers offer the industry's most powerful sound.
Making the most of touch screen technology, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic delivers easy and fast access to all music, video and photos through a one-touch 'Mediabar' drop down menu. The Media Bar also offers a direct link to the Web and to online sharing. Because the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic supports Flash content, individuals can surf the entire web.
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Nimbuzz Launches Free Iphone Application
Nimbuzz, the most comprehensive mobile Instant Messaging, (geo) presence and VoIP provider launches into the Apple iPhone App Store. The free application lets users call, chat and message, for free, with their friends on virtually all major instant messaging communities and social networks, including Skype, Yahoo! Messenger, Facebook, MySpace, AIM, Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, and more.
Specifically for the needs of iPhone users, this will be the first complete messaging product available with landscape mode chat, IM buddy calling (including Yahoo!), and regional social network support – and it is free.
Users turn the product on its side to use a wide keyboard for fast and easy typing. Furthermore, Nimbuzz is the first product to offer IM buddy calling over Wifi to Yahoo! Messenger as well as Google Talk, Skype, and Windows Live Messenger.
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Sony Ericsson Launches Panels for Xperia X1 with Facebook & Microsoft
Sony Ericsson has just launched the latest panels for its multimedia convergence phone, the Xperia X1, teaming up with the popular social networking site Facebook and Microsoft Windows Live. These web-centric panels come in addition to the existing connectivity panel from Dashwire, a site which allows you to sync your phone content to the web and share it to a range of popular social networking sites.
The new Facebook application built for Sony Ericsson uses the unique interface of the Xperia X1 to deliver an intuitive version of the site, putting images of your friends onto your phone’s desktop (standby screen) and showing their latest status updates as you touch their images. Touch through to access more Facebook features. New functions available through the Xperia X1 Facebook panel include:
- An entirely new visual representation of friends’ statuses
- Simple and fast upload of photos to Facebook
- Easy access to Facebook friends list and phone numbers, with click to call capabilities.
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Firefly Mobile for Kids Announce New Rate Plans
Firefly Mobile, the leading provider of safe, easy-to-use mobile phones for mobile kids, brings on the holiday cheer with new rate plans and limited edition glowPhone bundles.
Beginning Monday, Dec. 1, 2008, first-time Firefly subscribers can choose from two new rate plans: 25 minutes for $9.99 or 150 minutes for $19.99. No contracts or access fees are required and the new plans are available to any new subscriber, regardless of where they purchased their Firefly phone.
Firefly is also offering limited edition glowPhone bundles, specially priced at $59.99. Bundles are available in pink or black and include a glowPhone, carabineer and special rubber skin. For individual glowPhone purchases, Firefly is giving away a free headset valued at $15.99.
Both specials run Dec. 1-23, 2008 or while supplies last and are only available on www.fireflymobile.com.
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TiVo Launches TiVo Mobile
Tivo has launched TiVo Mobile, a free mobile phone-optimized Web site that allows subscribers and non-subscribers alike to browse, search, and discover television shows, regardless of mobile platform, carrier or browser. The site can be accessed with any Internet-enabled phone through any network, regardless of carrier, opening up the service to millions and millions of cell phone owners.
The new mobile site, located at m.tivo.com, lets television fans stay in touch with their TiVo DVR when they are away from the living room, giving them the power to schedule recordings directly to their TiVo box from their mobile phone. TiVo is known for its simple, intuitive interface, and the TiVo Mobile web site delivers more of the same. The site is optimized for easy use on a small screen, offering the exceptional user experience TiVo fans know and love. | 
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Motorola Introduces the Motorola Hint QA30
Motorola, Inc. has introduced the Motorola Hint QA30, a new device with several ways for consumers to keep in touch with their social circles. The innovative slider design reveals a full QWERTY keypad when open, making messaging and browsing easy and natural.
Motorola Hint offers the conversation-like experience of threaded text messaging and instant messaging, combined with immediate access to email to always stay connected to friends and family¹. The device also features an intuitive dashboard interface, high-speed connectivity and optimized predictive text capabilities¹.
Through pre-loaded, one-touch SMS access¹, important information, such as weather, stock prices, sports information, maps and directions, is at your fingertips. Motorola Hint allows consumers to easily surf the Web with a PC-like experience by rapidly scrolling, zooming in and out, utilizing data caching, bookmarks, cookies and history for an authentic Web experience.
Motorola Hint sports a sleek and slim design with a generous, full-color 2.5-inch widescreen display for maximum multimedia enjoyment.
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Verizon Wireless Announces Availability of the Samsung Omnia
Verizon Wireless has announced the Samsung Omnia will be available for order beginning Nov. 26. The Samsung Omnia’s advanced touch screen, customizable user interface and Windows Mobile 6.1 capabilities are powered by the nation’s most reliable wireless network ensuring that customers can browse the Web and access their e-mails quickly and reliably. It will be available through all sales channels including Verizon Wireless Communications Stores on Dec. 8.
The Samsung Omnia is an all-in-one smartphone with state-of-the-art features, including Samsung’s innovative TouchWiz user interface which has specially designed widgets to customize and personalize the way customers use the phone. These bright and colorful icons provide a one-touch access point to customers’ favorite and most commonly used applications and features. The Samsung Omnia also features a full on-screen QWERTY keyboard for fast text messaging, mobile IM and e-mail messages. | 
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Nokia Introduces the Nokia 6260 Slide
Nokia has introduced the Nokia 6260 slide. The phone call is the most obvious way to use the new handset to connect with people, but it will also be used to share photographs and videos, check on a friend's social network status or be guided to a restaurant to meet up with a loved one. For this, the Nokia 6260 slide features quick access to search engines and points of interest straight from the home screen and the new 360° navi-key allows a great mobile Internet experience.
Uploading images and videos to websites, blogs and social networks is quicker than ever with Nokia's newest arrival, which features lightning-fast speeds over both cellular and Wi-Fi networks. The Nokia 6260 slide comes with the latest 3G technology, with high speed uploads (HSUPA) and downloads (HSDPA), a great camera, music player and web browser with a simple, instantly familiar interface. Combined with the range of Ovi services on offer, Nokia brings a compelling mobile Internet experience to a huge group of consumers.
A 5Mpix Carl Zeiss camera with flash takes fantastic pictures which can be easily shared and uploaded to Share on Ovi or other photo and video sharing websites.
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MySpace & RIM Announce Record Downloads
MySpace and Research In Motion (RIM) has announced record download numbers of the MySpace for BlackBerry smartphones application in its first week of availability.
Since the application’s launch on November 13, 2008 there have been more than 400,000 downloads which represents an all-time high for both MySpace and RIM in terms of first week application downloads. Through the MySpace for BlackBerry smartphones application, users collectively sent and received more than 15 million messages and updated their mood and status over two million times in the first week.
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Verizon Employees Suspended for Accessing Obama's Cell Phone Account
Verizon Wireless President and CEO Lowell McAdam issued the following statement recently:
“This week we learned that a number of Verizon Wireless employees have, without authorization, accessed and viewed President-Elect Barack Obama’s personal cell phone account. The account has been inactive for several months. The device on the account was a simple voice flip-phone, not a BlackBerry or other smartphone designed for e-mail or other data services."
“All employees who have accessed the account – whether authorized or not – have been put on immediate leave, with pay. As the circumstances of each individual employee’s access to the account are determined, the company will take appropriate actions. Employees with legitimate business needs for access will be returned to their positions, while employees who have accessed the account improperly and without legitimate business justification will face appropriate disciplinary action."
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Doro Launches HandleEasy 330 & 326i GSM Handsets in the U.S.
Doro, the IDEA award-winning phone design company from Sweden, announces the availability in the U.S. of mobile phones designed by experts in ergonomics and in communications technology to meet the needs of consumers seeking design simplicity and functionality in mobile handsets.
Two Doro HandleEasy models available in the U.S., the HandleEasy 330gsm and the HandleEasy 326i gsm, are GSM-compatible, include large easy-to-view display screens and keypads, features that baby boomers and active seniors use most, and none of the complicated features that often go unused.
The palm-sized Doro HandleEasy 330gsm features a high-contrast color screen, text messaging, FM radio, a variety of ringers, a speakerphone, and easy access to phone directories stored on the user’s SIM card. Doro HandleEasy 326i gsm features a conveniently larger keypad, four prominently positioned speed-dial buttons, a phone directory, a speakerphone, and a special coating that creates an easy-grip surface on the entire phone.
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T-Mobile Uses Yahoo! oneSearch for Web2go Service
T-Mobile USA, Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. announced that, beginning today, Yahoo! oneSearch powers mobile Internet searches made through T-Mobile’s new web2goSM service. Web2go provides a better Web browsing experience on your mobile phone by making it easier to view and navigate the Web through a customizable home page, a simplified shopping and download experience, and Yahoo!’s award-winning mobile search experience.
Yahoo! oneSearch provides customers who search through T-Mobile’s web2go with access to what they are looking for - from news, financial information, weather conditions, Flickr photos and Web images, to Web and mobile web sites. Yahoo! oneSearch will also display relevant ringtones, wallpaper, games and other content available in the T-Mobile Store® within search results.
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Alltel Launches Alltel Perks - An Interactive Content Delivery Service
Customers of Alltel Wireless can now receive customized content including sports scores, weather, discounts, trivia and more directly on their phone with today’s launch of Alltel Perks.
After downloading the application from the Alltel Shop, Alltel Perks will deliver content to the phone’s idle screen when the handset is not in use. Users will receive content including discount offers from local merchants, coupons for favorite restaurants, sports scores, local weather forecasts and more. Delivered messages are maintained in the “Recent Offer Menu” folder for a short period of time, so customers can easily take advantage of current offers and discounts. | |
Nokia Expands IBM Lotus Email Access to 80 Million Mobile Phones
Nokia and IBM today announced IBM Lotus Notes support for a number of Nokia's S60-based mobile phones, meaning that millions of Lotus Notes users are now able to access email with their Nokia devices. This also represents a significant market opportunity for IBM Lotus Notes -- which has 140 million licensed users -- with many Nokia customers now able to purchase Lotus Notes and access its collaboration capabilities on the go.
With this announcement, more than 80 million people - the number of Nokia S60 3rd Edition devices shipped globally* - can connect to corporate email accounts via Lotus Domino Server software known as Lotus Notes Traveler. This software provides real time access to email, calendar, address book, journal and to-do list data and will be available for Nokia devices in December 2008.
According to IBM's Institute for Business Value, this year, for the first time, more people in the world will have a mobile device than a land-line telephone.
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Synchronize Your BlackBerry with Your Google Account
| Google has now enabled BlackBerry users to synchronize their built-in calendar and address book to their Google account. You can now get your Google Calendar events to your device, synchronize your Gmail contacts, and be alerted for upcoming appointments with sound and vibration using your BlackBerry's native calendar.
Visit http://www.google.com/mobile/blackberry/sync.html for more information. | |
T-Mobile Cameo Debuted - Digital Picture Frames Connected to Wireless Carrier Network
T-Mobile USA, Inc., puts a fun twist on sharing spontaneous moments with friends and family by debuting the T-Mobile cameo — one of the first digital picture frames connected to a wireless carrier network.
This holiday families can share fun spur-of-the-moment photos from holiday fun, with just the press of a button, to loved ones across the country. Available today, the T-Mobile cameo, manufactured by Parrot, is more than an ordinary digital picture frame — with its dedicated T-Mobile phone number and e-mail address, real-time photos can be sent directly to the frame. Millions of Americans have camera phones, and consumers are increasingly using them to record memories. But unfortunately these images often stay trapped inside the phone instead of being shared in the moment with friends and family. | 
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Spice Up Your Portable Devices with GelaSkins
Want to spice up your iPhone / portable devices? Then consider GelaSkins! GelaSkins are removable skins for protecting and customizing your portable devices. They feature very high quality photo graphics (see below) ranging from fine art prints to contemporary urban images designed by their growing family of artists from around the globe.
The removable skins are easy on / easy off which uses an adhesive technology by 3M that prevents bubbles and allows easy application and clean removal. The GelaSkins are protected with a durable anti-scratch, anti-UV coating.
The GelaSkins for iPod Classic and Nano include a screen protector to defend the display for new scratches and to help hide old one. | 
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Cricket Offers Unlimited Wireless & Broadband Services in Wisconsin
Leap Wireless International, Inc., the parent company of Cricket Communications, Inc., a provider of unlimited wireless services, today announced it will offer its Cricket unlimited wireless phone and broadband Internet services in Milwaukee, Wis. beginning tomorrow. The Cricket footprint, which covers approximately 3,390 square miles and 2.4 million covered POPs in the Greater Milwaukee area, also includes coverage in Racine, Kenosha, and Madison, Wis. and brings Leap's total national covered POPs to 64.1 million.
Cricket rate plans range from $30 to $60 per month and include unlimited anytime minutes, unlimited U.S. long distance, unlimited text and picture messaging, unlimited text to Mexico, unlimited Mobile Web, unlimited directory assistance, nationwide roaming minutes and more -- all without requiring signed contracts or credit checks.
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Motorola Announces the MOTO VE66
Motorola, Inc. today announced the arrival of MOTO VE66 with enhanced CrystalTalk audio technology, a 5-megapixel camera and MP3 player-like navigation for a 1-2-3 punch of great call quality, sharp pictures and an enjoyable music experience. The sleek, slider device also boasts the first widgets integration on a Motorola mobile device, which means you receive easier, more seamless access to what matters most – whether you crave sports scores, stock tickers or RSS feeds from your favorite blogs.
MOTO VE66 amplifies your conversations and helps reduce background noise with enhanced CrystalTalk technology, so virtually nothing comes between you and your calls. From more superior voice quality to personalized noise adaptation, CrystalTalk makes a noticeable difference in the clarity and intelligibility of conversations while in a noisy environment. VE66 further enhances the audio quality with the addition of a second microphone, which helps eliminate more ambient background noise from the call.
MOTO VE66 captures crisp and clear images with ease, bringing out the inner photographer in everyone.
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AT&T Launches the LG Incite
AT&T Inc. and LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A. Inc. today announced the availability of the LG Incite, the newest Windows Mobile device powered by the nation's fastest 3G network for users who crave premium capabilities with ultramodern design. The Incite — available in the U.S. exclusively to AT&T customers — stirs up the smartphone market, with its stylish, sleek look and sophisticated technology.
The LG Incite boasts the latest in wireless communications technology, with domestic and international 3G capabilities, built-in aGPS and Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) and Bluetooth 2.0. The LG Incite is equipped with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, Microsoft Office Mobile and Microsoft ActiveSync 4.5. The Incite, the first of its kind for LG Mobile, offers Windows Media Player 10.
LG Incite looks as good as it sounds: a sophisticated, sleek design, a crystal-clear 3-inch touch screen and a 3.0 megapixel camera and camcorder that enables consumers to send and enjoy memories at the touch of a button. Users have a choice of on-screen virtual keyboards — a full, QWERTY keyboard in landscape mode and a 20-key keyboard in portrait view — with haptic keys that provide vibration feedback.
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