Beginning September 8, customers will be able to purchase HTC Touch Pro2 at Sprint for $349.99 with a two-year service agreement and after $100 mail-in rebate.
The attractive new phone comes with:
Windows Mobile 6.1
TouchFLO user interface
A variety of fun-to-use entertainment applications
Sprint TV with live
On-demand programming
Sprint’s NFL Mobile Live
NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile
The latest in a series of best-in-class Windows Mobile devices, HTC Touch Pro2 features:
Do you know you can monitor your hiking, running, biking with your Android phone via a free app called "My Track"?
My Tracks enables you to record GPS tracks and view live statistics, such as time, speed, distance, and elevation, while hiking, biking, running or participating in other outdoor activities.
Once recorded, you can share your tracks, upload them to Google Spreadsheets and visualize them on Google My Maps. While recording tracks, you can:
See location / progress on a map
Monitor real-time statistics: time, distance, speed, elevation
View elevation profile by time or distance
Zoom, pan elevation profile
Create waypoints
Create statistics waypoints (splits tracks into sub tracks)
Cincinnati Bell Inc. today announced a new program designed around one simple question: “Why Pay For Two?”
Cincinnati Bell’s WhyPayForTwo plan offers unlimited Internet access and text messaging on a smartphone and ZoomTown high-speed Internet access at home for $39.99 a month; a price the competition charges for just one service.
Cincinnati Bell is the only carrier in Greater Cincinnati that offers high-speed Internet access via a smartphone and at home.
The mobile market is the highest growth end segment for the semiconductor industry. Many consumer electronics devices still use MCUs and ASICs. However, devices such as smartphones, MIDs, and mini-notes require higher level functionality, programmability, and connectivity. As a result, these mobile consumer devices are increasingly shifting toward merchant market processors, reports In-Stat.
Merchant market processors offer higher levels of integration and performance while reducing the device Original Equipment Manufacturer’s (OEMs) cost and time to market. This is evident as the mobile market for merchant processing solutions is expected to grow at a 22.3% CAGR through 2013 with the highest total unit growth resulting from handheld applications like smartphones and MIDs. By 2013, the market is projected to grow to about 775 million units.
JiWire, the leading mobile audience media company that reaches over 20 million unique users per month across its Wi-Fi media channel, today released its inaugural Mobile Audience Insights Report with new data revealing demographic and behavioral interests of Wi-Fi users. The research provides a view into overall Wi-Fi usage trends, which includes breakdowns by country, US city and device type as well as specifics about the cafe Wi-Fi audience which is mostly affluent, male, between the ages of twenty-five and forty-nine, and planning on making a big purchase in the near future. The report is designed to help advertisers better engage their desired audience when they are on-the-go.
The report shows that mobile consumption of Wi-Fi is on the rise as consumers become increasingly mobile. Overall, the number of mobile devices accessing Wi-Fi hotspots grew by 79 percent in the first half of the year. While the iPhone and iPod Touch remain the most popular Wi-Fi enabled mobile devices, collectively representing 97.8 percent of all mobile device connections, the Palm Pre debuted as the No. 5 most popular mobile device in June 2009, just within the first three months of its introduction.
Microsoft has released the Bing iPhone and Mac SDK. It is now available for download on CodePlex, open source under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL). The SDK provides the ability to easily query Bing from within Cocoa or Cocoa Touch application, perform both synchronous and asynchronous queries and search Bing for Web, Image, Video, News, and Phonebook results.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced a Notice of Inquiry to enhance its analysis of competitive conditions in the mobile wireless market in an effort to obtain data for its next mobile wireless competition report. The FCC is seeking to better understand the net effects on the American consumer.
According to the FCC, “Wireless mobility has become central to the economic, civic, and social lives of over 270 million Americans. We are now in the midst of a transition from reliance on mobile voice services to increasing use of and reliance on mobile broadband services, which promise to connect American citizens in new and profound ways.
China Unicom has announced that it has reached a three-year agreement with Apple to sell the Apple iPhone in China. The initial launch is expected to be in the fourth quarter of 2009. This will provide Chinese users with a brand new communication and information experience, claimed the company. The announced was published in the company's earnings announcement.
China has more than 670 million customers and mobile phone sales in China are expected to reach 192 million units next year. This is a huge market for Apple.
SPB Software, a manufacturer of mobile applications, has announced the release of SPB TV for Android phones. SPB TV is a subscription-free mobile IPTV viewer, designed for tuning in to publicly available digital TV channels from all over the world. SPB TV features exclusive and patent-pending usability innovations like picture-in-picture mode and gives the mobile subscribers easy access to over a hundred of international TV channels, directly from their phones.
SPB TV is available for Windows Mobile, Symbian and Android platforms providing diverse mobile carrier customers with the next generation mobile TV experience.
SPB TV is available for smartphones running Android 1.5 with HVGA screen resolutions, as well as Windows Phones running Windows Mobile 5 and later Professional and Standard editions, S60 3d edition FP1 or higher, qVGA, VGA, Square QVGA, and WVGA screen resolutions are supported.
Saving money on college textbooks is as easy as texting. Chegg.com, the an online textbook rental company, has launched an SMS service and a mobile site to provide instant price quotes and instant savings to students across the country.
To use the SMS service, students simply text 44144, enter ‘ISBN’ followed by the book’s ISBN number and they’ll instantly receive the rental cost from Chegg.com. The new mobile site from Chegg.com is available at m.chegg.com, allowing users to enter the book’s title or ISBN number and receive the rental cost via email.
In February 2009, ABI Research found that dual-mode cellular/Wi-Fi handset shipments were set to double between 2008 and 2010. With the latter date fast approaching, ABI Research analysts have confirmed that a similar pattern will hold true – or even accelerate – for the period 2009-2011. This year is on track to see 144 million handsets shipped, with forecasts for 2011 at just over 300 million.
However mobile operators’ attitudes to Wi-Fi have been changing. At first many feared that Wi-Fi would take traffic off their networks, resulting in lost revenue. Now they’re starting to realize that it may instead mean an increase in available network capacity.
Entertainment software developer onseeker today announced the release of its revolutionary hybrid entertainment platform and marketing tool for artists, venues, and fans.
Available in the iTunes App Store as onseeker music, this new application boasts the ability to connect artists, venues, and fans in real-time.
Using the mobile smartphone platform, onseeker music provides the unique benefit of real-time interaction between fans, artists, and venues using full multimedia profiles, status updates, location-based content, and more. Subscriber artists and venues control content and receive consumer-generated feedback, metrics, and analytics that offer intimate insight into fan tastes and trends previously unavailable.
GreatCall, Inc., creator of the Jitterbug cell phone, and Verizon Wireless today announced that the Jitterbug will now run on the Verizon Wireless network through the wireless leader’s open development program.
The benefits for Jitterbug customers include: Customers will now have the security and confidence of making calls on the most reliable wireless network in the country.
Additionally, Jitterbug monthly services now offer more minutes and more affordable night and weekend calling than were previously available with Jitterbug plans. Customers also will benefit from ongoing wireless technology advances as Verizon Wireless invests billions of dollars every year to further extend its network reliability lead over other wireless providers.
ZTE USA, Inc. today announced that its C77 handset is now available through i-wireless. The C77 is the first ZTE handset i-wireless has introduced to its customer base. The C77 joins ZTE’s portfolio handsets available to the U.S. market. ZTE designs and manufactures its handsets in-house.
The C77 is a sleek candy bar phone available in black with a silver band and a 2-inch display. The C77 features a WAP browser and raised keypad that lends itself to easy texting capability and surfing the web.
ZTE USA offers a full portfolio of end-to-end wireless handset and networking solutions in the U.S. The company's handsets have won numerous design awards, and its flexible product design and manufacturing cycle enables ZTE USA to quickly deliver affordable products to customers.
The ZTE C77 has an introductory price of $29.99 that includes a free month of service.
Nokia today marked the next phase in the evolution of Maemo software with the new Nokia N900. Taking its cues from the world of desktop computing, the open source, Linux-based Maemo software delivers a PC-like experience on a handset-sized device.
The Nokia N900 has evolved from Nokia's previous generation of Internet Tablets and broadens the choice for technology enthusiasts who appreciate the ability to multitask and browse the internet like they would on their desktop computer.
Running on the new Maemo 5 software, the Nokia N900 empowers users to have dozens of application windows open and running simultaneously while taking full advantage of the cellular features, touch screen and QWERTY keyboard.
Google mobile search is now available in 40 languages for feature phones with the addition of Hebrew and Arabic.
Google added 38 left-to-right languages last July, bringing the comprehensiveness of Google's web search to mobile users around the world. Now Arabic and Hebrew speakers will also be able to benefit from universal search results on their mobile devices.
The new search results format provides more complete support for the universal search results familiar with on your computer. This means that News, Image, Blog, Video and Product Search results blend right into the results pages when available and relevant to your query. Also, many of the favorite Google Search features now appear in the first result in order to provide direct answers to searches.
Cricket Communications today announced the availability of the new Samsung Messager II, which comes with:
Sslider QWERTY keyboard
Email
3G
A 2.0MP camera and camcorder
MP3 player
Cricket’s MyHomeScreen.
The addition of the Samsung Messager II brings Cricket’s device lineup to a total of four QWERTY devices, three of which feature 3G for faster Mobile Web browsing.
Sleeker, faster and cooler than its best-selling predecessor Messager, the new Messager II offers users real-time connection to friends through revved-up social networking applications and faster internet browsing and downloading music and ringtones.
In-Stat has reported that in the last few years, the number of worldwide cellular base stations has exploded from the hundreds of thousands to the many millions, creating greenhouse gases and pollution from the power required to run them. Base stations on an electric grid aren’t the real problem, but as cellular spreads to billions of people in emerging countries, off-grid base stations, which are usually powered by diesel generators running 24/7, proliferate.
“While diesel pollution is an environmental issue, what bothers operators the most is the cost of powering and securing the generators,” says Allen Nogee, In-Stat analyst. “Diesel fuel has to be trucked to remote sites, and theft of diesel fuel and equipment can cost operators millions of dollars. The solution is for operators to at least partially power remote base stations with wind turbines, solar panels, or both. This is truly a case where it pays to be green.”
AT&T is making global Wi-Fi access more convenient for business travelers, remote workers and consumers-on-the-go via the addition of nearly 25,000 new Wi-Fi hotspots in countries across Europe and in China.
The new locations bring the total of worldwide hotspots available to AT&T users to 125,000, representing a nearly 30 percent expansion of its global Wi-Fi footprint since the beginning of the year.
The additional hotspots will enable AT&T Remote Access enterprise customers to connect to their corporate networks from more locations across Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Croatia, the Netherlands, the UK and China. These locations include a variety of popular coffee shops, bookstores, hotels, airports, restaurants and convention centers. The new China hotspots are already activated, and the additional European hotspots will be activated over the next 45 days.
A report was released by EM Radiation Research Trust to government leaders and media that details eleven design flaws of the 13-country, Telecom-funded Interphone study. (See video to the right)
The Interphone study, begun in 1999, was intended to determine the risks of brain tumors, but its full publication has been held up for years. Components of this study published to date reveal what the authors call a "systemic-skew", greatly underestimating brain tumor risk.
The design flaws include categorizing subjects who used portable phones (which emit the same microwave radiation as cellphones,) as 'unexposed'; exclusion of many types of brain tumors; exclusion of people who had died, or were too ill to be interviewed, as a consequence of their brain tumor; and exclusion of children and young adults, who are more vulnerable.
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