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Palm webOS Now Arriving On Your Phone via Over-the-Air Update
| The latest update to Palm webOS is now arriving on your phone via an over-the-air update. The update is now available for customers on the Sprint network in the US and on the O2 UK, O2 DE, O2 Ireland, and Movistar networks in Europe. The update has been released for customers using the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus on Verizon Wireless. The update is expected to be available for Palm webOS phones on other networks soon. Highlights of the latest update include: | |
Make Music By Singing in Your iPhone with Voice Band App
| This is a really cool app. You can make music with your iPhone by simply singing into it. The app, named Voice Band, records your voice then transforms it so it sounds like a real sampled instrument. (See demo video above and below) | |
Canadian Carriers Complete Trials of 2-Way Wireless Video Calling
Canadian mobile phone users are one step closer to video calling friends, family, and clients across competing mobile networks as Bell, Rogers and TELUS today announced the successful completion of two-way mobile video calling trials between carriers. Video calling lets clients create a ‘see-what-I-can-see’ connection with other callers, enabling them to do things like share special moments or get advice on a birthday gift before they buy.
Mobile video calling is currently available through several carriers in Canada, but both callers must be on the same carrier’s network using compatible handsets. When inter-carrier mobile video calling is launched video calling will be possible across multiple carrier networks and will create North America’s largest two-way mobile video calling community.
Bell, Rogers and TELUS each offer video calling handsets that support the internationally accepted open 3G-324M Video Telephony standard, ensuring compatibility with other systems and carriers supporting the standard. | 
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Nokia Taking Orders for the Nokia X16 16GB
Nokia has started taking pre-orders for the Nokia X6 16GB (announced last month). The X6 will be available at the end of this month.
The Nokia X6 feature: - 3.2" widescreen capacitive touchscreen
- Symbian^1
- 18 days standby time
- 11.5 hours talktime (GSM)
- 4.5 hours video playback
- 35 hours music playback
- 5 MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual LED flash
- Video capture and edit.
- TV-output to watch video on bigger screen
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Sprint to Bring 4G to More Markets in 2010
Improved mobile Internet access is coming soon to millions more Americans, with plans announced today by Sprint to bring 4G to several additional markets across the country in 2010. These markets will join 27 cities where Sprint 4G is already available. Sprint 4G offers turbo-charged mobile broadband, delivering peak download speed up to 10 times faster than 3G.1 The result is the Sprint 4G difference - a new and improved Internet experience that benefits every kind of online user, for the same price as 3G - from the only national wireless carrier offering 4G service.
Sprint expects to launch 4G service this year in many markets, including Boston, Denver, Kansas City, Houston, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. More Sprint 4G markets will be announced at a later date. Sprint 4G is expected to cover up to 120 million people by the end of 2010. | |
Zillow.com Announces Updated Zillow iPhone App
Real estate Web site Zillow.com today announces an update to the free Zillow iPhone App, with new features that allow users to easily share Zillow's rich data on over 93 million U.S. homes using social media such as Facebook and Twitter. Additionally, home shoppers can now search and find homes for rent along with homes for sale, recently-sold homes and Make Me Move listings. (See video above). | |
Nokia Demos "Explore and Share" High Speed Data Transfer Concept
Nokia Research Center has released a video (see above) showcasing "Explore and Share" fast new wireless data transfer concept. In the video there is a live example of wireless transfer of an entire music album onto a phone in less than 10 seconds. That is blazing fast! The concept and working prototype has been tailored to fit in the retail environment that could be used to fill a device you’ve just bought with numerous apps, music, games and any other digital content, within minutes. | |
Rogers Announce New North America One Rate Wireless Data Plans
Rogers Communications today announced new North America One Rate wireless data plans, the latest additions to the company's affordable North American wireless roaming solutions. Recognizing the evolving needs of its business and consumer customers, Rogers has created the new North American One Rate wireless data plans to provide additional cost certainty to customers travelling to the United States, along with the flexibility and convenience to use their device's data capabilities (email, mobile web surfing, downloading documents) the same way they would at home, without incurring roaming fees when using data within their monthly allotment.
According to Statistics Canada, in October 2009 Canadians made 3.3 million trips to the United States, making it Canada's most frequent destination for travel. With more than 30 per cent of current Rogers postpaid wireless customers using data-enabled smartphones, up more than 10 per cent from early 2009, the North American One Rate plans, along with a number of other wireless voice and data roaming options already available, offer customers the greatest selection of high value U.S. and international data roaming solutions, at the most affordable advertised rates in Canada. | |
Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Grew 8% in Q4 2009
| Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 1.211 billion units in 2009, a 0.9 per cent decline from 2008, according to Gartner, Inc. In the fourth quarter of 2009, the market registered a single-digit growth as mobile phone sales to end users surpassed 340 million units, an 8.3 per cent increase from the fourth quarter of 2008. "The mobile devices market finished on a very positive note, driven by growth in smartphones and low-end devices," said Carolina Milanesi, research director at Gartner. ”Smartphone sales to end users continued their strong growth in the fourth quarter of 2009, totalling 53.8 million units, up 41.1 per cent from the same period in 2008. In 2009, smartphone sales reached 172.4 million units, a 23.8 per cent increase from 2008. In 2009, smartphone-focused vendors like Apple and Research In Motion (RIM) successfully captured market share from other larger device producers, controlling 14.4 and 19.9 per cent of the worldwide smartphone market, respectively.” | |
Leap and Pocket to Provide Expanded South Texas Region Mobile Services
Leap Wireless International, Inc., a leading provider of innovative and value-driven wireless communications services, and Pocket Communications, Texas' fastest-growing flat-rate wireless company, today announced they have entered into an agreement to form a Leap-controlled and managed joint venture that will provide enhanced mobile communications through Leap's Cricket brand to customers in the South Texas region, from San Antonio to Laredo and in the Rio Grande Valley covering more than 4.4 million covered potential (POPs).
Leap, which offers unlimited, pre-paid mobile voice, text and Web, as well as mobile broadband service through Cricket, had approximately 5 million customers across the nation at the end of 2009, including approximately 400,000 in the South Texas region. Pocket Communications, which offers similar unlimited pre-paid services, had approximately 320,000 customers in the South Texas region at the end of 2009.
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PocketGear Acquires Handango
PocketGear, Inc. today announced the acquisition of Handango, the leading provider of smartphone applications globally, creating the world's largest cross platform, open app store and content marketplace with a catalog of more than 140,000 paid and free titles that are available for discovery and download by the more than 4 billion consumers worldwide using Android, Symbian OS, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Palm, Linux, and Java powered mobile devices.
PocketGear and Handango are the two largest independent app stores and combined to date have generated over $400 million in mobile application revenues from customers living in more than 175 countries and using over 2,000 unique mobile devices.
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Sprint Expands "Buyback" Program to Include Cell Phones from Other Carriers
Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse today announced the launch of an expanded wireless buy-back program for wireless devices while testifying at a green telecom hearing on Capitol Hill. Sprint's expanded Buyback program, intended to boost U.S. wireless recycling rates, now offers an instant point-of-sale credit to current and new Sprint customers who turn in up to three eligible wireless devices, per active line of service.
Sprint Buyback now accepts all eligible wireless devices, regardless of manufacturer or carrier, through its expanded program. Customers can take their unwanted phones to one of the more than 1,000 participating Sprint-owned retail stores nationwide. Currently, there are more than 900 wireless devices that are eligible for an instant credit from Sprint. Device credits range in value from approximately $5 to upwards of $300 depending on the make and model of the device being turned in.
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Google Earth Now Available for Android Devices
Google announced today that Google Earth is now available for Android which is the fastest mobile version of Google Earth yet, with a smooth framerate and a beautiful 800 x 480 screen.
With the release of Google Earth for Android, Google also introduced the Roads layer, a very popular feature of the desktop version of Google Earth. Now you can get a better sense of where you are with road labels drawn on top of the satellite imagery.
Additionally, Google has used the integrated voice recognition capabilities of the Android platform to provide a pocket globe that responds to your every command.
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iPhone Download Cap Over 3G Increased from 10MB to 20MB
According to PC World, Apple has increased the iPhone download cap over 3G networks on the iPhone from 10MB to 20MB. This maybe due to heavier multimedia content for the upcoming iPad.
Previously when users tried to download an software from the App Store or a podcast that was over 10 MB, a message was displayed asking users to use Wi-Fi because the file was too big. The initial 10MB cap was put in place because wireless networks, such as AT&T, were struggling to handle the traffic.
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How to Make an iPhone App
Many iPhone application developers are making a ton of money writing software for the iPhone. (See Becoming Rich Writing Apps for the Apple iPhone). If you are interested in learning quickly how to write apps for the iPhone you will want to check out the eBook "How to Make an iPhone App" by Matt Drake for $47.97.
The eBook will teach you how to develop iPhone apps even if you never programmed before. Of course, you can always hire a programmer to write an app for you but that can be very expensive depending on the complexity of the app.
The eBook teaches how to program in C, Objective-C and Cocoa-Touch, Procedural and Object Oriented Programming, Model-View-Controller (MVC) Design Pattern and # how to use Interface Builder.
For more information visit MattDrake.com/How-to-Make-an-iPhone-App.
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Dolce & Gabbana to Showcase Live Shows on Smartphones
Dolce & Gabbana will broadcast the Fall/Winter 2010/11 Women's Fashion Show live on iPhones and Android Mobile devices (Google), which are the two most popular smartphones worldwide (82% of the market share of the total browsing market in the USA and 70% in Europe).
The dates are:
- D&G > Thursday, 25th of February from 3pm (GMT +1);
- Dolce&Gabbana > Sunday, 28th of February from 1pm (GMT +1).
Always a pioneer in the technological experimentations of the digital communications market, in 2005, Dolce & Gabbana was the first among fashion brands to broadcast the fashion shows live on its official website www.dolcegabbana.com. This season the fashion shows will be available again on: live.dolcegabbana.com as well as on the brand's official Facebook page - www.facebook.com/DolceGabbana.
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Use Your iPhone / iPod Touch as a Flash Drive
Now you use your iPhone or iPod Touch as a flash drive with the free iPhone Explorer App. iPhone Explorer is an iPhone browser for Mac and Windows that lets you browse the files and folders on your iPhone or ipod Touch as if it were a normal USB flash drive or pen drive.
You can use the easy drag-and-drop methods to add or remove files and folders from the iPhone. Compatible with all iPhones and iPod Touches including the new 3GS and 3.0 firmware. Works with or without jailbreaking.
iPhone Explorer features:
- Free Mac and Windows
- Drag-and-drop interface for easily copying files to and from your iPhone
- Create, delete and rename files and folders on your iPhone or iPod Touch
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Limit Your Exposure To Cell Phone Radiation
New cell phones in 2010 are loaded with new features. For some models, like Motorola’s Droid, Blackberry Bold 9700, LG Chocolate Touch and HTC Nexus One by Google, consumers pay a hidden price: exposure to the highest legal levels of cell phone radiation. You can see for yourself by looking the radiation levels for new 2010 cell phones.
Other new phones emit significantly less radiation. Which is which? You won’t find out from those pricey ad campaigns or even the labels. Makers and vendors aren’t required to disclose their products’ radiation output at point of sale.
That’s why Environmental Working Group (EWG) has created a user-friendly interactive cell phone radiation list and database, covering more than 1,000 phones now on the market. We’ve updated it with the wireless industry’s latest and greatest offerings for the 2010 market. | 
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Track Your Employee via BlackBerry/Smartphone Embedded GPS Software
Our friends over at BrickHouseSecurity.com are selling an app (called Executrac) that turns your BlackBerry or smartphone into a mobile GPS tracker with no contracts. Employers can use existing BlackBerry or smartphone to track employee location. We also guess that spouses can use to app to track their partner and parents can use it to track their kids.
The app runs discreetly in the background without affecting the phone's performance. Executrac features: - Easy download directly from phone
- Panic button for emergency situations
- Remotely & invisibly deploy to 1000's of phones
- Complete history & reporting
- Geofence safety zone alerts
- Doesn't affect functionality of your blackberry or smartphone
For more information visit BrickHouseSecurity.com/Executrac. | 
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