Super Cellphone Deals & News: Sep 4, 2010

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Verizon Wireless, Florida Highway Patrol Launch Campaign to Stop Texting 'Danger Thumbs' Drivers Across State

TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless and the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) announced today the launch of the "Danger Thumbs" campaign to make the state's roads safer by urging young Florida drivers to stop texting on their wireless phones when behind the wheel. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100902/FL59085 ) (Photo: [[[SHIFTOUT ...
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HTC Peep wonât play with Twitter anymore

HTC users, if you canâ€™t login to your Twitter account via HTC Peep or FriendStream because of incorrect username and/or password, itâ€™s not because your account has been hacked. Twitter suddenly switched to OAuth to authorize logins and HTC Peep doesnâ€™t support that change yet. HTC Peep and FriendStream (and other 3rd party Twitter apps) [...]
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Sony Ericsson targeting China's smartphone market

by Staff Writers Beijing (AFP) Sept 1, 2010 Sony Ericsson said Wednesday China would become its biggest handset market by volume in the next three to four years, as it moved to grab a bigger slice of the fast-growing smartphone market.
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Verizon Wireless, Florida Highway Patrol Launch Campaign to Stop Texting 'Danger Thumbs' Drivers Across State

FOR SELL Apple Iphone 4G 32GB Unlocked Phone $400USD

Android web use closes gap with iOS in the US for August

Android has significantly closed the gap with Apple in web traffic in the US, Quantcast said on Friday. Use of Google's mobile OS has climbed 17 percent from the start of the year until August, giving it exactly a quarter of traffic. Apple's iOS, meanwhile, has lost 11 percent over the same eight months and has a narrower lead at 56 percent.... Android - Handhelds - Apple - IPhone - Google
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Samsung Galaxy Tab vs. Apple iPad: Specs Compared

See Samsungâ€™s up-and-coming Android tablet measured up next to the reigning champ, as we compare Samsungâ€™s Galaxy Tab vs. the Apple iPad from a specifications perspective.
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Android Atlas Weekly 14: Which Android Tablet will be the iPad killer?

This week we get Android math lesson from Google, Apple and Microsoft, check out four tablets vying to be the iPad killer and get giddy for Angry Birds on Android. Join Justin Eckhouse and guest host Jasmine France for this week's Android Atlas Weekly. loadUniversalPlayer({playerType: 'ces2010-small',lumiereQueryType: 'id',lumiereQueryValue: '50092519',useCurrentPageUrl: true,relatedVideo: false ...
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Palm Coast looks at pay for steering jobs to area

The Palm Coast City Council is exploring an idea dating to the days of posses hunting down desperados -- only this "posse" would round up businesses and jobs.
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HTC Home Brings the HTC Weather Widget to Windows 7 [Downloads]

# downloads Windows: If you're sporting an HTC phone with the HTC user interface you may have grown fond of the combination clock and weather forecasting widget. HTC Home ports the HTC interface from your phone to your Windows desktop, complete with animations. MoreÂ Â»
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BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 now available from Three UK

Three UK has made available the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 smartphone to its customers. The Curve 3G 9300 sports a 2 megapixel camera, a comfortable full QWERTY keyboard, WiFi, GPS, an optical trackpad, and more. Three UK is offering the phone free with qualifying plans starting at 2 5GBP per month with a two-year service agreement. Read the full story here.
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Nokia pulls the pin on mobile file-sharing service

HELSINKI - Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, announced overnight that it would discontinue its popular mobile file-sharing service called Ovi Files as of October 1.Nokia spokesman Tapani Kaskinen said that while the...
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Touch-screen Nano part of Apple's new iPod lineup

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs announced a new line of iPods on Wednesday, including a Nano model that has a touch screen and lacks buttons. Like previous versions, the Nano has a built-in FM tuner and can display photos. But instead of buttons, controls for playing, pausing ...
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LG 31-inch OLED TV eyes-on [Video]

LGâ€™s 31-inch OLED TV may not be the biggest set at IFA 2010 this week, but it certainly stands a chance of being the brightest and most color-rich. Itâ€™s just 2.9mm thick, and uses an OLED panel capable of Full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution with a contrast ratio LG reckon is infinite. Video after the cut Of course, part of the way LG manage to make the set so thin is that they strip out the tuner ...
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Symbian users Swype Samsung's tricks

World-beating text entry comes to Nokia The world's fastest text entry system, Swype, is now in Beta for Symbian S60 5th edition, allowing Nokia users to write by tracing a path rather than the old-fashioned tapping on keys.â€¦
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Windows Phone 7 phones likely by holidays

Windows Phone 7 OS was released to manufacturers Thursday, meaning that it's ready to be baked into new phones and carrier networks. Windows Mobile - Windows Phone 7 - Communications - Windows Phone 7 OS - Shopping
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Games merchandising selling like hot cakes

By Pragya Tiwari, New Delhi, Sep 3 : The sale of Commonwealth Games merchandise may have begun late, but it has been selling like hot cakes within a day of its launch, with vuvuzelas being the most sought after in an eclectic mix.
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Samsung Galaxy Tab Price : $200 - $300 Only, Says Samsung Product Executive

There's a possibility that Samsung Galaxy Tab would enter the market with similar if not lower price tag than iPod Touch 4th Gen . So if you only have so much to spend on a slate, then you might want to study your options more carefully. While the final suggested retail price has not been set, Mr. Hankil Yoon - Vice-President of Samsung Electronics Product Strategy Team, said in an interview ...
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Sony Ericssonâs Xperia line gets Android 2.1 treatment by the end of September

Sony Ericsson UK has confirmed via Twitter that the very much-awaited Android 2.1 (Eclair) upgrade for the Xperia X10, X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro is on target and will be available by the end of September. Itâ€™s a bit late for Sony Ericsson when other phones are already enjoying the fruits of Android 2.1 [...]
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China market: Symbian losing dominance, market share falls to 50-60%

With Research in Motion (RIM), Apple and a slew of Android-based handset vendors making more aggressive moves in the China market, Symbian operating system's (OS) dominance of the country's smartphone sector is quickly disappearing, according to sources from China's handset industry. Symbian's 70-80% smartphone market share of the past has fallen to about 50-60%, the sources said.
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FOR SELL BlackBerry Storm2 9550 3G GPS Unlocked Phone $250USD

Blackberry Restrictions in Dubai: Blame the Spies

The United States and Israel are to blame for upcoming restrictions on Blackberry use in the United Arab Emirates, says Dubai's police chief, Dhahi Khalfan Tamim. Addressing questions about an impending October suspension of Blackberry services by the UAE, Tamim told the daily al-Khaleej that the U.S. "is the primary beneficiary of having no controls over the BlackBerry, as it has an interest to ...
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Google Android Tablet Pc White Eken M001 (similar to Ipad 110)

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HTC Doubles Up For Schneiderman

The Hotel Trades Council is out with a series of mailers for Eric Schneiderman that double as mailers for candidates in local Senate and Assembly races. The HTC is known for their sophisticated turnout operation, and the mailers show that they are willing to put resouces into the Schneiderman campaign.Â And the fact there are even competitive primaries in these districts--one of the flyers is ...
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Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden wants modern cell phone law

Your cell phone knows where you are every moment, and while that helps keep you connected, that information is available to law enforcement with few limits
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Mashable Giveaway: Win A SANYO Dual HD Camera

Weâ€™ve partnered with SANYO to give away 20 newly released SANYO Dual HD PD2 cameras. From today until next Friday, weâ€™ll be giving two readers a camera each day, with six winners on the finalâ€¦
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Press Release: Second 3G/4G Phone, Samsung Epic 4G, Launches with One of the Best First-Day Sales for Any Sprint Device

The Only 4G Samsung Galaxy S Smartphone is a Hit, Receiving High Praise from Media and Excited Customers Read the full story here.
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25 inch Widescreen TV For Sale. Sanyo TV - 25 inch....

25 inch Widescreen TV For Sale. Sanyo TV - 25 inch widescreen - For Sale. I purchased it from a Korean here in London, who had originally purchased it in Seoul, and had owned it for 3 years. I have owned it for 7 months. I want to sell it off now as I'll be moving out of London next week.
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Android Skype Now Works Via Wi-Fi [Android]

# android Skype's rolled out a sweet little update to its Android app, finally removing the weird shackles that have been in place since launchâ€"you may now use it to make calls over Wi-Fi as well as 3G. It's actually worthwhile having now. But one awkward caveat remains in place, though, as the Skype app remains an exclusive for Android phones on the Verizon network. [ Android Central ] MoreÂ Â»
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Windows Phone 7: RTM Version Locked Down

Windows Phone 7 is officially Ready To Launch. RedmondPie reports that Microsoft has just announced that their next stab at a smarpthone OS is now in the RTM phase. The "release to manufacturing"...
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Huawei Bets on Google Brand, Low-End Smartphone in Europe Push

Huawei Technologies Co., Chinaâ€™s largest phone-equipment maker, is betting Google Inc. branding and smartphones targeting the lower end of the market will build its sales in Europe.
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Nokia to launch 'X Factor' mobile app

Nokia confirms plans to launch an exclusive mobile app for The X Factor 2010 at 4pm today.
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Hey, phone makers: Where's 'driving mode'?

Want to stop texting while driving? It's time the phone makers got involved, starting with building a "driving mode" into the software.
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Blackberry Restrictions in Dubai: Blame the Spies

Sprint scales up Partner Interexchange Network with its termination-only service

Sprint Wholesale's (NYSE: S ) Partner Interexchange Network (PIN), a service that provides business-to-business wholesale exchange of voice traffic to any kind of service provider (MSOs, ILECs, CLECs, etc), has been quite a hit after being initially launched last October . Since Sprint began passing PIN traffic in April, the PIN partner base has grown to 67 million telephone numbers, a figure ...
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Samsung, Toshiba "me-too" tablets seek to battle IPad

Samsung Electronics Co. and Toshiba Corp. unveiled tablet computers Thursday in Berlin, aiming to take market share from Apple Inc.'s iPad with their lower-priced "me-too" devices.
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Microsoft releases Windows Phone 7

Forget about iOS, BlackBerry, Android and Symbian! Microsoft wants you to know that it has released the RTM version of Windows Phone 7 - to manufacturers. read more
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China market: Symbian losing dominance, market share falls to 50-60%

Mashable Giveaway: Win A SANYO Dual HD Camera

HTC Desire vs. Samsung Galaxy S

In one of our toughest tech battles yet, we pit the HTC Desire against the Samsung Galaxy S to see which Android reigns supreme.
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BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 now available from Three UK

Games merchandising selling like hot cakes

Android web use closes gap with iOS in the US for August

Huawei Bets on Google Brand, Low-End Smartphone in Europe Push

Huawei Technologies Co., Chinaâ€™s largest phone-equipment maker, is betting Google Inc. branding and smartphones targeting the lower end of the market will build its sales in Europe.
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Palm Coast bristles at development-rules critics

Proposed development guidelines for a swath of western Palm Coast could harm wildlife as well as drinking water, according to state planners who said the city needs to return to the drawing board. But city officials said the problem is with the state planners.
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