Super Cellphone Deals & News: Sep 12, 2010

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 mini pro

Sprint improves cell quality ranking

Sprint Nextel Corp. continues to improve its call quality, bucking an industry trend, but still trails Verizon Wireless, according to a semiannual J.D. Power and Associates study released Thursday. Sprint averages problems with 10 calls in 100, the survey found, slightly better than the industry average of 11 in 100. Sprintâ€™s scores improved since six months ago, when 13 calls in 100 were ...
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T-Mobile G2 To Debut Next Month for $200

T-Mobile has officially unveiled its next Android OS smartphone, but has kept quiet on some of the most important details. The price and release date for the T-Mobile G2 has now been revealed, however.
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Samsung Eternity II Phone Great Phone

The Samsung Eternity is available at Amazon for $0.01. These days everyone uses a cell phone. I mean even young children carry them around now to keep in touch with mom and dad. Several of the kids...
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Android to challenge Symbian for smart phone dominance, report says

While Google's Android OS has shown considerable growth this year, research firm Gartner claims its best days may be yet to come. The firm says that by 2014, as many as 259 million units could ship, coming very close to overtaking Symbian's expected shipments of 264 million that year.
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Review: Atomic9 Bluetooth Wristband Speakerphone

OK, you geek chic types: wanna look like Dick Tracy crossed with Maxwell Smart? Then check out one of the more unusual Bluetooth phone accessories on the market. The Atomic9 is a Bluetooth speakerphone that you wear on your ...
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Briefly: EA Mobile announces new titles, Discover 1.1 update

EA Mobile has launched two new casual games in the App Store, as well as released information for several other upcoming titles. YAHTZEE HD brings the well known dice game to the iPad platform, complete with a variety of game modes, multiplayer support, and access to Facebook Connect for posting scores and sending challenges. Meanwhile, LITE-BRITE allows users to create colorful pictures with a ...
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Dell 5-Button Bluetooth Travel Mouse for $12 + free shipping

Today only, Dell Home offers its Dell 5-Button Bluetooth Travel Mouse in Obsidian Black, model no. FW448, for $11.99 with free shipping. That's a buck under last month's mention and among the lowest...
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Windows Phone aims to bury its past (and iPhone)

At a ship party in Redmond on Friday, the Windows Phone team had a parade that included a mock funeral for the iPhone and BlackBerry.
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Rockchip tease with Android desk phone

Android-based landline phone renders are one thing, but Rockchip has been quietly beavering away at the real thing. Tucked away at IFA 2010 last week was the Rockchip Android phone , a desk-bound device which apparently supports both landline and 3G connections, can be used for video calls and browsing the web. As well as the touchscreen â€" no word on size, but weâ€™re guessing somewhere in the ...
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Hamlin clinches first seed in Chase with Richmond win

Richmond, VA (Sports Network) - Virginia-native Denny Hamlin will start the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship as the points leader after winning Saturday's Air Guard 400 at Richmond International Raceway.
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KryptonSoft initiated BlackBerry Application Development Outsourcing Services in new OS 6.0 SDK

Indianapolis - Krypton Softwares, a leading offshore Mobile Application Development Company expanding its blackberry software development services for the latest BlackBerry Platform 6.0 SDK.
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Acer Dual Screen Notebook In Development

It would appear that Acer has a new card up its sleeve in that the tech company is developing a dual screen laptop. A prototype of the new model notebook was spotted late Saturday and is said to come with a pair of 15-inch displays with each individual screen including touch capacity. Itâ€™s believed that [...]
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Sony Ericsson opens new Americas HQ in Atlanta

ATLANTA â€" Sony Ericsson hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the official move of its new Americas headquarters to Atlanta. The company says that locating the Americas headquarters in Atlanta will allow it to draw on the city's diverse pool of talent in the technology sector.
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Android To Finish Year In Second - Worldwide

Tech think tank, Gartner, is predicting that Google's Android will finish the year with the second biggest market share of mobile operating systems worldwide. Nokia's Symbian will remain number one, for the time being. What a difference a year makes. Just a year ago, newcomer Android held a mere 3.9% of the same worldwide market share trailing way behind Symbian (49%), Research in Motion (19.9 ...
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Motorola NYXboard QWERTY Remote Control

Motorola has been busy with their smartphones, but this high tech company does have arms extending into many other business lines. Recently, Motorola announced a new remote control that has characteristics of the TiVo slide with its QWERTY keyboard. Known as the Motorola NYXboard, this controller features a compact QWERTY keyboard that is positioned on [...]
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Palm Springs man to be sentenced today for fatal beating, robbery of security guard

A Palm Springs gang member convicted in the fatal beating and robbery of a 66-year-old security guard faces life in prison without parole when he is sentenced today.
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Gartner: Android, Symbian Will Win Mobile OS Wars

In a report released on Friday, analyst firm Gartner predicts Symbian and Android will become the dominant mobile operating systems by 2014, with both RIM and Microsoft's Windows Phone OSes trailing off into relative irrelevance.
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Palm Springs man sentenced to life without parole for guard slaying

A Palm Springs gang member who was 17 when he took part in the fatal beating and robbery of a security guard was sentenced today to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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Rockchip tease with Android desk phone

Windows Phone Predictions, Elop Departure, BPOS Outage Marked Microsoft Week

Microsoft's post-Labor Day week was marked by the sudden departure of Business Division president Stephen Elop, a BPOS outage, and a Windows Phone prediction by research firm IDC.
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HTC Desire debuts in India

Rockchip tease with Android desk phone

Samsung launches new laptop computers

Samsung Electronics has launched the next in its line of R-series and N-Series laptops, with the new computers aimed at improving efficiency and capacity, and contributing to the growth of the market in the region which saw a 22% increase in the sector in the first quarter of this year.
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HTC Desire firmware update rolling out

Today HTC released a new firmware update, version 2.10.405.2 for the Android powered Desire. The update patches Android, enhances multi-inbox Gmail support, and improves the Russian keyboard layout. HTC recommends that you backup all of your personal data before applying the update, which will be issued over-the-air. Read the full story here.
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Review: Atomic9 Bluetooth Wristband Speakerphone

BlackBerry World hits 10K apps

How do you like them , Apple? BlackBerry World now has more than 10,000 applications on its shelves. This would be more impressive if Android didn't have ten times that number, and iOS more than twice what Android's got.â€¦
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BlackBerry Service to Be Monitored in Saudi Arabia

BlackBerry data services can continue in Saudi Arabia after Research in Motion agreed to monitoring of e-mail and instant messaging data services. Saudi Arabia - BlackBerry - Research in Motion - Middle East - Instant messaging
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Nokia looks past Finland for boss

NOKIA has fired its embattled chief executive, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, and turned to a senior Microsoft executive in an attempt to restore its fortunes.
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Cell phone policies similar in area schools

Kennedy Christensen (left) and Samantha Greene use their phones on Wednesday night at the Linden Middle School open house. They both said cell phones are necessary for communication, and most early teens have them.
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Samsung launches new laptop computers

Windows Phone aims to bury its past (and iPhone)

At a ship party in Redmond on Friday, the Windows Phone team had a parade that included a mock funeral for the iPhone and BlackBerry.
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Briefly: EA Mobile announces new titles, Discover 1.1 update

Android 2.x now on 70 percent of all active Android phones

Time to get down and boogie if you think the Android fragmentation issue is overblown . Google has dropped its latest platform version stats and Android 2.2, aka Froyo , has managed to corner a healthy 28.7 percent of all active Googlephones (those that accessed the Market within the two weeks leading up to September 1), rapidly closing the gap on version 2.1 and nearly matching in number the ...
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Palm Springs man to be sentenced today for fatal beating, robbery of security guard

A Palm Springs gang member convicted in the fatal beating and robbery of a 66-year-old security guard faces life in prison without parole when he is sentenced today.
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Nokia appoints Elop as chief executive

Nokia has named Stephen Elop, a senior Microsoft executive, as its new chief executive in an attempt to combat slumping profits and an eroding market share.
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LG's THX-certified PX950 3D plasma TV eyes-on

LG is touting its plasma PX950 as the first THX-certified 3D HDTV, and while we didn't run into it at IFA , the company held a press gathering this week in New York to make up for it. So if this set meets THX's rigorous demands -- 400 bench tests and 1,000 data points spread out over 30 test categories -- how does it look to the average consumer? Well, LG certainly has done a lot to prevent ...
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HTC Desire debuts in India

Googleâs Android to be world No. 2 in 2010

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 12 â€" Google Incâ€™s Android software will become the worldâ€™s second most popular operating system for cell phones this year, leapfrogging rival offerings from Microsoft Corp, Research in Motion and Apple Inc, according to a new report. By 2014 Android will account for nearly 30 per cent of all cell phone operating system sales, ...
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Android desk phone spotted in the wild

A prototype Android-powered "desk phone" designed by Rockchip was recently spotted in the wilds of IFAÂ 2010. read more
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61% of smartphone owners play mobile games

Smartphone users gobbling up game apps Smartphone users are increasingly stuffing their mobile phones with apps, with games leading the way and productivity apps in the middle of the pack.
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Verizon Wireless To Change CFO As Vodafone Restructures

Verizon Wireless To Change CFO As Vodafone Restructures
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Sanyo launches Xacti VPC-GH4 full HD camcorder with YouTube, Facebook integration

Sanyo has announced another one of them there Xacti digicams, this time geared for the social media crowd. The VPC-GH4, like its sibling the VPC-GH2 , features Full HD 1080 video recording; and unlike the aforementioned GH2, integrates YouTube, Facebook, and Picasa uploads -- as well as Twitter notifications. But at what cost? Well, the newer model sees still photos dumbed down to 10 megapixels ...
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