Super Cellphone Deals & News: Sep 16, 2010

Thursday, September 16, 2010

T-Mobile Also to Sell Galaxy Tab

T-Mobile added that it will also offer the Samsung Galaxy Tab in time for the holidays.
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Sprint to provide personal cell towers for some

Sprint Nextel Corp. said it plans to give some mobile phone customers $100 pint-sized cell towers to improve coverage, a move that may put pressure on other competitors to follow suit. "In certain situations, where you have really bad coverage in your home,... Sprint Nextel - Mobile phone - cell phone - Telecommunications - Science and Technology
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HTC not content with simply making phones

The Taiwanese handset maker has slowly been evolving beyond smartphones. Today's announcements confirms its ambitions. Originally posted at Android Atlas
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Verizon Wireless Expands 3G Network Coverage in Onondaga County

SYRACUSE, N.Y., Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless is investing in Onondaga County and expanding its local coverage with a new cell site in Jamesville. The new site improves coverage and capacity along portions of Route 173 between Southwood and Manlius, and Route 91 between Route 481 and Pompey, including the towns of Jamesville and Jamesville Beach. This network expansion is part of the ...
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Nokia C3 Review

When Nokia announced that they will release a new qwerty phone early this year, I said meh. A full qwerty phone with an old OS (Symbian 40), no 3G and a 2MP camera, what could go right? My view changed when Nokia announced the price. See our full review of the Nokia C3 after the [...] Related posts: Nokia E63 Review Before you continue reading this, please read my review of... Nokia E51 Review ...
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Motorola buys location-based software vendor

Motorola, Inc. wants to make mobile smartphones even smarter -- and more proactively helpful to users.
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Hands-On: Windows Phone 7 looks cool, but is it cool enough?

Windows Phone 7 is on target to ship by the holidays. Are you interested in dumping your phone for one running this new mobile OS?
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Palm oil stockpiles surge

Palm oil stockpiles in Malaysia, the world's second largest producer, jumped a more-than-expected 23 per cent in August, the first monthly advance this year, after exports slumped and production increased.
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Motorola buys location-based software vendor

Motorola, Inc. wants to make mobile smartphones even smarter -- and more proactively helpful to users.
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Droid lessons: Smart-phone owners flock to classes to help master their high-tech phones

For the 14 students at Tuesdayâ€™s adult education class, there was no reprimanding or punishment for downloading apps and music on cell phones. Instead, this class was encouraged to play with the Android phone, commonly called Droid, as much as possible during class.
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Motorola scoops up German software firm

Motorola Inc. said Thursday it has acquired a company that develops location-based software for smartphone devices. Terms of the deal with Aloqa GmbH, which has offices in Munich, Germany and Palo Alto, Calif., were not disclosed.
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Nokia Investors Don't Feel the Buzz

Nokia Oyj shareholders didnâ€™t feel the buzz at the companyâ€™s showcase event in London this week, increasing pressure on Chief Executive Officer Stephen Elop to speed development of devices to rival Apple Inc. and Google Inc.
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Verizon Wireless Partners with Good to Enhance Android

Verizon Wireless announced a new partnership with Good Technologies in order to make its Android devices more appealing to business users. Good Technology, formerly named Visto, offers enterprise-grade email and security controls for Android devices. The software will work with Verizon's entier Android lineup, including the Motorola Droid, Droid x and Droid 2; the HTC Droid Incredible and Droid ...
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Police use phone GPS to guide lost Neenah man out of the woods

WINCHESTER A 50-year-old Neenah man who spent Tuesday night in the woods after his GPS unit failed was guided out Wednesday morning using GPS coordinates from his cell phone.
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Nokia C3-01, better than the Nokia C3?

Nokia likes to confuse us by introducing different versions of their C-series phones but not letting go of the original model name. Just like what they did with the Nokia C6 and C6-01, now they remade the popular Nokia C3 and came up with the C3-01. The Nokia C3-01 is made as a touch and [...]
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Verizon Wireless Expands 3G Network Coverage in Onondaga County

Nokia C3 Review

Sanyo Innuendo On Sale from Sprint

Sprint recently began offering the Sanyo Innuendo for sale from its web site. The Innuendo is a sideways clamshell that has a 2.8-inch internal display and a full QWERTY keyboard for messaging. The Innuendo also has a touch-based external dial-pad with haptic feedback and a proximity sensor that deactivates the screen when it is held close for phone calls. Other features include a 3.2 megapixel ...
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Sprint gives cell phones a free boost

Sprint Nextel Corp. said it plans to give away $100 pint-size cell towers to some mobile-phone customers to improve coverage, a move that could put pressure on competitors to follow suit.
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Nokia readies for smartphone battle with Symbian 3

Mobile phone maker Nokia today launched four devices based on its new Symbian 3 operating system that it hopes will capture 50 million customers and allow Nokia to recapture the high ground in the competitive smartphone market
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Nokia Investors Don't Feel the Buzz

HTC Desire Z - Official Specs, Full Press Release

Yesterday, in a London press event, HTC announced two new Desire variants -- one of which is the handsome HTC Desire Z full QWERTY slide phone; As expected, users get HTC Sense UI on HTC Desire Z Android-2.2-Froyo-run HTC Desire Z dons a unique 'pop hinge' that reveals a QWERTY keyboard for convenient typing. This keyboard supports a variety shortcuts and has two customizable keys for instant ...
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Motorola buys location-based software vendor

Motorola, Inc. wants to make mobile smartphones even smarter -- and more proactively helpful to users.
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Samsung to officially launch GalaxyTab in NYC

Samsung is expected to offer more details on its iPad killer tonight at an event in New York City on Thursday.
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City, Clearwire consider revenue deal

Upper Arlington hopes to gain new revenue by allowing a local telecommunication company to lease and build structures to locate its high-speed internet network equipment.
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T-Mobile, Android Power Walmart's Post-Paid Mobile Plan

Walmart and T-Mobile partner to offer handsets, data and voice plans without a contract.
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Nokia outs C6, C7 with Symbian^3 to reclaim smartphone turf

Nokia World kicked off on Tuesday with the launch of Symbian^3-based smartphones that may be crucial to the company's turnaround. The C7 becomes a more affordable alternative to the soon-to-ship N8 and has a smaller 3.5-inch AMOLED display with the use of newly developed ClearBlack Display technology; like Samsung's Super AMOLED, it's claimed to provide better visibility in bright sunlight where ...
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Nokia Is the McDonald's of Phones [Nokia]

# nokia Didn't you notice? It was just Nokia World ! But with profits plummeting and executives fleeing â€"both at alarming ratesâ€"maybe it should be a reckoning instead. MoreÂ Â»
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Nokia Mapping News

Nokia updated Ovi Maps with new maps that include public transportation, traffic and check-ins. "Nokia didn't make the announcement. Its new partner did. According to Foursquare (News - Alert) co-founder Naveen Selvadurai, Nokia phones will come with the Foursquare location application pre-loaded."
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Sprint gives cell phones a free boost

Sprint Nextel Corp. said it plans to give away $100 pint-size cell towers to some mobile-phone customers to improve coverage, a move that could put pressure on competitors to follow suit.
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Verizon Wireless to offer its own Android app store to compete with Google

It seems Verizon Wireless is not content to simply allow Google to get all the revenue for Android apps through the Android Market. Android and Me is reporting that Verizon Wireless plans to open its own Android app store called the V CAST App Store. Verizon began accepting submissions for its app store on September [...]
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LG Enters Water Treatment Business: A Steady Stream to Balance Tricky Tech

LG, yes the same LG whose logo may be stamped somewhere on your HDTV, fridge or cell phone, has just announced it's entering the water treatment business . It's for the good of people, and for LG's bottom line. LG's press release on the matter puts an altruistic spin on things. LG's trying "to help combat global water supply issues and to move further toward becoming a more environmentally ...
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Android overtakes MS in US market

Googleâ€™s Android was the fastest mover in the US smartphone marketing in Q2, stealing market share from all of its main rivals.
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HTC launches new Android handsets

HTC launches new Android handsets
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Palm oil stockpiles surge

Palm futures decline as Malaysia inventory climbs

CPO FUTURES PALM oil dropped for a second yesterday after a report showed that stockpiles in Malaysia, the second-biggest grower, jumped 23 per cent in August as production gained and exports slumped. Futures for November delivery fell as much as 1.3 per cent to RM2,610 (US$837) a metric ton on the Malaysia Derivatives Exchange and traded at RM2,613 at 5.12 pm local time. Prices slid 1.2 per ...
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T-Mobile, Android Power Walmart's Post-Paid Mobile Plan

Walmart and T-Mobile partner to offer handsets, data and voice plans without a contract.
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iOS, Android sway mobile apps growth

Mobile application downloads from iOS - the iPhone's operating system - are forecast to make up for 52% of the total this year. Together with downloads from Google's Android, the two operating systems are forecast to account for 78% of all app downloads this year, according to ABI Research.
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Motorola tablet next year?

SAN FRANCISCO - MOTOROLA co-chief Sanjay Jha on Wednesday painted a future for the company that included beefed-up smartphones and a tablet computer running on Google-backed Android software. Mr Jha hoped Motorola would have an Android tablet computer ready early next year, he said while sharing thoughts at a Deutsche Bank Technology Conference in San Francisco.
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HTC reveals iPhone 4 rival amid Nokia ambush

HTC unveils its challenger to the iPhone 4 as an angry Nokia ambushed the event with guerilla marketing and a snarky "survival kit" for journalists.
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Touch screen IC shipments to buoy Elan September revenues

Touch panel IC designer Elan Microelectronics expects to see revenues in September 2010 bounce back to better than the level of August, buoyed by a ramp-up in orders from both the notebook and consumer electronics sectors, according to the company.
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