A Sparc of hope for Symbian

Fujitsu has been here before The Symbian Foundation is being wound down - but it may yet survive, at least in name.…
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Leaked Photo Shows Sony Ericsson PlayStation Phone

A photo of a prototype Sony Ericsson phone has appeared, showing a slide-out device with PlayStation/PSP-style gaming controls. It purportedly will appear sometime next year with Android 3.0, aka Gingerbread.
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Sanyo Electric brand to end in '12

OSAKA (Kyodo) The Sanyo Electric Co. brand will be terminated in principle in April 2012 after the company becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Panasonic Corp. next April, sources said Saturday. Under Panasonic's business reorganization plan, it will also stop making less-competitive Sanyo products after its acquisition of the Osaka-based electronics firm, the sources said.
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A Sparc of hope for Symbian

Fujitsu has been here before The Symbian Foundation is being wound down - but it may yet survive, at least in name.…
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Motorola releases mobile device management software

Motorola has launched a device-management software platform aimed at IT managers that works with a variety of brands, but excludes Research In Motion devices like the BlackBerry.
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Nokia X3 Touch and Type Philippines : Price - Php 8,560, Nokia X3-02 Details

At first glance, it may look like just another Nokia candybar handset. But really, it's a landmark device -- A product of Nokia's vision to always introduce innovative devices, ultra-thin Nokia X3 Touch and Type aka Nokia X3-02 is the first Nokia phone to don a unique combination of a 2.4" resistive touchscreen and a 16-button alpha-numeric keypad. The keypad is optimized for one hand use and is ...
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Verizon Wireless and LG Mobile Phones Offer Text Messaging Enthusiasts the LG Octane

BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and SAN DIEGO, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless and LG Mobile Phones today announced the LG Octane(TM) will be available online at www.verizonwireless.com and in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores tomorrow. Keeping customers up to date with their social networks has never been more convenient with the LG Octane's iconic form factor with ...
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Wi-Fi Direct vs. Bluetooth 4.0: A Battle for Supremacy

The fight is on for wireless device-to-device networking supremacy between a refreshed incumbent, Bluetooth 4.0, and a newcomer, Wi-Fi Direct. Both specifications are promising to make it easier for you to quickly transfer pictures, files and other data between two wireless devices such as your smartphone and laptop without the need for a Wi-Fi network or USB cable.
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Motorola, Leading Provider of Mission-Critical Communications Solutions, Exhibits at Milipol Qatar 2010 - The ...

24 October 2010 DOHA, State of Qatar: The Motorola Motorola Solutions business of Motorola Motorola , Inc. (NYSE: MOT) a leading provider of mission-critical communications solutions and a trusted partner of public safety, government, and enterprise customers worldwide, today announced that it will be exhibiting at Milipol Qatar, the Worldwide Exhibition of International State Security.
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BlackBerry Bold 9780 gets official; hits T-Mobile USA on Nov 17

It’s taken them a while, but RIM has finally got around to making the BlackBerry Bold 9780 official. Another QWERTY candybar, the Bold 9780 is the first in the Bold range to come with the BlackBerry 6 OS, and also has a 5-megapixel camera, 3G and WiFi. There’s also autofocus and and an LED flash, [...]
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Sanyo unveils green energy solutions

KASAI CITY, Japanâ€"Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd opened here last week a new Green Energy Park to showcase and further test what it says is the best solution so far to the problem of instability in solar power generation.
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The Nokia E7 offers both a large touch screen display along with a full slide out QWERTY keyboard

The Nokia E7 has both a large touch screen display along with a full slide out QWERTY keyboard for easy navigation through the user interface along with fast text input. Additionally, the handset also features an impressive 8 megapixel camera, location based services and more. The handset has a large 4 inch capacitive touch screen display with 16:9 widescreen nHD 640 by 360 pixels AMOLED ...
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Samsung Galaxy Tab hits Sprint Nov 14 for $400

Sprint has officially confirmed availability and pricing for the Samsung Galaxy Tab , which will land on the CDMA network come November 14 priced at $399.99 with a new, two year 3G data plan agreement. The Sprint Galaxy Tab is up for pre-order from today, at sprint.com/tab . As we’ve seen before, the Galaxy Tab has a 7-inch touchscreen, runs Android 2.2 Froyo on Samsung’s own 1GHz Hummingbird ...
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The Nokia E7 offers both a large touch screen display along with a full slide out QWERTY keyboard

The Nokia E7 has both a large touch screen display along with a full slide out QWERTY keyboard for easy navigation through the user interface along with fast text input. Additionally, the handset also features an impressive 8 megapixel camera, location based services and more. The handset has a large 4 inch capacitive touch screen display with 16:9 widescreen nHD 640 by 360 pixels AMOLED ...
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America's First 3G/4G Phone, HTC EVO 4G from Sprint, Honored with POPULAR MECHANICS' ...

HTC EVO 4G Recognized for Industry-Leading Features, Including a 4.3-Inch Touchscreen Display, Lightning-Fast 1GHz Snapdragon Processor, Dual Cameras Enabling Mobile Video Chat and 4G Network Capabilities OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Sprint (NYSE:S) made history in June with the launch of the award-winning HTC EVO(TM) 4G, America's first 3G/4G wireless phone. Packed with industry-leading features, it ...
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BlackBerry Bold 9780 gets official; hits T-Mobile USA on Nov 17

It’s taken them a while, but RIM has finally got around to making the BlackBerry Bold 9780 official . Another QWERTY candybar, the Bold 9780 is the first in the Bold range to come with the BlackBerry 6 OS, and also has a 5-megapixel camera, 3G and WiFi. There’s also autofocus and and an LED flash, GPS, 512MB of of flash storage and a microSD slot good with cards up to 32GB. WiFi calling is ...
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27 October 2010 Motorola Motorola has a history of over 50 years of bringing creative, cutting edge inventions to the video industry and has always been at the forefront of technology - from its original days in TV manufacturing to the design of the world's first analog cable TV system and the creation of the world's first digital HDTV technical standard.
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Sprint to phase out iDEN network

In an interview with Fierce Wireless, Sprint's CEO Dan Hesse said that has plans to phase out its iDEN network to free up some space for its CDMA network. "Over time, we'll have fewer and fewer customers on the iDEN network. That allows us to use some of that capacity on the network that is freed up and use it for CMDA. It's a gradual process. There will be an end date for all 2G, just like ...
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Apps fuel mobile games sales bonanza

Oh Appy days Sales of mobile games will double over the next four years to fuel a global market worth $10bn in 2014. Apps are to blame.…
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Mobile games to topple $10 billion by 2014

From a niche market to one that's quickly becoming the most important, mobile gaming is expected to continue to climb at an exhilarating rate for at least the next four years. read more
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Sprint Nextel post first revenue gain in years

NEW YORK - Sprint Nextel Corp. on Wednesday reported its first quarterly revenue increase in three years, as improvements...
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Perfect Viewer Is A Touch-Screen Enhanced Image Viewer For Android

Android: Almost all Android apps use the touch screen in some capacity. Perfect Viewer, however, divides the screen into hot zones for 10 different functions including zooming, panning, changing images and moreâ€"perfect for reading comics and heavy image viewing. (more…)
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Woman Crashes Car After Using Phone GPS, Texting

Police say a driver texting her boyfriend crashed her car early Saturday on the Thruway in Chili.
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Sanyo Electric brand to end in '12

OSAKA (Kyodo) The Sanyo Electric Co. brand will be terminated in principle in April 2012 after the company becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Panasonic Corp. next April, sources said Saturday. Under Panasonic's business reorganization plan, it will also stop making less-competitive Sanyo products after its acquisition of the Osaka-based electronics firm, the sources said.
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Bluetooth chip prices fall to below US$1, say Taiwan makers

Prices for Bluetooth chips have dropped to below US$1, resulting in fast growing adoption such that Bluetooth-enabled models will account for 65% of all handsets sold this year. In addition, more than 1.0 billion devices equipped with Bluetooth solutions will be sold in 2010, according to Taiwan-based developers/makers of Bluetooth chips.
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Nokia backs Qt framework for Symbian and MeeGo development

Native and web mobile apps to build on cross-platform toolkit Nokia is focusing on Qt (pronounced "cute") as the sole application development framework for its Symbian and MeeGo mobile phone platforms for both native and Web application development, the company said Thursday.
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Palm Pre 2 commercials get it right

In an improvement from earlier campaigns, the first Palm Pre 2 commercials widely concentrate on what the phone can do. Originally posted at Dialed In
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Sony Ericsson Xperia⢠X10 mini Facebook Competition Most Popular Ever

Sony Ericsson has revealed that the recent competition to win an Xperiaâ„¢ X10 mini on the Sony Ericsson Facebook fan page has been its most successful to date. (PRWeb October 27, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/10/prweb4697164.htm
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Why Apps Are Better on Windows Phone 7

While late to the game, Windows Phone 7 came out of the gate as a formidable and serious contender to iPhone, Android and BlackBerry. The Windows Phone is more enterprise-ready than the iPhone has ever been, without compromising on consumer friendliness. Windows Phone 7 is designed to bridge personal and professional lives.
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Assurance Wireless Intros Two New Voice Plans

Assurance Wireless today announced two new voice plan add-ons that increase the number of minutes available to customers. The base, free monthly plan remains the same at 250 minutes with additional minutes and texts costing 10 cents. For $5 per month, users can double that to 500 minutes. For a total of $20 beyond the base plan, users have access to 1000 voice minutes and 1000 texts, with ...
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Samsung Galaxy Tab hits Sprint Nov 14 for $400

Sprint has officially confirmed availability and pricing for the Samsung Galaxy Tab , which will land on the CDMA network come November 14 priced at $399.99 with a new, two year 3G data plan agreement. The Sprint Galaxy Tab is up for pre-order from today, at sprint.com/tab . As we’ve seen before, the Galaxy Tab has a 7-inch touchscreen, runs Android 2.2 Froyo on Samsung’s own 1GHz Hummingbird ...
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Motorola adds Android, iPhone support to mobile management

Computerworld - Motorola today announced management support for Android smartphones and iPhones in its latest software management tool, known as Mobility Services Platform (MSP) 3 Control Edition.
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Android Market Hits 100k Apps, but Can it Compete with Apple

Google announced that its mobile applications store Android Market has hit the 100,000 apps milestone, surpassing competing stores from BlackBerry, Nokia or Palm. However, Android Market is only the number two app store around: Apple's App Store hosts three times as many. If Google wants to catch up with Apple, then it will have to address some Android Market issues many are complaining about.
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Motorola adds Android, iPhone support to mobile management

Computerworld - Motorola today announced management support for Android smartphones and iPhones in its latest software management tool, known as Mobility Services Platform (MSP) 3 Control Edition.
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Palm Pre 2 commercials get it right

In an improvement from earlier campaigns, the first Palm Pre 2 commercials widely concentrate on what the phone can do. Originally posted at Dialed In
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E-reader battles get more colorful

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Sanyo unveils green energy solutions

KASAI CITY, Japanâ€"Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd opened here last week a new Green Energy Park to showcase and further test what it says is the best solution so far to the problem of instability in solar power generation.
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Adobe Flash Player 10.1 headed to Windows Phone 7

Yesterday Adobe made a number of announcements involving its AIR 2.5 product for mobile devices, desktops, televisions, and more. Adobe also said that it will offer Flash Player 10.1 for "future versions of Windows Phone," which we take to mean Windows Phone 7. Adobe said it will also offer the player on LiMo, MeeGo, and Symbian OS devices. Adobe did not give a timetable for when it would deploy ...
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BlackBerry PlayBook readies for Adobe AIR apps

RIM releases a software developer kit in aim to get traditional Web programmers creating apps for the BlackBerry PlayBook.
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Catching up with multitouch pioneer Jeff Han

Fresh off landing a new round of funding, touch-screen luminary Jeff Han chats with CNET's Ina Fried about his company, the direction of the industry, and more.
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LG Optimus 7 review

If last night's cameo showing off the official Twitter client for Windows Phone 7 wasn't enough of a hint, yes, we've gotten our hands on LG's Optimus 7 . This 3.8-inch machine will serve as LG's international WP7 ambassador while Americans get to grips with its QWERTY keyboard-equipped Quantum brother. As you'll no doubt be aware by now, the internal equipment is standardized around Microsoft's ...
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America's First 3G/4G Phone, HTC EVO 4G from Sprint, Honored with POPULAR MECHANICS' ...

HTC EVO 4G Recognized for Industry-Leading Features, Including a 4.3-Inch Touchscreen Display, Lightning-Fast 1GHz Snapdragon Processor, Dual Cameras Enabling Mobile Video Chat and 4G Network Capabilities OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Sprint (NYSE:S) made history in June with the launch of the award-winning HTC EVO(TM) 4G, America's first 3G/4G wireless phone. Packed with industry-leading features, it ...
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