Archive for May, 2009

A slow week at the FCC

After a blowout last week, it was a quiet few days at the Federal Communications Commission. Outside of a few new Samsung and LG models, we have only the Sony Ericsson W205 Walkman phone and what should be the Casio Exilim phone to report. Because the FCC has to certify …
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Samsung SGH-T349 is no BlackBerry

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Spotify mobile app demoed on Android, iPhone coming

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Spotifans, it’s the news you’ve been waiting for–Spotify has demoed the first mobile phone version of its music-streaming service, and it’s certainly the most exciting piece of mobile music software we’ve seen this year.

The mobile version is shown running on Google’…
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Japanese university uses iPhone to keep tab of students

The attendance reporting app used by the Aoyama Gakuin university.
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If American school children have to resort to some special mosquito ringtone to use cell phones at school, a university in Japan is doing the opposite: giving cell phones to students. And not just any cell phone–the iPhone …
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Verizon to roll out BlackBerry Storm update

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After some slight problems, Verizon Wireless officially announced on Friday that it will release a software update to RIM BlackBerry Storm owners starting on Sunday.

BlackBerry OS version 4.7.0.148 will be available to customers beginning on Sunday, May 31, at noon Pacific through …
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Gwabbit for BlackBerry: A great timesaving tool

Gwabbit is a Microsoft Outlook add-on, and now a BlackBerry application, that helps business professionals who get the names, numbers, and e-mail addresses from a contact’s e-mail into their address book without all the tedious typing.
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Gwabbit works its trade by automatically searching the signature block at the end of an e-mail and comparing that [...]

Sprint has Palm Pre exclusive through 2009

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Just after Verizon Wireless revealed that it would offer the Palm Pre in the next six months or so, Sprint has pushed back and asserted that it will have the exclusive on the Palm Pre through 2009.

The confirmation came on Thursday afternoon from Sprint spokesman …
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LG GD900 Crystal: A touch-screen phone you can see through

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We finally got our hands on the LG GD900 Crystal, which is billed as the world’s first transparent-design phone, and the transparent screen is as cool as we hoped–and not half as pointless.

The GD900 Crystal is a slider phone with a 3-inch touch screen, and a transparent keypad that lights up when opened. [...]

A sneak peek at Android 1.5 apps from Google I/O

Perhaps because the Google Android operating system is already a year old, because the Android Developer’s Challenge will be kicked off after Google’s I/O developer conference instead of before, or because the platform differences between Android 1.0 and Android 1.5 aren’t as dramatic as …
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Sony Ericsson makes Idou official; announces Yari and Aino phones

Remember Sony Ericsson’s Idou? That was the flashy “concept phone” that the company announced earlier this year at GSMA. Well, after a long wait, Sony Ericsson on Wednesday finally made the elusive …
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