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People Give Up on Mobile Data

The telecom industry consultants at Olista have found that 64% of mobile phone users give up on sexy services like picture messaging, web browsing, and ringtone downloads almost immediately after experiencing any form of difficulty. While obviously these boys are trying to sell something, namely their “innovative solutions that enable mobile operators to differentiate themselves…

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Sidekick III Launch Rumor – April 2006

Interesting rumor: I was at a conference at [some place] on [doing something for people]. During lunch, I sat next to [Some very important guy who knows this stuff] and we got to discussing the sidekick. He indicated that the sidekick III would be released in April of 2006. I asked him a few times…

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Samsung Plans to Reveal 10GB HDD Phone

Along with the 8-megapixel phone announcement, Samsung president Ki-Tae Lee also revealed plans for a 10GB HDD phone for 2006. This will apparently hold about 3,000 MP3s, which is way more than the 700 MP3s that Samsung’s existing SPH-V7900 holds. Again, details are few and far between about this new 10GB phone, so who knows…

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Slim LG KV5900 Cyon Slider

Spotted this pretty looking LG KV5900 phone over on Slashphone, and it is impressively slim: only 14mm thick. It also seems to have an MP3 chip built-in, and comes with 512MB of memory. And that’s unfortunately all I know about this slim slider — can’t seem to find any more information about it. Check out…

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Rumor: Verizon Wireless to Release Motorola RAZR V3c This Month

Those crazy kids at HowardForums are at it again, leaking out rumors that Verizon Wireless will be launching the Motorola RAZR V3c by end of this month. Apparently it’ll be packing EV-DO, a 1.3 megapixel camera, a speakerphone, and Bluetooth. Rumors also abound that it’ll cost about $499 after a two-year agreement, which sounds mighty…

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Samsung Phone Goes to 8 (Megapixels)

Samsung just broke the megapixel barrier on camera phones today. The SPH-V8200 has 8 — yes 8! — megapixels. And this just eight months after the release of the 7-megapixel SCH-V770. Samsung president Ki-Tae Lee revealed it today at a special press conference (pictured here). I don’t know anything else about this thing, but updates…

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Leaked: BlackBerry 7130e

It seems Bell Canada up in the Great White North leaked some information on the first ever EV-DO Blackberry on its business site. According to the leaked specs, the 7130e is a phone-style CDMA Blackberry with the same squished keypad and Bluetooth as the rest of the 7100 series. Plus it also has a 65k…

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LG’s Best Buy MP3 Phone

LG Electronics just announced the CE500, a clamshell phone with a built-in MP3 player. Cingular’s the carrier, and Best Buy will be the exclusive retailer for a limited time. The CE500 comes with a TransFlash memory port, dual speakers with 3D stereo sound, a VGA camera/video recorder with flash, tri-band and EDGE capabilities, a POP3…

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HTC Muse Is Coming

The HTC Muse is the latest HTC phone to come out and pack a huge punch in traditional HTC fashion. Designed as a music phone, the Muse will be running Windows Mobile 5.0, will be triband 3.5G (EDGE, UTMS, and more), and will feature a 65k color 240×240 screen. Aside from the lame screen, you…

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Nokia N92 Video In the Wild

Nice work by i4u in bringing us video of the N92 AKA the TV one. Looks like a cute little bugger. Live Video of Nokia N92 DVB-H TV Mobile Phone [i4u]

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Gizmodo Ink

The original plan was for Dell to bring its direct-to-consumer, low-cost selling kung-fu to consumer electronics retailing. Uh, time for Plan B now that traditional CE stores like Best Buy and Circuit City have categorically schooled Dell in the art of selling digital cameras, music players, and TVs. [Wall St. Journal (reg)] A group of…

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Cingular Announces BlackBerry 8700c

Yep, the rumors were true: Cingular and RIM have announced the launch of the BlackBerry 8700c, the first EDGE-enabled BlackBerry handset. The new and faster QWERTY wonder packs quite a punch, what with features like an Intel XScale PXA901 CPU, a 320×240 pixel resolution 65k color TFT LCD screen, Bluetooth, quad band, 64MB flash memory,…

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Nokia Announces Three New Phones-With Big Expectations

Nokia’s at it again, first announcing that it expected the smartphone market to double in the next year, then launching three new phones to help things along. All three phones will be part of the upscale N-series line, including two new multimedia phones and one able to get mobile TV. Chief Executive Jorma Ollila spoke…

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Airtime

Hey, Your Wallet’s Ringing By Carlo Longino Device convergence in the mobile world typically means something like shoehorning an MP3 player into a handset (sometimes with hilarious consequences). But plenty of companies have have designs on cramming your wallet into your cellphone, too. https://gizmodo.com/the-rokr-re-up-125064 Wireless payment systems aren’t all that new. The most well-known example…

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Motorola i870 Packs MP3 And Walkie-Talkie Power

The Motorola i870 from Nextel is out and is the first of it’s kind. How? It’s the first MP3-player phone with walkie-talkie capability. Now you can play your freestyle beats out loud and have your friends rap over the breakbeat. Word up. The phone also has some nice features like Bluetooth, a 1.3-megapixel camera and…

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Gizmodo Ink

Chicago’s City Hall approves the purchase of several $100,000 unmanned robo-vans that snap digipics of speed limit-defying cars. The Windy City would need to issue over 1,100 $90 speeding tickets to pay for just one vehicle. Hey, you gotta spend money to make money, right? [Chicago Sun-Times] The LA Times predicts a meteoric rise in the…

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Motorola MS550 Launched – Overflowing With Goods

Motorola finally launched its powerhouse of a phone, the MS550. This Korea-only handset borders on being a digicam because of it’s looks and the 3-megapixel camera included with it. Still need a reason to move to Korea for this phone? Allow me to continue. To even tell it’s a phone—and not some old-fashioned Kodak—you’ll need…

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Samsung to the WiMax in Korea

The news about the new Samsung m8000 isn’t so much the hardware itself, which is really just an upgrade to the i730 without an antenna, but that it is poised to be the first PDA Smartphone phone to use the WiBro (Wireless Broadband) network. WiBro technology is similar to the WiMax standard here in the…

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VK Mobile 650c from Helio

Here’s another EV-DO phone being shipped by VK Mobile for the US. The VK Mobile 650c is good-looking—white with a spin top—based on the 600c that can be found in Korea. You can also hold the QVGA display vertically or horizontally to watch video and if you’re really keen, there’s a video out so you…

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Radiation Cases Set To Go Through Courts

Could cellphone radiation lawsuits be the next big tobacco? Looks like the Supreme Court thinks so, and today decided against hearing an appeal from cellphone companies like Nokia and Cingular Wireless. This means that class-action lawsuits will indeed be able to go froward, arguing that manufacturers knew about and hid the risks of radiation emissions…

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People Give Up on Mobile Data

Sidekick III Launch Rumor – April 2006

Samsung Plans to Reveal 10GB HDD Phone

Slim LG KV5900 Cyon Slider

Rumor: Verizon Wireless to Release Motorola RAZR V3c This Month

Samsung Phone Goes to 8 (Megapixels)

Leaked: BlackBerry 7130e

LG’s Best Buy MP3 Phone

HTC Muse Is Coming

Nokia N92 Video In the Wild

Gizmodo Ink

Cingular Announces BlackBerry 8700c

Nokia Announces Three New Phones-With Big Expectations

Airtime

Motorola i870 Packs MP3 And Walkie-Talkie Power

Gizmodo Ink

Motorola MS550 Launched – Overflowing With Goods

Samsung to the WiMax in Korea

VK Mobile 650c from Helio

Radiation Cases Set To Go Through Courts

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