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Nokia’s E63 Now Available in the U.S.
Today Nokia announced that its E63 smartphone is not available at its flagship stores in Chicago and New York City, as well as official online retailers. The E63 will cost $279 and comes unlocked. It will come with a free 12-month subscription to Share on Ovi.
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Verizon Wireless to Share LTE Details
Verizon Wireless in planning to reveal more details about its planned Long Term Evolution roll out at the Mobile World Congress show. Verizon is already conducting trials with Vodafone, and will unveil its technology partners during the trade show next week. Verizon reaffirmed its commitment to begin building out its LTE network, which will co-exist [...]
Amazon Confirms E-Books for Phones
Amazon has confirmed that it plans to expand its Kindle service to mobile phones. Launch timing, pricing, and compatibility remain to be announced.
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MetrocPCS Launches Service in Waco
Today MetroPCS announced that it has launched its cellular services in the Waco, Texas metropolitan region. Waco marks the newest addition to MetroPCS’ footprint, which has been expanding rapidly of late. MetroPCS offers contract-free wireless services that start at $30 per month. MetroPCS already has a presence in Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Kilgore, Killeen, Longview, [...]
Verizon Wireless Offers Location-Based Weather Alerts
Today Verizon Wireless announced a new service that will alert users about inclement or dangerous weather conditions. The technology takes advantage of GPS and location-based information, can see where the subscriber is, and will issue an alert via text messag to the appropriate set of people in a given region if they are threatened by [...]
Broadcom’s Latest EDGE Chip Can Do Touch and Haptics
Broadcom announced a new EDGE chipset for 2G phones that can do many of the things that more powerful 3G chipsets can do. Some of the key features this new chip will bring to lower-cost 2G handsets include touch-based user interfaces with haptic feedback, accelerometers, advanced multimedia and increased Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPS connectivity. The [...]
ZTE to Unveil Entire Line of Smartphones at Mobile World Congress
Today Leap Wireless announced a new service called Mobile Music, which is a new mobile storefront for Cricket subscribers to discover and download music. The service will cover both PCs and phones. Tracks will cost $1.99 each, or three for $5 to download directly to the phone. Cricket users can also choose to download songs [...]
ZTE to Unveil Entire Line of Smartphones at Mobile World Congress
ZTE today announced that it is preparing a whole line of new smartphones using both the Windows Mobile and Linux platforms. It will be showing off 10 new handsets, many of which will be for Vodafone and China Mobile. ZTE said the handsets will range from entry-level to high-end. ZTE didn’t say if it plans [...]
Sony Ericsson Slips Out CyberShot and Walkman Sliders
Today Sony Ericsson announced new handsets for its CyberShot and Walkman lines. Both phones are sliders that have quad-band GSM/EDGE radios, stereo Bluetooth, FM radios with RDS, and support Memory Stick Micro storage cards.
* C903a: This CyberShot phone has a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash. It also has Sony Ericsson’s, face detection, Smile [...]
Nokia Adds to XpressMusic Line with the 5630
Today Nokia announced the newest handset in its XpressMusic line, the 6530, a bar-style phone that runs S60 rather than Series 40. The 5630 integrates some of the elements seen in S60 5th Edition (which is used for the 5800 and N97), including the new Contact Bar, which lets users find and interact with their [...]
