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Have US wireless carriers gone mad? Samsung Fascinate crippled by Verizon

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:53:58 +0000

The promise of the Samsung Galaxy S on all four major US wireless carriers has been met, but did the carriers kill some of the experience we all hoped for with their customizations?

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Have US wireless carriers gone mad? Samsung Fascinate crippled by Verizon

HTC Peep still busted for WinMo users

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:44:54 +0000

If you’re a HTC Peep user everything should now be fixed and you can Tweet again. Unfortunately that’s not strictly true if you’re using a Windows Mobile user. The Windows Mobile version is still giving an error message and, from what we’re hearing from you guys, it’s now been unusable for a week.

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HTC Peep still busted for WinMo users

HTC Sliding QWERTY spotted on FCC

admin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:09:40 +0000

This HTC QWERTY device, emblazened with the Verizon logo, has just popped up on the FCC. At a guess this will no doubt be an Android device (no Windows flag in sight) and the keyboard, as you can see, is a lovely shade of red. Known as the “HTC PD42100″ it’ll be arriving on Verizon pretty soon and, we can only hope, to a European network in a slightly different guise soon

Register At Vodafone For Galaxy Tab

admin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:53:59 +0000

Vodafone have updated their Coming Soon section of the website to include information on the Samsung Galaxy Tab which will be available on their network soon here in the UK. The Tab is an Android based tablet running 2.2 FroYo so you get the latest version of the OS right out of the box, it also offers a 7 inch touch screen and features like a front facing camera for video calling.

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DataViz announces no webOS client coming, may have been acquired by RIM

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:25:07 +0000

DataViz makes excellent software products for mobile platforms like Documents To Go and RoadSync and has announced no webOS client is coming. They may also have been purchased by RIM.

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DataViz announces no webOS client coming, may have been acquired by RIM

T-Mobile/Orange Roaming From 5th October

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:31:56 +0000

The new joint venture company combining Orange and T-Mobile UK, Everything Everywhere today announced the launch date of the combined network roaming agreement which will allow customers of both groups roam on each other’s network. From the 5th October customers will be able to ‘opt-in’ to the service which will mean if their existing network has no coverage where you are but the other network does you will be able to use your phone as normal.

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T-Mobile/Orange Roaming From 5th October

Samsung Galaxy Tab and Toshiba Folio 100 handled

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:14:02 +0000

There’s a good video on the BBC website which takes a look at the new 7″ Samsung Galaxy Tab we covered yesterday. There’s a hands-on and a wry smile from Carey McGregor (Senior Product Manager at Samsung) when BBC reporter Rory Cellan-Jones states, “It looks lovely, but it looks just like a shrunken iPad though”. The Folio 100, from Toshiba, is also shown and comes with Android 2.2, Flash 10.1 support and a miniHDMI port

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Samsung Galaxy Tab and Toshiba Folio 100 handled

How do you say closed in Finnish? Nokia shuts down yet another service

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:18:20 +0000

Nokia’s high end smartphone sales have been on a steady decline and it doesn’t help their standing when they keep down shutting services they actively promote and bring customers into, but they are doing it yet again.

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How do you say closed in Finnish? Nokia shuts down yet another service

Are Indian Mobile handset brands giving their foreign counterparts a run for their money? [Telecom Tuesday]

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:00:00 +0000

Micromax, Lava, Spice, Zen, Karbonn and many other Indian handset brands are making more than a mark in the market today. They have together occupied more than 14% market share . The best part for them is that this has been at the cost of certain brands specifically Nokia losing its market share by more than 12% over the past year

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Are Indian Mobile handset brands giving their foreign counterparts a run for their money? [Telecom Tuesday]

Windows Phone 7 to be available in just two months?

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:05:43 +0000

Microsoft have pretty much stuck to their “holiday 2010″ statement when asked about launch dates for Windows Phone 7. For anyone not in the US, that can be translated at the Christmas / December timeframe. However, in a recent video Microsoft CEO Kevin Turner has said that the new OS will be available to buy.

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Windows Phone 7 to be available in just two months?