It’s been a busy week in mobile news, and we’re rounding it up like stray cattle.
There’s plenty going on this week, with manufacturers putting their finishing touches on Mobile World Congress announcements, especially Toshiba with their shiny new TG01 – the first phone to use Qualcomm’s powerhouse Snapdragon chip. Garmin and Asus locked in to a partnership for the nüvifone brand, so we’ll likely be seeing more GPSy goodness from them. Finally we talk a bit about the new Google Latitude service and how willing people will be to share their where.
Good to go? Episode 16 of The Signal is right behind the jump!
Music by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, as featured on Tap Tap Revenge for the iPhone.
Filler by Krazy Baldhead.
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Headlines
Garmin and Asus Announce Partnership, Showing nüvifone at MWC
New Google Maps Mobile Includes Location-Sharing “Latitude”
Toshiba TG01 announced with iPhone-trumping Snapdragon chipset
Rumours
QWERTY keyboard-equipped Samsung C6625 Windows Mobile smartphone spotted on Expansys
New Omnia-esque Samsung Acme i8910 Packs 8 Megapixel Camera
Spyker coming to Mobile World Congress with new hardware in tow?
Upcoming Swivelling Acer Handset Spotted
Sony Ericsson Canada’s “Coming Soon” page features Xperia X1a, C905a and T303
Sony Ericsson to introduce new stylish clamshell at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona?
Palm Pre Slated for March 15th According to Sprint End-of-Life List
LG Arena KM900 is the Love Child of Proud Parents Omnia and iPhone
First Shots of the Verizon BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230
Apple prepping video-recording for iPhone and iPhone 3G?
HTC Cedar spotted at Bluetooth SIG, confirms leaked HTC lineup?
Adobe coming to Mobile World Congress with Flash for iPhone?
Samsung bringing 16GB Omnia to Mobile World Congress?
Motorola ZN300 Curious, but Underwhelming
Sony Ericsson C510, W705 to be released at the end of February!
Motorola Krave ZN4 passes “Torch” to Motorola Inferno
Releases
It’s Business Time: Rogers Launches HP iPAQ 910 ‘Business Manager’
LG KM330 is a mid-range music-centric phone
Virgin Mobile Gets Ready to Launch Kyocera X-tc
Android HTC Dream Gets Official on Optus, Singtel
Fido Launches BlackBerry 8100 Pearl
Dual-SIM Glowfiish coming to the UK
Go Green With the Motorola W233 Renew on T-Mobile
Samsung B5702 is another low-end dual-SIM handset
Pantech IM-S410K Sky Wind is breath-enabled!
Helio Ocean 2 gets officially official! Could be yours for $149 from February 12th!
Motorola Launches i9 on Sprint’s iDEN Network