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Mobile phones with QWERTY keyboards are not going away anytime soon, regardless of how fast you think you can type on the piece of glass in your pocket, many want to push buttons and Cricket Wireless, one of America’s lesser known operators, is appeasing both sides of the keyboard versus touch debate by launching the…
Samsung has unveiled a new Korea-only phone – SHW-A200 aka Nori F. The device that’s somehow related to the original Nori model (SHW-A220) comes with the “Nori Folder’s uniqueness” that includes a customizable LED illumination on the front side of the phone. Rest of the features include a 2.8-inch WQVGA display, 3G data, T-DMB mobile…
Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of Google’s China operation, is set to launch a new mobile operating system in the next few weeks called Tapas according to The Wall Street Journal. It’s based on Google’s open source Android operating system, but is tailored for the Chinese market with additional software that can identify which city…
CenterNet and Mobyland, two Polish operators, have just announced that they’ve launched an LTE network using 20 MHz of spectrum on the 1800 MHz band according to LTE World. By the end of this year an estimated 700 cell towers will be covering over 7 million people with mobile broadband that achieves as much as…
Vodafone confirmed late on Tuesday that it has agreed to sell its 3.2% minority stake in China Mobile. Vodafone owns 642.9 million shares of China Mobile stock and the sale would net the carrier about £4.3 billion ($6.58 billion). Seventy percent of the proceeds from the China Mobile sale will be directed back to stockholders; while the…
We’ve seen technology that can be moved with brain waves before, but when has it ever been really accessible or useful? Wait, hold that thought. Now train it on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad as XWave allows you to control certain items on its app with nothing more than your brain waves. The application…
Droid-Life posted an interesting article over the long weekend regarding the ‘Froyo’ status of the Motorola Droid X. From the rumors below, the Droid X could very well be receiving the Android 2.2 update as we speak, or it may have actually been delayed all together. Two polar opposite rumors hit DL’s inbox, and they…
When we talk about app stores, the conversation is normally dominated by Apple and Google but Research In Motion wants to be a part of this discussion and its BlackBerry App World has now surpassed 10,000 mobile programs. “BlackBerry #AppWorld is 10,000 apps strong and growing – what apps do you love?” the company said…
Last week, there was a pretty solid rumour that Research In Motion had acquired a developer partner called DataViz, who had handled the document viewing/editing suite preloaded on BlackBerry smartphones. At the time it was just a rumour, RIM has confirmed the acquisition in a statement, saying “RIM has acquired some of the assets of…
If you’ve got an Android 2.2 (Froyo) smartphone in your pocket, then you have an application update for the included Gmail app awaiting you. A new version of Android’s built-in Gmail application has been found online, and while it’s not a big update, there are a couple of features you may like. First off, this…