Finnish cell phone maker Nokia said today it will buy mobile messaging company Oz Communications to give consumers access to instant messaging services and emails through their mobile devices.
Users will be able to access AOL, Gmail, ICQ, Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo.
Privately owned Oz is headquartered in Montreal and has about 220 [...]
LG Electronics today announced the launch of KP500, an affordable handset with touch screen technology.
Advanced handwriting recognition writes memos and text messages, and edit photo images by touching the screen with the pen tip. A QWERTY onscreen keyboard slides into view when the KP500 is held horizontally, and the auto rotating display always shifts images [...]
Samsung is launching an 8.0-megapixel camera phone Europe and Asia, allowing people to use touch screen features for a more camera-like feel.
Korea-based Samsung said the Pixon is its slimmest 8.0-megapixel camera phone yet, measuring just 13.8mm. It features a 16x digital zoom, auto-focus, fast-shutter, face detection and geo-tagging and comes with a 3.2-inch full-touch screen [...]
Sprint today opened its new WiMax wireless network to customers in Baltimore, offering Internet service for laptops for $30 per month.
Compared to cellular broadband technology, WiMax offers fast downloads and is cheap to deploy. Championed by Intel, Sprint’s Xohm-branded service is betting on WiMax to give it a few years’ head start before cellular broadband [...]
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Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo today announced plans to launch the BlackBerry Bold in early 2009.
The Bold will leverages DoCoMo’s high-speed 3G and HSDPA networks to offer phone, email, messaging, organizer and web browsing applications.
It integrates a newly designed QWERTY keyboard, built-in GPS and Wi-Fi, and an optional 2.0-megapixel camera [...]
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Apple has begun selling unlocked iPhone 3G models in Hong Kong, allowing people to use it with any mobile phone carrier.
On its Hong Kong website, the Cupertino-based company is advertising direct sales of iPhone 3G, saying people can “buy directly from Apple” and choose their own carrier. The 8GB version [...]
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Visa said it is developing a mobile payment service for the new cell phone powered by Google’s Android system.
San Francisco-based company said Android users will be able to receive near real-time alerts about transactions via their mobile devices. Customers will also be able to use location-based mapping technology to find ATM [...]
Sony Ericsson has announced plans to explore using environmentally sound components in its cell phones.
Cell phones are not biodegradable, containing small amounts of potentially harmful substances in batteries which, if not disposed of properly, could damage the environment.
The GreenHeart concept will research green technologies, using bio-plastic housings, recycled plastic keypads, zero charger with 3.5mW standby [...]
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In advance of the new Google phone, T-Mobile has lifted the cap on its monthly data plan.
The amendment was made a day after T-Mobile announced the G1, the first smartphone to use Google’s Android mobile software platform. The T-Mobile G1 combines touch-screen functionality and a QWERTY keyboard with popular Google products [...]
Sprint said today that it had completed the sale of about 3,080 towers to TowerCo for $670 million. Sprint will lease the towers back, freeing up cash to pay down its debt.
The two companies have signed a long-term leasing agreement for TowerCo to provide Sprint with towers to support its CDMA, iDEN and WiMAX networks.
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