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Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo has halted sales of Research in Motion's BlackBerry Bold after only a week. Approximately 30 customers complained that the device's keyboard was overheating while plugged ... More >
According to ComScore m:Metrics, the top-selling handset in December 2008 was not the iPhone 3G. Topping the list was Research in Motion's BlackBerry Curve 8330, FierceWireless reports. Apple's iPh... More >
The LG Versa goes on sale Sunday, March 1. The touchscreen handset will be available through Verizon Wireless stores and retail for $200 after a $50 rebate and a two-year contract, reports Compute... More >
The world's top cell phone maker is considering entering the laptop business. According to Reuters , in a television interview with Finnish broadcaster YLE, Nokia Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvu... More >
According to a survey from ABI Research, mobile use of Internet search engines grew 14 percent from 2007 to 2008. Wireless Week reports that 70 percent of respondents who used their mobile device t... More >
Verizon is looking to challenge Sprint Nextel with its release of a new low-cost push-to-talk phone. The CDMA clamshell phone has EV-DO and is $99.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a two-year servic... More >
New information from ABI Research reveals that 17 percent of smartphone users spent between $100 and $500 on mobile applications in 2008. The numbers are considered significant given that most mobile... More >
Reports from DigiTimes indicate that Huawei's first Android-powered smartphone will be launched by T-Mobile. According to Softpedia , it is unknown whether the device will come to T-Mobile USA or T-... More >
HTC confirmed it will bring its Touch Pro 2 smartphone to North American shores. The company did not disclose a specific launch date or agreements with carriers, reports MobileBurn . The Wind... More >
Phone Reviews reports Nokia has completed a 5-year, 500 million euro loan agreement with the European Investment Bank that will partially finance research and development projects with the aim of ma... More >
Citing a "person familiar with the matter," CNBC is reporting that Sprint has exclusive U.S. rights to sell the Palm Pre through at least 2009. Neither company has commented on the specula... More >
Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) is bringing Google's Android platform to Asian shores. The company will begin offering the HTC Dream, which runs on Android, in Singapore on February 21, repo... More >
Strategy Analytics says the popularity of social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace is driving the adoption of Adobe's Flash Lite solution. Adobe recently made the Adobe Flash Lite 3.1 Distri... More >
Recent numbers from IDC indicate that the coronation of Apple's iPhone may have been premature. According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, Research in Motion increased its market ... More >
Qualcomm is adding femtocell chipsets to its product road map. MobileBurn reports that Qualcomm's Femtocell Station Modem chipsets will support both HSPA and EV-DO. The chipsets will include baseba... More >
Sprint is adding mobile broadband to its Simply Everything Plan. Sprint users wanting mobile broadband will simply have to kick in an additional $50.99 to their current $99 monthly payment, reports ... More >
The world's largest wireless chip maker and the world's largest handset maker appear to have put their previous legal differences behind them. Qualcomm and Nokia announced that they will partner on 3... More >
Vodaphone can now lay claim to the world's second Android-powered smartphone , reports internetnews.com . It will be the exclusive carrier for the UK, Spain, Germany, and France and non-exclusive c... More >
CNET News reports that 17 of world's leading handset makers have agreed to come up with a common standard for cell phone chargers . LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson are among the grou... More >
Microsoft has re-branded its operating system for mobile phones. Gone are the days of Windows Mobile phones. Instead, devices will be known as Windows phones, reports PC World . The company a... More >
Microsoft is already following Apple's lead by opening its own segment of branded retail stores . The company is continuing to do so with the announcement of its own online mobile application store.... More >
AppleInsider reports that Apple and AT&T are in discussions to offer multi-tiered data plans for next-generation iPhones. The companies are considering the move to avoid losing current and pote... More >
Samsung claims its new Blue Earth smartphone, which comes equipped with solar panels, will be able to rely on those panels to power a call on relatively sunny days when used outdoors. DailyTech n... More >
The mobile Firefox browser, code-named Fennec, has been released for Windows Mobile in a pre-alpha version for testing. It currently works only on the HTC Touch Pro, according to Ars Technica . Fenn... More >
Google has announced a beta version of Google Sync for the iPhone and Windows Mobile handsets. The mobile application enables users to synchronize their GMail contacts, Google Calendar and other da... More >
Cisco is predicting that mobile data traffic volume will increase 131 percent by 2013. That's according to the company's Visual Networking Index Mobile Forecast for 2008-2013. Search Engine Watch r... More >
In an attempt to crack down on kidnapping and extortion, Mexico passed a law Monday requiring mobile providers to fingerprint all customers and build a national register of mobile phone users, repo... More >
Six wireless operators, including Telefonica, which just joined the LiMo Foundation, have announced that they will release handsets that use the foundation's Linux-based open source software this yea... More >
Early this morning, Engadget Mobile appeared to uncover an introductory page to Microsoft's My Phone beta. The URL has since been pulled, but the service purports to offer Windows Mobile users th... More >
Rumors of a Microsoft smartphone will not go away, despite repeated denials by the company. According to this Computerworld piece, some in the tech press believe Microsoft is going to introduce a s... More >
A post from The Boy Genius Report yesterday stirred folks up a bit. Zach Epstein came across an internal document from Sprint that showed the target in-stock date for the Palm Pre as March 15. &nbs... More >
Garmin , the GPS device-maker, has teamed with PC maker ASUSTeK to develop and deploy multiple smartphones this year. Few details have been disclosed by the independent partners other than that the... More >
Alcatel-Lucent recently posted a $5 billion loss in Q4 and cut loose a number of employees. Going forward into 2009, the company, like Nortel , plans to shift its focus toward LTE. IT Busin... More >
A Paris appeals court ruled against Orange, the wireless subsidiary of France Telecom, in its bid to reinstate its exclusive deal with Apple to sell the iPhone. The decision upheld the Competition Co... More >
The smartphone sector is poised for growth amid the financial pinch the mobile market is currently experiencing. According to this InternetNews article, JuniperResearch ventures a guess as... More >
Google's voice search is coming to T-Mobile's G1 users. The voice search application will arrive via an over-the-air software update that will also fix a few bugs, says InformationWeek . Yaho... More >
India plans to undercut other ultra-cheap laptops looking to bridge the digital divide with a $20 laptop. The laptop, being produced in conjunction with the Indian Institute of Science, IIT-Madras an... More >
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