Pre-CTIA I.T. and Entertainment Round-Up Update

By Contributor Wireless and Mobile News on October 7, 2009 7:19 AM

The wireless industry likes to make announcements either on the days of trade shows or a few days before. This week kicks off some major stories for the wireless world, preceding the CTIA-The Wireless Association's "International CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainmnet 2009 in San Diego." The Android Avalanche continues with many of the announcement supporting the Android operation system and/or apps.

Here is our updated round-up of announcements as of this morning:

Bitstream announced that their super-fast mobile BOLT browser is out of Beta and ready for downloading to millions of phones of all types including BlackBerry and J2ME.
There will be an Adobe Flash Player coming for mobile devices.
Motorola is embracing the Android OS with their CLIQ and supporting app development with app partners.
Verizon and Google are partnering for Android devices and apps. They will support Google Voice and the phone used at the press conference sure looks like an HTC Hero.
Microsoft will back 30 phones with their new Windows Mobile 6.5 and also offer free back-up sycro service My Phone.
Best Buy Mobile will help customers back-up and sync their smartphones with miQ.
Research shows services and apps are very important to mobile phone purchase decisions.
There is a new SDK forc BlackBerry Widgeting.
The Palm Pre webOS app store is open for business.
AT&T announced two Windows Phones, the HTC Pure and the HTC Tilt 2. Texting phones on the way to costumers hand in time for the holidays: Pantech Reveal, Pantech Impact, Samsung Mythic and Samsung Flight.
AT&T will be suppling customers with an Opera-based browser.
T-Mobile announced the Android Samsung Behold II with an AMOLED display.
The CTIA Fund Fest Finalists were announced.

There will be more CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainmnet 2009 articles coming out from Wireless and Mobile News. We are headed down to San Diego, today and will give our readers an inside scoup on whats going on in wireless and mobile news.