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Review Motorola Devour (Verizon) Android Smartphone Review of Reviews
Motorola Devour Rated 3.5 out 5 by Wireless and Mobile News' Review of Reviews Reviewers of the Motorola Devour all like the solid aluminum casing, nicely spaced slider keyboard, and MOTOBLUR social networking features. Every review that was reviewed commented...
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Smartphone Owners Buy But Mobi-Shy, Says Compete
Compete, a Kantar Media company, released the results of its quarterly Smartphone Intelligence survey showing that smartphone owners are more comfortable buying from their handsets, but that poor mobile site functionality is still a turn-off for many. Their research does...
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Vote for Your Favorite BlackBerry, Android, iPhone, WinMo, Nokia Apps Online 2Day
It apps election time over at CES. You can vote at the Mobile Apps Showdown. Judges from NetShelter Technology Media looked at tons of apps, hashing out the pros and cons and narrowed it down to 20 semi-finalists. You can...
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Cyber Monday Cheapest Best Cell Phone, Smartphone and BlackBerry Deals/Discounts Countdown
There's only a day left for cell phone, smartphone and BlackBerry Cyber Monday deals from major wireless carriers. You'll be happy to know that there are some deals that don't end until Tuesday. Here's a rundown of deals expiring Cyber...
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Android Invasion: CLIQ Lands @ T-Mobile with Uni-Weezer Contest
The T-Mobile Motorola CLIQ with MOTOBLUR, the first Android -powered device from Motorola and the only device to feature MOTOBLUR this holiday season goes on sale today. To celebrate the CLIQ's arrival, also launched the T-Mobile Motorola CLIQ Challenge today,...
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HTC Touch Pro2 Still Selling Well, More Coming
While the major news story yesterday, was Google and Verizon joining the Android invasion of devices and apps, the real news is that Windows Phone the HTC Touch Pro 2 is a hot-seller at Verizon, and keeps selling out.Our readers...
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Review of Reviews HTC Touch Pro2 (Verizon/Sprint/T-Mobile)
HTC Touch Pro2 (Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint) Rated 4 out 5 by Wirleess and Mobile News' Review of ReviewsReviewers of the HTC Touch Pro2 called it the the King of Windows Mobile smartphones and the best high-end smartphone. Reviewers found the...
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T-Mobile myTouch Android Smartphone Touches SF from Sky
T-Mobile s now selling the Android T-Mobile myTouch 3G smartphone with Google. To celebrate its arrival, T-Mobile produced an aerial spectacle in the sky over San Francisco at noon today. 100 skydivers, each dressed as unique personalities to reflect...
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Winged Pull-Out Split Keyboarded Smartphone Patent Filed by Samsung
Attention all you texters who need to type constantly but want an different shaped keyboard. Samsung has filed a patent with split fly-out QWERTY keyboard.The device is titled "Mobile Terminal Having Rear Keypad." The keypads are spring-loaded and slide into...
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HTC Ozone with Wi-Fi, Global Roaming Coming to Verizon for $49.99
Verizon Wireless' HTC Ozone will be available on July 29 from Verizon. The QWERTY, Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone has host of connectivity options that include 3G network, global roaming and Wi-Fi. It will cost at $49.99 after a rebate They...
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Verizon Horizon Palm Pre (Cousin), BlackBerry Tour/Storm 2, and Android Smartphones Coming
Verizon will be offering a lot of smartphones in the upcoming months, in around six months. Verizon's CEO Lowell McAdam revealed plans during a Barclays Capital conference in New York. He gave a tour of what to expect from Verizon...
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New LG Phones Coming to Verizon Soon
Verizon Wireless and LG Mobile have cooked up three new phones for summer fun. The new LG enV3 will be available Friday, while LG enV TOUCH and LG Glance will be available June 5 at all Verizon Wireless Communications...
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2x # of Smartphones, Double Integrated Devices, Says AT&T
AT&T claims that, based on independent market research, twice as many smartphone users have chosen AT&T over any other U.S. carrier. They attribute their success to the fastest 3G network and nearly 20,000 U.S. Wi-Fi hotspots offers and AT&T's industry-leading...
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BlackBerry 50% of Smartphone Market, Says NPD
The NPD Group reports that the buy-one-get- one" promotion by Verizon Wireless helped RIM's BlackBerry Curve outsell Apple's iPhone to become the best-selling consumer smartphone in the U.S. in the first quarter (Q1) of 2009. RIM's consumer smartphone market share...
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Think Pink iPhone-Rival from Verizon and Microsoft
The Wall Street Journal reported that Verizon and Microsoft are working on a new touchscreen phone to rival the iPhone, yearly next year. While they claim "Verizon has also had discussions in recent months with Apple about partnering on devices...
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LG Viewty Smart 8 Mpx Camera HSDPA Smartphone Coming to Europe in May
The details for the LG Viewty Smart LG GC900 super camera smartphone are now available. It has an 8 megapixel camera with a Schneider-Kreuznach lens.The LG Viewty Smart can take pictures at up to 1600 ISO and record videos in...
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Instinct s30 Avaiable from Sprint with Guitar Hero
The Samsung Instinct s30, the next generation Samsung Instinct haptic touchscreen phone with a voice control button is now available from Sprint.Instinct s30 has built-in instant messaging, improved web-browsing via the default browser and Opera Mini 4.2 as well as...
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BlackBerry (Storm) and Smartphone Free App of the Day: Qik Live Video Share
We're still sorting through all the great things we saw at CTIA and realize that we were impressed with the Qik demo at the BlackBerry booth. Qik is a video sharing service that allows you to stream live video from...
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Nokia E75 Ships First Nokia Smartphone with Integrated MSGS
The Nokia E75 is now available and shipping. The Nokia E75 is the first smartphone to ship with the new email user interface, offering full desktop email functionality, and complete integration of Nokia's email and messaging services. The Nokia E75...
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HTC Touch Diamond Smartphone at Verizon
The HTC Touch Diamond will be available tomorrow from Verizon. The HTC Touch Diamond combines a fashionable mobile design with the added benefit of the nation's most reliable voice and data network for fast e-mail and Internet connectivity.The most liked...
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Best Deal: AT&T AMOLED Samsung Impression Available Now $149 w/coupon-link
The Samsung Impression is now being sold by AT&T. It has an AMOLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode). We saw the screen at CTIA and it is really impressive, because of the way it uses power and doesn't change appearance under...
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HTC TouchPro2 to Be T-Mobile Wing II, July 22
While trying phones at the HTC booth during CTIA, the new HTC Touch Pro 2 had great text appeal due to its keyboard. Our touch-typist editor who learned to type on a manual typewriter in the dark pre-pc ages, was...
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Sprint Instinct s30 Coming April 19 with Speech & Games
We have finally gotten the details on the Samsung Sprint Instinct s30 in English! All we had yesterday was that the screen was 3.2 inches. The Samsung Instinct s30 is the next generation Samsung Instinct haptic touchscreen phone with a...
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Samsung Impression Impresses with Impressive AMOLED
The Samsung Impression, AT&T claims to be the nation's first commercially available AMOLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode) screen for one of the brightest and clearest displays in the U.S.The Samsung Impression, has a keyboard underneath and is still slim. It's...
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Samsung Propel Pro Slider Smartphone with Joy Stick from AT&T
For texting and email AT&T announced the Samsung Propel Pro, a full-QWERTY silver and chrome compact slider smartphone with a joy stick. Windows Mobile 6.1 allows users to run full enterprise applications on the same platform they use to text...
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AT&T Officially Launches Nokia E71x Smartphone with Video, GPS & Mail for Exchange
Probably the most promising of the AT&T smarphones announced today is the thinnest smartphone on the market, the Nokia E71x, which go on sale in the coming weeks from AT&T for $99.99 and features a black steel finish and award-winning...
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iPhone Leads U.S. Smartphones, Says AdMob
AdMob, in its February 2009 Mobile Metrics Report, says smartphones continued to gain significant market share worldwide over the past six months, rising from 26 percent to 33 percent of requests in February 2009. They believe that the launch of...
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Acer WinMo Smartphones Coming Soon
The Acer Windows smartphones announced at Mobile World Congress are on their way to be being sold soon.. The DX900 will be available by the end of this month, according to Vincent Chen, manager of product marketing at Acer's Smart...
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LG Already has 1 Million Pre-Orders for LG Arena
According to Telecoms Korea, the LG Arena has drawn a lot of attention from mobile operators worldwide, and the company reportedly has already received pre-orders for over 1 million units.The previous LG hit phone the Chocolate only had pre-orders of...
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Shortcovers Brings eBooks to iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android Smartphones
Shortcovers is an online mobile service that gives iPhone, Blackberry (Storm, Bold and Curve), or Google Android device users access to books, authors, magazines, and other content.The service is provided by Indigo Books and Music and provides apps to read...
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Top Handsets in Decemember, Topped by RIM's BlackBerry Curve
AvianReasearch calculated the top ten handsets in the U.S. in December and reported the four largest carriers represented 85% of the U.S. wireless market on a subscriber basis. Most of the top ten handsets are in fact smartphones. The findings...
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Verizon Samsung Omnia (i910) Review of Reviews 2
Verizon's Samsung Omnia Rated 3.5 out of 5 by Wireless and Mobile News Review of ReviewsThe Verizon Samsung Omnia is a full haptic touchscreen Windows Mobile Professional smartphone with lots of features including 3G access, push email, GPS, Microsoft document...
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Smartphone Users Spent $$$ up to $499 for Apps, Says ABI
Wow, some smartphone users spent a lot of money on apps for their smartphones a whopping 16.5% spent between $100 and $499 .The stats are from survey of 235 US smartphone users who installed applications on their devices in...
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Acer Smartphones to Ace Freebie Smartphones with Carriers?
According to an article by Sascha Segan at PCMag, Acer's smartphone President Aymar de Lencquesaing said he'll be able to push Windows phone prices down to free with contract.Acer already has partnered with A&T to sell the Acer Aspire netbook...
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Samsung Omina HD with 3.7" AMOLED Touchscreen and HD Video
Samsung showed off the OMNIA HD at Mobile World Congress this week. It is Samsung's first Symbian full-touch handset, and features 720P HD video recording and decoding, along with an 8 megapixel camera, auto-rotate display, big AMOLED screen and 3D...
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Pantech Matrix Pro Dual Slider Smartphone Coming to AT&T 2/24
AT&T will be introducing the double slide-out Pantech Matrix PRO, next week. The Pantech Matrix Pro has mirror-shiny exterior, integrated A-GPS with AT&T Navigator, Bluetooth and a 2 megapixel camera.The Pantech Matrix Pro also has video share. The operating system...
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ACER DX900 FIrst Dual Sim - 3.5 G and EDGE Smartphone
The ACER DX900 is the world's first Dual-SIM Smartphone to support both 3.5G (HSDPA) and 2.75G (EDGE) SIM cards allowing users to keep track of both personal and business communications. The touchscreen allows one-hand navigation while the 2.8 inch VGA...
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The ACER X960 GPS Smartphone
The ACER X960 is an all-purpose tool designed for those who want multiple features without having to carry several devices. A high-resolution 2.8-inch VGA touchscreen and five-way navigation button allow easy maneuvering. It has an intuitive widget-based user interface that...
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ACER F900 Touchcreen GPS Smartphone
The ACER F900 smartphone was developed to give total control over web browsing. It has a 3.8-inch WVGA touchscreen and new easy-to-use touch keyboard, 3.2 megapixel camera GPS, Fm radio and voice commands.The ACER F900 is able to display more...
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Acer Launches New Line of Smartphones
At Mobile World Congress, Acer revealed an entire line of smartphones. They plan to be one of the top five smartphone makers in the United States. All of the phones will have a new widget-based user interface, on top of...
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Samsung Instinct Firmware Updated - U Can OTA-It Now
A new firmware version is available for the Samsung Instinct - the MR5 CA10. It will will have some new features and fix some bugs.The upgrade includes new RSS reader, dynamic zoom via a new slider control in the browser,...
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Garmin-Asus nuvifone M20 Supter GPS LBS Smartphone Revealed
Garmin-Asus, announced the Garmin-Asus nuvifone M20, a web-browser and premium super navigation smartphone with a Windows Mobile operating system. The Garmin-Asus nuvifone M20 will be on display at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.The nuvifone M20 is powered by Windows Mobile...
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Samsung UltraTOUCH S8300 Touch Slider Phone
The Samsung UltraTOUCH S8300 touchscreen slider will be revealed at Mobile World Congress. Samsung UltraTOUCH S8300 has a 8 megapixel camera, 2.8-inch AMOLED touchscreen and the upgraded TouchWiz interface. The camera has a dual LED flash and 30fps VGA video...
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LG's Arena Will be Seen in Arena at Mobile World Congress
LG Electronics, will show their new LG ARENA (LG-KM900) at Mobile World Congress. They call it a fully loaded multimedia phone with a new "3D" user interface.The LG ARENA has a 3″ 800 x 480 WVGA 262K color touchscreen display,5...
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Mobile Phones Sales Down Smartphones Up, Says IDC
The mobile phone market was really a "downer" with 12.6% lower units in Q4 notes a new report from IDC. The only positive note was for smartphones in 2008, the converged mobile devices segment grew 22.5% over 2007, outpacing the...
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Garmin and ASUSTek Team for Line of nüvifones
GPS icon Garmin and ASUSTeK Computer have partnered to design, manufacture and distribute co-branded location-centric smartphones.The first nüvifone has GPS friend finding, a parking space recorder, dashboard mount, and photo geotagging to allow other people to find the location of...
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Super Slim Toshiba TG01 Revealed with More Speed and Display than iPhone
Toshiba has unveiled their new touchscreen Windows Mobille TG01 smartphone with a bigger display, a higher resolution, faster processor and slimmer shell than any other smartphone, including Apple's iPhone."Toshiba has listened to what users want - great speed, and the...
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Acer to Reveal Smartphones at Mobile World Congress
Several web sources report that Acer will launch new smartphones at Mobile World Congress on February 16.The speculation comes from this description from the plans at Mobile World Congress:"Now Acer enters the Smart Handheld market with an exciting range of...
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T-Mobile Now Offering New Wi-Fi Shadow with HotSpot Calling
T-Mobile is now selling the new T-Mobile Shadow smartphone which is rounder, has hotspot calling, more processing power, a 2 megapixel camera, web surfing, and Wi-Fi. The T-Mobile Shadow smartphone is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1. It the first Windows-based...
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LG Versa (VX9600) to Debut February 22
The LG VX9600 Versa could be called versatile because its parts are detachable. They're calling it the successor to Verizon's LG Voyager. The QWERTY keyboard, gamepad, Wi-Fi module and external speakers all can be separated from the mother ship of...
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Microsoft WinMo 6.5 Honeycomb Seen on Square EDA Exeda
The Exeda smartphone, a square shaped smartphone with a QWERTY keyboard has been getting a lot media coverage, not for the Exeda but because they posted photos of the smartphone running the new Alpha version of the Windows Mobile 6.5...
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Top Best Selling Smartphones of 2008: Microsoft Wins?
The stats are in and analysts are trying to figure out what company was the smartphone champ of 2008?Microsoft claims more than 20 million smartphones were sold in 2008 with its software. Adding totals form Apple’s reported figures, approximately 13-14...
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HTC Touch Cruise Cruises to US in Spring with Extreme GPS Features
The HTC Touch Cruise has had a makeover and now has a new look and extreme geo-tagging with HTC Footprints. The HTC Touch Cruise has been called a GPS-centric smartphone because HTC Footprints goes beyond geotagging photos. Users can add...
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Wirefly MLK and Inauguration Sale Deals and Coupons
Wirefly, to celebrate MLK day and the inauguration, are offering some sales. The most popular one appears to be a free Samsung Eternity touchscreen phone after instant discount with a new AT&T account. The offer ends 1/20 at midnight...
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Be In Total Control of Video Cameras with Your BlackBerry Storm or Bold
Intelligent Designs Group, LLC is offering a BlackBerry version of their Total Control Suite of software applications to control video surveillance cameras. BlackBerry users can view and control live video streams from supported IP cameras and video encoders. The Blackberry...
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Sprint Offers Samsung Instinct in Pink and Reduces Price to $99
Sprint is now offering the Samsung Instinct in a new, "fashion-forward" pink hue. The price of the Instinct has been dropped to $99.99 with a two-year contract and after a $100 mail-in rebate. Their news release says that a few...
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Seen at CES Mobinnova ICE TouchScreen 3G Smartphone
On display at CES in the Windows Mobile area was the Mobinnova ICE touchscreen Windows Mobile smartphone.Sascha Segan at PcMag wrote, "it's a striking design: when it's off, it's a big, black slab with no visible buttons on the front....
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Palm Pre Wins CNET Awards, A Real-Woman's Smartphone
CNET has named the Palm Pre the Best of Show for the Consumer Electronics Show 2009 and the People's Voice Award.The Palm Pre is the first cell phone/smartphone to win the Best in Show since CNET started presenting the Best...
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LG Incite Recalled from Best Buy Re-Launch Monday
Mobility today has found an internal document explaining why the LG Incite smartphone has been reaclled from Best Buy. Mmmn the recall may be the reason why the LG Incite has been out-of-stock for the past few weeks at the...
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SonyWalkman Smartphone Shakes Up Music with Gesture Control
Sony has shaken up the way phones are controlled with the W508 Walkmanphone. The smartphone has Shake and Gesture control, SenseMe and TrackID as well as one extra Style-Up cover to add a hip design. Shake control and Gesture control...
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T-Mobile Announces New Shadow
T-Mobile has announced their new T-Mobile Shadow candy bar slider smartphone. The new T-Mobile Shadow smartphone has a faster processor and offers unlimited calls over Wi-Fi hotspots. The T-Mobile Shadow smartphones also has a 2 megapixel camera with video capture,...
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