Posts Tagged ‘ smartphone ’

Sprint Launches Green Initiatives, Adds Phone Made Partly From Corn By Joseph Palenchar — TWICE, August 6, 2009 Sprint’s Samsung-made corn phone, the Reclaim Overland Park, Kan. – Sprint launched new environmental initiatives that include eco-friendly design criteria for future phones and store designs, dedicated in-store displays of environment-friendly products, and the first cellphone whose outer casing...
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Sprint touts ‘environmentally conscious’ mobile phone San Francisco (CA) – Sprint and Samsung have teamed up to promote the “environmentally conscious” Reclaim mobile phone. The device – manufactured from 80 percent recylable bio-plastic materials – will be available on August 16 for a grand total of $50. However, the low price point is contingent upon...
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Palm’s Pre Is Trying to Live Up to the Hype Wall Street is reducing forecasts for Sprint’s sales of the smartphone. That doesn’t bode well for Palm as it works to sign up new carriers for Pre By Olga Kharif ...
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Nokia, MDA and SiTF Jointly Announce the Mobile Lifestyle Call for Proposal to Boost Innovation and Development of Mobile Applications Singapore, July 30, 2009 – (ACN Newswire) - Nokia together with Media Development Authority (MDA) and Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) will kick off a joint initiative – the Mobile Lifestyle Call for Proposal (CFP)....
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Vonage Jumps on Your Mobile Posted by: Olga Kharif on July 29 Web-calling provider Vonage will come out with a version of its service for smartphones in the second half of 2009. The time is right to take advantage of the penetration rate of smartphone devices and Wi-Fi by providing branded mobile applications, Vonage spokesman Charles...
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Google is aiming to take a bite out of long-distance carriers’ market share by enabling free calls over the Internet from Blackberry and Android handsets. Google Voice, which directs calls to users’ home, work and mobile phone numbers simultaneously, works with a downloadable application, which permits free voice-over-Internet (VoIP) calls to...
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A much anticipated 3G smartphone from Gigabyte Communications finally launched this week in Taiwan, the slim GSmart S1200 handset with a 3.1-inch WVGA (wide VGA) touchscreen covering its face. Gigabyte plans to initially market the Windows Mobile 6.1-based smartphone in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan by the end of this month, then expand to...
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Apple’s new iPhone 3G S has a bill of materials and manufacturing cost of $178.96, according to a teardown analysis of the device by researcher iSuppli. The total cost for the 16 GB device is slightly higher than the version released last July, says Andrew Rassweiler, director and principal analyst, teardown services, for iSuppli, based...
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In addition to smart phones to send and receive Internet e-mail, telephone contact, the researchers found that the most popular smartphone features other games for killing time. Apple Store has just more than 50,000 kinds of games for iphone, itouch users downloaded more than 1,000,000 times the number of apple store downloaded programs, more...
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Smartphone maker HTC is on a roll with the Android operating system. The company introduced its third Android-based device, called the HTC Hero, on Wednesday. It’s a touchscreen phone that will come with a newly designed user interface. At a press event in London on Wednesday, HTC unveiled its latest Google Android device, the HTC...
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Recently, there have been more and more Web site to teach users how to iPhone and other smart phones or Pre into a computer modem. Users applauded, but the mobile phone operator has been reluctant to open up this service. Experts believe that the industry may be worried about increased traffic will interfere with...
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TerreStar bird will expand AT&T hybrid coverage – AT&T Mobility should achieve true nationwide coverage by the end of this year after it introduces a planned service that utilizes both satellite and cellular service. The carrier will resell satellite service and phones from TerreStar Networks, a startup that is set to have its...
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