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Archive for December, 2007

Qualcomm Must Stop Selling Some Chips, Can Continue With Others

Following a decision that Qualcomm infringes on certain Broadcom patents, a US District Court judge has ruled on sales of the company’s chips. Qualcomm can continue to sell current EV-DO chip designs, even though they infringe on patents, until …

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Sprint Halts Sales of LG Rumor

Sprint has stopped shipping the LG Rumor to its retail stores and halted sales of the phone while it works on fixing an error with the phone’s firmware. A debugging menu, meant for engineers, was left active in the …

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New Chemical Coating Could Waterproof All Mobile Phones

Technology developed by England’s Ministry of Defence can protect mobile phones from water damage. Called Ion-Mask, the technology is an invisible plasma that chemically bonds to the surface of devices. It will also fill in the small gaps and …

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Hop-on Releases PDA 2001 for AT&T and Verzion Network

Hop-on introduces its newest phone for AT&T and Verizon Networks. The GSM/CDMA Dual Mode PDA 2001 model, complete with GPS capability, will have the ability to become a handheld slot machine, bingo, video poker or black jack device.

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Pics of the Samsung F490 and P720 full touch screen phones

Let’s start with the F490, it’s the one without the built in flip cover. Not only does it look good, but with a full touch-screen, a 5MP camera and tactile feedback, it works well too.

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Nokia Siemens Networks Completes Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology with 173 Megabits per second data rate

In recent years the wireless industry has made a series of progressive improvements in the performance. However, end users now make increased use of mobile multimedia services and they stay online for longer periods. They therefore require faster data rates, quicker response times and longer battery life in order to enjoy the benefits of services such as voice over IP, mobile video, sharing and collaboration and rich multimedia telephony.

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SlashRumor: Nokia N95 8GB finally coming stateside?

Mobile City Online has a preorder going on for the North American edition of the Nokia N95 8GB with an expected arrival date of February 15th next year. This means that we could be seeing the announcement at next years Mobile World Congress.

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Gartner Says Mobile Messages to Surpass 2 Trillion Messages in Major Markets in 2008

As the popularity of mobile messaging services continue to grow, Gartner, Inc. forecasts 2.3 trillion messages will be sent across major markets worldwide in 2008, a 19.6 percent increase from the 2007 total of 1.9 trillion messages. Mobile messaging revenue across major markets will grow 15.7 percent in 2008 to $60.2 billion, up from $52 billion in 2007.

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FEATURE: Technology wish list 2008

Washington (dpa) - Wishes for the future often accompany the celebrations that ring in the start of a new year. And for technology fans, there’s plenty to put on the wish list.

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2007 Wrap Up. 2008 Predictions.

Concluding our end-of-year review, we take a brief look at how major mobile companies fared during 2007 and make some predictions for what lies ahead in 2008.

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