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Have Apple already received a shipment of the 3G iPhone?
Depending on how you read the latest report from US customs-tracker ImportGenius, Apple may have already received a shipment of 3G iPhones.
Apple has apparently gotten 188 container-ship containers in a North American port. While there is a good chance that they could just be computers and iPods, there is talk that the containers could have [...]
China Mobile Group purchases fixed-line counterpart China Railcom
It looks as though the consolidation of the Chinese telecom industry has started in earnest with China Mobile Group (the parent company of China Mobile) announcing that it is acquiring nationwide fixed-line counterpart China Railcom. While the company will continue to run as an independent business, Wang Jianzhou, China Mobile’s chairman, will head the combined [...]
Age of Heroes goes 3D
Qplaze has revealed a new version of its popular strategy/RPG mobile game. Age of Heroes 3D, as you can probably guess, literally adds another dimension to the popular series, giving mobile gamers a novel approach to enjoying the game.
Similar to PC/console based games of this nature, gamers will be able to rotate the camera and [...]
Photos of the E90 dressed in black
Hope everyone had a great weekend. Ours was made a bit better by these photos of a Black E90 that we stumbled across. The device looks sweet – just like it did when we first came across it at MWC. It seems they even made the hinges black on this variant of the E90! Go [...]
iControlpad aiming to bring console-like gaming to the iPhone
Here is a little something for all you iPhone owners with a penchant for mobile gaming. A new accessory called the iControlpad, gives iPhone users the ability to enjoy an authentic console-like gaming experience while playing on their shiny Apple toy. The device is not available yet to the general public, however with the first [...]
Berg Insight hails the future of NFC
A new research report from Berg Insight suggests that technologies like NFC are facilitating a completely new set of mobile applications – proximity services or local services. However, Berg warns that the industry needs to first solve a number of crucial technical and pedagogic issues. The market is still disjointed and guarded, but in the [...]
Morodo bringing Mo-Call, its low-cost calling service, to the Apple iPhone
Morodo recently announced that it will be bringing its low-cost calling service, MO-Call, to Apple iPhone users.
MO-Call is not a native third-party application like Fring, which with a bit of luck we will see surface sometime in June. It is more similar to Jajah and gives users quick access to the low-cost callback service.
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Samsung SGH-F480 christened the Samsung Tocco
The Samsung SGH-F480, unveiled at the Mobile World Congress 2008 back in February in Spain, has been officially christened as the Samsung Tocco. This was done at a Dalí exhibition in London yesterday which goes to explain the melting Tocco in the picture. Although, the Tocco isn’t the flagship product in Samsung’s launch of devices [...]
HTC Touch Dual to be available from Best Buy for $549
A month or so back we saw the HTC Touch Dual go through the FCC. Although the device has been available in Europe for some time now, HTC officially announced the device’s availability only recently.
The HTC Touch Dual will be available at Best Buy stores and online starting from this weekend. For a big price [...]
HTC Touch Diamond going to India, without 3G radio though
In order to meet their upgraded sales projections, HTC will have to push the HTC Touch Diamond hard next year in both mature, established markets as well as new, emerging markets. In order to do so, the HTC Touch Diamond will now be headed to the Indian market.
But, in its rush to get to the [...]
Nokia and Samsung in partnership over DVB-H
Nokia and Samsung have revealed that they will be working together to promote the adoption of DVB-H services. They plan on doing this by enabling the interoperability of their devices and Nokia’s DVB-H network delivery system. The manufacturers are going to offer solutions centered on the OMA-BCAST standard. Samsung had earlier used the CBMS OSF [...]
Filrtomatic serves billionth ad
Flirtomatic, the mobile and online flirting service, has announced tht it has served it billionth mobile ad.
This impressive number has achieved in less than a year – with growth per quarter romping away at over 30%, it is not hard to guess why. As MobiAd News observes, “…This is yet another sign that mobile social [...]
Virgin Group unveils Virgin Connect – a WiMAX network covering 20 Russian cities
Virgin Group has unveiled its first business in Russia, a WiMAX network called Virgin Connect that covers 20 cities in Russia. The new Virgin venture is launched through a deal with Swiss based telecommunications investors Trivon, who hold the necessary licenses and frequencies for WiMAX based services.
Virgin Connect will offer provide broadband Internet connectivity, [...]
GooSync now has support for Google Contacts
GooSync has now rolled out Google Contacts support. Now besides syncing your tasks and appointments, users can now also keep mobile contacts up-to-date always.
The syncing is fully bi-directional, which means that contact information can be updated either from GMail or from a cellphone.
To sync your mobile contacts with GMail you will however need [...]
Opera Mobile 9.5 to be browser on HTC Touch Diamond
The snazzy Opera Mobile 9.5 browser will be the one that graces’ HTC’s newest flagship smartphone, the HTC Diamond.
You might already know all this, but for the benefit of the uninitiated, Opera Mobile 9.5 has such features as tabbed browsing, improved text wrap, landscape mode, history, bookmark, copying text to clipboard and the ability [...]
