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T-Mobile to Soon Launch Nokia 5230

Nokia 5230 is yet another music-oriented mobile phone from Nokia which is now said to be heading towards wireless carrier T-Mobile in the United States. The handset was seen a few weeks ago in a series of live images, and now it was spotted passing through the FCC courtyard, while sporting support for AWS 3G bands. ...

11 November 2009
17:51 GMT

Motorola Droid Spotted at FCC with AT&T Support

Mobile-phone maker Motorola is already known to plan launching on the market a second handset powered by Google's Android operating system, the Motorola Droid, headed for Verizon's airwaves and following the already available Motorola Cliq, which can be purchased in the US via T-mobile and in Europe via Ora...

24 October 2009
05:58 GMT

Motorola Sholes/Droid Comes to Europe Too

Mobile phone maker Motorola is already known to plan on coming to the US market with a second Android-powered mobile phone, following the Motorola Cliq, which will soon come to T-Mobile and is already available for purchase in Europe as Motorola Dext, and now we learn that the handset might also come to the old conti...

17 October 2009
06:58 GMT

Samsung Behold 2 Spotted at FCC

One of the latest mobile phones that passed through FCC's courtyard with Google's Android operating system on board is the Samsung Behold 2, a device that also boasts a display with a 420 x 300 pixel resolution, as well as Wi-Fi connectivity options. Moreover, the new handset is also reported to include a 1...

1 October 2009
10:50 GMT

HTC Desire Gets FCC Approval, Wi-Fi Certification

There are two mobile phones coming from the Taiwanese handset maker HTC Corporation currently available on the US market with Google's Android operating system, namely the T-Mobile G1 and myTouch 3G. However, one more awaits for its launch date, the HTC Hero for Sprint, yet it seems that another such device is t...

29 September 2009
03:07 GMT

Motorola Sholes Gets FCC Approval

Motorola Sholes is another handset that the mobile phone maker should soon introduce on the market running under Google's Android operating system. The phone has been spotted in the wild for quite some time now, and, although Motorola hasn't unveiled it officially at Mobilize 2009, the device is still on it...

28 September 2009
09:34 GMT

White Spaces Worth $100 Billion, Microsoft-Backed Study Says

The so-called “white spaces” in the TV spectrum left open by the move towards digital broadcasting are very attractive to a number of big tech companies and for good reason. The unlicensed space could lower the entry for wireless Internet solutions, which would cover a much broader area than the current W...

25 September 2009
10:35 GMT

Google Threatens to Show Screenshot of Apple’s Rejection of Voice App [Updated]

As Google, Apple and AT&T submitted their answers to the FCC inquiry regarding the rejection of the former’s Voice application for iPhone, it was soon revealed that someone was lying through their teeth. While AT&T quickly extracted itself from the fiasco claiming it had little (or nothing) to do with Apple&rs...

19 September 2009
05:21 GMT

Sony Ericsson Aino Spotted at FCC

Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson announced a while back the launch of a series of new entertainment-oriented mobile phones, among which we had the chance to spot the Sony Ericsson Aino. The said device might be gearing up for a release stateside, it seems, as it has just passed through FCC's hal...

3 September 2009
09:23 GMT

Three Nokia Handsets Pass Through FCC

FCC seems to be quite busy lately, not only investigating the US carriers' businesses, but also approving new mobile phones to be used in the country. Among the newest handsets that it cleared we can count three devices that come straight from the Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia, namely the Nokia 3710a, Nokia R...

1 September 2009
03:07 GMT

FCC to Investigate US Carriers' Businesses

AT&T won't be the only US carrier that FCC plans to investigate in the near future, it seems, as the commission has announced recently that it intends to take a closer look into the business practices among US wireless carriers. The issue that surfaced with AT&T, Apple, and the iPhone Google Voice application se...

31 August 2009
06:39 GMT

Apple Accused of Lying to the FCC

It is being reported that Apple may not have told the truth to the FCC when answering its questions on the rejection of Google’s voice app for iPhone. While Apple officially stated that the company hadn’t, in fact, rejected the app, but rather postponed its approval for further reviewing, some now claim t...

25 August 2009
06:44 GMT

iPhone Owners May Use VoIP on AT&T’s 3G (One Day)

In its response letter to the FCC, Apple claims it was the sole decision maker in holding off the approval (not rejection) of the Google Voice app in the App Store. However, Apple also reveals that it and AT&T have an agreement to block VoIP apps from using the US carrier’s cellular networks, therefore VoIP app...

24 August 2009
03:51 GMT

Apple Answers FCC Inquiry on Google Voice App

Apple publicly posted official answers to queries from the Federal Communications Commission, stating that, contrary to media reports, Google Voice was not rejected from the App Store, but rather held off for further reviewing by the approval team. Additionally, Apple confirmed it was the sole decision maker in the m...

24 August 2009
02:30 GMT

The FCC Launches a New Blog and Twitter Account

It may be 2009 but some government agencies are just now getting their feet wet when it comes to this new fangled contraption called a blog. The US Federal Communications Commission, the independent government agency that regulates all communications in the country including Internet ones, is looking to overhaul its ...

19 August 2009
04:18 GMT

Motorola Morrison Spotted at FCC with CDMA Bands

One of the mobile phones that the handset maker Motorola is expected to release on the market during the ongoing year under the Google Android operating system is the Motorola Morrison, a device that has just passed through FCC's courtyard. The most interesting part of the equation, however, is that the model sp...

13 August 2009
08:34 GMT

Picture of Sprint's Samsung m850 Dash Surfaces

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has yet another handset passing through FCC's courtyard, the m850 Dash, a sleek device that emerged into the wild a few months ago. The phone was suggested to be on its way towards Sprint, and it seems that the FCC filing confirms in a way that it might reach the carrier i...

11 August 2009
04:11 GMT

Sony Ericsson T715 Passes Through FCC

Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson unveiled the T715 slider a little more than a month ago, and now it seems that the company is also getting ready to bring the phone to the United States market. The Sony Ericsson T715 has been spotted wandering through the FCC courtyard, where it has received approval...

8 August 2009
07:16 GMT

FCC to Investigate Apple and AT&T over Blocked Google Voice App

Apple has recently blocked Google's Google Voice application from making it into its App Store, while also removing third-party applications related to the service, something that wasn't received too well by iPhone developers, it seems. Following Apple's move, FCC started an investigation on the matter...

1 August 2009
06:41 GMT

Samsung Galaxy Sees Firmware Update, Spotted at FCC

Samsung Galaxy is yet another mobile phone that seems to be heading towards the Americas running under the Google Android operating system. Already spotted at FCC, where it received approval to be used in this part of the world, it seems that the device bears the A3LGTI7500L model name. The good news is that the phon...

31 July 2009
06:10 GMT

Toshiba TG01 Receives FCC Approval

Toshiba TG01, the Windows Mobile-based smartphone that comes to the market with Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipset, has been caught wandering through FCC's hallways, where it received the blessing for use in the US. The device that was spotted at FCC is reportedly coming with CDMA connectivity, which means that ...

22 July 2009
11:13 GMT

LG's GD910 to Come to the US Soon

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics unveiled to the world its LG GD910 watch phone at the beginning of the ongoing year, and already announced that the handset would become available for purchase on the European market via wireless carrier Orange, though no details on the possible availability of the devic...

18 July 2009
07:03 GMT

Nokia E72 and E55 Receive FCC Blessing

Two new mobile phones are reported to have passed through the FCC courtyard, both of them coming from the Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia, namely the Nokia E72 and the Nokia E55. For what it's worth, it appears that Nokia is determined to push even more handsets on the US market, so as to regain some of the mar...

17 July 2009
08:31 GMT

Nokia 7020 and 5530 XpressMusic Pass Through FCC

Two more Nokia mobile phones have been recently spotted wandering freely in FCC's courtyard, the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic and the Nokia 7020. The two devices, we learn, have already received the approval for use in the North American space, which means that we should hear soon about their official introduction ont...

13 July 2009
04:59 GMT

Nokia E52 Passes Through FCC

A new Nokia mobile phone has been spotted wandering through FCC's courtyard, the Nokia E52, a device that has been unveiled at the beginning of May in Warsaw, Poland. According to the FCC filing, the device that comes towards the North American shores is a non-US phone, which means that a US version might be on ...

6 July 2009
06:52 GMT

HTC Hero Comes to US via AT&T

HTC Hero, the latest mobile phone the Taiwanese company HTC Corporation launched into the wild with Google's Android operating system, seems ready to go stateside, as it has just been spotted in FCC's courtyard, where it has received the approval for use in the country. Moreover, it looks like the most prob...

3 July 2009
11:05 GMT

Rumor Mill: Nokia 5530 XpressMusic Passes FCC

According to the latest news on the Web, a new Nokia touchscreen handset has been recently approved by the FCC. The device, which surfaced into the wild a few months ago, should come as a smaller version of the already popular 5800 XpressMusic, due to the fact that it seems to have about the same size and the same bu...

13 June 2009
04:36 GMT

Samsung B5100 Spotted at FCC, Runs Symbian

A new Samsung mobile phone has been recently spotted into the wild, this time wandering through FCC's courtyard, the Samsung B5100. The new handset, which will come to the market running under the Symbian S60 operating system, hasn't been announced just yet, but a series of details regarding its specificati...

9 June 2009
06:47 GMT

AT&T's HTC Touch Pro2 Spotted at FCC

According to the latest news on the Web, wireless carrier AT&T might get ready to soon release into the wild the Windows Mobile powered HTC Touch Pro2, which has been recently spotted wandering through FCC's courtyard. The device, which is reported to have been approved for use in the United States, should come ...

5 June 2009
09:57 GMT

Nokia N86 8MP Spotted at FCC

According to the latest news on the web, there is yet another mobile phone coming from Finnish handset maker Nokia that has recently seen approval from FCC, namely the Nokia N86 8MP, following close behind the Nokia N97 NAM, which has been recently approved for commercialization on the United States market. The Noki...

22 May 2009
09:02 GMT

Nokia 6750 Mural Passes Through FCC

According to the latest news on the Web, a new handset coming from the Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has been recently approved by the FCC, namely the Nokia 6750 Mural. Moreover, the news also points towards the fact that the device might soon be added to AT&T's offering for the United States mobile phone use...

7 May 2009
08:14 GMT

FCC Approves Nokia N97 NAM

According to the latest news on the Web, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has recently approved the North American version of the Nokia N97 (following the Euro version), and the handset comes with tri-band 3G (850/1900/2100MHz) connectivity. As many of you might already know, Nokia has just listed the high...

6 May 2009
02:42 GMT

Sony Ericsson's W518a and W995a Pass Through FCC

According to the latest news on the Web, two more Sony Ericsson mobile phones have recently passed through FCC's courtyard, namely the W518a and W995a. The first of the two Walkman devices, the W518a, was spotted in the wild about two months ago, and now we learn that it might be heading towards AT&T's airw...

5 May 2009
02:53 GMT

FCC Approves Sony Ericsson CS8 for T-Mobile

It seems that T-Mobile will soon launch yet another mobile phone for its United States users, namely the Sony Ericsson CS8, which has just received approvals from FCC and will hit the market in a sliding form factor, while also including support for the carrier's GSM and AWS 3G networks. Interestingly enough, ...

22 April 2009
02:53 GMT

FCC Approves Dual-Slide Nokia 8208

The Nokia 8208 was expected to go to countries like China and India, as the Finnish mobile phone maker officially announced upon unveiling the CDMA device, yet it seems that it will also become available on the United States market, given the fact that it has just been approved by FCC as Nokia RM-384. The handset c...

21 April 2009
06:39 GMT

LG CF750 (Secret) Comes to AT&T

According to the latest news on the Web, a new LG phone, the CF750, has recently passed through FCC's courtyard, bearing AT&T's logo. Moreover, it seems that the new handset resembles a lot the LG “Secret” phone that is marketed globally, both in what concerns its looks as well as in terms of it...

21 April 2009
04:50 GMT

FCC Approves T-Mobile Sidekick and Four Samsung Phones

FCC is reported to have recently approved a series of new devices, among which we can count the T-Mobile Sidekick LX 2009, as well as some Samsung mobile phones, such as the Samsung i8910 (also known as OmniaHD), the S8300 Ultra-touch, and the Samsung B5210 and B189, which would rather resemble some exclusive Korean ...

9 April 2009
04:46 GMT

AT&T Samsung SGH-a977 Impression Spotted

It seems that the Samsung SWD-M100 Mondi WiMAX device is not the only new handset manufactured by the Korean mobile phone maker to receive FCC approval these days. According to the latest news on the Web, a Samsung SGH-a977 Impression has received approvals as well, and it comes featuring AT&T branding. The new han...

27 March 2009
11:18 GMT

HTC Magic Spotted at FCC with T-Mobile Branding

HTC Magic has been already spotted at FCC about a week ago, not long after it was announced for the first time, yet back then there were no details regarding the carrier that would bring the device onto the United States market. This time around, the new Android-powered mobile phone has been seen once again on the ...

27 March 2009
10:27 GMT

HTC Cedar Rumored to Have Surfaced at FCC

One HTC device that surfaced a while ago on the Web was HTC Cedar, a mobile phone that leaked along with HTC's entire lineup for 2009, and that was reported to come to the offering of different carriers in the US. The handset has been spotted now at FCC, although the details on it seem to be rather scarce. The...

21 March 2009
06:19 GMT

New Samsung Handset Spotted at FCC

According to the latest news on the Web, FCC has just approved a new Samsung handset, namely the SGH-i637. At the same time, we also learn that the mobile phone might come to the AT&T lineup of handsets in the near future. The FCC seems to describe the new Samsung SGH-i637 as an “850/1900 GSM / GPRS / EDGE / ...

27 February 2009
09:22 GMT

HTC Touch Cruise 2009 Passes FCC

The HTC Touch Cruise 2009 is reported to have passed FCC review while featuring AT&T's 3G bands. In addition to the 3G support, the new handset also sports 'Footprint', a feature that allows users to take a “digital postcard,” which includes a photograph, audio clips as well as geo-tagging ...

14 February 2009
04:17 GMT

The FCC Reviewing Golden Globes for Indecency Complaints

Ever since the infamous 2004 Janet Jackson Super Bowl incident, the FCC has been constantly on the lookout for anything that might violate decency laws on national television, especially in prime time. It seems that this year’s Golden Globes are no exception, as the entire NBC telecast is to be reviewed after s...

15 January 2009
09:40 GMT

Not all Americans Will Benefit from Digital TV Signals

The Federal Communications Commission announced that not all Americans currently benefiting from all-analogous TV sets would receive digital TV signals starting February 17th, when the whole nation is scheduled to go digital. Some people will be left behind because they are located on the fringes of the range that th...

28 December 2008
10:27 GMT

Samsung Memoir T929 Passing the FCC

The blurry pictured Samsung Memoir mentioned in a previous article is now official, as it has just passed through FCC and some pieces of information have finally been released. The details sort things out, since the last time this device was mentioned, there was no guarantee it even existed.Codenamed Memoir or Leica,...

16 December 2008
10:00 GMT

FCC's Meeting Regarding Free Internet Vote Canceled

The meeting in question was going to be one of the most interesting topics left for this year since the subject – voting for a free Internet plan – is a highly delicate one. This piece of news has become very controversial due to the many opposing politicians in the States and also to the great number of ...

16 December 2008
04:30 GMT

The FCC Claims Students Are Dropping Out of College Due to Games

Gaming and education haven't always gone hand in hand. Although we've seen some studies that show games as having a big role in children’s developing social skills, there have been other members of the media or the society thinking that videogames are evil and that they corrupt the minds of the youth....

12 December 2008
11:01 GMT

Shadow II Windows Mobile Smartphone Coming to T-Mobile

The FCC is bringing to our attention the new Shadow model, which will be on sale via T-Mobile. Surprisingly or not, this model does not pack specs too different from those of its predecessor, so it might not be such exciting news for fans as believed.First, as far as the differences are concerned, we should begin by ...

4 December 2008
02:49 GMT

Comcast Restricts Traffic to 250GB per User

Comcast, one of the largest Internet providers in the US, has announced that, as of October 1, the maximum traffic will be reduced to a monthly 250GB per user. This comes as a repercussion of the fact that the company, lacking the means to offer customers the connection speed they needed, decided to interfere with th...

30 August 2008
05:40 GMT

Google Advocates Global Internet Access

Google has initiated the program "Free the Airwaves," which comes as a continuation to its efforts to determine the Federal Communications Commission to accept the free use of "TV white spaces." These are the analog frequencies that will be freed-up starting with February 2009, when broadcasters will be forced to an ...

19 August 2008
04:17 GMT


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