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The Nokia - Qualcomm "wars" that have been making headlines for the past few years are now officially over, as the Finnish giant manufacturer and the California-based company announced today that they have reached an amiable agreement which cancels all the past litigations between them. If you remember, Nokia has sue... |
24 July 2008
08:16 GMT |
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Japan's SoftBank, the only mobile carrier empowered by Apple to sell the new iPhone 3G in the "The Land of the Rising Sun," issued a report mentioning it would start selling the new device at 7:00 a.m. on Friday.SoftBank, situated at the heart of the Harajuku district, will be opening its doors on Friday morning... |
9 July 2008
03:14 GMT |
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Your mobile phone, be it high-end or only basic-featured, can do more things than you might be aware of. We're presenting some of these "tricks" below, hoping that they will be of help, although some of you might already know one or more of them. The GSM emergency call is the same all over the world: 112. T... |
28 June 2008
07:33 GMT |
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Palm has just released its successful Centro smartphone in a new version that comes unlocked with quad-band GSM connectivity (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz), hence everyone can buy it and use it on any network. More exactly, any GSM network from the US, because Palm is offering the handset only in its home country. ... |
24 June 2008
04:19 GMT |
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The GSM Association and the International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA) have just announced an agreement to join forces at this year's Mobile World Congress (Barcelona, 11-14 February 2008) to promote the development of the mobile gaming sector. The GSMA will endorse and promote the established International Mobi... |
15 January 2008
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iRiver, brand division of the South Korean electronics and entertainment company ReignCom, presented at CES its first mobile phone, a GSM device that has lots in common with Apple's iPhone. The handset doesn't have a name yet, so it's referred as "the iRiver GSM phone" and its producer intends to bring... |
10 January 2008
04:15 GMT |
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Vitendo Systems, a company that has its headquarters in Newport Beach, California, is one of the leader developers that delivers products and technology with the goal of accelerating the deployment of Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) based services.Today, they announced the releasing of their vFone 4.0. This is basical... |
4 January 2008
11:10 GMT |
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Apertio, a company that employs 237 people and has offices in the United States, Germany, Thailand, Malaysia and China, provides customer management tools for mobile operators, such as O2, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone. The company also offers convergence tools, fact that makes it possible to deliver multimedia conte... |
4 January 2008
09:20 GMT |
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Alcatel-Lucent announced it has signed a multi-million Euro contract with Celcom, a leading Malaysian telecommunications service provider, to expand the mobile operator's GSM network. The expanded network will enable Celcom to provide wireless coverage to more than 90 percent of the northern, southern and easter... |
10 December 2007
10:45 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless and Motorola recently announced the availability of the MOTO Z6c world edition, an eye-catching slider sensation that one can now get exclusively from Verizon Wireless. The stunningly slim and sophisticated Z6c adds global connectivity, comes with advanced mobile phone technology and multimedia featu... |
6 December 2007
08:21 GMT |
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Ericsson will bring a solar-driven and energy-efficient main-remote GSM base station deployed in conjunction with leading Indonesian operator PT Telekomunikasi Selular (Telkomsel). This makes an innovative and resource-saving solution coming from the telecom company.The base station will bring macro coverage in the u... |
21 November 2007
05:42 GMT |
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The third "M-Series" mobile watch phone we have seen from CECT, the Chinese phone manufacturer, is now out on the market. There's a really strong market for this type of devices, as they look extremely high-tech and instantly turn the user into a real life James Bond.The M800 model is the smallest yet, coming fr... |
16 November 2007
06:37 GMT |
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Latest rumors state that Verizon Wireless might just be about to release a global edition of their recently released Samsung i760 smartphone. The new device will be just the same as the old one, with the sole support for more frequency bands to suit wider areas.The support for Samsung i760 must have been quite a succ... |
15 November 2007
03:43 GMT |
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Ericsson just announced it will introduce a new local call-switching feature for its GSM base station portfolio, in order to diminish transmission costs for network operators and help network deployments expand across rural and remote zones. The announced feature, Abis Local Connectivity, is presented at the Mobi... |
13 November 2007
08:00 GMT |
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The world's first TD-SCDMA HSDPA/GSM/GPRS/EDGE multi-mode mobile phone has just been announced by Samsung, NXP Semiconductors and T3G Technologies. The device has also been presented at the PT/Wireless Exposition in Beijing on October 23rd and should soon hit the market.Samsung SGH-T578H uses a software-defined ... |
9 November 2007
05:07 GMT |
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Nokia 3555 follows the lines set by the previously released Nokia 6555 mobile phone, but brings no evolved features in addition to that. The device could still see a great market, as there are many people out there who look for less evolved performances from their handsets to also trigger a smaller price.Nokia 3555 l... |
31 October 2007
13:03 GMT |
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One more dual SIM Samsung mobile phone will soon hit the market. The W629 handset follows the trend that many Asian producers set, with many devices capable of carrying two SIM cards at the same time.Samsung W629 will be able to work both in GSM and CDMA networks, a feature that will be appreciated especially by busi... |
26 October 2007
08:01 GMT |
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After the Samsung D880 dual SIM phone, the manufacturer brings forth a dual network one, half as impressive, but still pretty useful. Such technologies are usually seen in Asia and only rarely make their way into the lineup of major handset producers for a launch on other continents.The only advantage that this slide... |
12 October 2007
04:14 GMT |
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Nokia Siemens Networks has just closed a EUR 180 million contract with Henan Mobile Communications Company (Henan MCC), the wholly owned subsidiary of China Mobile. This means that the company will be involved even more from now on in the development of China's GSM and EDGE networks.Nokia Siemens Networks alread... |
26 September 2007
06:49 GMT |
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20 years ago, 15 telecommunications operators from 13 countries agreed to develop the world's first global mobile phone system, which took the name of GSM (Groupe Special Mobile). Since then, the number of users has increased, making it by far the most used, when compared to the CDMA alternative.More than 3 bill... |
7 September 2007
10:07 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson T658c is the Chinese version of the T650 phone model that has been released just a few days ago. The exclusive version brings little differences from the other version, most of them language-related.FCC has just approved this twin-looking version of the Sony Ericsson T650 phone, which means that it shou... |
22 August 2007
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3G Americas, a group that represents the GSM technologies in the Americas, announced that the GSM/UMTS services gained more than 564.6 million customers worldwide between June 2006 and June 2007. According to Informa's World Cellular Information Service, more than 100 millions of the new subscribers are from th... |
17 August 2007
09:26 GMT |
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Thuraya SG-2520 is one highly appealing alternative to regular looking handsets. The fact that it packs satellite, GSM Tri-band and GPS performances too in one single device deserves overlooking the drawbacks that such a handset also brings.The possibility of placing satellite calls leaves aside matters like size, de... |
16 August 2007
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Motorola announced it has contracts valuing 394 million dollars with the largest mobile phone operator in China, China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC). The contracts, which have the purpose of expanding CMCC's GSM network, were signed in the first half of the current year and highlight Motorola's ... |
13 August 2007
09:12 GMT |
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Personal, the leading mobile service provider in Paraguay, has recently selected Ericsson to modernize and expand its GSM network with mobile softswitch in order to innovate its services and extend its coverage and capacity all over the country. The Mobile Softswitch Solution from Ericsson will enable Personal to pro... |
2 August 2007
08:55 GMT |
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Spice Mobile has just released a mobile phone capable of connecting to the GSM and CDMA network too. The device is meant to provide solutions to a large number of people who need handsets working on both networks, with features which might prove highly useful, especially for those often traveling abroad.The Spice Dua... |
1 August 2007
10:55 GMT |
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This year accessories are back in fashion, especially when it comes to mobile phones. MoPods are the latest collectable cellular charms which come in adorable and difficult-to-resist shapes.There are seven MoPods in total, each with a strong personality bound to be cast upon the handset and the owner too. All mini c... |
26 June 2007
09:39 GMT |
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Huawei U550 is just one of the three mobile phones that this company has released recently at this year's edition of CommunicAsia. This clamshell is probably the most interesting of all, as it features an appealing, futuristic design which will definitely make it stand out from the line of similar models.The pr... |
22 June 2007
09:11 GMT |
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Sure, a watch phone is always a good idea, though today it is quite hard to imagine anyone using it with so many multimedia items available on the market.Anyway, this phone watch or watch phone offers you Bluetooth connectivity, which impedes people from interfering in your private conversations. For those of you who... |
18 June 2007
04:31 GMT |
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The number of mobile phone subscribers has been continuously increasing in the last six years. 3G Americas report the fact that there are currently more than 700 GSM networks which currently operate in more than 200 countries.The high number of worldwide GSM networks has led to a considerable increase in the subscrib... |
8 June 2007
09:32 GMT |
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Oki Electric Industry has developed the first "Safety Mobile Phone" in the world. The concept is meant to help decrease the number of traffic accidents in which pedestrians are severely injured in most cases.The phone is the only ultra small Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) phone model to have ever been la... |
28 May 2007
09:40 GMT |
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Apple and AT&T have closed a deal that will make iPhone unavailable for GSM networks for the next 5 years. iPhone is one of the most expected mobile phones at the time. The world has went up into flames debating whether this device will finally prove a success or not. Still, it will not be set clear until the phone w... |
25 May 2007
13:11 GMT |
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InfoSonics Corporation, a well-known provider and distributor of mobile phones and wireless accessories in Latin America and the United States, announced the proposed line-up for 2007 for verykool, its own proprietary line of mobile phones. The line-up covers a full spectrum of product offerings, including entry leve... |
22 March 2007
12:11 GMT |
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Ericsson is set to achieve data speeds of up to 1Mbps in current GSM networks, enabling mobile broadband services for the world's 2 billion existing GSM subscribers. Following the recent 3GPP industry standardization of EDGE Evolution, Ericsson has restated its commitment to launch EDGE Evolution, as software up... |
14 March 2007
09:23 GMT |
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Fair Isaac Corporation, one of the leading providers of analytics and decision management technology, and Optel Informatik, a German systems supplier for the telecommunications market, recently announced the mobile industry's first Near Real-Time Roaming Data Exchange (NRTRDE ) gateway to help wireless operators... |
13 March 2007
11:05 GMT |
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Slovenian operator Tusmobil has selected Nokia as its GSM/EDGE core and radio network supplier. Nokia will also operate the Tusmobil network allowing the operator to focus its management activities on building the Tusmobil image, mobile services creation, and customer acquisition. With Nokia's support, Tusmobil ... |
8 March 2007
09:57 GMT |
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