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Nokia Announces More Exclusive Apps for Lumia Handsets

At the CTIA Wireless 2012 conference in New Orleans, US, Nokia announced a new series of applications available for its Windows Phone-powered handsets in the Lumia series. These apps, meant to provide users with appealing, locally relevant software on their devices, arrive on smartphones as the result of the variou...

8 May 2012
10:00 GMT

Xbox 360 Exclusive Games Are a Matter of Quality over Quantity, Microsoft Says

Microsoft has once again talked about exclusive games, emphasizing that, while it’s definitely lagging behind Sony’s PlayStation 3, its own Xbox 360 console will continue to get some quality exclusive titles in the future. The Xbox 360 has seen a pretty big transformation over the last year or so, with t...

24 January 2012
17:21 GMT

Sprint to Have an Exclusive Deal on iPhone 5

Mobile phone carrier Sprint is reportedly gearing up for the release of the new iPhone model on its airwaves, and rumor has it that it might have even scored an exclusive deal on this one. Apparently, the wireless carrier will receive the upcoming iPhone 5 device first, while others will get only a taste of the ...

4 October 2011
02:39 GMT

Xperia PLAY Spotted in Verizon Inventory, Not Exclusive at This Carrier

Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless is expected to bring to the market in the United States one of the nicest Android-based smartphones that Sony Ericsson made official during the ongoing year, namely the Xperia PLAY. Sony Ericsson and Verizon already announced that the smartphone would land at the carrier during ...

21 February 2011
12:11 GMT

BlackBerry 9800 to Land Exclusively at Rogers

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion has been long rumored to plan the release of a BlackBerry handset that would boast a sliding form factor, dubbed the BlackBerry 9800 Slider, and a great amount of details on it emerged during the past few weeks, suggesting that an official release date might not be too ...

14 July 2010
10:39 GMT

Apple Already Ordering CDMA iPhone Units

Verizon Wireless might actually get the iPhone as soon as this summer, the latest news around the Internet suggest. Although AT&T reportedly signed a five-year exclusivity deal with Apple on the distribution of the iPhone back in 2007, it seems that the agreement might come to an end sooner than that after all. Appl...

13 May 2010
10:24 GMT

AT&T's iPhone Exclusivity to Last Until 2012

The rumors regarding the possibility that Verizon would get the iPhone anytime soon should finally come to a rest. It seems that Apple's iconic device won't leave AT&T's airwaves this year or the next, as the exclusivity deal between the wireless carrier and the handset's maker extends all the wa...

11 May 2010
03:42 GMT

AT&T to Have Exclusivity on iPhone Throughout 2010

Wireless carrier AT&T is keen on having the iPhone available exclusively on its network in the United States, and the latest reports on the matter suggest that it won't let go of the device until 2010 is over. Previous reports suggested that the exclusivity agreement with Apple would end this summer, but, follo...

7 May 2010
05:29 GMT

AT&T Enhancing Coverage Before New iPhone Lands

Wireless carrier AT&T is reportedly working on enhancing the coverage of its 3G network before Apple releases a new version of its highly-popular iPhone device. According to some of the latest reports around the web, Apple might bring an iPhone that will work on Verizon's network to the market, and AT&T is work...

1 April 2010
05:48 GMT

O2 Goes Exclusive with HTC Smart

Leading handset vendor HTC Corporation and Telefónica announced today the exclusive availability of HTC Smart via O2 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom. The new device comes to the market as an affordable and easy-to-use smartphone that brings widgets, browsing and connectivity at a low cost, and will...

17 February 2010
08:28 GMT

Rumor Mill: AT&T to Lose iPhone Exclusivity on Wednesday

Cupertino-based company Apple is getting ready to make an announcement on January 27, and most of the rumors around the Internet are suggesting that a much-debated tablet is set to be unveiled at that media event. However, while there is no solid proof for that, the same applies to some other rumors that just emerge...

25 January 2010
03:33 GMT

Carphone Warehouse Tightens Relationship with RIM

Carphone Warehouse, the popular retailer of mobile phones, is reportedly looking into its relationship with Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion, with a clear aim to tighten their collaboration. It seems that the company is looking into securing the exclusive availability of various color versions of RIM&#...

22 January 2010
04:48 GMT

AT&T-iPhone Marriage Might End in June 2010

Wireless carrier AT&T is predicted to lose the exclusivity deal on the Apple iPhone in mid-2010, according to analyst Brian Marshall. This is not the first time the carrier has been forecast to lose the right to exclusively distribute the Apple iPhone device in the United States during the next year, and even AT&T i...

26 November 2009
17:21 GMT

Telus to Bring Motorola DROID to Canada

Canadian mobile phone users might soon have the chance to enjoy a wide range of Android mobile phones available for purchase in the country. Rogers has already delivered three of them, the HTC Dream and Magic and the LG Eve, while Telus is already known to have snagged an exclusivity deal on the HTC Hero. However, t...

6 November 2009
14:21 GMT

O2 on iPhone Exclusivity: We're Proud to Have Had It

O2 UK has decided to provide a comment on the news regarding its losing the exclusivity deal on the iPhone. Starting with Monday, September 28, when Orange UK announced it would soon introduce the Apple iconic device into its offering, and continuing with today's announcement from Vodafone that it would make the...

29 September 2009
10:37 GMT

O2 UK Announces Samsung Galaxy Exclusivity

Well, that was fast! Wireless carrier O2 UK put the Android-powered Samsung Galaxy on sale at the beginning of this week, and we all know that it is the only carrier in the country to have the handset available for its users, yet the company announced only on Thursday that it holds exclusivity on the Galaxy i7500 for...

4 September 2009
04:25 GMT

O2 Exclusivity on iPhone to End on October 9

O2's exclusivity over the iPhone has made the headlines quite a few times lately, as more carriers in the UK have been reported to be interested in offering the Apple device to their customers, and it seems that this will soon become a thing of the past. To be more precise, the exclusivity is expected to end on ...

7 August 2009
06:38 GMT

Vodafone UK Interested in Having the iPhone 3G

The race towards having the iPhone available for customers in the UK seems to have caught yet another carrier in the country, namely Vodafone. While only Orange and T-Mobile have been previously rumored to be interested in having the Apple device available in their offerings as soon as O2's exclusivity deal ende...

29 July 2009
06:57 GMT

AT&T-iPhone Marriage Will Come to an End

Wireless carrier AT&T is the only one that sells the Apple iPhone in the US, yet it seems that other carriers will also have the chance to offer the hot device to their customers. Rumors about the end of the exclusivity deal with AT&T have been cycling around previously, and now the carrier’s CEO, Randall Steph...

24 July 2009
04:50 GMT

More iPhone 3G on Orange and T-Mobile UK Rumors Emerge

Apple's iPhone 3G has recently been rumored to be heading towards UK, on Orange and T-Mobile's airwaves, as O2 has exclusivity on the new iPhone 3GS and is getting close to the end term of the exclusivity period for the older device. According to the latest news on the Internet, the availability of the iPho...

20 July 2009
06:07 GMT

Sprint Has the Palm Pre Exclusively for More than 6 Months

Palm Pre, probably the most anticipated mobile phone of the year, will go on sale starting tomorrow on the airwaves of the wireless carrier Sprint. And while previously the carrier was expected to have the device exclusively until the end of the ongoing year, we learn now that it might actually have it for much longe...

5 June 2009
11:12 GMT

Palm Pre to Go to AT&T and Verizon

There are only a few days left before the highly anticipated Palm Pre mobile phone becomes available for purchase on the United States market on the airwaves of Sprint, which will have the handset exclusively until the end of the ongoing year most probably, and now we learn that more wireless carriers in the country ...

1 June 2009
06:03 GMT

Palm Pre Goes to Telefonica, Not Vodafone

According to the latest news on the Web, the highly expected Palm Pre mobile phone will not be distributed in UK by Vodafone; instead it will be added to Telefónica's offering. It seems that the company, along with its subsidiaries, Movistar and O2, will be the ones to have Pre launched in Spain, UK and L...

12 March 2009
08:29 GMT

Vodafone and Palm Negotiate the Introduction of Pre

It seems that Vodafone is after all in talks with Palm for the marketing of the Palm Pre in the European market, at least in the Netherlands if not on the entire continent. According to Ivo Philipsen, spokesperson of Now-Mobile, exclusive Palm agent in Benelux, the companies are negotiating an exclusive deal with Vod...

27 February 2009
08:25 GMT

The GSM Version of Palm Pre to Come to Europe on Vodafone

We might see a GSM version of the highly-expected Palm Pre mobile phone coming to the European users on Vodafone's network; at least, this is what the latest news on the Web suggests. The company came at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, with a few GSM handsets, although no such version of Pre was s...

21 February 2009
07:08 GMT

Sprint Has Pre Exclusively Until the End of 2009

According to the latest news on the Web, the highly expected Palm Pre mobile phone will stay with Sprint Nextel at least until the end of 2009. It seems that a person “familiar with the matter” has told CNBC about this, and, if it proves true, it would mean that all of you who hoped to see the device on o...

20 February 2009
07:01 GMT

Palm Pre Reported to Come on Best Buy As Well

As many of you already know, Palm Pre, the new handset the company unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show last week in Las Vegas will be Sprint exclusive, at least for about two months, the news reports say. From the rumors we've seen lately on the Web, it seems that the handset will also be spotted on Best B...

16 January 2009
10:54 GMT


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