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May 5, 2006

Helio Launches Cell Phone Services and Devices

Since the inception of Helio last year by a joint venture with Earthlink and SK Telecom Korea - Their plan to introduce new multimedia geared 3G phones to the U.S. market fully capable of impressing all your cell phone mongering friends.
Helio is an MVNO of Sprint Nextel and uses their wireless infrastructure. However they do […]

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May 2, 2006

Mobile Broadband Pricing On The Decline

With Broadband over mobile devices becoming more of a rage, and to accomodate all the new media applications as well as wireless television. International mobile carriers are dropping thier mobile broadband rates signifigantly.
Vodafone, a New Zeland wireless provider, recently announced a 66% drop in thier mobile data rates - from $ 149-00 per GB to […]

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April 28, 2006

New Motorola Phone Models Include Pink Slvr and Blue Razr

With the huge success of the Razr series phone models, and now with the addition of Slvr - a candybaresque version of the Razr. Motorola is onto producing more clones and novelties to inflate even more sales with thier Razr/Slvr line. Not that I don’t like the models, but I’ve never seen this many revisions […]

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April 25, 2006

Nokia N73 3.2 Megapixel Camera Phone

Nokia has seen prominent success with their N70 model, which focuses largely on being a high quality digital camera. The N73 is an update to the n70, and will be dished out in 3 different styles; silver grey/deep plum, frost white/metallic red and frost white/mocha brown.
Nokia N73 Features:
3.2 megapixel camera
3G or quadband EDGE/GSM (various models […]

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April 20, 2006

Motorola Rokr E2 Could Pack iTunes

The semi-successful Motorola Rokr is getting a new version to what could be a very successful series. The FCC has recently approved the Rokr E2 - and interestingly enough hints at support for iTunes in the Rokr user manula submitted to the FCC - Which was being debated as when it was announced Motorola was […]

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April 11, 2006

HSBC and First Direct to offer mobile banking service

HSBC and First Direct have teamed up with MoniLink, a joint service venture from Morse and the cash machine network LINK.
The application will allow users to query thier bank statements, as well as check pending balance enquiries. Next generation mobile bankers will be able to simpley download and install the application onto thier Java compatible […]

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April 8, 2006

NEC and Matsushita to sign deal with Texas Instruments

Two of the largest cell phone manufacturers in Japan announced this week they are in discussions with Texas Instruments to align a joint venture over the production of 3G mobile phone chips.
Matsushita, known widely for its Panasonic brand, NEC, and TI are anticipating to come to an agreement later this month. They will also be […]

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April 7, 2006

Japan leads way for mobile TV

Japans 90 million cellular phone subscribers have now just began watching TV on thier mobile phones. Last week in majors cities across Japan cellular users equipped with special receivers have been using this new technology that does not use wireless internet to receive broadcasts. Cingular has been experimenting with internet TV, but only over internet connections. While […]

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April 6, 2006

3.5G now operating in India

The Swedish telecom leader, Ericsson has demonstrated the first ever test link of what is popularly known as ‘3.5G’ –And it is being tested in India.
Currently 3G networks operate under a 384Kbps (kilobits per second) limit, with the new 3.5G technology users will be able to expect speeds up to 10Mbs (megabytes per second.) This […]

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