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June 30, 2007
iPhones already plastered across eBay
The iPhone may only have been on sale for a matter of hours but already hundreds of owners are putting their phones up for sales on eBay in the hope of making a quick buck.Despite an initial inertia ...
June 30, 2007
Japanese smartphone market grows by factor of six in a year
Research and Markets has published a report analysing the smartphone market in Japan. The market size is estimated to have grown to about 600,000 in 2006 from about 100,000 in 2005 thanks to the expansion of the business ...
June 29, 2007
Sony Ericsson pulls plug on firmware updates
Sony Ericsson incurred the wrath of its smartphone users when it announced, slightly quietly, that it would no longer be issuing firmware updates for its P990i smartphone, M600i communicator and W950 music phone.A statement from statement from Niklas ...
June 29, 2007
BlackBerry earnings soar while Palm disappoints
RIM, makers of the iconic BlackBerry range of smartphones saw their earning up 73% in the last quarter while one of their rivals, Palm, saw earnings fall to $15.4 million from $27.2 million in the same period in ...
June 28, 2007
Autonomy Cardiff Extends Vision for Intelligent Documents with Liquidoffice V5
Cardiff, a division of Autonomy, today announced the immediate availability of Cardiff LiquidOffice Version 5.0. This new release extends Cardiff's vision for Intelligent Documents by bringing unique, next-generation business process management capabilities to mobile professionals, while expanding flexibility ...
June 28, 2007
LogMeIn Announces First Web-Based Remote Support Tool for Smartphones
LogMeIn has announced new software that enables customer care representatives at wireless carriers, IT support organizations and corporate IT departments to quickly and securely access and remote control smartphones to diagnose and fix problems - or even train ...
June 28, 2007
Forum Nokia Announces Launchpad Community
Nokia today announced its new Launchpad mobile software developer offering for the broad range of software developer companies seeking a fast-track for creating applications that target the millions of devices based on Nokia mobile platforms in the ...
June 28, 2007
HTC Announces New P6300 PDA Device for Enterprise Market
HTC has announced the launch of the new P6300 PDA device for the enterprise market. With the full power of Windows Mobile, an intuitive large 3.5" touch screen and excellent connectivity options, it's well equipped to cater for ...
June 28, 2007
Celebrate Your Independence with Triples, 4th of July Edition
Smart Box Design has announced Triples Independence Day Edition. Come celebrate your independence this Fourth of July with the stars and stripes version of Triples for Palm OS and Treos.For a limited period, June 28th to July 28th, ...
June 28, 2007
3G Penta-band Power Amplifier Slides Into Samsung's Sleek Smartphone
Anadigics are shipping production volumes of their AWT6223 UMTS/EDGE penta-band power amplifier module to Samsung for its SGH-I520 smartphone designed for the European market. The SGH-I520 is the first Samsung phone to use the Symbian OS Version 9.2 ...
June 27, 2007
Asus P526 launches in Taiwan
Asustek has become the latest smartphone manufacturer desperately trying to beat the iPhone by virtue of hitting the market first.Their new P526 smartphone shares some features with its more famous rival, such as a touchscreen, but the similarities ...
June 27, 2007
First iPhone review online
The New York Times has published the first iPhone review (that we know of) based on actual hands-on use of the device. Being the NYT it's also freely available for you to read, which is more than can ...
June 27, 2007
BlackBerry 8830 World Edition now available in Canada
Bell Canada today announced the availability of the much-anticipated BlackBerry 8830 World Edition smartphone, offering worldwide roaming, true high-speed Internet access, and advanced multimedia applications such as GPS navigation. The BlackBerry 8830 World Edition from Bell is the ...
June 27, 2007
Apple to Gain 10 Percent Smartphone Share in the USA in 2007
Strategy Analytics predicts that Apple, and its new iPhone range, will account for an impressive 10 percent share of total smartphone sales in the United States by the end of 2007. Neil Mawston, Associate Director at Strategy ...
June 27, 2007
Palm may be biggest loser when iPhone launches
The Apple iPhone launches at 6pm on Friday and promises to be the biggest thing to hit the smartphone industry...ever.Manufacturers have been scrambling to produce handsets to at best take on, at worst mildly deflect, the impact of ...
June 26, 2007
Wayfinder Navigator 7 now available on the BlackBerry 8800 Series and BlackBerry Curve
Wayfinder has announced that its Wayfinder Navigator is now compatible with the BlackBerry 8800 Series and BlackBerry Curve smartphones.Wayfinder Navigator is claimed to combine the best of GPS navigation with the convenience and functionality of a BlackBerry smartphone. ...
June 25, 2007
Google tops the SmartPhone hit list
M:Metrics, has announced the rankings of the top mobile Web companies among smartphone users in the United States and the United Kingdom, for the month of April. Google appears to own the mobile web, withover 62% of traffic ...
June 24, 2007
i-mate Ultimate '30 times more powerful than iPhone'
i-mate CEO Jim Morrison has been singing the praises of some of his company's new products, the Ultimate range.In an interview with Arabian Business Morrison said, "The Ultimate phone range will be vastly superior to anything the Middle ...
June 24, 2007
Rumour: LG set to announce 'Google phone' - but is it the real thing?
A leaked (for which read, possibly inaccurate) press release suggests that LG is to announce what is described as a 'Google phone' in the European market this week.The handset, which bears a striking resemblance to the LG Chocolate ...
June 24, 2007
Mysterious new O2 phone - photos appear online
A poster on the ce4arab.com forums has published what they claim are photos of a new O2 smartphone dubbed the O2 Helen (strange name we think) that will be released very soon.Supposedly the Helen is a replacement for ...