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Samsung Omnia Smartphone Unveiled, Targets iPhone
Korean-handset maker Samsung today announced its Omnia (SGH-i900), a business device similar to the Apple iPhone, running on Windows Mobile 6.1. The Omnia has a slender 12.5mm profile, platinum-look finish and elegant hairline patterns on the back. The centerpiece is a 3.2-inch WQVGA (240 x 400 px) touch screen from Synaptics. With haptics, vibrations give users feedback when the display is touched. Tap, sweep, drag and drop operations let consumers navigate through the TouchWiz UI. An accelerometer auto-rotates the display when tilted on the side. A trackpad and on-screen QWERTY keyboard are included as well. With the stroke of a finger, users can switch between Microsoft Outlook email and applications similar to the look and feel of a PC. Based on Windows Mobile 6.1,…
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Verizon, Time Warner Cable, Sprint to Block Child Porn Sites
New York - Major Internet service providers Verizon (NYSE: VZ), Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) and Sprint (NYSE: S) have agreed to block access to child pornography by eliminating access to child porn newsgroups, and purging their servers of any child porn websites, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced on Tuesday. The companies will also collectively pay $1.1 million to fund additional efforts by the AG's office and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to remove child pornography from the Internet. An investigation by the AG's office over several months uncovered 88 newsgroups hosting over 11,000 child pornography images, which subscribers to the ISPs were able to access."These companies are leading the industry and instituting new…
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HP ships iPAQ 900 smartphone with Win Mobile 6.1
Besides its high-profile PC announcements, HP today quietly began shipping its top-end iPAQ smartphone with a last-minute upgrade. The iPAQ 900 now ships with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional instead of the older 6.0 code and receives the improved home screen along with better mail support. Office Mobile is also packed in with the Professional edition to help read and edit documents on the road. The phone otherwise remains HP's most feature-laden iPAQ with worldwide 3G over HSDPA, native GPS for navigation, Wi-Fi, and a 3-megapixel camera paired up with software to upload photos directly to Snapfish's image pages. The QWERTY keyboard device makes up for its lack of a touchscreen in part through both voice dialing and still-rare voice command recognition. HP has opted out…
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Another Supernova - Nokia 7610 Supernova gets real
Following on the recent unveiling of the Nokia 7310 Supernova candybar/monoblock handset, the Nokia 7610 Supernova slider has surfaced as a seriously attractive down-range option for anyone looking for a bit of style and flair in their handset. Like its Supernova siblings, the Nokia 7610 Supernova relies on EDGE data to serve up the fastest wireless data speeds with S40 running the show. But, with a 3.2 megapixel camera with LED flash, FM radio with RDS, microSD card slot, and 64MB of internal storage, and swappable XpressOn cover-plates, the Nokia 7610 Supernova is sure to find a niche among the fashion-forward. But, for the power users among us, the lack of 3G and reliance on S40 is definitely going to be a deal-breaker.
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O2 giving iPhone customers free upgrade to Apple iPhone 3G
O2 has apparently decided to give their iPhone customers a break. The UK iPhone carrier has announced a free upgrade offer for all O2 subscribers with first-generation iPhones already in hand. The UK carrier has sent out emails detailing the offer: "To thank you for being an iPhone fan, we're offering you an early upgrade to the brand new version when it launches on 11th July 2008. You won't have to wait until the end of your existing contract, all you'll need to do is agree to a new 18-month minimum term contract." O2 iPhone that sign up for an 18-month contract on the ?45 tariff will get an Apple iPhone 3G 8GB for free. Those willing to hand over ?75 every month will be allowed to choose an Apple iPhone 3G 16GB (why would anyone on this tariff would choose…
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HTC Touch Pro Business Handset Unveiled
HTC today unveiled the Touch Pro, its newest Window Mobile 6.1 business device with 3D touch user interface, desktop-like browsing and 5-row sliding QWERTY keyboard. The Touch Pro includes a new touch-sensitive control for device interaction. It offers advanced touch screen technology with TouchFLO 3D, HTC's 3D touch interface. TouchFLO 3D uses one touch to scroll through common tasks like messaging, calendar appointments or making calls. Music, photos, contacts and surfing the web are also responsive. "HTC Touch Pro is for those customers that demand the ease of use and enjoyment of TouchFLO 3D and want the styling of the Touch Diamond but also need the powerful mobile business experience that HTC delivers," said Peter Chou, CEO of HTC Corp.
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Is Apple’s 3G iPhone The BlackBerry-Killer?
With the unveiling of the 3G iPhone today, and with so many of the new features matching the strength of the RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) BlackBerry, it begs the question: will the 3G iPhone be the BlackBerry killer? Already, critics have been speculating that the iPhone will eat into RIM’s business, but now it seems inevitable. To be sure, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has a way to go. In the first quarter, Research In Motion sold the most smartphones in the U.S., garnering a 42 percent marketshare, easily beating Apple, which ranked second with a 20 percent marketshare, according to Gartner.
But Apple announced today that it is making significant progress. To date, it has sold 6 million iPhones, and with the price cut of the new 3G iPhone dropping to $199, and other enterprise-like…
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Nokia 8800 Diamond Covered in 112 Diamonds, Priced at $6000
Finnish-phone giant Nokia today announced its Nokia 8800 Diamond, a limited edition diamond-laced mobile phone created in partnership with Norwegian-jeweler Thomas Heyerdahl. Diamonds highlight an already simple, clean and sophisticated design, according to Thomas Heyerdahl. Limited to 100 individually-numbered copies, the 8800 Diamond is covered with 112 United Nations-approved diamonds, totaling 0.7 carats. It features a high-end metal and glass composition and smooth slide mechanism - comprised of state-of-the art ball bearings and a unique spring mechanism. A 2.0-inch QVGA 240 x 320 px, OLED display with up to 16 million colors, 3.2-megapixel auto focus camera with 8x digital zoom, 3G capabilities and 1GB built in memory space are all standard. The Nokia 8800…
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Teen Drivers use Cell Phones despite the Law: Go Figure
In the United States 17 states and the District of Columbia have cell phone restrictions for teen drivers. In 2003 the National Transportation Safety Board recommended that states limit or bar young drivers from using cell phones while behind the wheel. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for teenagers in the United States. Teens are three times as likely as other age groups to be involved in a fatal crash. Laws and statistics don’t seem to mean much to the teenaged brain. I know they didn’t when I was that age and driving like a madman. The need to be accessible to friends is a more powerful motivator than a fatality statistic or an obscure law most teens don’t know or care about.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety studied North…
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Mobile phones expose human habits
The whereabouts of more than 100,000 mobile phone users have been tracked in an attempt to build a comprehensive picture of human movements. The BBC reports. "The study concludes that humans are creatures of habit, mostly visiting the same few spots time and time again. Most people also move less than 10km on a regular basis, according to the study published in the journal Nature. The results could be used to help prevent outbreaks of disease or forecast traffic, the scientists said...The new work tracked 100,000 individuals selected randomly from a sample of more than six million anonymous phone users. Each time a participant made or received a call or text message, the location of the mobile base station relaying the data was recorded. Information was collected…
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