Archive for May, 2008

Mobile services are a tough nut to crack by any standard, so when a new player wants to step up to the plate, they’d best have a whole heap of cash in tow and a dedication to stick it out for the long term.

NOKIA

That’s exactly the path Nokia finds itself going down, with the CFO admitting last week that it dropped nine figures last year ramping up various segments of its Ovi initiative.
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Director of Deutsche Telekom that the company is satisfied with sales and usage of Apple’s iPhone, adding that the company has so far sold more than 100,000 of the devices since its November debut.

Deutsche Telekom

The iPhone customers used the Internet 30 times more on average than other mobile Relevant Products/Services telephone customers, and that a third of iPhone customers had bought the most expensive user plans.
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Mobile phone review of the top 5 cell phones out of the top twenty cell phones released at the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona.

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LG Rumor Blue Sprint

Rumor by LG, exclusively from Sprint, is an affordable and attractive Sprint PCS Vision phone that helps you manage your entertainment, data, and voice needs in a single device. Available in 4 stylish color options, Rumor by LG puts the convenience of text messaging in the palm of your hand with an easy-to-use QWERTY slide keyboard and one touch access to messaging through a softkey from the idle screen. Whenever you slide open the phone, it automatically populates the messaging menu for you. Text tones can be assigned to a Contacts entry so you can easily identify the sender. Rumor by LG also offers an MP3 music player and a 4 GB capacity microSD card slot so you can take your favorite tunes with you on the go. Additional features include a 1.3 MP camera/camcorder and Bluetooth wireless technology.

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Windows Mobile

50% growth is the minimum”, said Eddie Wu, Microsoft managing director of OEM embedded devices Asia. With this statement, Microsoft declares that it wants to grow Windows Mobile by 50%. Is it possible? There are two ways that you can look at this.

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Gresso Black Diamond

After showing us what they can do with African Blackwood and black diamonds, Gresso is back in the business with white diamonds. The phone, as always, is made of African Blackwood and the keys are made of gold encrusted with white diamonds. The phone comes in two variants: Royal White Diamonds with 23 white diamonds and White Diamonds with 4 white diamonds.

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Pantech Breeze

The Pantech Breeze takes into account many of the design principles set forth in AT&T’s approach to Universal Design:

* 1-2-3 Quick-Call Keys — Three preprogrammable quick-call buttons are located below the screen — users can easily select one of the three quick-call contacts and press the send button to start a call.
* Simplified Menu — Navigating the phone’s features is trouble-free with the simplified “breeze menu,” which prioritizes the features that customers want to access most.
* Large Font — Menu screens on the Pantech Breeze use a highly visible large font. Additionally, the font of SMS messages is enlarged and the date and time of messages sent is at the beginning rather than at the end of a message.
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