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China Unicom to Sell Its Own Smartphone

China Unicom, the nation’s only mobile operator offering Apple’s iPhone,  will sell new smartphone called UPhone by the end of this year. Being developed with Okwap, Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp, the phone will run on a new operating system based on Linux, according to Zhang Zhijiang, the company’s exec in an interview at [...]

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iPhone or Android? Some developers are having it both ways

Some smart-phone developers (including some top names) expressing interest in making apps for both Apple’s iOS and for Android, according to AppStoreHQ’s research. They just want to develop apps based on any platform that will deliver the biggest bang for their effort.

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WLM for iPhone passes one million downloads

Windows Live Messenger app for iPhone has been downloaded over one million times in just 5 days. In addition to this, according to Windows Team blog, there are over 24 million people who connect with Messenger friends from other mobile phones through a client application, their phone’s browser, or SMS.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia X8, budget phone for Android

Following its Cedar and Yendo unit, Sony Ericsson offers another Xperia lineup called X8. Targetting mid-to-low segments with less than EUR200 (US$247), the device’s size is between X10 mini and X10. It has 3 inch TFT HVGA (320 x 480 pixels) capacitive touchscreen (single touch), 128MB internal storage with additional storage via microSD card, a [...]

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iPhone 4 sales surpass 1.7 million mark

Apple’s iPhone 4 rocks the world by selling over 1.7 million of its units just in first three days! Seems the new features and innovations like FaceTime and new Retina display offered by iPhone 4 really work. Good job, Mr. Jobs! 

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Kindle for Android now available

Dear Android users, are ready to get your Kindle on? Amazon announced that its free Kindle reading apps is now available in the Android Market (requires Android 1.6 or higher). Just go to the Android market and search for “Kindle”. Yeah, this app allows you to access all of your previous Kindle purchases –even if you [...]

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Indonesia’s Indosat launches Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, the first in the world!

Indosat becomes the first operator in the world (instead of DoCoMo or Rogers!) to launch the first Sony Ericsson’s Android handset, Xperia X10, Gajeto reports. The country’s second largest operator will offer the X10 during their Indosat Android Expo on March 3-7.

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Telkomsel, Opera’s preferred partner in Indonesia

Opera Software and Indonesia’s biggest network provider, Telkomsel, announced their partnership to deliver Opera Mini to 82 million customers. Both will distribute an optimized version of Opera Mini 5 which include some tweaks to the toolbar, billing integration and home page-content.

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Google acquires reMail iPhone App for Gmail

Google has acquired reMail, that’s already removed from the Apple’s app store recently [Google itself currently doesn’t offer a Gmail app on the iPhone platform]. But if you already have reMail, as its founder guaranteed, it will continue to work and keep getting support from the service’s team until the end of March.

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Sony Ericsson announced Vivaz Pro, X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro

Sony Ericsson announced their three new handsets in a press event held on the day before the MWC 2010 started: the Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro, Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro. The first one is the Symbian S60 5th edition handset, which comes up with a slide out QWERTY keyboard. The Vivaz [...]

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