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Sprint LG Remarq: unremarkable eco-slider

Sprint have announced their latest “earth friendly” cellphone, the LG Remarq, a compact QWERTY slider with a 1.3-megapixel camera, easy photo sharing and social networking access.  The Remarq’s eco credentials include a casing made from 19-percent recycled plastics and packaging made from 87-percent recycled materials; when you’re done with the phone, it itself is 87-percent [...]

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Palm’s Pre Plus and Pixi Plus getting AT&T release

As predicted, AT&T have announced that they too will be offering the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus, the company’s two webOS smartphones.  Set to go on sale “in the coming months”, the two handsets have basically the same functionality as their Verizon counterparts aside from switching to HSDPA: both have quadband GSM and [...]

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Nokia axe upcoming S60 models to focus on services?

Looks like Nokia have taken a hatchet to their plans for 2010, with top-insider Eldar Murtazin tweeting that he’s heard the Finnish company have deleted several S60-based handsets from their roadmap.  Instead, it seems they’ll be focussing more on services. Murtazin’s full message reads “Nokia just cancel on last week some S60 products and re-working [...]

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HTC document innovation milestones in Apple legal battle

When someone accuses you of copying their ideas, you can either leave it to the lawyers to decide or you can come out fighting.  In the ongoing legal case between them and Apple, HTC look to be doing the latter, and they’ve brought their diary along to flag up some key innovations – of their [...]

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MeeGo build for N900 & Atom by end of March 2010

The team behind Nokia and Intel’s latest open-source endeavour, MeeGo, have revealed the first part of their release timeline, and it’s certainly ambitious.  According to Valtteri Halla – half of the MeeGo Technical Steering Group (TSG) – the team plans to open the MeeGo repository by the end of March 2010, with a basic source [...]

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Virgin Mobile USA increase pre-pay Broadband2Go data plans

Virgin Mobile USA have announced its new Broadband2Go plans, upping the amount of data you get for basically the same amount of money.  Ranging from $10 (for 100MB that expires after 10 days) to $60 (for 5GB that expires after 30 days), the four new plans use Sprint’s EVDO Rev.A network. The USB data stick [...]

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Nokia 5230 Nuron confirmed for T-Mobile USA

T-Mobile USA have announced the Nokia 5230 Nuron, the touchscreen smartphone we’ve previously seen as the Nokia 5230 XpressMusic.  Packing a 3.2-inch resistive touchscreen, full HTML browser and 3G connectivity, the Nuron also delivers Nokia’s Ovi Maps complete with free turn-by-turn navigation and access to Lonely Planet travel guides and other content. It’ll also be [...]

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Sony Ericsson push mobile media with Pocket TV

Sony Ericsson have announced their latest attempt to push media onto mobile devices, with the launch of their Pocket TV show.  Rather than offering third-party content, Pocket TV is a series of regular, self-commissioned shows available through Sony Ericsson’s WAP site, pockettvshow.mobi, as well as on YouTube. The shows are intended to promote bite-sized mobile entertainment, [...]

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HTC Touch Diamond officially announced

HTC today announced the Touch Diamond, their latest smartphone and an attempt by the company to wrest back the mobile internet crown from Apple’s iPhone.  Running Windows Mobile 6.1 on a VGA touchscreen, HTC have developed a new, three-dimensional version of their GUI overlay, called TouchFLO 3D.  This offers full homescreen access to all the applications [...]

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Samsung W599 with CDMA, dual-SIM GSM and handwritten shortcuts

Samsung seem determined to cater for all possible options with their new SCH-W599 handset.  Not only can the device handle both CDMA and GSM networks, but it actually has two SIM card slots meaning, like its D780 candybar contemporary, it can simultaneously log onto two separate GSM accounts.  That means you can receive calls on, [...]

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