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Nokia To Ship 2 Top-End Unlocked Phones By Joseph Palenchar - 04/08/2009 Las Vegas — Nokia will brings its first 8-megapixel camera phone and its new flagship N-series phone to the U.S. market this year as unlocked devices, the company told TWICE during the CTIA convention here. More
BlackBerry Storm2 Brewing For Holidays By Joseph Palenchar - 10/26/2009
Waterloo, Canada — Research In Motion's (RIM) second-generation touchscreen phone, the BlackBerry Storm2, will offer a more responsive touchscreen, more accurate typing on its virtual keyboard and other enhancements when it rolls out in coming weeks, RIM said in unveiling the phone. It will also get Wi-Fi, which its predecessor lacked.
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CTIA Recommends MicroUSB, 3.5mm Mini Plugs For Phones By Joseph Palenchar - 10/26/2009
Washington — CTIA-The Wireless Association is encouraging further standardization of inputs and outputs on cellular phones, following up on its previously announced support for the industry's Universal Charging Solution (UCS) for cellphone chargers. “The adoption of common interfaces for input/output features extends the consumer-friendly and environmentally focused universal charge...
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Carrier Q4 Focus: Smartphones, Touchscreens By Joseph Palenchar - 10/12/2009
New York— Smartphones, touchscreen phones and messaging phones dominate fourth-quarter cellphone launches by carriers eager to compete more vigorously with the iPhone and generate higher data revenues to offset declining voice revenues. New phones include the first Windows Mobile 6.5 OS smartphones, a greater selection of Android-based phones, Sprint's first Android-based phone, and the f...
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AT&T To Ship Hybrid Sat/Cellphone In Q1 By Joseph Palenchar - 10/12/2009
Dallas — AT&T will market a hybrid satellite/cellular smartphone beginning in the first quarter of 2010 to corporations, government agencies and small businesses followed sometime later by a hybrid phone for consumers, the carrier announced. The 3G smartphone will send and receive calls via TerreStar's voice-and-data communications satellite when terrestrial cellular coverage is unava...
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Novatel Readies Next-Gen MiFi Hot Spot By Joseph Palenchar - 10/12/2009
San Diego— The next-generation personal Wi-Fi hot spot available from Novatel Wireless in North America will add embedded memory, memory card slot and Linux OS, which will enable over-the-air application downloading, chief marketing officer Rob Hadley told TWICE. Novatel's first-generation personal hot spot, the MiFi 2200 Intelligent Mobile Hot Spot, is a pocket-size battery-powered Wi-Fi...
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Palm Will Drop Windows Mobile By Joseph Palenchar - 09/28/2009
Sunnyvale, Calif.— Palm will concentrate its future development efforts on WebOS-based PDA phones and no longer develop phones based on the Windows Mobile OS, president/CEO Jonathan Rubinstein said. During a conference call with analysts, Rubinstein said future engineering efforts will focus on the WebOS operating system, created by Palm and appearing in the Palm Pre and Pixie.
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Reporters Notebook Doug Olenick, Senior Editor/Web Editor, TWICE May 7, 2009 Kindle Good News?
Being TWICE’s Web and computer technology editor makes me receptive of most new... More
Reporters Notebook Doug Olenick, Senior Editor/Web Editor, TWICE April 3, 2009 The Next Wave Of CE Buyers
The future of consumer electronics, and possibly even print publishing, is in good ha... More
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Majap Shipments Improving: AHAM
Washington — Factory shipments of major appliances continued their sequential improvement in September, suggesting that...
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