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Phone Scoop was able to spend a few moments with the recently announced LG eXpo. This Windows Mobile 6.5 phone sports a unique, detachable pico projector as well as a QWERTY keyboard and touch screen. (follow link to read)
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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and his business partners have publicly launched a new start-up called Square. The purpose of Square is to give individuals and/or small businesses the ability to accept payments via credit or debit cards. The service ... (follow link to read)
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Today Swype announced new text prediction technology for touch phones. Swype works by allowing users to swipe the letters of a word on the software QWERTY keyboard of a touch phone to spell them. For example, to spell the ... (follow link to read)
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Motorola has made a software update available to its Android-based CLIQ phone. The software update keeps Android at system 1.5, but improves Bluetooth, battery life, accelerometer performance and touch screen accuracy.
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Sprint spokesperson Scott Sloat has confirmed that Sprint Nextel will cease to offer push-to-talk phones based on Qualcomm's QChat technology. QChat was introduced in 2008 as an EVDO Rev. A-based alternative to Nextel's iDEN technology for PTT services. Sprint ... (follow link to read)
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On the heels of its new software for the S60 platform, today fring announced that the newest version of its software for the iPhone will support phone-to-phone video calling. fring video calls are possible with other fring and Skype ... (follow link to read)
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Today Nokia announced the newest version of its mobile application and user interface framework, Qt 4.6. Qt 4.6 offers developers a large number of improvements, including support for multi-touch applications and input methods such as flicking and kinetic scrolling. ... (follow link to read)
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Today Clearwire will add the greater Seattle metropolitan area to its WiMax footprint, which now covers just over 30 million people across the U.S. The Seattle coverage area reaches from from Tacoma to Bellingham and from the Puget Sound ... (follow link to read)
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Nokia has filed a lawsuit against 11 different manufacturers of liquid crystal displays and alleges that the companies colluded to fix LCD prices. Nokia believes that the companies kept LCD prices artificially higher during the Jan. 1, 1996 through ... (follow link to read)
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The Federal Communications Commission recently approved a plan
that will allow the agency -- in concert with...
a private-sector administrator -- to catalog all the nation's available white space spectrum. White space spectrum is the unused spectrum ...
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FCC to Begin Cataloging White Space Spectrum
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Today Samsung announced that it has begun production of its of 3-bit, multi-level-cell (MLC) NAND flash chips using 30-nanometer process technology. The new 3-bit chips increase the efficiency by 50% over the previous generation 2-bit chips. This will lead ... (follow link to read)
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AT&T; has launched a new service that will transcribe voicemails to text and then deliver them to a user's handset via text message, email or both. Users can respond to or forward voicemails via text, email or voice and ... (follow link to read)
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According to informed sources cited by Reuters, Nokia is planning to release only one device in 2010 running its Linux-based Maemo platform. Reuters' source is said to have "direct knowledge of Nokia's product roadmap." Nokia only recently released the ... (follow link to read)
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Today AT&T; and LG announced the eXpo, a
new sideways slider that features a removable Texas Instruments...
DLP projector. The eXpo also has a full QWERTY keyboard, touch display, and 5 megapixel camera with flash. It has a slot ... (follow link to read)
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AT&T Exposes LG's eXpo
Sprint today announced that it has completed the first step necessary to acquire affiliate iPCS. A large percentage of iPCS stockholders accepted the tender offer of $24 per share, representing about 62.8% of iPCS' total shares. Two more steps ... (follow link to read)
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Today PC-maker Lenovo announced that it will spend about $200 million to repurchase the mobile phone unit it sold to investors last year. Lenovo sold the mobile phone business in 2008 for about $100 million. It isn't clear what ... (follow link to read)
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Here is a brief video that details the highlights of the Sanyo Incognito, a new sideways clamshell messaging phone for Sprint. It has a full QWERTY keyboard, social networking apps, and the OneClick user interface. (follow link to read)
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Today T-Mobile indicated that Bloomington and Lafeyette, Indiana, now have access to its 3G network. This is notable because Indiana University and Purdue -- two of the states largest educational institutions -- are located in these markets, respectively.
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fring recently announced a new version of its software for select S60 devices that lets users place video calls to other phones from their mobile device. fring video calls are possible with other fring and Skype users via Wi-Fi ... (follow link to read)
