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Recently approved devices by the FCC
Filed in archive New Products/Services by Umair Khalid on April 14, 2008
The following three devices were recently approved by Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which means that these would soon be launched in the US. Sony Ericsson G700: The SE G700 is a 3G dev...
Custom-Built Google Solution for S60 Now Available
Filed in archive Google , Mobile Services , Mobile Web , New Products/Services , Nokia , Smartphones , Symbian by Rico Mossesgeld on February 25, 2008
I've been impressed with Nokia's S60 smartphones lately, and it's primarily because of the superb Mini Map browser. There are still some limitations that keep me from enjoying a desktop-li...
Verzio Duplii Review
Filed in archive New Products/Services , Smartphone Review , Smartphones by Rico Mossesgeld on February 18, 2008
Thanks to the local distributor of verzio products, I was able to review the Duplii, their flagship dual-SIM phone: The key selling point of the Verzio Duplii is its ability to handle two SIMs at th...
Boingo, Wayport, McDonald's Unite for the Sake of Wi-Fi
Filed in archive Mobile Services , Mobile Web , New Products/Services by Rico Mossesgeld on February 15, 2008
(image source) Got a Boingo account and a liking for Big Macs? Check out Boingo Wireless' press release: Boingo Wireless Inc., which provides access to the world's largest network of Wi-Fi ho...
Access Releases NetFront For Windows Mobile
Filed in archive Mobile Web , New Products/Services , PDAs , Smartphones , Software , Windows Mobile by Rico Mossesgeld on February 11, 2008
Perhaps seeking to expand their presence on the mobile browser market, Access has recently made a Windows Mobile version of their netfront browser available as a free download. You can get it here. ...
"Finger-Friendly" SMS Chat for Windows Mobile
Filed in archive New Products/Services , PDAs , SMS Services , Windows Mobile by Rico Mossesgeld on February 5, 2008
It seems that the sms Chat apps are coming out by the bundle nowadays. I recently featured Pocket SMS, and to be honest, this new offering by VITO technology looks like it blows the competition away...
Fizz Traveller Now at Version 3
Filed in archive New Products/Services , Windows Mobile by Rico Mossesgeld on January 29, 2008
If you're on the market for some snazzy-looking clock software for your Windows Mobile gadget, take a look at Fizz Traveller. It's really marketed as a "travel information program," ...
A Fancy Way of Saying Cheap, the Nokia 2600 Classic, and Nokia 1209
Filed in archive Mobile Marketing , New Products/Services , Nokia by Rico Mossesgeld on January 25, 2008
You may be wondering, after reading press releases like these, why manufacturers and service operators just can't call their low-end models "cheap" or even "affordable." It&#...
Seagate's DAVE Promises 60GBs to Smartphones and PDAs
Filed in archive New Products/Services , PDAs , Peripherals , Smartphones by Rico Mossesgeld on January 16, 2008
(video courtesy of msmobiles.com) Here's a really exciting prospect: 60 gigabytes of space that's easily available to your smartphone or PDA: The Seagate D.A.V.E. [Digital Audio and Video Exp...
EQO Now Available as Beta for Symbian
Filed in archive Mobile Services , Mobile Web , New Products/Services , Smartphones , Symbian by Rico Mossesgeld on January 14, 2008
EQO, a service that promises free IMs and low-cost international calls and texts on cell phones, has just released a version of their client for Symbian S60 3rd Edition smartphones. Supported models ...
T-Mobile Provides Free Wi-Fi to UK Data Plan Users
Filed in archive Mobile Marketing , New Products/Services , T-Mobile by Rico Mossesgeld on January 11, 2008
Sometimes it is the way you deliver the message. Companies tend to market their new freebies as noble efforts meant to improve the lot of mankind. So when I read Richard Warmsley, a T-Mobile executi...
What do You Think of the Motorola Z10?
Filed in archive Motorola , New Products/Services , Smartphones , Symbian by Rico Mossesgeld on January 8, 2008
In preparation for CES 2008, motorola has released quite a lot of details on its newest banana slider, the MOTO Z10. By Motorola's anorexic standards, it's quite thick at 16.5mm. The Z10 is...
Picasa on the iPhone
Filed in archive Apple , Mobile Services , New Products/Services , Smartphones by Rico Mossesgeld on December 13, 2007
In my not-so-humble opinion, picasa owns iPhoto. The free download from Google does a great job of organizing photo collections, and even features some rudimentary editing tools that allow a little ...
Popular Sci-Fi Franchise + N-Gage = Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Mobile
Filed in archive New Products/Services , Nokia , Smartphones , Symbian by Rico Mossesgeld on December 6, 2007
Rejoice, george lucas devotees! Especially if you use a Nokia smartphone that supports the N-Gage mobile gaming platform. Nokia recently announced the development of a Star Wars-themed N-Gage title:...
Office Mobile Now Supports Office 2007
Filed in archive New Products/Services , PDAs , Smartphones , Windows Mobile by Rico Mossesgeld on December 2, 2007
Most new Windows Mobile smartphones and PDAs come with Office Mobile pre-installed. But the weird thing is that they usually didn't support Microsoft's newest office suite, Office 2007. But...
Samsung SLM is AT&T's First Napster Phone
Filed in archive Mobile Services , Mobile Web , New Products/Services , Samsung , Smartphones by Rico Mossesgeld on November 25, 2007
Following the announcement of its agreement with Napster, AT&T is recently made the first Napster Mobile-capable phone available for purchase. The Samsung SLM is a flip smartphone featuring some ...
Latest Version of Documents To Go Brings Full Office 2007 Support to the Palm OS
Filed in archive Mobile Services , New Products/Services , Palm , PDAs , Smartphones by Rico Mossesgeld on November 20, 2007
Check out the copy on DataViz's product page: Documents To Go is the only product on the market today with support for native Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and TXT files as well as native JPEG an...
Sony and NXP Jump on the Virtual Wallet Bandwagon
Filed in archive Mobile Services , New Products/Services , News , Sony Ericsson , Wireless Living by Rico Mossesgeld on November 15, 2007
Well, Sony (one of the partners behind Sony Ericsson) and NXP haven't exactly been inactive in the virtual wallet industry, but with all the news on mobile payment schemes going around it's ...
Weekend Round-Up of Two Hot Mobile Platforms
Filed in archive Apple , Mobile Marketing , Mobile Services , New Products/Services , News by Rico Mossesgeld on November 10, 2007
One's out in the wild, the other's the subject of wild online speculation. As the iPhone is set for a UK release, network partner O2 has a warning: "We do want to keep it clear that thi...
Opera 4 Mini No Longer a Beta
Filed in archive New Products/Services by Rico Mossesgeld on November 9, 2007
If you were paying attention when I featured the Opera 4 Mini beta a while back, then you might be interested to know that the first official version is now available for download. Visit http://www....
AT&T Makes Pandora Radio Mobile
Filed in archive Cingular , Mobile Services , Mobile Web , New Products/Services , Smartphones by Rico Mossesgeld on November 9, 2007
Yesterday, AT&T announced that it was bringing the Pandora experience to the mobile world, staring with eight smartphones: "the Samsung SYNC, a717 and a737, the Motorola V3xx and RAZR 2, L...
The Players in Google's Android Game: Who's In and Who's Out
Filed in archive HTC , LG , Motorola , New Products/Services , PDAs , Smartphones , Software , T-Mobile by Rico Mossesgeld on November 6, 2007
It makes no sense to rehash or summarize the lengthy announcement of Android, "the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices" backed by Google and its mobile partners....

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The Twins Smartphone is a Great Solution to GSM/CDMA Incompatibility
Filed in archive New Products/Services , Smartphones , Windows Mobile by Rico Mossesgeld on November 5, 2007
Despite the fact that GSM is better than CDMA because of its overwhelmingly widespread reach, there are still some holdouts. TechFaith's Twins comes to the rescue. This smartphone accepts one S...
Breath Life Into Your Smartphones and PDAs
Filed in archive Mods , New Products/Services , PDAs , Peripherals , Smartphones by Rico Mossesgeld on November 5, 2007
Literally breathing (battery life) into your mobile gadgets is quite possible. Our pals over at The Gadgets Weblog featured a do-it-yourself breath-powered USB charger, courtesy of Instructables. A...
RotateMe Easily Rotates S60 Screens
Filed in archive New Products/Services , Nokia , Smartphones , Software , Symbian by Rico Mossesgeld on November 4, 2007
Put simply, RotateMe lets users quickly switch their S60 smartphone screens from portrait to landscape orientation. Things are a bit different on the Nokia N95. Thanks to that phone's built-in acc...
I'd Rather Have More Battery Than Memory
Filed in archive New Products/Services , Nokia , Smartphones , Symbian by Rico Mossesgeld on October 30, 2007
Speaking of 8GB, Darla Mack recently announced the N95 8GB's availability at nokia's flagship stores in Chicago and New York. Tomorrow for the former, the next day for the latter. But even ...
Just How Much Can You Store on 8GB?
Filed in archive i-mate , New Products/Services , Peripherals , Smartphones , Symbian by Rico Mossesgeld on October 30, 2007
For desktop or laptop users, 8GB isn't even enough for the operating system! But for the mobile world, where gadgets, hardware, and memory capacities are smaller, 8GB is lot of space. 8GB can st...
The Nokia Lifeblog-Wordpress Experience, Now Available to Macs
Filed in archive Mobile Services , Mobile Web , New Products/Services , Nokia , Smartphones by Rico Mossesgeld on October 27, 2007
There isn't anything complicated about Phoneboy's Nokia Lifeblog Wordpress plugin: it basically allows users to post their Lifeblog content on a Wordpress blog. But this straightforward proc...
AT&T and Napster Offer Music for Mobiles
Filed in archive Cingular , Mobile Marketing , Mobile Services , Mobile Web , New Products/Services , PDAs , Ringtones and Sound Clips , Smartphones by Rico Mossesgeld on October 23, 2007
A recent press release from AT&T announces that the service provider has entered into an agreement with Napster to distribute music through mobiles, including smartphones and PDAs. Users can use...
Voicemail Sucks, and They're Doing Something About It
Filed in archive Mobile Services , New Products/Services , PDAs , Smartphones by Rico Mossesgeld on October 22, 2007
Good job SimulScribe! You diss voicemail by coming up with VoicemailSucks.com, and you actually do something about it and come up with a solution: SimulScribe utilizes cutting edge voice recognition...
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