Mobile Phones

Hi, and thanks for stopping by. My name is Simon, and this is my blog dedicated to mobile phones. I’ll be blogging on all new mobile phone models released, as well as mobile industry news, phone reviews, pictures, stats, insider information and of course mobile phone applications. I also plan to create a section dedicated to free downloads, boguth together from across the internet, and including among other things wallpapers, ring tones, videos and themes. Hope you enjoy the site, don’t forget to bookmark me, follow me on twitter and sign up to my feed!

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Verizon Wireless' webOS powered Palm Pre Plus smartphone is now available at Walmart for $30 with a 2-year contract. The Palm Pixi Plus is free with a 2-year Verizon Wireless contract.
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A company called SmartPhone Technologies LLC filed a complaint with the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas against Apple, AT&T, LG, Motorola, Research in Motion (RIM), Samsung, and Sanyo. The company claims all have violated at least one of its its patents related Bluetooth connectivity and/or email synchronization. SmartPhone Technologies is seeking costs, damages, and expenses from all of the firms.
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comScore released its January 2010 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Share report today. Motorola maintained its top spot in the overall mobile phone market, and Research in Motion (RIM) held its top spot in smart phones. Google's Android operating system saw the greatest growth.
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Verizon Wireless may be using the WiFi-only Apple iPad as a means for selling 3G data plans, according to documents leaked to Engadget. In one promotional image, that may have been provided to employees, Verizon Wireless says "The iPad is an opportunity for VZW!" suggesting that it can sell 3G enabled MiFi devices to owners of the WiFi-only version of the iPad. The document also calls AT&T's network "overloaded with limited coverage."
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Today Google announced that it is launching advertisements on mobile YouTube sites (m.youtube.com) in the United States and in Japan. The ads will be served on the home, search, and browse pages. Google said initial tests showed strong click-through and brand awareness results.
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Google today announced that Google Maps now includes bike-friendly routing. That means you can get directions from one place to another with routing along bike trails, bike-friendly roads, or bike lanes, where possible. The feature only exists on the desktop for now, but Google says a mobile version is planned
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IBM said today that it is partnering with the National Institute of Design of India and the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo to research ways of making phones more accessible to the illiterate and elderly.
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The non-profit digital rights group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been looking at Apple’s iPhone Developer Contract with iPhone developers and have stated that there are several “troubling” clauses which paint Apple as a “jealous and arbitrary feudal lord,” reports an article over on computer world.

On Tuesday the EFF published a January 2010 version of the iPhone Developer Licence Agreement which they gained from NASA via a freedom of Information Act request.

Senior staff attorney for the EFF, Fred von Lohmann has said, “It’s only because Apple still ‘owns’ the customer, long after each iPhone (and soon, iPad) is sold, that it is able to push these contractual terms on the entire universe of software developers for the platform.”

A number of section were question in the agreement beginning with Apple’s demands of secrecy with developers which prohibits “public statements regarding this Agreement, its terms and conditions, or the relationship of the parties without Apple’s express prior written approval, which may be withheld at Apple’s discretion.” Which von Lohmann calls “particularly strange” due to the licence agreement itself isn’t confidential as define by Apple, which means although the terms of the agreement aren’t confidential, developers are forbidden to publicly speak about them.

Von Lohmann also argued that if Apple’s mobile devices are the future of computing then you can expect the future to be limited on innovation and competition. Of course when contacted, Apple wouldn’t respond.

Last month HTC announced during the Mobile World Congress that they were to be launching two new devices which are to be powered by Google’s Android operating system.

These devices being otherwise known as the HTC Desire and the HTC Legend, a report on news.softpedia.com has learnt that apparently the HTC Desire may well land on the T Mobile airwaves in the United States.

It has been rumoured that the carrier has even started to train its staff on Desire, which of course would suggest that it might not be that long before it is seen on the United States market.

It has been confirmed via various different angles that T Mobile are in the process of training their employees on a new Android device and it is presumed that this device could well be the HTC Desire.

According to a new study by Strategy Analytics, Apple iPhone owners are so satisfied with their phones, that they're most likely to buy their next device from Apple as well. The report titled "iPhone Owners Most Satisfied and Likely to Repeat Purchase," also found that QWERTY keyboard owners, whether virtual or hardware, were more satisfied with their phones than 12-key phone owners.
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