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MWg specs up 2008 handset roadmap
Windows Mobile 7 device en-route
The Mobile and Wireless Group (MWg) has given Register Hardware a sneak peek at four upcoming handsets, including its first Windows Mobile 7 device, during the official launch of the firm's two latest handsets: the Atom V and Zinc II.…
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Orb opens iPhone for TV, video
Uncrippling the iPod
You don't need Steve Jobs' permission to watch TV on your iPhone any more. A native Orb client for the iPhone and iPod Touch popped up on the installer networks overnight, and Orb confirms that it's official.…
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Apple out to recruit 3G-savvy iPhone field testers
Engineering posts offered in Oz, UK, Germany
There's now no doubt that Apple's bringing the iPhone to Australia: it's looking for an iPhone Field Validation Engineer there with "technical understanding and experience with GSM/GPRS, Edge, CDMA and UMTS".…
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Philips hops on 'iPhone killer' bandwagon
A sexy little number
Pictures have been leaked out of the latest handset hoping to steal some of the iPhone’s limelight, and this time the talker’s from Philips.…
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AT&T halts holidays during 3G iPhone launch window
'Exciting summer promotional launch', promises leaked memo
AT&T staffers have once again been told they can't take any time off work next month because of an anticipated "heavy selling period" resulting from "an exciting Summer Promotional Launch", a leaked memo reveals.…
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Mobile roaming in Europe: Have your say
Don't tell us, tell the EU
The European Union is launching a public consultation on European roaming regulations.…
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BT Fusion rises again
This time it's about data
Son of Fusion is here - BT has launched what it's calling "Total Broadband Anywhere", with Windows Mobile handsets from HTC and membership of BT's FON network.…
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Palm's 'Skywriter' smartphone spied on web?
Slab-like
Palm's anticipated Treo 800w is thought to be what the company's calling 'Zeppelin' - a very unfortunate codename, given the originals' tendency to crash and burn. But what about its 'Skywriter' product?…
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Ofcom plays precog on tomorrow's wireless world
Nuke war, meteorite hit could disrupt your signal
Ofcom put healthcare and transport at the top of the agenda in its annual research and development report, released today.…
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HTC’s Diamond iPhone rival unwrapped
But does it shine?
A glitzy London hotel was this morning's setting for the launch of HTC’s new handset, Diamond, the latest phone in a long line of would-be iPhone killers.…
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Motorola board faces down a hostile crowd
Pledges to be flexible and focused - at the same time
Angry Motorola shareholders confronted the ailing firm's board over the company's poor performance yesterday, but left with little more than vague promises and estimated dates.…
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SplashPower splashes down in Fulton Innovation
Consolidating the drips for induction charging
SplashPower, the UK inductive charging company that has been struggling to create a product since 2001, has been bought up by Alticor-subsidiary Fulton Innovation.…
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Vodafone sews up iPhone distribution
Ten-country deal feeds Apple's world-domination plan
Vodafone has signed a deal with Apple to distribute the iPhone in ten of its operating countries - several of which are still 2G-only, which should help clear stocks once the 3G version is launched.…
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Deutsche Telekom mulls Sprint takeover
Transatlantic alphabet soup
Deutsche Telekom is interested in buying Sprint Nextel, a move that would give it the top spot in the U.S. wireless market.…
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FCC reveals biometric HTC handset
Documents uncover testing phase
An upcoming HTC handset equipped with a fingerprint reader has made its first public appearance thanks to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) website.…
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Indian electronics firm has Moto device biz in its sights
Videocon fancies a bit
Indian consumer electronics supplier Videocon has been on the blower to Motorola with a view to taking control of the mobe co's devices division for an undisclosed price.…
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Vodafone bundles mobile data
You can't give it away these days
Vodafone has decided to bundle net access with its monthly service packages, whether the punters want it or not.…
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Nokia puts brave face on 'Comes Without Profits'
It does make money, really
Nokia has defended its "Comes With Music" giveway and insists it will make money from the promotion. Somehow.…
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AT&T goes with the FLO for mobile TV
Service goes live this Sunday
AT&T is to launch its mobile broadcast TV service this Sunday, with a couple of new handsets to receive it and coverage in 58 markets including all the usual suspects.…
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NFC fails to find its killer app
Competition generates ideas, but not Eureka!s
VingCard and Lancaster University have been crowned winners of the NFC Forum's Touch the Future competition, to reward the most compelling NFC applications around the world.…
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RIM clamshell BlackBerry spied on web
Ready to 'Kickstart' sales?
Research in Motion (RIM) has developed a clamshell BlackBerry - and pictures of the new email handset have already been pushed onto the web.…
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Watchdog bares teeth at mobile premium rate scams
Text 'STOP', 'STOP', oh please just 'STOP'
Dodgy premium rate mobile services are to face a probe by PhonepayPlus, after the watchdog this year saw a big increase in the number of complaints it receives and the fines it slaps on operators.…
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Toffs' phone maker goes loco over Rococo
A monetary masterpiece?
Vertu has used an 18th Century French art movement as the inspiration for its latest range of exclusive, overpriced handsets.…
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Sony Ericsson puts a Flash into Java
Why have only one development platform?
Sony Ericsson is planning to offer developers the opportunity to embed Flash Lite applications inside J2ME midlets, in the hope that two mobile phone application platforms will prove better than one.…
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Police nick 460 a day for using mobiles while driving
'Hi honey, I'm wrapped round a tree'
More than 168,000 people were fined for using a mobile phone when driving in 2006, a rise of 30 per cent on the previous year.…
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MP launches ten minute rule bill on in-UK roaming
How much per minute?!?
Tunbridge Wells MP Greg Clark yesterday used the ten-minute rule to present the UK parliament with his ideas on intra-country roaming for mobile phones.…
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Skype comes to mobile (almost)
Some Voice Over The IP
Skype has launched a beta version of its VoIP client for 50 models of mobile phone - but don't expect free calls, as this VoIP isn't all that it appears.…
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Reaper aerial killbots enlist mobile phones against owners
'Hello... 20 seconds to comply? Who is this?'
American Predator and Reaper unmanned flying hunter-killer robots will soon be equipped to track and listen in on mobile phones. The move is sure to be greeted with fear among tinfoil-clad bunker residents, but could also lead to calls for a no-nonsense enforcement campaign against noisy cellphone users in public places.…
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Nokia decks execs as it counts cost of free music
Doing a Hoover?
Exclusive Nokia faces a crippling financial bill for its strategy of bundling free music with handsets, which will give users unlimited song downloads with Nokia phones.…
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Freenet to buy debitel for $2.54bn
Redraws German mobile map
Hamburg-based internet access provider Freenet has agreed to buy telecom reseller debitel AG for €1.63bn ($2.54bn).…
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Mexican press aide lifts US gov BlackBerrys
Presidential summit devices go walkabout
A press aide to Mexican president Felipe Calderon has been given his marching orders for making off with BlackBerrys belonging to US officials participating in a summit in New Orleans, AP reports.…
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Ad-funded mobile co gets advertisers...
And punters too
The UK's only ad-funded mobile phone network has managed to sign up 100,000 punters. It's done so six months earlier than expected, and even has some decent brands signed up to advertise.…
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RIM reportedly delays 3G BlackBerry to avoid next-gen iPhone
8900 en-route to AT&T in August?
It has been claimed that Research in Motion (RIM) has delayed the launch of the BlackBerry 8900 so it doesn’t run slap bang into the launch of the 3G iPhone.…
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Carphone Warehouse cleared out of 8GB iPhones
O2 sold-out online too
The move made by O2 and Carphone Warehouse to offer Apple's 8GB iPhone for £100 less than the standard price has proved successful - in a week. CW has no more left to sell, and O2's apparently down to the last few.…
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Spike Milligan goes mobile
Goon show ringtones
Spike Milligan's work has found a new home, with content including mobile wallpaper, ring tones and audio books, all available though Rok Global Media.…
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Q1 post-Xmas lull reverses iPhone growth curve
Big names hit by seasonal dip too
Apple's iPhone shipments plunged during Q1, figures from market watcher Strategy Analytics reveal. But then the handset business as a whole was less successful in the first quarter of 2008 than it was in the previous one.…
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'Safe' mobile phone battery firm goes titsup
UK punters don't want protecting
Exradia Limited, the company selling batteries that protect users from potentially harmful radiation, has gone into liquidation owing thousands of pounds to suppliers.…
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Vodafone and China Mobile team to build mobile Web 2.0
All your widget are belong to us
Vodafone and China Mobile are setting up a Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) to establish standards for Web 2.0 widgets in the hope of creating truly cross-platform mobile apps.…
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Motorola losses grow over flabby Q1
Devices drag figures down
Motorola has posted figures for the first three months of 2008, with a rise in losses, and handset sales down 39 per cent.…
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Motorola unplugs Cambridge TTPCom unit
TTPCom to close
Less than 2 years after paying more than £100 million for Cambridge-based TTPCom Motorola is shutting down the offices and consulting with employees about their futures, the company confirmed in a statement.…
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Verizon calls itself 'innovative'
'Hell has frozen over'
SOFCON 2008 Verizon continues to insist that its wireless network will soon be open.…
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A requiem for the mobile web
Farewell then, Mowser
VCs have spunked $1.5bn on useless Web 2.0 companies in recent years. And millions more in capital will be wasted in deals at Tim 2.0'Reilly's webfest over the next few days. So why can't one of the most promising start-ups, that potentially brings the web to over a billion new surfers, get funding?…
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Tira Wireless shares device database
Comprehensive, but expensive
Want to develop a mobile app, but unsure which devices support the APIs you want to use?…
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Nokia predicts IBM 360 of mobile phones
'I've seen that movie too'
SOFCON 2008 Nokia's chief technology officer believes the mobile phone industry will soon have a standard platform.…
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Evolution finds a home for recognition technology
It's not a banana, it's a female aardvark
Evolution Robotics has finally found a home for its generic product recognition technology. The firm will embed it in camera phones from Japan's Bandai Networks in the spring.…
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Orange signs up testers for mobile newspaper service
Trialling electronic newspapers
Orange has started a trial using eBook readers to deliver newspaper and magazine subscriptions over their 3G network, in much the same way as Amazon's Kindle e-book reader.…
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Leaked picture points to upcoming HTC phones
Future models?
It’s aid that a picture says a thousand words. We wish that was literally the case now an image has surfaced of several handsets claimed to be in development in phone maker HTC’s labs.…
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Motorola invests in virtual mobiles
Can't pick an OS? Have them all
Motorola has invested in mobile virtualisation provider VirtualLogix, creating the possibility of a handset that can switch between different OSs almost as quickly as Motorola declares support for them.…
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In-flight calling given lukewarm reception
'It sounds like I'm talking to a small robot'
Air France has started to allow passengers to make voice calls on its flights, though the first passengers are unimpressed by the quality of the service.…
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Don't like your phone's look? Then build your own
Dial It Yourself
If you don’t like your phone any longer, don’t just buy another one – build yourself a handset of your own. No, we’re not crazy - we’re talking about DIY phone assembly.…
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