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After countless expectancy, RIM’s Blackberry Torch 9800 is launching this week in the U.K. We have had reports from Electric Pig that Phones 4U are getting hold of its first batch of the Blackberry 6s on Friday.

The slider device has  a 5 mega pixel camera, WiFi, GPS with Blackberry Maps, Blackberry Messenger and a 3.2in touchscreen. The Torch has been accessible for pre-order from different network providers such as Orange and Vodafone.

It was exposed today from Mashable that Blackberry is the most owned smartphone in the U.S, ahead of Apple’s iPhone and Android. Optimistically the Torch will live up to the expectation and prove to be a force in the mobile market.

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Best Buy will be giving away four diverse mobile phone models from different carriers – including AT&T, Verizon and Sprint – every Friday in October 2010.

The Best Buy free handset crusade begins this Friday, Oct. 1, with a giveaway of one free cell phone each from carriers Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile. The Samsung Fascinate (Verizon), BlackBerry Curve (Sprint), HTC Aria (AT&T) and Samsung Gravity 3 (T-Mobile) will be the handsets offered for free this coming Friday.

The catch? Not much, but each recipient must sign up for a two-year phone contract with the giveaway.

Why do this? Best Buy, which has been enjoying good earnings lately, wants to keep the customer traffic coming in, and what else brings ‘em in like free stuff?

How it works: Each Thursday of October visit the Best Buy Mobile Facebook page or Best Buy Twitter account to find out which mobile phones will be handed out.

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Sharp, with its campaign of contributing to enlarge the e-book market, wishes to release two of its electronic book readers called Galapagos.

The buyer electronics companionship released an announcement on Monday regarding its plans to launch electronic book readers that will support e-Manga or Japanese electronic books. Since the Japanese language has a diverse way of being transcribed in literature, digital or not, the two Galapagos gadgets are designed to effusive cuddle this uniqueness.

The electronic book will have Android OS and a cloud-based bookstore. The Galapagos will indisputably tempt Japanese clients to buy both its mobile model and home model.

The home model of this e-reader is 10.8 inches long and the mobile model is 5.5 inches, both with 802.11 b/g Wireless Fidelity or Wi-Fi facilities. What sets the Galapagos with the exception of other Android-based tablets is that it supports the XMDF or Ever-Extending Mobile Document Format for e-books.

The XMDF is previously being utilized in the Japanese market since 2001 through mobile gadgets. It not only supports Japan’s vertical text format but it also allows the Furigana or Ruby subscript characters to be used.

Sharp’s hottest electronic book readers are focused on catering to Japan’s e-book readers. According to the company “This localisation could help Sharp re-create the success of its Zaurus PDA line in the new e-reader market.”

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From the very beginning, Microsoft have insisted on keeping complete control over both the form factors and inner specificationss of all mobile phones that wishes to run their upcoming OS, Windows Phone 7.

To this point, nevertheless, Microsoft have only given facts about one of the promised two “chassis” of their phones: the slate-style handsets that you’ve seen around. It should be noted that “Chassis 1″ are allowed to have slide-out QWERTY keyboards, but no known WinPho 7 phone presently has one.

So, what is “Chassis 2″, then? Well, in an interview inSilicon this week, Microsoft’s ISV developer evangelist, Paul Foster, may have spilled the beans with this little nugget:

WP7 devices will have one of two screen resolutions – either 800 x 480 for large touchscreen appliances with the potential for slide-out Qwerty keyboards, or 480 x 320 for ‘BlackBerry’ style cell phones that can incorporate a Qwerty on the front of the device. Microsoft expects the majority of WP7 devices to have the larger screen resolution at launch, with smaller resolution handsets coming later.

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If you’re looking to recycle your mobile in readiness to buy a Facebook phone you may be waiting a while as it seems they are not developing a branded phone, nor do they have plans to.

The social networking website created by Mark Zuckerberg is the top destination point online to keep in touch with friends and family and share content such as photographs and links. Facebook has also recently launched a locations app to enable users to tell friends where they are.

However, one thing Facebook is adamant against doing is launching a phone. Jaime Schopflin, a spokesman for Facebook, said the privately held company “is not building a phone.” Facebook’s current projects include “deeper integrations with some manufacturers”.

In a statement, he added: “Our view is that almost all experiences would be better if they were social, so integrating deeply into existing platforms and operating systems is a good way to enable this,” Schopflin said in a statement.

Earlier this week, various websites reported that Facebook is building the phone with a third party developer which would integrate into the contact lists and other functions of the phone through the operating system.

“The bottom line is that whenever we work on a deep integration, people want to call it a ‘Facebook Phone’ because that’s such an attractive soundbite, but building phones is just not what we do,” Schopflin added.

If Facebook do sell mobile phones they will undoubtedly get many loyal users buying the handsets as it will most likely offer the best mobile version of the website.

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Lemon Mobiles, the value for money mobile brand promoted by Fastrack Communications Pvt. Ltd. presented Lemon DUO 405, its best music phone which supports powerful dual speakers. Sensing the beat of Indian hearts, Lemon Mobiles is targeting this phone for both the rural as well as urban markets.

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HTC Wildfire helps you stay connected with those who are most imperative to you through HTC Sense, a customer experience focused on putting people at the centre by making handsets work in a more simple and natural way. You won’t miss out on the fun as HTC’s Friend Stream application impeccably gathers and displays content from social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr into one organised stream of updates. HTC Wildfire enables you to stay up to date with your friends’ posts, comments, alerts and photos, wherever you are.

The new HTC Wildfire A3333 candybar brings quadband GSM and 900/2100MHz UMTS/HSDPA radios to the Android 2.1 party, powered by the Qualcomm MSM7225 processor running at 525MHz. Spec-wise HTC’s Sense UI running a 3.2-inch QVGA touchscreen, a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, 802.11b/g WiFi, GPS/AGPS, Blueooth 2.1+EDR, 512MB Flash and 384MB of RAM, and microSD expansion.

The HTC Wildfire box contains HTC Wildfire – Stereo Headset – Battery – Home Charger – Data Cable (microUSB) – 2GB microSD card and Accessory booklet.

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Microsoft will be launching an assortment of Windows 7 Smart phones on the 21st October this year.

Up so far we’ve heard rumours that the cell phones were about to make their manifestation but no further we haven’t had an exact date.

If it’s true, it means that the handsets will hit the shelves in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain in just hardly any week’s time. Spanish website El Economista also reported autonomously on this so there’s a fair chance it is legit.

There’s still no word on unerringly when the US will get the handsets but the rumour is that it will be in November. Nonetheless, Microsoft is holding an event in New York on October 11th so it is more than likely we’ll hear all about it then.

Microsoft is perceptibly very excited about Windows 7 but we’ll have to wait for word from the ample as to whether their gusto has rubbed off.

“This has been one of the most incredible product development efforts I’ve ever been a part of” alleged Terry Myerson, Corporate Vice President of Windows Phone Engineering, the day it was complete.

“Today’s milestone is exciting not just because of what we’ll deliver to customers later this year, but how it sets us up for success over the long term in the mobile space… We’re really just getting started” he assumed.

When Microsoft had finished the final build and declared Windows 7 “ready” earlier this month, they distinguished by holding a mock funeral for the iPhone and BlackBerry. Is that confidence or what?

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Micromax, India’s leading mobile device manufacturing company announced the launch of Micromax X550 Qube for incredible 3D experience, now in a cell phone. Its pretty and stylish design is packed with latest technology to keep customers engaged everywhere they go.

Micromax X550 has a 3.2” full touch screen for easy handling and enhanced readability. The customizable widget arc gives option of easy access to the list of applications like messages, camera, phonebook and many more. It also allows access to the most used applications as per the unique need of users. X550 offers touch sensitive wallpaper that comes with a range of animated and exciting wallpapers for a never-seen before experience of playing with vibrant colors and animated wallpapers on your mobile screen. 3D Qube User Interface will give the option of viewing all features of the phone at a glance.

Micromax Qube comes with a Dual SIM and Dual standby option to access the best of both worlds. Adding to this is the interesting Games options that come with the device, to keep you entertained wherever you go.

Besides the preloaded social networking applications like Facebook, Nimbuzz and Snaptu, Micromax X550 also brings an advanced multi format music player with WAV, MP3 and AMR for playing and sharing of the most desired songs. Micromax Qube also offers 2 mp camera and Stereo FM Radio to add to users’ rich and delightful experience.

Micromax is kicking off new advertising campaign for the Micromax X550 Qube which will debut on television from 23rd September, 2010 onwards. The exciting new commercial is based on the message that how the magic of 3D Qube with exceptional features will keep users glued to the phone.

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Fly Mobile brand owned by the Meridian Group presented the launch Fly MV135 Dual SIM (GSM+GSM) Music phone in India.

Fly MV135 Price at Rs. 3349. Fly MV135 comes with MP3 Player, microSD cards, FM Radio with Schedule Recording. At the rear, Fly MV135 phone has a 2 mega pixel camera that supported video recording as well.

Fly MV135 Price in India: Rs 3349/-

Fly MV135 Features:
- Dual SIM GSM+GSM
- 2 Mega Pixel camera
- Video record and player
- Audio Player and equilizer
- FM adio with scheduled FM recording
- Bluetooth
- Weight 91g
- Standby Time Upto 100 hrs
- Talk Time Upto 10 hrs 30 minutes
- Expandable memory Upto 8GB
- USB
- Phonebook 2000
- Display 6.1 cm,TFT, 262K colors
- Screen Resolution 240×320 pixels
- Nimbuzz, Opera mini, Snaptu
- Mp3 Ringtones Yes(MP3 and Polyphonic)
- Video Recording

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So this is the good news for all Uk consumers who want any of these two phones. Vodafone, orange, o2, Tmobiles has provided deals on these two mobile phones. Contract mobile devices deals are accessible but only consumer can decide that for which contract he or she wants to go.

The antagonism among the mobile gadgets is now in the news. Even mobile handsets are one of UK’s best HTC brand than also the deals vary and even there popularity vary as per the deals and the features. This problem is also with the htc desire hd deals and htc desire z deals The two smartphones have not yet released but are expected to liberate at the same time that is by October, then for sure the deals will be competition.

Htc desire hd has S-LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors at 4.3 inches screen, Accelerometer sensor, Proximity sensor, Touch sensitive control panel. It also has HTC Sense UI this is that attracting configuration of the phone. Another best feature of htc desire hd is camera of 8 MP, auto focus, dual-LED flash, Geo tagging and face detection.

Now with so much why would the phone make other lose or make it tough for all the networks – Three, T-Mobile, Orange, Virgin, Vodafone, Pink-Mobile and O2 that how to gap up the deals of the superb cell phones.

Another deal is on HTC DESIRE Z which has a touch, vertical slide of a QWERTY key pad, 3.7 inches screen and the other attributes of the display are uniformly similar to each other. The trivial divergence is in the camera as it has 5 MP, autofocus, LED flash, Geo-tagging and face detection.

But this verity is rewarded by the high tech vertical slide. Network providers for both of these phones are Three, T-Mobile, Orange, Virgin, Vodafone, Pink-Mobile and O2 are in a clutter while taking the decision than it is sure that the purchaser will face this at a higher extent. Contract deals on both phones includes free handsets offers, free gifts offers, cashback offers.

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EU contest regulators alleged Saturday they will drop an antirust probe into Apple after the US computer giant eased precincts on programming tools and cross-border warranties for the iPhone.

The European Commission said it would close its analysis after Apple recently changed its policies making it easier for clients of the massively popular iPhone to get repairs under warranty in an EU country other than where it was bought.

The European Union’s antitrust watchdog assumed Apple had also lifted restrictions limiting independent developers’ flexibility to develop applications for the iPhone, which regulators had feared would hurt competition.

“Apple’s response to our preliminary investigations shows that the Commission can use the competition rules to achieve swift results on the market with clear benefits for consumers,” alleged EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia in a statement.

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Sprint

provided the SANYO Vero by Kyocera which will keep you connected to friends and family with email, text and web browsing with Google Search.

The SANYO Vero comes with a large screen and key pad with the ability to make your menus larger for additional ease of use. The extremely light clamshell has all the key mobile features, including a large, 2.4-inch QVGA display with 1.3-inch glow-thru OLED sub-display, 1.3 megapixel camera and generous battery life.

The handset features a “grippable” soft-black finish and an external OLED glow-thru display for caller ID and clock. Once flipped open, Vero’s extra-large key pad enables quick and easy messaging and the 240×320-pixel internal color display makes it easy to view threaded text and multimedia messages. With up to 5.2 hours of talk time, Vero is always at the ready.

• 1.3  MP camera with digital zoom
• 2.5 mm headset jack
• SMS Threaded text messaging
• Send pictures to friends and family in your contact book
• Stereo Bluetooth® capable
• Choose from 36 built-in ring tones, offering a variety of traditional ring tones as
• well as polyphonic melodic ring tones (up to 72 chords) and vibrating alert.

SPECIFICATIONS

• Available in an organic, comfortable design – color: Graphite
• Dimensions: 3.8” x 2.2” x 0.6”
• Weight: 3.4 oz
• Display: 1.92” x 1.45 QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) TFT
• 840 mAH lithium ion battery; 5.2 hours of continuous talk time

	Sprint Announces the SANYO Vero by Kyocera September 23, 2010 2:15 PM | Kyocera | Sanyo | Sprint Nextel | Comments (0) Sprint today announced the SANYO Vero by Kyocera which will keep you connected to friends and family with email, text and web browsing with Google Search. The SANYO Vero comes with a large screen and key pad with the ability to make your menus larger for additional ease of use. The extremely light clamshell has all the key mobile features, including a large, 2.4-inch QVGA display with 1.3-inch glow-thru OLED sub-display, 1.3 megapixel camera and generous battery life. The handset features a “grippable” soft-black finish and an external OLED glow-thru display for caller ID and clock. Once flipped open, Vero’s extra-large key pad enables quick and easy messaging and the 240×320-pixel internal color display makes it easy to view threaded text and multimedia messages. With up to 5.2 hours of talk time, Vero is always at the ready.

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AT&T announced the TerreStar GENUS, a dual-mode cellular/satellite smartphone for enterprise, government, and small business users.

The TerreStar networks provides communications in remote areas, making it an ideal mobile device for government, energy, utility, transportation, and maritime users. The handset  runs Windows Mobile 6.5 and offers WiFi, Bluetooth,a 2.6-inch touchscreen display, camera,GPS and GSM / GPRS / EDGE / UMTS / HSDPA radios as well.

The TerreStar GENUS is available today to enterprise, government, and small business customers. It requires AT&T voice, data, and satellite subscriptions. The smartphone is priced at $799.

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LG presented the LG C300 Town, a feature cell phone with a focus on social networking capabilities.

The LG LG C300 Town sports a 2.4-inch display, as well as a full QWERTY keyboard. The Town offers a few multimedia features, including a 3.5mm headphone jack, an FM radio, an MP3 player, and a 2 megapixel camera. LG says that the phone supports push email, and it also provides access to social networking clients, and the ability to post to Facebook and Twitter.

This isn’t the first time LG has provided a Town branded handset. LG launched the GT350 Town in June, a device with a sliding QWERTY formfactor.

The LG C300 Town will make its debut on Orange, Phones4U, and Tesco shortly, although LG didn’t specify an exact date or pricing for the mobile phone.

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