BASKING RIDGE, N.J.—Verizon Wireless and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced the first 3.2 megapixel camera phone available to Verizon Wireless’ customers, Samsung’s a990. The CDMA handset also offers video recording and viewing and music downloads on the carrier’s Vcast service. Users can also...
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BASKING RIDGE, N.J.—Verizon Wireless and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced the first 3.2 megapixel camera phone available to Verizon’s customers, Samsung’s a990. The CDMA handset also offers video recording and viewing and music downloads on the carrier’s Vcast service. Users can also print pictures...
OVERLAND PARK—Sprint Nextel Corp. has begun selling a co-branded, slim clamshell phone with an internal antenna from Sanyo Corp., according to the carrier’s Web site. The phone appears to be the first Sanyo slim phone sold by the handset manufacturer’s exclusive U.S. retail partner...
The big issue for some players in the wireless community regarding Java ME revolves around its owner, Sun Microsystems Inc., which announced at its May JavaOne conference that it was mulling how to go open source with the industry's dominant programming language. This move...
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCR Wireless News to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the...
NEW YORK—Mobile ESPN L.L.C. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced Samsung’s Ace handset is now available to Mobile ESPN subscribers. The Ace, based on Samsung’s A900 handset currently available through Sprint Nextel Corp., is a slim handset—a little over one-half-inch thick—and weighs about 3.5...
BOSTON-Motorola Inc., Jabra and Plantronics Inc. continue to lead the Bluetooth headset market with a combined 57 percent share of total global sales last year, according to research from Strategy Analytics.Motorola alone controls 28 percent of the market, making it the segment leader. And...
BOSTON—Motorola Inc., Jabra and Plantronics Inc. continue to lead the Bluetooth headset market with a combined 57 percent share of total global sales last year, according to research from Strategy Analytics.<!--> Administrator Normal 1 0 2006-06-22T18:10:00Z 1...
NEW YORK—BlueAnt Wireless, an Australian supplier of Bluetooth peripheral devices, announced its entry into the U.S. market and opened up its headquarters in New York. Among BlueAnt’s product offerings are wireless headsets and speakerphones, both of which are now available across the United States...
BASKING RIDGE, N.J.—Verizon Wireless and LG Electronics MobileComm USA Inc. announced availability of LG’s VX8300 phone, which supports Verizon Wireless’ V Cast music service. The handset, which builds on LG’s VX 8100 model, features a slimmer form factor, OLED external screen and microSD external...
SINGAPORE—Nokia Corp. introduced five new handsets that will hit the market later this year, including two Nokia-made devices for the United States market. The phones feature the company’s traditional candy-bar form factor. Nokia’s new CDMA models the 6275 and 2875 are interesting because they...
Touting brand and pursuing differentiation is in vogue with nearly every original equipment manufacturer now chasing Nokia Corp. and Motorola Inc. over the rainbow, looking for the proverbial pot of gold. LG Electronics Co. Ltd. is no exception and its newly released Fusic phone...
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group launched what it's calling the "Bluetooth Experience Icon Program," which the group said will help inform consumers about various Bluetooth technologies.The Bluetooth SIG said the icons will tell consumers and retailers which products use which Bluetooth "profiles." Bluetooth technology...
BELLEVUE, Wash.—The Bluetooth Special Interest Group launched what it’s calling the "Bluetooth Experience Icon Program," which the group said will help inform consumers about various Bluetooth technologies. The Bluetooth SIG said the icons will tell consumers and retailers which products use which Bluetooth "profiles."...
BOSTON—Place your finger on the pulse of U.S. consumers desperately seeking a mobile phone this summer and you find all the attributes that makes anything a success in America: It’s got to standout from the crowd and it must be stylish and/or "free"—after subsidies...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and Research In Motion Ltd. announced they would make the BlackBerry 7130c device and service offering available at prices aimed at consumers-prices that exactly match the new price point established by Motorola Inc. and Verizon Wireless for the Motorola Q smart...
ATLANTA—Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and Research In Motion Ltd. announced they would make the BlackBerry 7130c device and service offering available at prices aimed at consumers—prices that exactly match the new price point established by Motorola Inc. and Verizon Wireless for the Motorola Q smart...
BASKING RIDGE, N.J.—U.S. phone shoppers have three more devices to pick from as Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Motorola Inc. and Nokia Corp. all released new gadgets into the market. All of the devices support digital music. First up, Verizon Wireless released two new phone...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates-Phone junkies have been speculating for months about i-mate's forthcoming slim Smartflip handset ever since photos of the device were posted on the Internet earlier this year. Now the company has offered a more concrete glimpse of the handset in its...
WASHINGTON—Wireless industry trade association CTIA is hoping to spur direct-to-consumer revenues by expanding the industry’s short code program. The industry group, along with short-code administrator NeuStar Inc., announced open registration for six-digit short codes, which allow mobile users to access content or services by...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Phone junkies have been speculating for months about i-mate’s forthcoming slim Smartflip handset ever since photos of the device were posted on the Internet earlier this year. Now the company has offered a more concrete glimpse of the handset in its...
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced a new drive to develop a medical device profile that could make medical, health and fitness devices interoperable with wireless consumer electronic products-namely cell phones, laptops and PDAs. The Bluetooth SIG said it expects its Medical Devices Working...
Now, what to do with that extra million dollars you have lying around the house? Hmm, why not spend it on a cell phone made of 18-carat gold, encrusted with diamonds ... like the Swiss-made Goldvish "Illusion" phones that run from $25,600 on up...
