I found this article from Reuters about the move to lower price smart phones, and found it to be very interesting, especially as it speaks about ZTE, a phone company from China that hasn’t been seen as much under it’s own name in the west. They are aiming for a $100 – $150 smart [...]

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According this story at Gizmodo, as well as writeups at ARS Technica, it looks like Microsoft is going to hit the market with Verizon on a new mobile phone called the Pink. I have to say that Microsoft isn’t exactly great on names, adding Pink to Zune in their list of 4 letter [...]

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In what some see as a stunning admission of being crowded out of many of the smart phone markets, and perhaps as a preemptive strike against the upcoming Google Nexus 1, Apple and NeXT have filed suit against Asian smart phone maker HTC, alleging all sorts of patent infringement and the like. Public opinion [...]

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Even as overall sales for mobile phones remained flat for the third quarter, smartphone sales continue to show double digit growth—as they have ever since the market was redefined by Apple’s iPhone. Apple’s share of the market continues to climb and is edging close to rival RIM, while market leader Nokia continues its slow decline [...]

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Today is droid day, the day that the Motorola Droid hits the marketplace, available through Verizon Wireless. This phone marks Motorola’s plunge into using Google’s Android operating system on a phone, a trend that seems to be getting stronger all the time. In fact, the hubbub over the Droid phone is putting the [...]

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An interesting move by Verizon to put their broadband 3G modems into prepaid plans. The downside? It’s a pricey concept. Check this:
Verizon Wireless today announced three new Mobile Broadband plans that will be added to the company’s Prepaid portfolio. Customers will be able to get speed when they need it [...]

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This has got to be one of the weirdest lawsuits I have seen in a while. AT&T and Apple have been running Iphone ads for a while with the tag “There’s an App for that”. Well, Verizon recently started to roll out some new 3G phones, and decides to show how their network [...]

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While sales of standard handsets continues to slip, The Tech Herald reports that smartphone sales remained on track in Q2. Nokia and Apple saw singificant increases, and HTC has already started to see good results on it’s Androud baed phones, such as the HTC Magic, recently released into the Canadian market to compete [...]

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An interesting article in I4U, wondering what many have been wondering, is the original Iphone3g on it’s way to meet it’s maker?
There are plenty of rumors about the Apple4G, including one wild story about a chinese dude jumping out of a window because he lost one of the prototypes. The Iphone 3GS certainly has [...]

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Canada’s biggest cell phone operator, Rogers Wireless, has launched what will likely be the first in a new class of products: web-ready netbooks with built-in 3.5G (HSPA) mobile broadband chips.
Read more of this story at teleclick.ca

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