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Official Verizon xv6800 A-GPS Fix by WIKI

Unwired View — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:44:34 GMT

The wiki.xda-developers provided a pretty complicated but a rewarding solution to enable A-GPS on your HTC Titan/Verizon xv6800. Feedback by users who have implemented the new addition by WIKI at forum.xda-developers signify that the trick is working as it made the use of applications like Google Maps and Windows Live Space much easier. A-GPS is an [...]...(read more)

AT&T added Samsung SGH-a137 to its GoPhone plans

Unwired View — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:42:20 GMT

AT&T packs one more phone to its prepaid GoPhone offerings - Samsung SGH-a137. The A137 is the first device with built in A-GPS module offered with AT&T’s prepaid GoPhone plans. The SGH-a137 is a GPRS dual-band device working with GSM 850 and 1900 MHz. The phone has a 2.0? 262K TFT internal display [...]...(read more)

BBC iPlayer Comes on Nokia Through N96

mocoNews.net — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:02:32 GMT

BBC's online video catchup service iPlayer , till now bandwidth-heavy enough to only be available on iPhone and iPod Touch through their Wi-Fi capabilities (and Nintendo Wii and Sony ( NYSE: SNE ) PS3), is now coming to Nokia's ( NYSE: NOK ) upcoming N96 phone. The phone goes on sale in UK on October 1. BBC's iPlayer service allows UK users to watch all BBC shows on TV and radio, from the previous seven says. Users of N96 will be able to access the iPlayer service through Wi-Fi and 3G...(read more)

First 5 Featured PyS60 Applications on croozeus.com!

News From Symbian Smart Phones World... — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:34:42 GMT

Pankaj Nathani's just published the first 5 featured pys60 applications on croozeus.com through the new section where they'll publish feature S60 applications developed in Python every 10 days. The prominent aim of the PyS60 Applications section is to help the developers of PyS60 build standalone applications on PyS60. However the most interesting is that source code of the featured applications which is made available so that other developers can learn from it or modify it according to their...(read more)

Serbia has 9.12 million mobile users - report

Telecompaper Mobile & Wireless — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:23:00 GMT

(Telecompaper) Serbia's 7.5 million residents own 9.12 million active mobile users, according to a report in Serbian daily Vecernje Novosti......(read more)

JKK tests Eee SSDs

UMPCPortal — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:16:30 GMT

Fed up with the slow speed of the SSD in your Eee PC? Want more storage than what your device currently has? Look no further. Jkk has received a bunch of different Mini PCIe SSD from an online retailer and put them to the test. There are two different types - the faster and more [...]...(read more)

Nawras introduces prepaid vouce and SMS bundles

Telecompaper Mobile & Wireless — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:16:00 GMT

(Telecompaper) Omani mobile operator Nawras has launched new prepaid SMS and voice bundles, offering low-cost services......(read more)

Psitek to launch mobile prepaid top-up device in Kenya

Telecompaper Mobile & Wireless — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:06:00 GMT

(Telecompaper) South Africa-based telecom service provider Psitek Communications has developed a solution that would facilitate electronic top-ups for prepaid callers in Kenya......(read more)

Qatar Telecom launches Hadith portal

Telecompaper Mobile & Wireless — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:05:00 GMT

(Telecompaper) Qatar Telecom (Qtel) has launched a special portal for users to download the contents from an Islamic library of readings and Hadith (oral......(read more)

Globacom unveils seven new offers to mark 5th anniversary

Telecompaper Mobile & Wireless — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:59:00 GMT

(Telecompaper) Nigerian mobile operator Globacom has unveiled seven promotions for its Nigerian customers, rewarding them or their support to the Globacom network in the last five years......(read more)

Namibia warns GSM operators to stop tariff wars

Telecompaper Mobile & Wireless — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:58:00 GMT

(Telecompaper) The Namibian government has called on the three GSM operators to stop their tariff war immediately, saying the situation does not augur well for the telecommunication industry......(read more)

Zain Kenya targets higher customer growth in 2008

Telecompaper Mobile & Wireless — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:52:00 GMT

(Telecompaper) Global mobile operator Zain's subsidiary Zain Kenya is adopting new strategies to increase its share on the Kenyan market, after a bad performance......(read more)

T-Mobile Germany to offer MultiSIM activation for free

Telecompaper Mobile & Wireless — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:50:00 GMT

(Telecompaper) T-Mobile Germany will offer customers, who select its MultiSIM service during October, a free activation of each additional SIM card, according to teltarif.de citing T-Mobile's latest phone bill......(read more)

Eurosonics markets United Mobile SIMs - report

Telecompaper Mobile & Wireless — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:48:00 GMT

(Telecompaper) Switzerland-based roaming service provider United Mobile has signed a distribution agreement with German ICT services distributor Eurosonics......(read more)

Macedonia to award three 3G licenses

Telecompaper Mobile & Wireless — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:44:00 GMT

(Telecompaper) The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) will launch three third-generation (3G) mobile license tenders, with a starting price set at EUR 10 million per licence, the Transport Ministry said......(read more)

Almost 10% of German holiday goers uses hands-free kits

Telecompaper Mobile & Wireless — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:40:00 GMT

(Telecompaper) A minority of German holidaymakers (9%) use their mobile phone as navigation system, while 19 percent uses their mobile phone as navigation tool or......(read more)

PowerVR Graphics Cores Licensed… by Apple?

The iPhone Blog — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:55:16 GMT

Got an iPhone or iPod Touch? Then you’ve already got a PowerVR graphics core crunching your eye candy. This week, however, Imagination Technologies revealed that an “unnamed company” has acquired a new mega-license for their current and future tech. While this could be Apple and could just mean incremental adaption of new graphics cores going forward, [...]...(read more)

PopCap goes D2C with new WAP portal

IntoMobile — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:58:40 GMT

Mobile games publisher PopCap has just launched a D2C (direct-2-consumer) WAP portal, selling it’s selection of mobile games. If you wanna get in on the PopCap games goodies, then hit up http://m.popcap.com in your mobile browser, or text POPCAP to 85585 (in the UK - in Ireland, the code is 54722 apparently). There are a stack of [...]...(read more)

Best Buy preps unlocked Touch Diamond for retail

Engadget Mobile — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:57:00 GMT

Filed under: Handsets , HTC , Windows Mobile , GSM , EDGE , HSDPA , UMTS So the good news here is that Best Buy's getting ready to open its arms to yet another HTC product that's impossible to find by wandering into the brick-and-mortar store of the US wireless carrier of your choice; the bad news, though, is that it doesn't seem to be the version we wanted. The Touch Diamond now has a Coming Soon page all its own on Best Buy's site, which is just fantastic considering that neither...(read more)

UK: Tesco does Mobile VoIP with a little help from WiFi

IntoMobile — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:46:34 GMT

Tesco (UK Supermarket) has launched a new service called ‘Talkwifi‘, which allows customers to make cheap mobile calls, via VoIP, over WiFi. The offering makes use of a service developed by Australian company Freshtel, and requires an app download to get things going. Once that is done, and the user is in a ‘free’ WiFi [...]...(read more)

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RCR Wireless News Daily Update — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:39:00 GMT

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UK: Samsung to empty £5m in to Omnia Advertising!

IntoMobile — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:35:47 GMT

We’ve known the Omnia has been coming for some time - we’ve even seen the Ads in the sunday newspaper today - but what is the total cost of all that marketing and advertising in the UK? Well, according to Mobile News, we now have an answer…… ….. and the answer is nearly £5m! The Omnia has [...]...(read more)

Nokia's Reduced Outlook

Just Another Mobile Phone Blog — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:31:58 GMT

Nokia Corp. , the world's largest mobile-phone maker, reduced its market-share outlook, causing investors already skittish about a lackluster global economy to send the company's shares sharply lower. The Finland-based cellphone maker blamed the gloomy news on a weaker economy world-wide and a decision to stay out of a handset price war. It said it now expects its third-quarter market share to be lower than initially signaled in July, when it predicted market share of 40%, unchanged from...(read more)

Nokia N96, BBC iPlayer and the 5800 ‘Tube’

Just Another Mobile Phone Blog — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:30:14 GMT

A trusted source has informed us of a few more details about the Nokia N96 and the 5800 ‘Tube’! Please note that this information has not been confirmed publicly by Nokia in any way (so class it for now as a rumour), but we have received this information in good will and are pleased to be able to share with you what we have heard… *Update: Nokia has officially announced that the BBC iPlayer application will be available for the Nokia N96. We have been told that the N96 will be shipping with an application...(read more)

UPDATE: Qik for Windows Mobile now supports more devices and features better optimizations

the::unwired — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:28:39 GMT

Earlier this week, Qik announced a wider and better support for Windows Mobile Professional smartphones. Beside that Qik is now available for a bunch of new Windows Mobile smartphones like the HTC Touch Dual, HTC Touch Diamond, HTC Touch Pro, HTC TyTn II/AT&T Tilt, Qik also announced support for the upcoming Sony Ericsson Xperia X1! Furthermore, Qik released Alpha versions for the HTC Mogul, HTC Vogue (the CDMA version for HTC Touch) and the Samsung Omnia. Other improvements in the this version...(read more)