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A European Union directive may compel Apple to make the iPhone and iPod batteries user-replaceable.
Currently, Apple likes to keep its batteries sealed away such that they can only be changed by qualified Apple battery mavens. This is ostensibly an aesthetic decision - an openable battery compartment...
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> NextLink Wireless received a grant from the Bi-national Industrial Research and Development Foundation to develop a WIMAX solution with an Israeli partner. Release > As we reported on Friday, Sprint debuted the Palm Treo 800w on its EVDO Rev. A network yesterday. It is priced at $249.99 after...
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Filed under: Handsets , O2 , T-Mobile , Apple As we expected , Apple just loosed the iPhone into Ireland and Austria. €399 nabs the 8GB model while €499 takes the 16GB unit home. T-Mobile has the honors for Austria as it does in Germany while O2 carries the flag in Ireland as it does in the...
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Filed under: Apple, iPhone, Handsets, T-Mobile, O2, europe, breaking news, BreakingNews, visual voicemail, VisualVoicemail, Austria
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After three months of iPhone sales in the U.K., O2 is beefing up the data plans of the lower tier users and cutting the price of heavy data plans. The plans will become effective in mid-March. O2's Read more...
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Samsung is launching a touchscreen handset called the F490 in Europe that features a 3.2" touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera, tri-band GSM (900/1800/1900), UMTS 2100, HSDPA 3.6, 130Mb of storage, Bluetooth 2.0, haptics feedback and a microSD expansion slot. The handset will cost about $700. Rumor has...
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French carrier Orange has poured cold water on rumors circulating the blogosphere that its unlocked iPhones are actually country-locked to French carriers only. The carrier said its phones are truly unlocked and do not require a French SIM card to work. Orange announced in October that it would sell...
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France Telecom subsidiary Orange has announced that about 20 percent of the iPhones it has sold to customers have been unlocked . The carrier said it sold about 30,000 iPhones during the first five days of sales, and 48 percent of the buyers were new subscribers to Orange. Orange sells the unlocked version...
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> Rumor: Apple signed a deal with D.Phone in China for distribution of the iPhone. Article > Samsung aims for 15 percent of the Indian mobile phone market. Article > Sonim challenges journalists and bloggers in Europe to "torture" its latest tough phone. Release And Finally... Executives...
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France's Orange announced that it will sell unlocked iPhones for about $964, much less than the $1500 that T-Mobile Germany is charging for the unlocked devices. iPhone buyers that also sign up for a one-year contract with Orange can get the handset for about $590. Orange offers four different pricing...
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> Apple VP says third-party apps will employ digital signature authorization. Article > AT&T's Ralph de la Vega on Android, devices and software development. Article > China Mobile testing 3G Windows Mobile device. Article > Zoho Creator Mobile debuts. Release > T-Mobile Germany...
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France Telecom's Orange subsidiary plans to sell a little less than 100,000 iPhones in 2007 and also plans to offer an unlocked version of the handset for a price that is well below T-Mobile Germany's $1500, according to Orange CEO Didier Lombard. Analysts estimate that Orange has to move about...
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AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega had an interview with Engadget where he discusses everything from buying contract-free handsets from carriers to the iPhone deal to Google's Open Handset Alliance. But de la Vega says his biggest pet peeve is that many handset manufacturers, like Nokia, purposefully...