Wednesday's News Bits - July 2009, part 1
- The Samsung SGH-T659 has surfaced on the FCC. It´s rumored to arrive on T-Mobile sometime from July 15 to August 19 and its FCC profile now confirms it supports carrier’s AWS 3G band. There are no external photos, but we guess we’ll soon know what it looks like.
- Sprint’s BlackBerry Curve 8350i and 8330 are soon to get new color versions. BerryReview informs that the carrier is about to soft-launch the 8330 in “inferno orange” on July 9 and the 8350i in red on July 30. What we have to say is… when was the Tour coming out again?
- Sneaky videos of the T-Mobile Touch Pro2 have been posted. While the quality is pretty low and there is absolutely no sound, you will be able to see the business side-slider in action. You can check them through the link below, or you can check our European HTC Touch Pro2 Review.
- The European Commission will not require a tax for phones, equipped with GPS and/or mobile TV, because of the current economic environment. In December, the Commission wanted to establish a 14% tax on phones with mobile TV and 3.7% tax on phones with GPS, but manufacturers opposed to that, because it would have hampered their sales of such handsets.
FCC OKs Cingular\'s purchase of AT&T Wireless
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