News Archive
June 2009
- June 30
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- Samsung U450 passes the FCC, adds MediaFLO TV service
- WSJ adds confirmation of a Dell line of Android powered smartphones for release this year
- Duck ringtone catches the President off guard
- Analyst says 300,000 Pre's have been sold, expects WebOS device for Verizon in 2010
- New firmware for the enV Touch, enV3 and Glance
- BlackBerry Tour available with or without camera
- Tuesday's News Bits - June 2009 edition, part 4
- Palm Pre GSM spotted, examined in a video
- Firefox coming to Android?
- Nokia to roll out devices with 12MP cameras and optical zoom
- iPhone 3GS shortages seen in some areas
- Broker: Sprint promised certain Tour sales to RIM in exchange for launch date near Verizon's
- BlackBerry saves skier's life after he falls down a mountain
- UPDATE:Now Official: BlackBerry Tour to be released by Verizon on July 12th; pre-orders accepted now
- June 29
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- Free traffic updates on your phone courtesy of Navteq
- Europe adopts microUSB standard for smart phones
- Dummy models of the BlackBerry Tour start to appear at Bell
- Sprint gets a Clutch hitter
- BOLT browser gets upgrade to Beta 3
- Information on upcoming software updates for the Samsung OMNIA HD i8910
- Ericsson prepares mobile app store for carriers
- Motorola Cadbury VE440 is a low-end music phone
- June 27
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- Sprint BlackBerry Tour making its debut on July 20?
- Fake iPhone 3G fools eBay buyer
- AT&T to start selling TerreStar Satellite phones again
- Consumers more likely to drop mobile data service than home broadband
- TouchFLO 3D 2.5 poses for screen shot
- Sony Ericsson planning to take on the iPhone with a gaming/phone combo?
- June 26
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- Windows Marketplace for Mobile to offer only 600 apps on launch?
- iPhone 3GS losing its pearly white finish?
- Amazon's Kindle in the works for Windows Mobile?
- Attention! Do not steal cell phones in Somalia
- RIM and Verizon postpone BlackBerry Aries 8530 to February?
- Netbooks becoming more prominent in carrier stores
- T-Mobile Solutions Showcase - Free Dash 3G and goodies
- EA Mobile offers cell phone games based on intersting movies
- Apple takes the space out of the new iPhone?
- Uploads to YouTube up 400% since launch of iPhone 3GS
- June 25
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- Test shows driving while texting slows reactions more than being drunk
- Testing Qik for Android
- UPDATED:Apple App Store approves app with explicit photos
- AT&T is on schedule with MicroCell
- HTC Ozone announced by Verizon Wireless
- Palm's App Catalog reaches one million downloads
- Rumors about Sprint getting the HTC Hero and a Samsung Android device
- The Sony Ericsson T715 is a new slider for your everyday needs
- Sense UI coming to existing Android devices?
- Ringtone used to augment breast size
- June 24
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- Survey finds 1 in 5 teenagers have “sexted”
- Palm Pre now available through Sprint's telesales department
- Flo TV president says service is currently too expensive, sees lower prices ahead
- More images of the HTC Ozone for Verizon
- iPhone 3G S costs $178.96 to make?
- BlackBerry Storm only Verizon offered 'Berry with VCast Song ID?
- Nokia offering up to 50% discounts during 5 hour sale at Flagship stores and online
- Analyst says 150,000 Palm Pre units sold to date; expects $99 model by end of fiscal year
- HTC Hero introduces the new Sense UI
- LG Versa "Transformers" edition is now available
- Charge your iPhone with no wires
- Samsung Chianti for Sprint will be called the Reclaim
- June 23
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- AT&T to increase capacity by using 3G on the 850MHz spectrum?
- Out with the old and in with the Bing
- Rogers launches Sony Ericsson Xperia X1
- Dyson Energy Bracelet harness energy from you and powers handsets
- Beta version of Nokia Ovi Suite available for download
- Sprint CFO expects Pre shortages; no change with iPhone release
- OTOY allows gamers to play PC games on mobile phones
- iPhone 3G owner uses Find My iPhone to retrieve stolen handset, find thief
- Toshiba TG01 now available in Spain through Movistar
- Samsung Comeback keeps teens in the loop
- AIM with push notifications is available on App Store
- Verizon and T-Mobile to offer Android-powered Motorola phones
- Nokia 3720 to be a water and shockproof handset?
- June 22
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- Witel to offer unlimited international calls for $19.99 per month
- 8-megapixel HTC Firestone coming into light?
- Steve Jobs shows up for work at Apple on Monday?
- HTC setting the bar higher at 14.5 million units by the end of the year
- Samsung Jet receives over 2 million in pre-orders
- Japan first to launch the Snapdragon powered Toshiba T-01A
- Surprise! Smartphones used for cheating in school
- Apple sells a million iPhone 3G S units in three days
- Verizon HTC Ozone - a new image and pricing details
- Exotic Bluetooth headsets
- June 21
- June 20
- June 19
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- Steve Jobs had liver transplant two months ago?
- Hands on with the iPhone 3GS
- New Pantech Escapade world-phone coming to Verizon
- BlackBerry Storm knock off, the BlockBerry 9500, has Wi-Fi and Windows Mobile
- Drawing of the Sony Ericsson´s bracelet cell phone has appeared
- Live images of the Samsung Pixon12
- BlackBerry 5.0 OS offers SureType on full QWERTY models?
- June 18
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- RIM's reports better than expected 1Q profits
- IBM to raise $100 million to develop services for mobile phones
- Pre owner strategically integrates Touchstone with his vehicle
- Verizon enters world arena with their global wireless USB modem
- Sirius XM app ready to take on iPhone users
- No more CDs in Sony Ericsson boxes
- Nokia 6720 classic available to pre-order in the UK
- Samsung Highlight - a youthful phone from T-Mobile
- RingDroid allows Android users to create their own ringtones
- Telus to launch BlackBerry Tour on July 15th?
- Duet D888 – a dual SIM handset by National Geographic
- T-Mobile officially announces Dash 3G with launch set for July
- June 17
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- New BlackBerry Messenger to appear on all 'Berry's running 5.0 OS?
- AT&T offers subsidized iPhone 3G S prices for certain early adopters
- Iowa teen proclaimed as U.S. text messaging champion
- Apple to allow early adopters to buy iPhone 3G S at upgrade prices?
- Wednesday's News Bits - June 2009 edition, part 3
- Huawei shows two new phones with Android and WM
- Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 will not be announced today
- iPhone OS 3.0 launches today
- LG GW550 is a new WM-powered smartphone with QWERTY keyboard
- iTunes syncing for the Pre might soon be a thing of the past
- June 16
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- Yet another blurry shot of Dell's Android phone
- Samsung Jet about to take flight with Vodafone
- Senators ask FCC to investigate cell makers exclusivity deals with carriers
- Hands on with the Exclaim and LX370
- Tuesday’s News Bits
- Garmin-ASUS looking at limited August launch for G60; full release seen by year end
- Palm Pre to land in Europe in September
- Samsung Omnia II comes to Verizon
- Sprint to offer BlackBerry Tour later this summer
- June 15
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- UPDATE:BlackBerry Tour launch info to be released tomorrow by Verizon Wireless?
- Amazon now offering the Palm Pre
- "Needs, Meets Solutions" campaign headed by HTC, T-Mobile, & Microsoft
- AT&T standing firm on current pricing of data plans
- July 15th launch date for T-Mobile Dash 3G?
- Samsung Jet was unpacked
- Samsung announces four new OMNIA phones
- Samsung Jet is now official
- Sony Ericsson to announce the Xperia X2 on June 17
- Verizon to launch the Tour in July and the Palm Pre in early 2010?
- June 14
- June 13
- June 12
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- Best Buy Mobile offering free and discounted BlackBerry Storms to Reward Zone members
- Best Buy offering pre-orders on all new versions of the iPhone 3G S
- Worldwide mobile phone sales remained almost stagnant during Q1
- Palm putting the brakes on the Eos - for now
- AT&T to open doors at 7am on day of iPhone 3G S launch
- Wirefly's 48 hour sale includes most BlackBerries for FREE
- iPhone 3G S gets unboxed
- RadioShack got the HTC Snap and the Samsung Exclaim
- Samsung Louvre B7610 is a QWERTY side-slider, and the B5100 is a Symbian S60 smartphone
- BlackBerry Tour to arrive in mid-August, while an e-mail mentions it and the Pre
- June 11
- June 10
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- Radio Shack to offer Sprint's HTC Snap and Samsung Exclaim by Friday?
- FLO TV to expand service to 39 new markets, extend reach by 60 million potential customers
- Palm replaces Colligan as CEO with Rubinstein
- Xperia 2 poses for new set of pictures?
- Low end phones expect to dominate sales by 2014
- Virgin Mobile Broadband2Go becomes official
- Will OpenGL ES 2.0 cause headaches to iPhone 3G users?
- Palm Pre to come on Verizon in January
- Another evidence of the Palm Eos
- iPhone 3G S commercial goes live
- Verizon now offers the Motorola Rival and the Casio Exilim
- June 9
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- New Jabra BT2080 features LED notification display
- Nokia developing technology to charge phones from ambient radio waves?
- Sprint sets sales records with the Pre
- Samsung Omnia 2 gets video previewed
- Live images of the Motorola Rival
- A man waiting in line for the Pre 15 minutes before his wedding starts
- Gold release of iPhone OS 3.0 now available to developers
- June 8
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- Why won't AT&T support MMS on the iPhone 3G S at launch?
- iPhone 3GS announced!
- Hands-on with BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 dummy phone
- Apple shows some new iPhone 3.0 OS features
- JP Morgan says more than 50,000 Pre's sold this weekend
- OMNIA II revealed?
- Opera Mobile 9.7 beta released for Windows Mobile
- Casio Exilim C721 live photos in a Verizon store
- Reader gets Pre activated on $59.99 plan and possibly a one year contract
- New iPhone to be called the iPhone 3GS, another image reveals it
- Pre users reporting problems with the phone
- Samsung Jet appears in a hands-on video
- Man buys Pre and then smashes his iPhone
- June 7
- June 6
- June 5
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- Students use Twitter on phones for college classroom
- Apple's new model, iPhone Video, to be introduced and launched on Monday?
- Possible new iPhone to go on sale as soon as WWDC?
- Sprint Treo 600 users to get some cash from settlement
- Jobs set to return to Apple this month?
- T-Mobile USA leaked roadmap shows info on HTC Touch Pro2, BlackBerry Gemini and more
- LG enV Touch and Glance are now available with Verizon
- BlackBerry Storm 2 and Onyx photo leak
- Long lines for the Pre? Don't be ridiculous say Sprint and Palm
- Box art reveals T-Mobile USA's name of next Android device
- HTC to anounce new Android device on June 24th?
- June 4
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- Leaked specs reveal much about the BlackBerry Tour 9630
- Palm's stock jumps up 9% from favorable reviews of the Pre
- Carphone Warehouse inventory snapshot reveals "V3" iPhones
- Teen interest in Nokia fading?
- T-Mobile to start training on HTC's Touch Pro2 and Dash 3G on June 16th?
- Thursday's News Bits - June 2009 edition
- New version of fring has come out
- LG to start delivery of their GD910 wristwatch cell phone
- Verizon to sell the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 on June 19
- AT&T has cut the prices of the Bold and the Curve 8900
- Another 12MP Samsung phone?
- Verizon's BlackBerry Pearl Flip to launch soon?
- Sony Ericsson announces the eco-friendly C901 GreenHeart and Naite
- June 3
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- Sony Ericsson turns PlayNow arena into mobile app store
- HTC Ozone snaps into place at Verizon?
- BlueAnt S1 car kit supporting simultaneous connection to two cell phones
- Sony Ericsson X2 photographed?
- INQ´s “Twitter-phone” in the pipeline
- Wednesday's News Bits - June 2009, part 1
- Five handsets for U.S. Cellular this summer
- Microsoft's mobile Bing site now up and running for searching on the go
- Future iPhone apps and games to be revealed at a WWDC event
- HTC to hold an event on June 24
- T-Mobile with a pre-paid BlackBerry service
- Hands-on with the Samsung Jack i637
- June 2
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- AT&T to cut price on BlackBerry Bold and Curve 8900 today?
- BlackBerry Tour Canadian bound for Bell?
- Hands on with the Touch Pro2
- Prolonged use of cell phone may lead to a "cell phone elbow"
- Hands-on Preview of the LG enV Touch and enV3
- T-Mobile USA says next Android device coming in early summer
- Verizon to offer a new app store running on mobile Java
- Newly revised Jitterbug J is a no-frills phone for everyone
- Nokia N97 ships this month
- Samsung to “unpack” a new phone real soon
- Tuesday's News Bits - June 2009 edition, part 2
- No more M2 memory cards
- Sony Ericsson to announce environment-friendly phones
- Mobiado's first QWERTY phone
- June 1
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- New details emerge about Microsoft Exchange & Outlook Mobile
- Qualcomm's 1.3GHz Snapdragon chip is 30% faster while using 30% less power
- The next LG Viewty to capture HD video
- Samsung T559 makes it through FCC
- Sprint's HTC Snap S511 surfaces on Best Buy
- Is this the new iPhone?
- Hands-on with BlackBerry Storm 4.7.0.148 software upgrade
- Samsung Pixon12 M8910 is a 12MP cameraphone