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BlackBerry finally gets Truphone

October 29, 2008

Great news for the travelling BlackBerry user yesterday came in the form of an announcement from Truphone that Truphone is beta-testing software for the BlackBerry. Users of Nokia devices and the Apple iPhone have had Truphone for some time, and are already accustomed to Truphone’s low low international calling rates. Best of all, early reports [...]

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SquawkBox October 8: Touch phone smack down!

October 8, 2008

This morning the news is all about RIM‘s Blackberry Storm. Today is the day that has been officially announced, not that there haven’t been leaks galore. And last week, Nokia announced their MusicXpress 5800. Both touch phones, with music, these devices are designed to go up against Apple‘s iPhone. Each of these phones, and the [...]

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Bell to interfere with GPS?

September 24, 2008

Speculation is running rampant that Bell plans to interfere with GPS on BlackBerry mobile phone devices in the near future. The rapidy spreading rumour says that in the coming weeks Bell will cause users of free GPS mapping applications (Google maps, or BlackBerry maps, for example) to experience GPS lock times of 2 to 10 [...]

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Rogers to deliver Nokia Maps to Canadians

September 11, 2008

Nokia’s on a bit of a roll at CTIA, unveiling a series of announcements, including an agreement with Rogers here in Canada to launch their NGAGE and Maps applications to Canadian customers. Rogers has but one Nokia smartphone available — the N95 8Gb — but nonetheless it’s a welcome development to see these applications come [...]

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Nokia ratchets up email connectivity

September 9, 2008

Nokia is announcing that Mail for Exchange, their solution for attaching Nokia phones to Microsoft Exchange servers using Activesync, will be available on all Nokia S60 3rd edition phones. What that means is that N Series phones, in particular, will have Exchange connectivity as a standard feature. The client has been improved to include auto-discovery [...]

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Nokia isn’t ditching VoIP after all!

August 28, 2008

All week long there has been a persistent story making the rounds about Nokia dumping VoIP support from upcoming phones. This scribe even played a part in spreading the story… and it turns out to have been untrue. Charlie, over on the Nokia Conversations blog, acknowledges that the VoIP client is missing from the N78 [...]

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Squawk Box August 27, Mobile Roundup

August 27, 2008

* The iPhone 3G is close to outnumbering first gen iPhones by selling 6 million units since launch a scant two months ago. It took the 1st generation iPhone over a year to sell six million.
* Meanwhile, Android phones are still on the drawing boards as sketches of the T-Mobile G1 leak out. It’s one hot looking phone, but will they have the application infrastructure to compete with Apple…
* And SmartPhone and PocketPC magazine has announced that their windows mobile focused publication is… ceasing publication. A sign of the times perhaps?
* And finally… more new Nokia N-Series handsets. The N79 and N85 were announced this week. Coincident with that was a great piece by Olga Kharif in Business Week on mobile VoIP… at the same time as Nokia dropped the VoIP stack from these new handsets.

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Ted’s Smackdown

August 20, 2008

My buddy Ted Wallingford has published the definitive criteria for evaluating iPhone versus Nokia N-Series phones. His Nokia N-Series vs. iPhone 3G: Head to Head Smackdown will give you the tools that you can use to make up your own mind about which phone you would prefer, and your own conclusion may differ from Ted’s.

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Palringo launches Push-to-Talk on iPhone.

August 19, 2008

Today Palringo is unveiling their “vocal instant messaging” on iPhone. It lets users send the equivalent of a text message, but by voice. Sound familiar? Of course. It’s the service we’ve all come to know and love as “push to talk”. But unlike traditional push to talk services, this one spans handsets from Apple, Nokia, [...]

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Squawk Box August 13

August 13, 2008

Chrysler is intending to sell a mobile EVDO router for the car. Their idea is that you can turn your car into a mobile hotspot. Our group panned it to start, but then as we discussed it more, it seemed like there might be uses – tracking traffic, navigation and many more possibles. Of course, [...]

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