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January 21, 2005
According to a report in BusinessWeek Motorola plans to produce a whole line of phones based on their super hot Razr V3 phone. The new line will offer different color models including a candy bar phone called the silver. Motorola has shipped an estimated 750,000 Razr V3 phones priced at $500 each since launch. Motorola is expected to announce the expanded product line later this year - More via Mobile Tracker
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January 19, 2005
Motorola, Inc., has announced the addition of two new GSM handsets to their Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC) line - the fashionable C698p and the affordable C381p.
Motorola C698p
The Motorola C698p "candybar" styled handset features dual high-audio speakers optimized to deliver a superior audio experience for using PoC, MP3 player, built-in VGA (640x480) camera, 65k color display, preloaded and downloadable games.
Motorola C381p
The quad-band bar-designed Motorola C381p handset features a 5-way navigation key, LCD display, GPRS/CSD data, SMS/MMS/IM, MotoMixer, Voice recording and dialing.
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- MobileMag
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PhoneArena reports on approval from the FCC for the Samsung SPH-A800 2 megapixels camera phone (the first in the US). The Samsung SPH-A800 features a 262k color TFT display, 2 megapixels camera with flash and video capture, MPEG4 recording, VOD/Video Messaging, CDMA2000 1xEV-DO high-speed data technology, TransFlash memory expansion slot, JAVA 2.0 support and 3D Java Games
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., announced that it has completed development of the world's first working prototype of a 512Mb mobile DRAM device that operates up to 333Mbps, transmitting 32 bits of data simultaneously. This memory chip is fast enough to support high-quality 3D graphics and streaming video in next-generation mobile phones, PDAs, portable scanners and other handheld products.
Samsung will begin producing the chip early in the second half of 2005.
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January 18, 2005
Pantech & Curitel have released the PH-S6500 with built-in three-axis sensor, which tracks the location of cell phone holders around the clock as long as the power is on. The PH-S6500 informs phone carriers of their speed, distance traveled and calorie consumption as well as altitude when climbing mountains. Features include GPS function support, M-commerce function support, Digital compass function, Running mate function, Multimedia Messaging Service, 2" 176X220 pixels 262144 colors TFT LCD display screen with 3D graphic support, Rotation 1M resolutions CCD digital camera with video recorder/playback and digital zoom function, MP3 player, Phone joystick navigation key, Text input predictive software, miniSD card expansion slot and USB client.
Measures 97.8X47X23.75mm and Weight 125g. Asia Only.
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- Seen at Gizmodo
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Toshiba JP announced that it has completed development of the world's first software to enable users to operate their computers remotely via mobile phones. The software called Ubiquitous Viewer is installed on the mobile phone and on a client computer running Windows and re-creates the desktop of a PC or notebook PC on the mobile phone's screen. The new system compresses data in a computer so that it could be shown on a small mobile phone screen and allow users to make changes.
Toshiba plans to make the system commercially available by the end of March for third-generation (3G) mobile phone services.
- Seen at Engadget
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January 17, 2005
The FCC has given Motorola's first EV-DO compatible handset the greenlight. Features include Video-on-demand, 40MB internal memory, TransFlash slot, Bluetooth, 1.3 megapixel camera and MP3 player. Expected to ship in the first quarter of 2005.
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The Treo 650 GSM is coming soon according to an official graphic on the palmOne website, which adds some weight to the Cingular branded treo 650 coming at the end of the month. The rumored launch date is January 23rd. So very soon you could totally jet off to Europe and use your treo 650 to check on the kids.
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According to a report in the Sunday Telegraph if Siemens (the company that brought you that lovely SL65 ESCADA handset - the one with the diamonds and denim) cannot find a last minute buyer for their Mobile handset division it will be closed, what that means -- no more siemens escada branded handsets for you. Even though Siemens is the fourth largest handset maker by market share it has struggled to make a profit. In the fourth quarter of 2004 the mobile division lost 140 million pounds. The paper reports a final decision will be announced at the Siemens annual general meeting on 27 January.
A spokesman for Siemens declined to comment on the report but confirmed to the Scotsman newspaper that the division's future was under review by chief executive Heinrich von Pierer and that an announcement will be made at the annual meeting.
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January 14, 2005
Anti-virus firm F-Secure has discovered a new worm that targets smart phones. The new worm, called Lasco.A targets Symbian Series 60 devices such as the Nokia 7610 and Siemens SX1. Lasco.A worm uses Bluetooth to spread the infected .SIS file to other devices. The worm uses Bluetooth to seek out another mobile device set to Bluetooth discoverable mode, it then sends the Velasco.sis file that contains the worm to the other mobile device. Once the user accepts the Velasco.sis file and installs it, the worm activates. According to F-Secure, the worm can only be sent to phones that support Bluetooth and are in discoverable mode.
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