May 22, 2013

Phones - News


“Black Friday”-Apple announces the sale with Ad !

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In advance of the biggest shopping day of the year, Apple has posted a teaser for a Nov. 26 Black Friday sale on its website, telling customers to come back to the Apple Online Store on Friday for a special “holiday shopping event.” Apple did not specify what discounts would be available, but noted only [...]

“Skype Mobile App” for 3 Verizon feature phones released

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Skype Mobile application is now supported by three of Verizon’s feature phones using the BREW platform. This application allows the users to make free calls from Skype to Skype in the U.S. while taking advantage of Skype’s low International calling rates, and allows two people to chat via IM using the app Including phones from [...]

“Swype Apps” for Symbian Beta now with Support for French,German & Polish Languages

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The beta flavor of Swype for Symbian, the application the Swype team developed in collaboration with Nokia’s Beta Labs engineers, has just got enhanced with support for a wider range of languages. Swype provides a faster and easier way to input text on any screen. With one continuous finger or stylus motion across the screen [...]

Apple iPad to be subsidized by Orange and T-Mobile in Europe

France Telecom’s Orange and Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile — who have put their British operations into a joint venture — said on Monday new purchase options in Britain would mean “more affordable prices when purchased with a data service plan.” In France, a spokeswoman for Orange said the carrier would subsidize the iPad when it starts [...]

2011:The Age of Tablets !

With the thriving success of Apple’s iPad with over 4 million units sold, since its launch in April, the BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) has joined major players in the electronics industry to rush into the market with their versions of the tablet. After the huge success of the iPad, all major hardware vendors [...]

Nokia’s Ovi Store Downloads Hit 3 Million A Day !

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Nokia yesterday announced that its Ovi Store has reached 3 million downloads per day, a milestone spurred by overall global demand and a recent update that gives users of Nokia’s new Symbian smartphone family a friendlier look and feel as well as more popular apps and games. The company is also gaining significant software developer [...]

Verizon claims fastest 4G network in America-is it true?!

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It seems that the cellular carriers can now boast about having the largest or fastest 4G networks even without a phone that customers can buy to use that speedy pipeline. While Verizon is expected to have 38 markets loaded up with LTE by the end of this year, signs in the stores now proclaim that [...]

Bose In-Ear Headphone(IE2) and MIE2, MIE2i Headsets – Best Buy

Bose Headphones

Three new headphones from Bose today available in the market, The IE2 works with any device, while the MIE2 and MIE2i mobile headsets are meant for music-enabled mobile phones. Each of the models has Bose StayHear tips for improved stability and comfort. Also, each is built for durability and comes with a carrying case. None [...]

BlindType Virtual Keyboard Makes its Move to Android Devices to Help Slow Typists

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Many mobile phones with virtual, on-screen keyboards offer recommendations when you misspell a word. Some will even automatically correct common spelling errors. But none goes quite as far as BlindType, which can convert “Rgod vsjkieyh pa vqsyrudik” to “This ballpark is beautiful.” The idea is that BlindType uses text prediction technology so that if you’re [...]

We May Forget Credit or Debit Cards Soon, It will Replaced by Smartphones

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Mobile Service Providers AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile are attempting to give credit card companies a run for their money with the planned introduction of new smartphone technology. This technology will allow customers to use their smartphones as payment devices by merely waving their smartphones. Should the technology be successful, credit card companies might have a [...]

RIM Looking for a Solution to its Blackberry UAE Ban

Today’s announcement, made with AT&T in the United States, comes after a weekend flurry of controversy surrounding security concerns in several countries, notably the threat by the United Arab Emirates to shut down BlackBerry service in October if RIM doesn’t take the measures needed to allow authorities to monitor communications. The U-A-E says those Blackberry [...]

RIM’s New Blackberry Will be an Apple iPhone Killer ?

Waterloo-based Research In Motion is expected to introduce a new BlackBerry smartphone in New York today to challenge Apple’s iPhone. RIM’s new BlackBerry is expected to be a touch-screen device with a slide-out keyboard. Analysts are also watching to see if RIM gives a more detailed demonstration of its new operating system. The touchdevice will [...]