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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on May 27, 2008
As another bay step on their plan towards world domination, Truphone has announced availability of their new 4.0 client for Nokia S60 devices, which allows you to make calls over WiFi or 3G at much le...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on May 16, 2008
Today I was catching up and listening to Alec Saunders' Squawk Box podcast when a bombshell was let loose-something that makes the news that Verizon Wireless chose LiMo over Google's Android m...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on May 9, 2008
I have to laugh when I see commercials like this from AT&T-or any wireless carrier for that matter:
I can name at least a couple of places where I get zero bars on AT&T. And you know what? ...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on May 6, 2008
As I reported elsewhere, qwest is looking to get out of it's MVNO deal with Sprint. Instead, they will be simply reselling Verizon Wireless service. Qwest customers with more than one service will...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on May 1, 2008
In what I believe is a first for the U.S. market, Phone News is reporting that AT&T is now offering unlimited MEdia Net access on their pay as you go prepaid plans for $20 every month. AT&T ha...
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by leo on February 20, 2008
The war has begun! Aside from Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and AT&T have rolled out their unlimited monthly plans for voice and SMS. Together, these 3 major operators comprise about 65% of wireless...
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by leo on February 19, 2008
In an effort to strengthen its hold to high end users, verizon Wireless has rolled out unlimited voice and data plans known as Nationwide Unlimited Anytime Minute Plans. Thanks to Saunderslog.com, th...
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by leo on January 29, 2008
As I was browsing my feeds, I chanced upon a press release from survey and professional services company Vocal Laboratories and its study of customer service quality among major wireless phone compan...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on January 15, 2008
A reader sent me some information about mobile phone charges in Indonesia, which is the forth biggest country in terms of population, behind the U.S., India, and China. Quoting from my piece on phoneb...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on January 14, 2008
The ctia, otherwise knows as the industry association representing the wireless carriers in the U.S., recently told the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that based on some key factors, the...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on January 10, 2008
One of the things that really irritates me about the U.S. carriers is that they charge both for inbound and outbound SMS! I can understand on mobile phone calls, since we have these things called &quo...
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by leo on January 8, 2008
In business and war, your ultimate goal is to crush your enemy totally. In the words of the infamous strategist Niccolò Machiavelli, "the injury therefore that we do to a man must be such that w...
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by leo on December 6, 2007
A few weeks after such bold statement that he is not afraid of Internet search giant Google, AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega has a sudden change of heart. AT&T is now allowing their subscribers to u...
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by leo on November 22, 2007
If you're a suffering T-Mobile subscriber, you don't have to fake your death just to get out of the stupid contract. Just roam outside the T-Mobile network most of the time and freedom will be...
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by leo on October 19, 2007
Handset manufacturing giant Nokia is doing what other leading mobile companies simply can't do - make money from low-end mobile phones. According to BusinessWeek, Nokia's third-quarter profit ...
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by leo on October 16, 2007
T-Mobile is experiencing the increasing power of fed up mobile subscribers. According to Information Week, the california supreme court recently gave a go-signal preventing the leading mobile company ...
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by leo on October 3, 2007
Verizon Wireless is taking some baby steps towards better customer service. Starting this Sunday, mobile subscribers are now allowed to change their calling plans without having to extend their contr...
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by leo on September 6, 2007
Losing money quarter after quarter in the mobile phone market, PC World reports that Taiwan's BenQ is finally moving to a new direction - computer monitors and digital projectors. Apparently, the ...
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by leo on August 24, 2007
While Nokia is currently recalling 46 million BL-5C batteries for causing about 100 incidents of over heating around the globe, the manufacturer Matsushita Battery has agreed to shoulder all the direc...
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by leo on July 25, 2007
After a month of absence, I'm finally back here to deliver more interesting mobile trends affecting the way we communicate with each other. So here we go.
First stop - iPhone.
After months of ...
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by leo on June 21, 2007
Nokia is gearing up for the future by altering its company structure starting January 2008. This initiative aims for "greater effectiveness, speed up time to market for new products, and increase...
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by leo on May 29, 2007
According to ABI Research, revenues from mobile phone accessories is projected to reach $32 billion this year while Smartphones $28 billion. Heads up to handset vendors; they must think more creativel...
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by leo on May 25, 2007
Gaining unfair advantage these days in light of growing concern over roaming rates in Europe, Vodafone flexes its PR muscle to highlight the advantages of its Vodafone Passport. With more than 12 mill...
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by leo on May 23, 2007
Sometimes one of the best things to do when you are in a hypercompetitive environment is to take a step back and get back to basics. This is exactly what Nokia 3109 classic intends to do. In the words...
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by tom on May 7, 2007
Orange UK are the latest operator to announce a flat-rate data plan for mobile Internet access, although after digging around on the orange website I can't find any mention of it. The new plan wil...
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by tom on May 7, 2007
NTT DoCoMo has announced that it will not be proceeding with a contract signed between the company and operator Hutch to launch i-mode services in India.DoCoMo and Hutch had been striving to launch i-...
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by leo on May 3, 2007
Amidst the hype and allure of new, exciting cutting edge phones like iPhone, Nseries, and GPS-enabled phones, the cheap, classic Nokia 1100 remains the king of consumer electronics products.
Reuters...
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by leo on May 1, 2007
As a testament to mobile industry's creative genius, the FCC has approved the world's first GSM Watchfone. Also recognized as the smallest mobile phone, Watchfone was developed by SMS Technolo...
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by leo on April 26, 2007
With 35.8% market share in 1st quarter of 2007, considerable cash reserves to support R&D and production initiatives, global market leader Nokia is behemoth to behold. Although challengers like ...
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by leo on April 26, 2007
One of IDC's 10 Emerging Mobile Players in 2007, GrandCentral promises that you will never miss a call you want to take and (this is one is better) never take a call you surely want to miss!
Ho...
