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Verizon and Palm Announce Treo 755p

Verizon and Palm have officially announced the Treo 755p:
“Verizon Wireless, owner of the nation’s most reliable wireless voice and data network, and Palm, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of the Palm Treo(TM) 755p smartphone in exclusive deep blue- green. Beginning today, customers may purchase the Treo 755p online at www.verizonwireless.com, by calling 1-800-2 JOIN […]

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T-Mobile Shadow Review

Mobileburn has reviewed the latest smartphone on T-Mobile: the Shadow. Overall, it appears to be a great smartphone … for novices.
“The T-Mobile Shadow, built by HTC, is the first Windows Mobile 6 device to sport Microsoft’s new Neo home screen. Neo is an attempt at making the power of a smartphone accessible to novice users, […]

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T-Mobile Sidekick LX Review

“The Sidekick LX is the latest member of the Sidekick family, and brings quite a feature set. Multimedia is covered by a 1.3 megapixel camera with flash, a built-in music player application, and a microSD card slot for expanded memory. Upgrades from its predecessor, the Sidekick 3, include an improved screen, quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900MHz) support, […]

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New Samsung Katalyst Supports T-Mobile HotSpot @Home Service

There’s a new announcement from Samsung and T-Mobile: the Samsung Katalyst will support the T-Mobile HotSpot @HomeSM service. Of course, this will be in addition to the extra fee added on a customers bill for the @Home service:
“Samsung and T-Mobile USA today announced the availability of the new Samsung Katalyst (SGH-t739). The Katalyst adds a […]

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How to Increase Cellphone Signal Strength

The folks over at Hoopajoo Labs have an interesting video on how you ca increase the signal strength of your cellphone: it’s an external antenna you can make from a ruler, wire cutters, and some copper. The key seems to be the number of loops and length of the copper.
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iPhone vs Voyager

The iPhone and the Voyager have been duking it out in the ring of public opinion (and the iPhone has been kicking butt, incidentally), but not every review has done a feature by feature comparison of the two phones:
“Lets layout some of the facts and features of both phones up against each other. The Apple […]

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Verizon Now Supports Android

In a move that goes a long way to prove that Verizon is deadly serious about opening up their network to all comers, Verizon has apparently embraced and accepted Google’s mobile platform, Android:
In yet another sudden shift, Verizon Wireless plans to support Google’s (GOOG) new software platform for cell phones and other mobile devices. Verizon […]

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Hop-On to Reintroduce Disposable Cell Phones

Following Verizon’s announcement that they are going to allow third-party developers take advantage of their CDMA network, Hop-on has announced that they will be providing CDMA-compliant cell phones that work with Verizon’s network.
According to their press release, the Hop-on is a “stylish disposable phone” which is “ideal for kids, teens, seniors, tourists, vacationers, business travelers, […]

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Cingular Wireless Offers New-Look, $199 Palm Treo 680

Cingular Wireless and Palm, Inc. today introduced the new Palm Treo 680 smart device, whose brand-new look, broad range of features and economical price will appeal to both consumers and business customers - just in time for the holidays. The Treo 680 quad-band world phone on the Palm OS platform - which is available beginning […]

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Service equips stolen phones with scream

Ah yes, screaming mobile phones. Now this is just what the doctor ordered! Ah, then again, perhaps not…

LONDON - An ear-piercing scream awaits would-be mobile phone thieves, and it won’t stop unless the battery is removed, rendering the […]

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Service equips stolen phones with scream

Ah yes, screaming mobile phones. Now this is just what the doctor ordered! Ah, then again, perhaps not…

LONDON - An ear-piercing scream awaits would-be mobile phone thieves, and it won’t stop unless the battery is removed, rendering […]

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Cingular Continues to Raise the Bar…and Your Bill if You Still Have a TDMA Phone

Cingular got a lot more than it bargained for when it purchased AT&T Wireless, namely in the form of TDMA. Since Cingular’s early days as Pacific Bell PCS, it’s been doing the European defacto signal of choice, GSM. So what to do with all the TDMA customers it adopted from Ma Bell? […]

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Increase Signal Strength and Overcome Dropped Calls

There’s nothing more annoying than having a cell phone that works great were you work but gets near zero signal at home. Or vice verse. My brother in-law (and SvenOnTech reviewer) gets about a bar in his home which leads to many dropped calls. Sometimes I can’t even get a hold of […]

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Best Buy Gettin’ Amp’d This Summer

The cell phone for the MTV kiddies will be coming to a Best Buy near you this summer. Amp’d Mobile, the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) geared to the youth market, will now be hawking its gear along side those men in black, the Geek Squad. Trying to move its Verizon driven EV-DO […]

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Ringtone for Kids That Evade Adult Ears?

SvenOnTech recieved an interesting e-mail the other day. In it, it claimed there was a new ringtone (custom ringers for your cell phone) that could only be heard by teenagers and children. The ringtone called the “Mozzy Tone” or Mosquito Ringtone plays its “music” at 17-kilohertz. Merck Manual of Daignosis and Therapy […]

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Pictures of Samsung’s Moto Q Killer Appear from France

If you’re not interested in Motorola’s ultra cool Q, the smartphone running Windows Mobile 5 coupled with the thinness of a RAZR, then you have something else to look at with interest.
MobileKorea has got a couple of pictures to make your mouth water with the showing off the Samsung SGH-i320 in full […]

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Talk on Your Cell, Watch a Cup Game, and Get a Free Dinner

For all you luck blocks in Germany watching some of the best football (soccer for my American brethern), UK fans are going to get a kick out of this offer. If you are a Virgin Mobile user and are hanging out at the England fans’ campsite in Achern, Germany, you’ll get a special SMS […]

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Cingular Selling Your Number to Spanish Recordings?

Now I can’t verify this in any way; however, I have a few friends that in the last week have all received calls from a recorded message on their cell phones that is in Spanish. The common thread of these friends is that they are on Cingular. None of my Sprint PCS, Verizon, […]

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South African telecoms group acquires Dubai rival for $5.5bn

With the focus on Asia, I think that we forget that opportunities are still very much out there for those interested in mobile opportunities in Africa.

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Treo 700w Users to Get True Push E-mail

Palm is stating that the Microsoft Service Feature Pack (MSFP) client which allows for true Blackberry-like e-mailing pushing will be available to all Treo 700w users by the end of the month. Users on any Exchange 2003 server or service using the server (such as 4Smartphone) will now be able to get mail on […]