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- Nokia Announces Flagship SmartphoneDecember 3
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Despite discouraging news that Nokia was pulling the plug on its Japanese market, the Finnish handset producer continues to lead the global smartphones market despite having lost significant shares to Apple's iPhone and RIM's BlackBerry.
To combat these powerhouses, Nokia's launched its new flagship smartphone, the N97 today. With a 3.5-inch touch display and full QWERTY keyboard, they've got the potential to lure business users but what really makes the N97 unique is the new "social location" function, which uses A-GPS sensors and an electronic compass to automatically update social networks with real-time information with not only status updates but social location as well.
The N97 supports up to 48GB of storage, including 32GB of on-board memory (expandable with a 16GB microSD card) for music, media and documents and a 16:9 widescreen display is fully personalizable with widgets suited for browsing the web, streaming Flash videos or playing games. Both the physical QWERTY and virtual touch keyboard make for convenient blogging, chatting, texting or emailing. Finally, since no converged device is complete without an internal camera these days, Nokia pulls no punches with a 5.0 megapixel, Carl Zeiss lens and flash equipped, still shot/ video recorder.
Of course all of this - Nokia Pulls Out of JapanDecember 1
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While it's easy to associate Japan as a land flourishing in all that is electronic technology, Finnish handset-giant Nokia has announced decision to pull out of the Japanese market permanently today.
Nokia will not only cease selling phones in Japan but will also end marketing campaigns as well. An early market leader, Nokia started selling mobile units in Japan way back in 1994, but witnessed a falling market share ever since (estimated at just 1 percent before today's announcement).
The mature Japanese market is dominated by local manufacturers. More surprising is that studies prove that unlike Americans, Japanese customers have little desire to upgrade or replace functioning devices.
Mobile sales in Japan have been falling since last year, when network operators led by NTT DoCoMo cut their subsidies on certain handsets, driving up prices for new handsets.
This news comes at a time where Nokia has issued profit warnings for the upcoming year as a result of slumping global sales in this period of economic downturn.
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- Samsung's Latest Touch Screen Handset Comes To VerizonNovember 26
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Verizon Wireless has announced that the new Samsung Omnia will be available immediately online (and in stores on Dec. 8).
As is the case of late, the Omnia will offer an advanced touch screen featuring Samsung's TouchWiz user interface. The unit will also feature a full on-screen QWERTY keyboard with haptic feedback (provides subtle vibrations to confirm key selections). An optical mouse offers easy navigation with the swipe of a finger. A high-quality 5.0-megapixel camera with digital zoom and power LED flash round out the goodies. Connectivity comes in the form of stereo Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technology.
Coming standard with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, users can access Microsoft Outlook Mobile to connect to email, schedules and contacts while Office Mobile manages Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents on the go.
The Samsung Omnia starts at $249.99 after a $70 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement.
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- T-Mobile Inks Deal With YahooNovember 24
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After having introduced Web2go, a browsing experience designed to work across its wide portfolio of phones, T-Mobile has formed a deal with Yahoo to have Yahoo search included by default. Web2go simplifies navigating the web on mobile devices, providing better browsing, improved search with Yahoo oneSearch, a customizable home page and easier shopping and downloading.
Yahoo began serving T-Mobile in 10 European countries this year, sharing ad search revenue and will now
reach 105 million U.S. cell subscribers between this latest deal with T-Mobile and another similar arrangement inked with AT&T.
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- Top Five Cell Phone Makers Announce Green Rating SystemNovember 21
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The world's top five cell phone makers have launched a common energy rating system for phone chargers, in the hopes of making it easier for consumers to compare and choose the model that consumes the least energy.
The new rating system has been developed and supported by LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung Electronics and Sony Ericsson and will ranges from five stars (for the most efficient chargers) down to zero stars for those guilty of consuming the most electricity.
The cell phone industry has become the world's top consumer electronics business by volume and environmentalism complaints have been frequent and persistent.
Chargers actually continue to use electricity when left plugged in, even when the phone is disconnected. Around two-thirds of the electricity used by cell phones is wasted as a result.
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