Beginning at next year, get your iPhone fix in Singapore, India, the Philippines, and Australia.
SingTel has announced that they will be bringing the Apple iPhone to the aforementioned nations by the end of the year, but they didn’t offer a specific launch date. SingTel owns a 30.5% stake in India’s Bharti Airtel and holds 44.5% of Globe in the Philippines.
Australia’s Optus is wholly owned by SingTel. Vodafone’s also distributing iPhone in India and Australia. read more…
RIM with RBC and Thomson Reuters provide a $150M fund to invest in mobile applications and services, this fund which will given for developers in coding applications for the BlackBerry platform. RIM maybe isn’t limiting those apps and services just to the BlackBerry, and instead the fund is designed to advance the industry.
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RIM finally announced the BlackBerry Bold / 9000, see the website.
Here RIM’s BlackBerry Bold / 9000 Spec:
-Quad-band (GSM 850/900/1800/1900), but the most appetizing and notable item is the HSDPA/UMTS (850/1900/2100) support.
-Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g), Bluetooth 2.0 with full A2DP support, and built-in GPS (enhanced and assisted).
-VGA (480×320 pixel resolution), 65,000-color display
-625MHz CPU, 1GB internal flash memory
-802.11a/b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 (with A2Dp), GPS, MicroSDHC
-480 x 320 video recording, photo geotagging
-Sizewise, the BlackBerry Bold measures 4.5 inches tall by 2.6 inches wide by 0.5 inch deep and weighs 4.7 ounces.
-2-megapixel camera with video-recording capabilities and up to 5X zoom. The media player including MP3, WMA, AAC, DivX4, and WMV3 files, and the phone is equipped with a 3.5mm headphone jack. read more…
According to a video shot during the roadmap portion of an MWg presentation, Q4 of this year will bring with it the first crop of Windows Mobile 7 devices.
According to the roadmap, MWG plans to launch 6 new Windows Mobile smartphones, 1 UMPC/MID. 3 of them will get Windows Mobile 7 OS, and one of WM7 devices is scheduled for the end of this year!
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Samsung Electronics has announced the launch of Smartphone i200 in global market. Supporting Windows Mobile 6.1 with mobile versions of office like Excel, Word, PowerPoint, outlook, etc.
Samsung i200 other featured:
· 2-megapixel camera
· 11.8 mm thin
· 2.3-inch QVGA TFT screen
· HSDPA 3.6 Mbps data communications
· A unique ‘light sensor’ can help users minimize the power consumption to adjust lightness of LCD and keypad automatically
Samsung i200 will be launched in the European market in June and will enter other market within a month. read more…
