April 7th 2008 |
TAG Heuer’s foray into the mobile market could give Vertu a taste of its own medicine (seriously, just look at it) all except for that “fraction of a price” bit; turns out the rumors have the candybar, named “Meridiist,” priced somewhere around €3,400 to €3,900 (about $5,338 to $6,123) depending on how it’s configured.
Your fistful of euros will apparently get you a sapphire crystal display, 2 megapixel cam, 1.9 inch QVGA display (weak!), Bluetooth, and the full array of “luxury” materials like steel and leather when it launches later this quarter into the hands of the world’s privileged.
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April 7th 2008 |
Presenting the newly released variation on the popular G600, the Pink handset provides both a solid, practical contract but oozing with offers of all types to satisfy you if you into gadgets or cash discounts or cash in hand. The discount line rental is the best value as you save £262.50 over the contract life and you only pay full line rental for only 3 of the 18 months. However, the other offers are just as appealing. Whatever the decision, the contract offers oodles of free minutes. You can’t lose.
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April 7th 2008 |
Motorola has agreed to appoint two Carl Icahn-approved executives to its board of directors in an effort to appease the activist investor. Keith Meister, a managing director of Icahn investment funds, will be appointed to the board immediately. William R. Hambrecht, the founder and chief executive of W.R. Hambrecht and Company, will be nominated to a board seat at the shareholder meeting in May. In return, Carl Icahn has agreed to drop his pending proxy fight and all litigation against Motorola.
In addition, Mr. Meister and William R. Hambrecht, the founder and chief executive of W.R. Hambrecht and Company, would be nominated for Motorola’s board at the annual meeting.
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April 7th 2008 |
Samsung boosted the Internet speed of its phones with the launch of the M470. One of the few phones to be based on HSUPA (High Speed Upload Packet Access), the slider’s upstream connection runs up to 2Mbps. This lets users send videos and other files roughly six times faster than the more widespread HSDPA (Download) format, by Samsung’s estimates. A Wi-Fi connection provides similar or better speed at hotspots when the cellular access isn’t readily available.
The M470 also sports a 2-megapixel camera and a microSD card slot to handle its storage. By using Windows Mobile 6, the handset uses its faster Internet access to its advantage both for downloading push e-mail as well as browsing with Internet Explorer. Samsung hasn’t discussed pricing but states that the phone’s full speed will be available in its native Korea for the second half of the year, when SK Telecom launches a commercial HSUPA service in parts of the country.
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April 7th 2008 |
Jott just finally released a public commercial version of their voice recognition software. Designed specifically for BlackBerry devices, including the 8800, 8300, and 8100, Jott adds an option to “reply with Jott” to all emails on your BlackBerry. Using a simple on-screen prompt, users can easily reply to emails with little more than a couple voice commands. It also works over a Bluetooth headset connection. We haven’t had a chance to give this one a try yet, but as soon as we get a chance to put it through its paces, we’ll let you know how well it lives up to the hype.
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