3G Americas, a group that represents the GSM technologies in the Americas, announced that the GSM/UMTS services gained more than 564.6 million customers worldwide between June 2006 and June 2007. According to Informa’s World Cellular Information Service, more than 100 millions of the new subscribers are from the Western Hemisphere, meaning that the GSM/UMTS technology [...]

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Nokia announced it has filed a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) alleging that Qualcomm has engaged in unfair trade practices through infringing 5 Nokia patents in its CDMA and WCDMA/GSM chipsets. Nokia is requesting that the ITC initiate an investigation and issue an exclusion order to bar importation to the United [...]

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It’s been only a few days since hackers reported they have managed to fully unlock the iPhone, that the cracked handset version now pops up in Hong Kong, on a special sale offer. The price is huge, but those too eager to wait for it to officially arrive in their country have an expensive solution [...]

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Nokia unveils today the new device management features of its Nokia Intellisync Mobile Suite. Wider device support, tighter integration to enhance user experience, remote control, improved theft-loss protection and hardware control allow IT managers to enhance and scale customer support while reducing support costs. “We are seeing a strong interest from European and global operators [...]

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Even though a Japanese publisher is already planning to bring literature – albeit in graphic art form – to the iPhone in the US, that hasn’t stopped mainstream publisher HarperCollins attempting to convince people there that reading books on phones is a good idea. First step on that uphill journey is the launch of a [...]

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Nokia today announced the Nokia N95 multimedia computer has been voted ‘the European Media Phone of the Year 2007-2008′ by the European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA), Europe’s leading association for consumer electronics. Commenting on the award, EISA praised the Nokia N95 as containing “practically every feature one could imagine in a mobile device.” Additionally, [...]

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Nokia today issued a product advisory for the Nokia-branded BL-5C battery manufactured by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co., Ltd. of Japan between December 2005 and November 2006. This product advisory does not apply to any other Nokia-branded battery. Nokia has identified that in very rare cases the Nokia-branded BL-5C batteries subject to the product advisory could [...]

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