Phones are everyday technology we cannot live without.
Nowadays, we cannot deny cellular phones are our everyday gadget. We can't live without them. Almost everyone has them. Business are dealt and run with them. People of all ages have them. Kids have them. Their grandparents have them. Each may be different and may have extra set of functions such as mp3 or GPS capabilities, but its main use is still to pick it up when it rings and say, "Hello."
Google Gifts Android with Gesture-Based Search
Google recently enabled a Labs experimental feature for Android handsets that allows users to perform searches by drawing gestures on the display. According to Google, Gesture Search lets users find a contact, an application, a bookmark, or a music ...
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Bluetooth SIG Says 4.0 Spec to Reach Handsets by Year's End
Today the Bluetooth Special Interest Group gave the first glimpse of the Bluetooth 4.0 specification's roadmap, and said that it expects devices to ship with Bluetooth 4.0 by the end of the year. The Bluetooth 4.0 spec is designed ...
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Judge Stays Apple-Nokia Patent Fight Until ITC Issues Ruling
The Delaware-based judge overseeing the Nokia-Apple and Apple-Nokia patent lawsuits has issued a stay, effectively putting the trials on hold until the International Trade Commission makes its own ruling. Nokia sued Apple for patent violations, and Apple filed a ...
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Canada Won't Be Left Out of Motoblur Party
Motorola will bring the Backflip, Dext (Cliq in the U.S.), and Quench to all three major Canadian wireless carriers.
ZTE Voices Support for Nuance's Speech Tech
Today ZTE announced that it has agreed to ship Nuance VSuite and Nuance Vocalizer on ZTE handsets moving forward. The software will add voice control and text-to-speech for text message readout and command confirmation to ZTE phones. ZTE said ...
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Skype Lands in Ovi Store for Symbian Phones
Today Nokia and Skype jointly announced the Skype application for Symbian-based devices and have made it available for download in the Ovi Store. The application will work with many Symbian^1 devices, including S60 3rd Edition and S60 5th Edition ...
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Virgin Mobile Improves Its Prepaid Broadband Offers
Virgin Mobile USA, a prepaid arm of Sprint's network service, has improved its Broadband2Go offering to give buyers more data at the same price points. Notably, prepaid buyers who spend $60 will now get to use 5GB of data ...
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Sony Intros Naite Unlocked GreenHeart Phone
Today Sony Ericsson announced the Naite, a phone that it has made available unlocked through Sony Style stores across the U.S. The Naite (pronounced nigh-tay) is a traditional candybar phone and its plastic housing was made with 50% recycled ...
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Alpine Integrates Nokia Phones for Ovi Maps
Alpine today announced a partnership with Nokia to bring, among other features, Ovi Maps to Alpine's car stereo line. The new feature, called Terminal Mode, has been developed as a future standard for interoperability between mobile phones and automobile ...
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