Handsets
NTT Docomo launches movie creation service
NTT Docomo has launched a new service for movie creation, ‘Keitaide Dougawo Tsukurou’, which allows its users to compose and edit their own media content with the ability to create themes, tell stories and share with their friends by Ubitus Cloud Computing platform. Ubitus media effects solution is an on-the-fly media cloud processing and delivery [...]
Qualcomm samples new smartphone chipset family
Qualcomm, a developer of wireless technologies, products and services, is sampling a new smartphone chipset family. The MSM7x30 family lays emphasis on multimedia performance, supporting high-definition video recording and playback, improved graphics with dedicated 2D and 3D cores, and an overall chip design optimised for a responsive Web experience. The company claims that its MSM7x30 [...]
Intrinsyc selects Inrix traffic information for Destinator 9 GPS Navigation
Inrix, a provider of traffic services, has announced an agreement with Intrinsyc Software International, a provider of software solutions for mobile and embedded devices to provide real-time traffic flow and incident information for the company’s upcoming iPhone Destinator 9 GPS Navigation app. Through crowdsourced real-time traffic network and its data fusion engine, Inrix helps Destinator [...]
Palm unveils ‘Artist Series’ Pixi phone
Palm has introduced the Palm Pixi phone – the second handset in its webOS range – for ‘intuitive and personal communication’. It is scheduled to be available exclusively from Sprint before Christmas. In addition to linking information from Google, Facebook and Exchange ActiveSync, Palm Pixi adds Yahoo and LinkedIn integration to Palm Synergy and assembles [...]
Rubberduck Media Lab launches mobile TV service for O2
Rubberduck Media Lab, a provider of mobile TV and video services, has now launched a mobile TV and video service for Telefonica O2 Ireland. Under the terms of the agreement, Rubberduck Media Lab is providing a completely outsourced mobile TV service to Telefonica O2 Ireland including content acquisition and provision as well as technical support [...]
Microsoft to deliver Windows phones
Microsoft has announced that Windows phones will be widely available at retail stores worldwide on 6 October 2009. The company said the new phones will be the first to feature Windows Mobile 6.5, the latest version of Microsoft’s mobile phone software, and will seek to deliver new customer experiences through an improved user interface and [...]
BlackBerry App World launched in Latin America
Research In Motion (RIM) recently announced that BlackBerry App World is now available to BlackBerry smartphone users in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Venezuela, with more Latin American country launches to follow. The new on-device application is available for BlackBerry smartphones that include a trackball, touch-sensitive trackpad or touch-screen running BlackBerry device software version 4.2 [...]
BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone to be launched in Spain
Orange and Research In Motion (RIM) recently announced the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone, a new addition to the BlackBerry Curve series of smartphones. The smartphone provides mobile access to e-mail, messaging (IM, SMS, MMS) and popular social networking sites (including Facebook and MySpace) and features a tactile full-QWERTY keyboard for comfortable typing. It also [...]
RIM launches BlackBerry Curve 8520 in France
Research In Motion (RIM) has announced the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone for customers in France. The smartphone provides mobile access to e-mail, messaging (IM, SMS, MMS) and social networking sites (including Facebook® and MySpace) and features a tactile full-Azerty keyboard for comfortable typing. It also features multimedia capabilities and access to music, games and [...]
Cable&Wireless launches BlackBerry solution in UK
Cable&Wireless Worldwide and Research In Motion (RIM) have announced the availability of the BlackBerry solution to Cable&Wireless customers in the UK. The BlackBerry solution brings together smartphones, software and services to allow Cable&Wireless customers in the UK wireless access to e-mail, phone, messaging, social networking, calendar, web, multimedia and other business and lifestyle applications. RIM [...]
