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Samsung Teams Up With Beyonce for Ultra Music SGH-F300
Samsung Electronics announced the collaboration of its multimedia phone Ultra Music SGH-F300 with Beyonce, world’s renowned actress and artist. Samsung and Beyonce will participate in TV commercials, advertisements, global concert tours, and other co-promotional activities. Samsung’s Ultra Music TV commercial, starring Beyonce, will kick off the campaign globally in April, starting from Europe and CIS…
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NTT DoCoMo Unveils Raku-Raku PHONE Basic Handset
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and its eight regional subsidiaries unveiled today Raku-Raku PHONE Basic, the newest handset in the Raku-Raku PHONE series for people interested primarily in user-friendly handsets equipped with basic functions. The model boasts an attractive design created by Kenya Hara, renowned graphic designer and art director of popular brand less goods manufacturer Muji,…
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Verizon launches mobile phone TV programs in U.S.
America’s second-largest cell phone provider Verizon Wireless on Thursday announced it has launched the country’s first commercial mobile television service. With the launch of this eagerly awaited service U.S. cell phone users in 20 states can now view full-length television programs with picture quality similar to regular TV for 15 U.S. dollars a month. The…
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Samsung develops world’s slimmest LCD panel for mobile phones
Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. Korea has developed the world’s slimmest LCD panel measuring only 0.74 mm in thickness. In the recent trend for slimmer mobile phones, manufactures are increasingly reducing the thickness of compact LCD panels. The latest panel is a 2.3-inch model with a resolution of 320 x 240. It features a luminance of…
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NXP delivers smallest ULPI Hi-Speed USB transceivers for mobile phones
NXP Semiconductors today announced availability of its new generation UTMI+ Low-Pin Interface (ULPI) Hi-Speed USB transceivers, developed specifically for mobile phone designs. With the smallest transceiver in the family measuring in at 2.2 x 2.25 x 0.6 mm, in a 0.4 mm ball pitch, NXP’s transceiver solutions are the smallest in the market and address…
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The end of BenQ Mobile
The mobile phone manufacturer BenQ Mobile, which at one time employed more than 3000 people in Germany, will be broken up and liquidated. Talks with the last party interested in taking over the company had failed. The failed mobile company’s physical properties, including office equipment, computers, furniture, and even plants, will be sold on eBay,…
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LG canU701D phone sold out within 5 minutes
LG Telecom announced that their CAN U DMB handset model: canU701D was sold out within 2 hours of its launch in Korea. LG has reserved 160 pieces of these exclusive handsets for sale on the first day. All these sets were sold within 2 hours while few sets with a particular artist painting was sold…
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Sharp SH903iTV Mobile Phone
Sharp Japan has launched a cute mobile phone in Japan compatible with the terrestrial digital broadcast service. The Sharp mobile SH903iTV with FOMA terminal (FOMA, officially short for Freedom of Mobile Multimedia Access, is the brand name for the 3G services being offered by Japanese mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo) comes with a 3.0 inch…
