Category Archives: Telecommunications

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Verizon’s $5 Landline Offer

Interested in getting a landline service that will only cost you $5 a month? How about a phone service that will only cost $10 a month? Well, Verizon is actually coming up with the idea as we speak. The folks over there say that since cell phones have been coming around, people don’t really mind [...]

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HTC’s Magic: Another Android Phone

See that neat looking white gadget? That’s basically the second Google Android-powered phone since the release of T-Mobile’s G1. This is the newest of T-Mobile Android phones on the market the difference is that this one boasts itself as a slimmer and perhaps more advanced class to the former. For one thing, the HTC’s Magic [...]

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Palm Pre at your Fingertips

Nobody has said anything about when the Palm Pre Smartphone is coming out yet, but it definitely has people waiting for the announcement. Surely, the classic Palm OS Models should be replaced with something more contemporary and new for the modern day user, and the Palm Pre might just be the thing. At 3.9 inches [...]

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Motorola’s Eco-phone: Renew

Motorola’s green phone is called “Renew”, and it’s generally got a lot of nice features included. Of course, this is one of the first of its kind, being a phone designed to carry an aura of environmental friendliness to it, so it has its ups and downs to it. But when it came to eco-friendliness, [...]

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Samsung’s Solar Powered Phone

Talk about an earth-friendly phone – Samsung wasn’t kidding about it when they made the “Blue Earth”. While Motorola was able to make the first phone from recycled water bottles, the Blue Earth is the first ever solar-powered touch screen handset. This little green gizmo, like its Motorola counterpart, is literally made out of the [...]

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Nokia N97: Coming Soon

It’s almost the end of the year but some companies just won’t stop giving away brand new toys to play with. Nokia is one of them, and they’ve recently announced that the brand new N97 is coming out this 2009. This will be the second release from Nokia that takes a shot at the touch [...]

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Gmail Gives Away Your Location

 Following the release of Google Latitude last week, Google has announced yet another function that some people are going to love, and others are going to despise. As we all know, email is already encapsulated with a time/date stamp to indicate when the message was created, and now it will even be possible to find [...]

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LG Arena KM900 is now official

   One product that is expected to gain attention at the Mobile World Congress later this month is the LG Arena KM900. It is expected to present a number of features, including a touch-based screen with 3D rendered graphics, and a menu system that is reported to be very intuitive.   Some of the listed features [...]

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Intel Preparing For Android Netbooks

As Google’s Android mobile operating system gains more and more attention from netbook manufacturers, even chip makers are said to be watching the results. Android has already been ported out of its native smartphone niche onto netbooks and UMPCs of various types, and recent rumors say that 2009 will see an abundance of interest, even [...]

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Optus Android phone expected shortly

    Mobile phone manufacturer HTC is believed to be planning an Australian launch of a mobile handset based on Google’s Android platform, with Optus and possibly other carriers to support the device. The plans could be revealed as early as this week, ZDNet.com.au believes, with suggestions of Optus’ involvement coming from multiple sources over [...]

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