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  • LG KS20 HSDPA Touchscreen Smartphone Gets European Launch

    LG KS20 HSDPA Touchscreen Smartphone Gets European LaunchTrying to kick over some of the Apple party tables before Friday’s iPhone’s launch is LG’s new business smartphone, the LG-KS20.

    Announced at the IFA 2007 in Berlin, the LG-KS20 HSDPA touchscreen smartphone will initially be released in France and Germany with other countries following hot on its trail.

    Evoking memories of the recent ‘Life On Mars‘ TV programme, a pair of dolly birds were roped in to ‘sex up’ the product, with the 70s-style press photos showing the two glampussies lovingly caressing the new phone.
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  • Brits Tap Out One Billion Texts Per Day

    Brits Tap Out One Billion Texts Per DayUs Brits are going SMS supersonic, bashing out over one billion text messages every week, according to new figures from the Mobile Data Association (MDA).

    The number is up a hefty 25% higher from the same time last year, with a single week’s total matching the number of text messages sent during the whole of 1999.
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  • Casual Games Market Growing By 20 Per Cent A Year

    Casual Games Market Growing By 20 Per Cent A YearThe casual game industry is hauling in $2.25 billion a year and expanding by 20 per cent annually, according to the 2007 market report released by the Casual Games Association (CGA).

    The study claims to “shatter” the industry belief that such games appeal mainly to women, but we’re such N00bs we didn’t even know what a casual game was.

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  • EasyNote XS £350 UMPC Launched By Packard Bell

    Packard Bell Launch £350 EasyNote XS UMPC With looks that only a chemically enhanced mother could love, Packard Bell’s EasyNote XS teensy-weensy ultra-mobile PC has been given a UK launch.

    Claiming to offer all the features of a notebook in a really small package, the EasyNote XS packs a 800×480 resolution TFT screen into its cuddly 230x171x29mm dimensions, and weighs in at a bag-untroubling 950g.
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  • Only 1 Per Cent Of Brits Want An iPhone

    Only 1 Per Cent Of Brits Want An iPhoneApple’s well-oiled publicity machine may well have ensured that half the planet knows all about their innovative iPhone, but when it comes to dipping in their pockets and buying the thing, it seems us Brits are distinctly sniffy, with a recent YouGov survey discovering that just one per cent of Britons polled would be buying an iPhone.
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  • T-Mobile Shadow Looks To Take On The Blackberry Pearl

    T-Mobile Shadow Looks To Take On The Blackberry PearlT-Mobile have today announced the Shadow, a low-cost, consumer-focused Windows Mobile 6 smartphone with a slide-out keypad heavily ‘inspired’ by the BlackBerry Pearl.

    Just like the one seen on the hugely popular Pearl, the slide-down keypad is five keys wide with each key offering two letters, with the phone using Tegic’s XT9 predictive software for speeding up text input.
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  • 3 Skypephone Available From 29 October

    3 Skypephone Available From 29 OctoberAs we expected the 3 Skypephone has been announced today.

    It’s a fully-featured 3G Internet phone with Skype built-in, giving Skype to Skype calls and Skype instant messages over the 3G network – all for no payment for calls. To call up the Skype functions, there’s a Skype button in the middle of the handset.

    The handset also has Web access built in and the ability to play music from the 3 MusicStore, giving the ability to play over 500,000 tracks.
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  • Apple Refuses Cash Payments For iPhones

    Apple Refuses Cash Payments For iPhonesIn an intriguing move, Herr Jobs has now dictated that folks without credit cards will not be allowed to purchase an iPhone, declaring that Apple will “no longer accept cash for iPhone purchases.”

    Moreover, Apple will be limiting sales of the hit iPhone to two for each customer in an attempt to preserve stocks for Christmas and stop people reselling their handsets.

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  • Skype/3 Mobile Phone On Monday?

    Skype/3 Mobile Phone On Monday?There’s been rumours around for a while now about Skype and mobile operator 3 getting together to offer a dedicated handset allowing people to use Skype on the move.

    First Some History
    You’ll remember in our world-first review of the 3 X-Series when it was launched in December 2006, we detailed how using Skype on the handset worked.

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  • i-mate Ultimate 9502 And 8502 Smartphones Announced

    i-mate Ultimate 9502 And 8502 Smartphones AnnouncedSmartphone kings i-mate have shuffled out two new high-end Ultimate smartphones, both packing QWERTY keyboards.

    The 9502 packs in more features than a Friday night multi-screen cinema, offering a high resolution touch screen display, tri-band 3.5G, 802.11b and 802.11g Wi-Fi, integrated GPS, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR and quad band GSM with EDGE.

    The beefy handheld features a 2.8″ VGA (640×480) touch screen that slides out Sidekick-stylee, with a 39-key Qwerty keypad lurking below.
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