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Palm is going to introduce a new smartphone, named as centro Centro - it will be the smallest smartphone ever- new addition in Palm family. it was designed as a great phone, messaging, and organizational device, and is incredibly easy to use. It allows users to easily connect with friends, family and co-workers by voice, email or text. And with its full keyboard, Centro makes it easy to quickly and efficiently type text messages and respond to emails, communicating complete thoughts and ideas. Since Centro comes with the Palm OS, it offers all of the great organizer functionality that Palm is renowned for, such as a detailed and integrated Contacts list. Also, the simple and handy calendar makes it easier to manage increasingly busy lives, whether it’s juggling business meetings or keeping track of school activities.

As the newest member of the Palm family, Centro is expected to attract new users to the smartphone category. According to IDC, the smartphone market is shifting to the mass market; U.S. smartphone shipments will grow from 13.8 million in 2007 to 74.4 million in 2011.(3)

“Palm Centro has the power of a broadband smartphone at the price of a standard 12-key phone,” said Ed Colligan, president and chief executive officer of Palm, Inc. “People looking to have all their contacts and calendar at the touch of a button, plus YouTube streaming videos and the Internet can now get it in a small, cool design with the trademark Palm ease of use. If you’re thinking about stepping up to a smartphone, the Palm Centro should be your choice.”

The MobiTrackPRO is a J2ME midlet for GPS navigation on modern cellphones and smartphones. MobiTrack connects a GPS receiver that utilize NMEA output protocol to a cellphone to display GPS data and/or to transmit it to an Internet server. It can be used with any bluetooth GPS receiver such as the HOLUX GR-320 or with GPS receiver connected via cable. MobiTrack is able to display on the cellphone satellite positions, latitude, longitude, altitude, UTC time, HDOP and other information.

Motorola is showcasing its latest WiMAX solution, the CPEi 300, during the WiMAX World USA show in Chicago this week.

The new CPEi 300 Series is a desktop consumer device that provides wireless broadband connectivity; it features one data port for data-centric operations and two analog terminal adaptors (ATAs) so end users can plug in analog phones for VoIP service. The WiMAX CPEi 300 is scheduled to be available to operators in Q4 2007.

“As a global vendor of WiMAX solutions, Motorola has designed a versatile portfolio of access points, customer premises equipment, chipsets, services and devices that addresses the varying wants and needs from operators around the world,” Fred Wright, senior vice president responsible for Motorola’s Home & Networks Mobility WiMAX business, said in a statement. “The CPEi 300 is an entry-level, reduced cost device that provides fixed, wireless broadband connections to bandwidth intensive, rich media applications, voice, data, and video services.”

Nokia 6301 - UMA technology
With UMA technology, the Nokia 6301 benefits operators as well, allowing them to deliver voice and data services to subscribers over WLAN, substantially increasing mobile service availability while decreasing the costs related to network deployment.

Nokia 6301 UMA phone - Orange
Yves Maitre, Senior Vice President, Devices, Orange said “The Nokia 6301 is a stylish new addition to our Unik range of converged fixed and mobile phones. Orange’s Unik offer brings together the convenience of a single phone and tariff at home and on the move and the widest range of UMA handsets. The Nokia 6301, with its sleek candy bar design and attractive stainless steel exterior adds to the appeal of Unik for Orange customers.”

Nokia Desk Stand DT-23 - WLAN connected
The Nokia 6301 is an evolution of the modern monoblock design. Weighing a mere 93 grams and measuring less than 13.1mm thin, the Nokia 6301 is constructed of quality materials. To accompany the UMA technology, the Nokia 6301 also offers consumers a modern suite of features, including a 2 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom and full screen viewfinder. Ideal for home and office, the Nokia 6301 comes with an attractive desk stand, the Nokia Desk Stand DT-23, to hold the phone and keep its battery charged while connected to WLAN.

Nokia 6301 UMA mobile phone - Features
• 2-inch QVGA screen
• USB/PC Synchronization
• Internal user memory of 30MB and 128MB in-box microSD card
• Support for up to 4GB microSD cards
• Voice dialing, voice commands and voice recording
• MP3 player, FM radio
• Integrated hands-free speaker
Nokia 6301 Price & Availability
The Nokia 6301 mobile phone has a talk-time of up to 3.5 hours and a standby time of up to 14 days. The Nokia 6301 is expected to begin shipping to select markets in Europe during the fourth quarter of 2007 with an estimated retail price of 230 EUR before subsidies or taxes.

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AT&T announced that the first Wi-Fi-enabled BlackBerry will be available tomorrow through the carrier’s retail outlets and online stores. Set to launch Sept. 20, the BlackBerry 8820 is Research in Motion’s first Wi-Fi-capable handset.

“The new BlackBerry 8820 builds on AT&T’s leading domestic and international coverage footprint by giving customers the ability to link with their company’s wireless campus network or access e-mail and browse the Web at Wi-Fi hotspots,” Jeff Bradley, senior vice president of marketing and operations for AT&T’s wireless unit, said in a statement. “That makes the BlackBerry 8820 from AT&T an exceptional world phone for global use by business customers and individuals alike.”

As far as other voice features, the RIM BlackBerry 8820 offers a speakerphone, voice-activated dialing, smart dialing, conference calling, speed dial, and world roaming. The phone book is limited only by the available memory (the SIM card holds an additional 250 contacts), offering room in each entry for eight phone numbers, e-mail addresses, work and home address, job title, and more. For caller ID purposes, you can assign a photo to a contact as well to a group category, business or personal. Another AT&T-specific offering is push-to-talk capabilities. Plans start at $9.99 per month, and with it, you can instantly see the availability of your contacts before calling them and make individual or group PTT calls.The RIM BlackBerry 8820 is rated for 5 hours of talk time and up to 22 days of standby time.

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Nokia today bolstered its Nokia Eseries portfolio of business devices with the introduction of the new Nokia E51 device. The slim and elegant Nokia E51 adds greater simplicity, faster access and tighter integration to key applications, while maintaining the smartphone capabilities and stylish design that customers have come to expect in a Nokia Eseries device. An all-round device, Nokia E51 is ideal for business professionals who require reliable, real-time access to business and people, need to manage time effectively and value a single device that is easy to set up, maintain and use. Nokia E51 users with Nokia mobility solutions can experience mobile telephony, mobile email and messaging, office phone functionality, and cost savings - with the convenience of one phone number, one voice mailbox, one dial plan - in a single device.

Some of the key features of the Nokia E51 phone are:

Nokia announced that it plans to acquire Enpocket, a mobile advertising firm based in Boston. Enpocket’s technology platform allows for mobile advertising campaign management and delivery across several formats including SMS, MMS and mobile Internet advertising. Nokia did not disclose the financial details of the deal, but it is seen as a move into the mobile advertising market, which is expected to become increasingly lucrative in the coming years as mobile companies develop Internet services.

“Effective interactive advertising on the mobile device can create tremendous value for the mobile industry while bringing new Internet services to people around the world,” said Enpocket president and CEO, Mike Baker, in a statement from Nokia.

“Nokia has already announced its intention to be a leading company in consumer Internet services and we believe that mobile advertising will be an important element in monetizing those services for our customers and partners,” said Tero Ojanperä, chief technology officer for Nokia in the same statement.

Source: http://www.wirelessweek.com/Article-News@2_September17_2007.aspx

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Holy Quran program on Pocket PCs with two kinds of Tafseer and English translation

The world’s first Holy Quran program on Pocket PC devices. The software comes with Arabic-Latin soft keyboard.

The Pocket Quran has the following features:

• High quality display with “Othmanic” typeset.
• A multilingual interface Arabic and English are included.
• Convenient horizontal, and vertical Quran display.
• Tafseer Al Jalalin and Al-Muyassar.
• A searchable English translation for the meanings.
• Advanced search capabilities, including search for all “word root” derivatives, and word highlight.
• Audio Quran recitations, with full synchronization with Quran text display (Only sample audio files are included). You will use the included desktop Audio Manager to download the audio files.
• The Program provides two groups of Quran audio files. You may select the high quality (the full Quran requires 256MB storage), or the medium quality (the full Quran requires 128MB storage).
• You can add and delete up to ten bookmarks.
• With a single tap on a verse you get Juza informaion. Tapping the Hezb mark you get additional Hezb information.
• Long tap on a verse will start reciting from the tapped verse.
• Approved by Al-Azhar Al-Sharif on 28-5-2003.

Pocket Quran also includes the following features:

• Arabic handwriting recognition of numerals and isolated characters (Arabic Graffiti).
• Arabic on-screen keyboard.
• Arabic user guide inside Pocket Explorer

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Palm Europe announced the new Treo 500v smartphone, a handset combining high-speed communications with multimedia capabilities.

The Treo 500 runs on Windows Mobile 6, comes with a full keyboard, large screen, video streaming capability and comprehensive multi-messaging functionality including IM, SMS, e-mail and voice functions. The new Palm handset is 3G/UMTS compatible, includes Bluetooth and a 2-megapixel camera.

It initially will be available through Vodafone in Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, the U.K. and for Vodacom customers in South Africa beginning in October.

John Hartnett, senior vice president of Global Markets and Windows Business Unit at Palm, said in a statement: “We are pleased to be one of the first partners to provide an Internet-ready Vodafone live! smartphone. The Treo 500v is priced to enable a broader audience to experience the Internet and e-mail on the go.”

The Treo 500v will not be available in the United States, although rumor has it that Palm is planning new devices for the North American market to be announced later this year.

Apple announced that it has sold its 1-millionth iPhone. The company had predicted it would sell 1 million handsets by the end of the third quarter, and with weeks to spare, Apple says it has met its goal.

The company has said it hopes to sell 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008.

Meanwhile, according to a report in BusinessWeek, Apple may be looking to bid at the FCC’s upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction. Rumors mostly have been circulating about Google’s possible entrance into the wireless market via the spectrum auction, but BusinessWeek says that two sources are claiming that CEO Steve Jobs has studied the possibility of bidding in the auction.

The report continues to say that at least one source told the magazine that Apple was thinking that the hassles of running a national network would not outweigh the profits to be gained from no longer having to partner with network operators. The magazine’s other source seemed to think that Apple was still in favor of the benefits of dropping carrier partners.

HP announced two new handsets yesterday, as the company looks to expand its handheld offerings into the mobile phone market.

First is the iPAQ 600 Series Business Navigator, HP’s second cell phone, a 3G handset using a traditional 12-key keypad, which also includes a navigation wheel, a 3 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, including VoIP capabilities and navigational features including 3-D maps. HP has not yet announced pricing or availability, but did say the phone should be available by the end of the year and would be compatible with most U.S. carriers.

The company also announced the iPAQ 900 Series Business Messenger, a smart phone with a full keyboard that comes with many of the same features of the 600 series, including Windows Mobile 6, Wi-Fi capabilities, Bluetooth, a 3 megapixel camera and large display.

Features of the HP iPAQ smartphones:

source: http://www.wirelessweek.com/Article-News@2_September06_2007.aspx

The 6120 Classic is a classic-looking Nokia finished with attractive chromed highlights (available in black, white and pink). It’s a slimline phone with a large screen, and an easy-to-use keypad and 5-way navigation key. Like the very popular 6300, it gives the impression of an old-fashioned Nokia (which is a good thing) as if the company has learned some lessons and is getting back to what it used to do so well - making great phones that do just what you want.Technorati Profile

Microsoft said that it was “not unreasonable” to speculate that the company could introduce a smartphone based on its Zune digital music player, in direct competition with Apple’s iPhone.

Since Microsoft first announced its Zune digital music player, the idea of a converged Zune/smartphone product has been the topic of speculation. Initially the company responded that a Zune phone was definitely in the works, but then earlier this year CEO Steve Ballmer said that a Zune phone was not on the company’s planning table, but that it could add more music and gaming functions to its Windows Mobile platform.

Currently Microsoft’s mobile phone focus has been primarily on providing its platform, Window’s Mobile, to handset manufacturers, but the company said that, going forward, integrating device and software production might make sense.

Source:http://www.wirelessweek.com/Article-News@2_September05_2007.aspx