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How to prevent cellphone theft

Watch out! Thieves are everywhere … Have you ever experiencing a theft? I personally did. Poor me. It was happened to my lovely blue Nokia 3315 a couple years ago in a city bus at Jogjakarta, Indonesia. Hmmm, I was so sad at that time. Yes, so much till I feel that my tears [...]

Samsung plan to open 300 new stores in India

Amir Khan will work even harder if Samsung does open its 300 new stores.   India, India, and India. In this post I will tell you a short report from Cellular News. It is about Samsung which want to add 300 more retail outlets in India by this year-end. At this present time, Samsung had opened 100 exclusive franchise [...]

LG Rally for Music gives you $15.000

Get $15.000 and be famous. LG hold yet another contest called LG Rally for Music. Previously, this 5th largest mobile phone manufacturer had held a contest to celebrate Marvel’s hero Iron Man with its insidethesuite.com. Now, unlike the late contest which gave contestants with 18 karats $2000+ Iron Man mobile phone, this music contest will present just [...]

Sharia law meet mobile phone insurance

Probably I want to buy this service too. I got a lot of attack here! Foneshield, mobile phone insurance provider based in London, UK will set a milestone in the history of European mobile phone. This three-years old company want to launch their new product that meets the standards of Islam’s sharia law in coming weeks. For [...]

China under attack!

Hey, bad news for Asian: There are eight text message spam for person per week. Within hundred of millions mobile phone users (about 555 million), China undoubtfully is the perfect target for spam. Especially the text message spam. Tech Herald reports today via AP that the spam is containing commercial message which was sent to [...]

ECS injects Asus Eee with 3.5G

Where can I buy it? Be cool man. I’m not blogging on what you’re head are think of. This is probably higher than what you expect. Can you imagine using an Asus Eee laptop with HSDPA and HSUPA ability (you can’t get into 3GWeek if you were just a laptop). If you can’t do it, [...]

In China 555 (million) means …

You guess it; oh that’s one of the product from British American Tobacco. Huuuuu .. you make a mistakes. That number is the sum of all mobile users in China. A big number isn’t? Yup, about 41.72% of China’s total population (counting to 133.000.000.000). Probably, the number won’t have been so big like this if the [...]

Wanna beat Tiger Woods? Try this gadget!

Korean company, Korea Telecom Freetel, have just launched a series of GPS enabled mobile phone special for golfer in Korea. Wanna proof don’t you? This gadget stores 250 golf course in Korea. That’s a lot of park. I can’t imagine if you play them all. This pricey (I bet you know whose the [...]

Vodafone offers bundling 3G TV

Vodafone offers bundling 3G services as an unlimitted usage option to its subscribers. Vodafone has introduced what it says is Australia’s biggest mobile TV and music offering on Vodafone live! with 3G. In all there are 21 live and made for mobile TV channels to watch. Vodafone live! with 3G customers can now get access to [...]

Cellular Reaches 2,5 Billion Lines

Geekzone reported a very interesting statictic on cellular industry milestones. Mobile phone industry has become a spectacular industry: it took 20 years to reach 1 billion connections, three years to reach 2 billion connections and is on target to reach its third billion in a period of just over two years. According to estimates from Wireless [...]
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