People who miss the absent of N-Gage, Nokia’s arm in gaming phone form, now can use Nokia N81 (and its 8 GB variant) to play their favorite games. Those handsets will have exclusive access to the pre-release version of the N-Gage application and one or more N-Gage games. The release is scheduled this December 20. [...]
Advertising is now reaching mobile sector. As new media, not many advertising service has been implemented successfully. Among all countries surveyed, Korea and Japan, as predicted, take in lead in this area. According to ABI Research, the total value of all mobile advertising and marketing will reach $1.2 billion in Japan and $684 million in [...]
As Japan is one of the largest Apple market, Steve Jobs finds out big opportunity for iPhone to be brought in. Seems the idea will come true in near future. Apple seeks for partner in either DoCoMo or Softbank.
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Korean manufacturer, LG, launched 2 new phones. Both are categorized as music phones. The first one is Rhapsody LB3300. Another sliding phone, it has touch wheel for music navigation, music lyrics playback capability, and has a special Bluetooth headset set-up, that allows two persons to listen to music simultaneously.
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SteamIron, claimed to be the true Real Time Strategy (RTS) mobile games, will be launched next January 2008 for Korean market. The game will feature multiplayer RTS game for 3G handsets, short and fast-pace game session, and real time 1-vs-1. It is created by Singaporean based studio, Mikoishi.
Source: Official Site via the Final Home
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Toshiba plan to unveil its latest 920T phone. It will be a 3G sliding phone and equipped with built-in 1 GB memory. Another features are 1seg support, 3.24 megapixels camera, GPS function, and up to 5.3 hours of recording time. The phone will only available in Japan market.
Source: aving
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In their latest report, entitled “Mobile WiMAX: Global Opportunities, Strategies & Forecasts, 2007-2013″, Juniper Research forecasts that Mobile WiMAX will be subscribed by 80 million people within 5 years. The main issue for this success story are availability of suitable devices and service differentiation.
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Nokia is working on concept to make our life better (and easier). They plan to use photo recognition for shopping, reading menu, and any information required. The idea is to use cameraphones to take pictures of something and send them to the web, and then receive information back on the object.
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Yes. You must have been familiar with the marked and scratch issue for the screen. One simple solution is to apply screen protector. But it is going to be more cost to spend. Sony Ericsson, patented nice idea on how screen can have self-cleaning ability.
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Mobile email application maker, Momail, has achieved more than 1000 mobile phones supported, 4 times more than closest competitor. “We estimate that more than 300 million mobile phones will be sold worldwide this quarter: In UK alone, approximately 6 million handsets will be sold, and Momail functions on almost all of them”, says Roger Grönberg, [...]
