Mobility Phones – Mobile Phones

Calling on your mobile phone from abroad doesn't have to be expensive in the upcoming winter holiday and ski season. For more than a year Vodafone has shown the way with its innovative roaming tariff "Travel Promise", thus advancing the roaming tariff competition. This allows Vodafone customers to place a call in 20 foreign Vodafone networks world-wide at the same price per minute they would have to pay at home. The only additional charge is a one-time charge of Euro 0.75 per call. Six million travel-happy Vodafone customers have already used this transparent and inexpensive tariff when calling from abroad without hassle - no matter ...

Cingular Wireless wants its customers to know that its Richmond location's staff is ready and willing to help them with all their wireless needs -- but in unusual quarters. The store, formerly located at 830 Eastern Bypass, is moving into a trailer at the old Burger King lot at 470 Eastern Bypass, across from the new McDonald's, as the new 3,500 sq. foot Cingular store is being built on that same site.Larry Fox, director of sales for the region, says, "We will have a full staff on hand to help our customers and a complete array of Cingular's innovative phones, PDAs, and accessories for them ...

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG, AEX:PHI) announced today that it has completed the cancellation of in total 86,472,494 shares which have been acquired pursuant to the share repurchase program the Company initiated in July 2006. All shares were acquired during the period starting July 17, 2006 up to and including December 19, 2006 at an average repurchase price of EUR 27.37 per share. As such, Philips has completed approximately EUR 2,367 million of the EUR 4 billion return to shareholders announced on August 3, 2006. In connection with this share capital reduction, Philips has notified the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) that it no longer ...

MOTORAZR scores a hat-trick with DoCoMo's bestselling 7 series phone in Black, Silver, and Hot pink  David Beckham joined Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) in Tokyo today to formally kick off sales of Motorola's trend-setting MOTORAZR (M702iS) handset with DoCoMo in Japan. Sporting the hot new device, the football icon popped up at ersatz appearances around Tokyo, with Japan's most stylish mobile device, MOTORAZR. Appearing with leading Japanese sportscaster Tomoaki Ogura on Best Moments in Sports 2006, Fuji-TV's highly rated year end sports program, Beckham showed the MOTORAZR in each of its three colors. In an exclusive announcement, the soccer icon also unveiled a one-of-a-kind customized “MOTORAZR tattoo ...

Throughout this year, when Cingular customers talked, people listened, and talked, and listened, back and forth, on and on and on and on. They talked so much that, for the first time, Cingular today said it expects to carry more than 500 billion minutes-of-use (MOU) on its network this year.That's a lot of gabbing. But why so much chatter? Cingular believes the more than $13 billion dollar network investment it made over the past two years to enhance the quality and coverage of its Allover Network is the cause of all the talk by its customers. The network investment gave customers access to more than 45,000 ...

Pantech Group, the leading Korean handset manufacturer, has announced the launch of IM-S150, a new compact handset accepting the Korean traditional patterns on the surface as part of its design innovation initiatives.   The new phone is likely to strongly appeal to the trend-conscious customers for its stylish and compact design. The IM-S150 is 7.8cm in height and 3.7cm in width and weighs only 80g. Pantech creates the finest phone incorporating the Korean original patterns into such a compact handset.    Man Gi Kim, the spokesman of Pantech Group said, “Design has become one of the key factors to success in ...

 Windows Vista, the new computer operating system that Microsoft Corp. is touting as its most secure ever, contains a programming flaw that might let hackers gain full control of vulnerable computers. Microsoft and independent security researchers, however, tried to play down the risk from the flaw, which was disclosed on a Russian site recently and is apparently the first affecting the new Vista system released to larger businesses in late November. The software company said it was investigating the threat but found so far that a hacker must already have access to the vulnerable computer in order to execute an attack. That could occur if someone is actually ...

BenQ Corporation (“BenQ” or the “Company”) today announces that it has sold a 31.55% equity stake in the Company’s affiliate, Airoha Technology Corp. (“Airoha”), to MediaTek Inc.(“MediaTek”) for NT$606 million in cash. Following this transaction, MediaTek will become the single largest shareholder of Airoha.Airoha Technology Corp. is a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets RF/mixed signal IC solutions for wireless applications. This strategic move will benefit BenQ, Airoha and MediaTek as the synergy it creates will provide a better platform for the development and integration of handset chipsets.

Samsung brings ultra HSDPA power to the palm of your hand  Samsung Electronics, a leading provider and innovator of mobile phones, launches the Ultra Edition 13.8 (Model: SGH-Z720). The Ultra Edition 13.8 (Z720) is the thinnest HSDPA slide-up mobile with a slim 13.8mm profile. It offers the latest multimedia features and the best of mobility in a fast and slender design. Powered by High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) for data transmission speeds at 1.8 Mbps - up to six times faster than 3G UMTS technology – the Ultra Edition 13.8 (Z720 ) enables mobile users to access more files and provides greater ...

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced that it has developed the industry's first one gigabit (Gb) Mobile DRAM (dynamic random access memory) for mobile products, using 80nm process technology. The new chip, also known as low-power DDR (double data rate) or synchronous DRAM , will be more cost effective than other high density mobile solutions and used for a wide range of advanced handset applications as well as for digital still cameras, portable media players and portable gaming products. The monolithic 1Gb Mobile DRAM is a highly competitive choice for mobile applications over the double-die stack, 1Gb memory solution widely used ...

Motorola today announced availability of the PrPMC6001, the company’s fastest Processor PMC module. The PrPMC6001 is designed to enable original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to boost their platform compute and I/O performance while maintaining excellent power and thermal characteristics. The power and versatility of Motorola’s PrPMC6001 may enable engineers that are designing leading-edge pervasive computing and embedded network control and signal processing applications, such as flight computers, software defined radio, and command, control and communications systems, to quickly and easily add processing power. Featuring a Freescale MPC7448 PowerPC® G4 architecture processor running at speeds of up to 1.4 GHz, the PrPMC6001 uses an integrated system controller to give ...

Hot on the heels of a new partnership with Nintendo to offer the Opera Web browser for the Wii game console, Opera has announced plans to put its browser on Samsung phones. For a browser that has a small footprint, Opera Mobile packs a lot of features, including two rendering modes ("Fit To Screen" and "Desktop Display"); small buttons and scrollbars that leave space for a Web site's content; and a customizable homepage that has a built-in search bar plus a list of the user's 10 favorite Web sites. But that's just the start. Opera Mobile offers keypad shortcuts that users can customize; an autocomplete function for ...

Zi Corporation, a leading provider of intelligent interface solutions, today announced that it has signed a licensing agreement with ACCESS Systems Americas, Inc. (formerly PalmSource, Inc.) to pre-integrate eZiText predictive text technology and Decuma handwriting recognition technology into the ACCESS Linux Platform. ACCESS is a global company providing leading technology, software products, and platforms for web browsing, mobile phones, wireless handhelds and other networked devices. Under the terms of the agreement, ACCESS has chosen to pre-integrate Zi Corporation's eZiText and Decuma technologies into the ACCESS Linux Platform, the Company's fully integrated, open, flexible and commercial grade Linux-based platform designed for smartphones and mobile devices. This pre-integration ...

Today Microsoft® and Amoi Electronics unveiled four new Microsoft Windows Mobile® 5.0 based smartphones running the Texas Instruments OMAPV1030 EDGE chipset. Amoi Electronics is the first device maker to launch smartphones based on this lower-cost, high-performance chipset architecture, previously only available for feature phones, and intends to offer these devices at lower price points than ever seen before in the China market.Previously, smartphones running on a robust operating system such as Microsoft Windows Mobile required a more expensive dual-core chipset to power the rich user interface, data networking and additional personal and business applications. This new single-core solution achieves through higher levels of integration, more ...

Next-Generation Headset Combines Advanced, Award-Winning Technology and Industrial Design for Clearer, More Comfortable Conversations Noise is nothing with the new Jawbone Bluetooth headset, which is available exclusively from Cingular Wireless--just in time for the holidays. Aliph, a leading developer of mobile audio products that deliver exceptional quality in any environment, and Cingular Wireless, the nation's largest wireless carrier, today introduced the new Jawbone headset for Bluetooth mobile phones. Jawbone^™ is the first adaptive Bluetooth headset with Noise Shield^® technology, which virtually eliminates background noise so calls are clearer. Jawbone's audio performance is further enhanced by an award-winning design by internationally acclaimed product designer Yves Béhar, which maximizes ...

Nokia has won a major GSM/GPRS/EDGE network expansion contract from leading Russian operator MegaFon that will see it deliver both radio and core equipment as well as a range of services, helping MegaFon deliver advanced mobile solutions to its fast-growing subscriber base. The value of the agreement is over EUR 320 million, and equipment deliveries have already begun.