PhoneMag Week in Review – Week 11 2009




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There have been a few delays and reports, rumors and stories. Nevertheless, the Sprint Palm Treo Pro is now on sale for $199. Listed through the Sprint website for just $199 after a $250 ‘Instant Saving’ and $100 Mail-in Rebate, the phone is available under a 2 year contract.

The slim 15mm, touch sensitive flip i9 has been released by Motorola. Offered now through Sprint and previously through Boost Mobile. The Motorola Stature i9 is available for $199 (as now available through Sprint) after $200 of savings and rebates if purchased on a 2 year agreement.

Users of the T-Mobile BlackBerry Pearl 8120 are now able to upgrade their devices to BlackBerry OS version 4.5. The feature list for 4.5 include the addition of web, performance, email and calendar features.

South by Southwest Conference (SXSW) Attendees have been experiencing connectivity difficulties on AT&T’s 3G network. The “unprecedented” demand may have been the result of just that many people showing up with 3G iPhones.

Becoming more of a virtual ‘everything’, the mobile device is taking over the world. Market researcher comScore states that US residents using mobile devices to access information has doubled since last year.

Apple has just presented a list of new features you can expected with its new iPhone 3.0 software updates. Although background process is still not supported, iPhone or iPod Touch users are finally getting Cut, Copy & Paste, MMS, Spotlight Search, Stereo A2DP Bluetooth, shake to shuffle, syncing Notes to the Mac/PC and Push notifications.

A budget friendly phone, the Motorola EM330 was just released by AT&T! All this happening at the same time as iPhone was off talking about everything ‘3.0′. Coinciding with ‘the’ Apple event and South by Southwest conference (SXSW), Motorola unveiled a new beauty.

Nokia has been looking at the books and the books don’t lie. Citing a slowing in demand for products, 1,700 jobs many soon be cut. The Company has approximately 128,445 employees worldwide.

Now, BlackBerry gets another choice from Pandora. Pandora allows users to create personalized “stations” by using the names of a favorite artists, songs or genres. The service then matches similar musical selections with users’ original search.

It is not really a surprise that anyone finding it hard over the last few months may consider moving on in a relationship. This is now going beyond a need for ‘my own space’ to one of extreme financial loss for Sony Ericsson.

It was originally thought to be a mistake when a predicted smartphone was not present at the Mobile World Congress. Now, it is believed that Dell rethought the project due to “lack of carrier interest.”

YouTube has officially released a native S60 client application! The app will be compatible with most S60 3rd Edition phones. Appearing to have been optimised for QVGA screen resolution, the video quality is quite good.

Available through Verizon Wireless, the Samsung Trance will be hitting the stores in the next few months. Reports suggest the model will be replacing the Juke. The phone features touch and context sensitive keys for navigation and media playback, microSDHC expansion slot, a 3.5mm headphone jack, 1.3 megapixel camera with video recorder, speakerphone, and 1GB of internal memory.

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