Email friendly Nokia E75 starts shipping
Nokia E75, the only Eseries slider to come with a full QWERTY keyboard, is now shipping and customers should be able to find it in stores starting this week.
The E75 is the first smartphone to come with Nokia Messaging – the service that provides easy access to corporate email (Mail for Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes [...]
LG Rumor2 officially announced by Sprint; priced at $50 on contract
We knew the second-generation LG Rumor was coming to Sprint, and all we needed was an official announcement – which obviously came today.
The new phone is called LG Rumor2 and Sprint will sell it for $49.99, after a $50 mail-in rebate and the signing of a new 2-yr contract agreement.
Like the old Rumor, Rumor2 is [...]
RIM to offer BlackBerry support for Nokia phones
In the summer of 2008, when Nokia unveiled that it would no longer offer support for BlackBerry Connect on its S60 smartphones, many Nokia users were not quite happy about it. Especially those who use corporate email.
Sure, Nokia partnered with IBM and Microsoft for corporate email, and it also launched its own messaging service, [...]
IBM Lotus email on Nokia S60 smartphones, starting December
IBM Lotus Notes, the email client-sever said to have around 140 million licensed users from all over the world, will soon be supported on a large number of Nokia’s S60 smartphones, including all the S60 3rd Edition ones (yes, the N96 Bruce Lee special edition too).
This means that more than 80 million users – [...]
Nokia to sell off security appliances business, concentrate on consumers
After nearly two years of struggling in that front, Nokia has decided to sell off its security appliances business to an unnamed financial investor to focus their work on the consumer market.
Nokia will allocate more of its time on the development and sales of corporate phones while leaving business segment bigwigs such as Microsoft, [...]
Wi-Fi to replace Bluetooth?
Soon after the introduction of Bluetooth protocol, it became the standard for connecting various low-power devices such as headsets or computer mice together. Some of the advantages of this wireless protocol include low power usage and simple discovery of new peripherals.
Wi-Fi might be an alternative though. Ozmo Devices have developed a technology called Wi-Fi PAN [...]
Motorola hopes to outshine RIM’s BlackBerry with Good 6.0
Motorola recently announced the forthcoming launch of Good Mobility Suite version 6.0, which brings updates to the service that include “a new managed-service virtual private network (VPN) as well as an enhanced device management and security platform,” and hopes to outperform RIM’s BlackBerry with it.
According to Motorola, the new Good Mobile Connection is far better [...]
Apple Buys P.A. Semi CPU Designers
Apple has shocked people in the technology world today by buying P.A. Semi for $278 million.
For those of you who are not already aware, P.A. Semi is a fabless chip designer, one that specializes in low power PowerPC processors.
Computer World reports that:
P.A. Semi was in the running as Apple’s processor of choice three years [...]
IBM Launch of New Mobile Web Initiative
Reported a few hours ago by IBM at the 10th anniversary commemoration of IBM’s India Research Lab, there is a new initiative with the purpose of bringing even more features and functions to mobile devices.
As MobileTech News informed us:
The new IBM Research program will entail a number of efforts to bring simple, easy-to-use services to [...]
Motorola is dumping Mobile phone division
Motorola has just issued a press release that it’s:
“…exploring the structural and strategic realignment of its businesses to better equip its Mobile Devices business to recapture global market leadership and to enhance shareholder value. The company’s alternatives may include the separation of Mobile Devices from its other businesses in order to permit each business [...]