T-Mobile turned on its growing 3G network in San Francisco on Tuesday. The Bay Area is the 14th market to get 3G service, and (naturally) it’s one addition that excites us. By the end of the year, the carrier has said it hopes to expand to 27 cities, but …

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Sprint Music Store to cancel PC song downloads.
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After October 15, 2008, Sprint customers will no longer be able to download songs to their PC from the Sprint Music Store. Right now if you purchase a song over-the-air from the Sprint Music Store to your mobile handset, a …

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Our friend Jens Chr Brynildsen, a Flash expert who maintains a number of resources for the standard including Flash Magazine, has reportedly confirmed with Adobe Systems’ senior director of engineering, Paul Betlem, that Flash is coming to the iPhone. However, Betlem says that “Apple calls the shots as to when …

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Samsung's new U430
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Almost a year after it gave us the Samsung SCH-U410, Verizon Wireless rolled out a successor model with the Samsung SCH-U430. Announced Tuesday and available immediately, the SCH-U430 has a standard flip phone design in basic black. On the exterior you’ll also …

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The Samsung Pixon is one loaded camera phone.
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To us, the Samsung Pixon’s name sounds like it was chosen to reflect the phone’s camera capabilities, sounding something like a mix between ‘pictures’ and ‘megapixels’. And in any case, we like the name better than “Innov8″, which …

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With the open source nature of Google’s Android platform, there should be no shortage of games available when it goes live in a few weeks. If you’re waiting for really high profile games though, you’ll have to keep waiting–for now.

According to a story posted at Pocket Gamer, …

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If you don’t believe in landlines and you do believe in sensible shoes, stop reading now.

Gadget4all.com is selling a phone designed to look like a pink high-heeled shoe. Fortunately, it doesn’t double as a real shoe, as the slant on this thing could …

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RIM BlackBerry Bold
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Perhaps you’re like me and starting to wonder if the RIM BlackBerry Bold is just a mythical creature like Bigfoot–spotted in the wild a number of times but yet to be captured, or in the Bold’s case, released. The smartphone was announced way …

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If recent blog posts about the increase in capacity of CompactFlash cards and small-size hard drives make you wonder what’s in store for your mobile phones, then I have some good news.
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On Monday, SanDisk announced its new microSD high-capacity (microSDHC) card that offers up to 16GB …

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Nokia E71
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Over the recent months, I’ve received a fair share of e-mails asking the same question: Will a U.S. carrier ever pick up the Nokia E71? Well, it looks like some of your wishes may come true.
According to Engadget Mobile, AT&T …

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ZTE on Monday announced the U990, the world’s first HSDPA TD-SCDMA mobile handset (TD-SCDMA is a 3G mobile standard in China). It claims seamless transition between EDGE/HSDPA and TD-SCDMA, which is a good thing for those who do business in China. The U990 is a touch-screen …

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As usual this time of year, Samsung continues to make headway in the FCC list. Because the Federal Communications Commission has to certify every phone sold in the United States, not to mention test its SAR rating, the agency’s online database offers a lot of sneak peeks to those …

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