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Finally, BlackBerry’s first flip phone, dubbed BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220, was released exclusively by T-Mobile USA.  BlackBerry Pearl users who would opt to upgrade to this new BlackBerry phone might find it similar to the original BlackBerry Pearl.  With a new distinguishing feature, of course, that this one is a flip phone.  Aside from being a flip phone, the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 also features some great smartphone functionality.

Those who have used a BlackBerry handsets before know that one of the strengths of BlackBerry smartphones is their integration with enterprise email solution.  More after the break.

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Nokia’s first touchscreen phone, Nokia 5800 was a blast for Nokia fanatics.  Nokia has recently made another statement pertaining to the production of Nokia touchscreen phones in the future.  In a recent event in India, Devinder Kishore, Marketing Director of Nokia revealed, “We will have lot of touchscreen phones coming up, including an N-series device very soon.”.

Well, this proves that Nokia is really up to the challenge to compete with its rivals and it’s evolving fast!  With the promising looks of Nokia 5800, we are certainly anxious for the next touchscreen product from Nokia.

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Who knew that the T-Mobile G1 would be this popular before it even was officially released?  Certainly not Google, HTC, and T-Mobile.  Their official estimates of how many G1’s to order was really low; so low that they had to order triple the initial amount and those G1’s sold would not arrive until after the official release, which is October 22.  Just recently, they announced that they have sold off all 1.5 million units they had available for presale.  Want more G1 news?  Click “more.”

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If you pay attention to sports, then you probably know that the NLCS (National League Championship Series) is taking place right now between the Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers.  As you can imagine during many popular events such as sporting events, many use their cell phones an awful lot at the same time.  This can sometimes cause a cell phone traffic overload and prevent calls and texts from going through, which would definitely be annoying. 

In efforts to combat this, Verizon is introducing something near the stadium known as COLT (Cell on Light Truck).  This is a fully-functional mobile cell site that adds extra wireless capacity.  Such extra measures will prevent from any calls to be dropped, texts not going through, and making surfing the Internet as smooth as possible.  In addition, if you plan to use a laptop near the stadium, you will probably notice that you have access to better Broadband Internet. 

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Talk about ideal product placement gone mad.  In the upcoming James Bond Quantum of Solace movie, there are eight different characters sporting six different Ericsson phones.  And nope, they don’t even have to tape over the brand name....I’m sure Sony paid plenty to be the featured phone of choice.

The six featured phones somehow also magically include the canceled Ericsson W707.  The new character Elvis has that one.  Bond himself sports the C902 (in the limited Titanium Silver color of course).  The Bond girl uses the W350 in Graphic White color; for anyone wanting to be just like the love of Bond’s life remember Graphic White.  As for the rest of the characters, we have M catching calls with the G700 (in Mineral Grey), Matthus using the G700, CIA with the W910, and another new character, Green, pockets the G900. 

What goodies come with Bond’s phone?  Find out after the break. 

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This is where we call out by names the actions and companies that seem odd, out of touch or just plain straight up smokin’ crack.  Technology is an odd realm where PR speak doesn’t hold a lot of water if the 1s and 0s don’t line up.  This week sees posturing, positioning and flat out insanity.  Here is what caught my eye this week:

Follow to see my rant on:
• The not so Bold.
• Windows XP or bust.
• Google’s got waaay too much free time.
• Verizon thinks they know a smartphone when they see one.

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Orange had to suspend their sale of the Blackberry Bold, listing their reason as “software issues” in an internal memo to employees.  It seems that AT&T wasn’t the only company having issues with this one.  At least they chose to hold off and try to sort things out instead of rushing a release date. 

In the meantime, RIM is attempting fix the situation.  This came as a result of issues starting in the UK, where the Bold was pulled off the shelves. As a result, shipments in the US have been repeatedly delayed and it now looks like we know why.

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A couple of weeks have passed since the T-Mobile/Google event and my uneasy silence hasn’t dissipated.  Sure, I am impressed that beloved Google is involved, the apps are cool and don’t even get me started about compass mode in maps.  Very cool stuff.  But it doesn’t matter.  Here are the top 7 reasons Android will fail.

Headed to Vegas?  Don’t bet on the G1 just yet.

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Firefox Mobile Concept Video from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

Rumored to be “soon” or even next week, Firefox Mobile Alpha will be released onto the Nokia N810 internet tablet.  Sure to be the first of many releases, the new web browser designed for mobile devices is sure to mix things up a bit.

One major difference is controls.  Unlike the minimalist Safari for the iPhone and iPod touch, Firefox for Mobile uses the extreme edges for access to special menus.  Just a swipe of the finger off the page to port or starboard brings up controls that were previously hidden.  It is a neat way to get at controls.  Just my opinion?  No, Mozilla calls this the “awesome bar” which I thought existed only in Times Square, NY.

See more interesting features in the alpha version.  Click more to follow.

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Next in the line of LG 8MP-touting mobile phones is the just announced LG-KC780 slider phone.  According to LG, this camera phone, or rather portrait phone, has special features that make it ideal for shooting portraits.  Measuring a mere 13.9 mm thick, this portrait phone comes with a Schneider-Kreuznach certified lens, which is actually common in most Kodak digital cameras.

Complementing this lens is the portrait phone’s face detection and smile detection technology, which automatically searches for your subjects’ faces and angle of their mouths to focus on their best angle.  These features help make for high quality portrait photos.  More info on this phone after the break.

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