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A Smartphone Owners Bill of Rights
Mobile Devices
Written by Daniel   
Tuesday, 10 November 2009 17:53
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In a wireless market featuring high prices, limited competition and sparse regulation, it's time consumers got some protection.

Smartphone Owner's Bill of RightsMany smartphone owners are frustrated with the high prices they pay to wireless service providers, as well as the treatment they get from providers once they're locked into a two-year service contract. Americans have limited choices in mobile broadband devices and services, and mobile operators in the United States currently enjoy relative freedom from regulation.

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Handset sized solar cell
Mobile Devices
Written by Danrok   
Monday, 02 November 2009 18:23
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Sharp Corp. has been showing off its latest solar cell, intended to provide charging power to future mobile devices, such as cell phones.

This new version is uniformly black in appearance, measures 65.5 x 41 x 0.8mm, and can produce up to 450mW.

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The Audacity of Droid
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Written by Daniel   
Friday, 30 October 2009 17:46
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FromĀ  TechNewsWorld

After years of stumbling in the smartphone arena, Motorola may have finally gotten its act together with the Droid


By Paul Hartsock
10/30/09 10:00 AM PT

Google's giving it a leg up with a new, pre-installed turn-by-turn nav app. Google Maps Navigation will work on other Android 2.0 phones as well. Meanwhile, Facebook users get angry, PlayStation 3 gets Netflix and Los Angeles gets cloudy.

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Speech-to-Speech Translator iPhone App
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Written by Danrok   
Thursday, 29 October 2009 14:58
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From Dr. Dobb's:

Jjibbigo iPhone application turns phone into a translator that converts English speech into Spanish, or vice versa

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Sidekick Recovery Tool Released
Mobile Devices
Written by Daniel   
Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:22
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Microsoft and its network partner insist they're making progress salvaging users' lost information.

By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
October 21, 2009 12:46 PM

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and T-Mobile have released an online tool that the companies say will allow Sidekick mobile device users to recover data lost during a server outage last week.

"Log into the My T-Mobile Web site, where there will be a recovery tool to restore contacts you may have lost during the recent service outage," Microsoft said in a statement Tuesday.
The catch: Microsoft said the tool will only restore data that users had stored as of Oct. 1. And, as for now, only information on personal contacts has been recovered. [Comment...]

 
Hands on: BlackBerry Storm 2 review
Mobile Devices
Written by Danrok   
Thursday, 15 October 2009 15:03
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From TechRadar:

RIM has finally announced one of the worst kept secrets in the mobile phone world with the BlackBerry Storm 2, and we managed to bag loads of face time with the new device.

It's basically an update to the original Storm, which debuted to mixed reception last year, and the obvious differences are fairly subtle.

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