Archive for January, 2006

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Verizon Releases Pink RAZR

January 27th, 2006

Verizon Wireless today released the Motorola V3c RAZR in Pink. Not to be confused with the bright pink Magenta edition offered by T-Mobile, the Verizon V3c is more of a pastel, just a few months early for Easter. Pink V3c features include: Integrated 1.3 Megapixel Camera Bluetooth Speakerphone 180 minutes talk time Eligible Verizon Wireless [...]

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Verizon Releases CDM8945 Music Phone

January 25th, 2006

Verizon Wireless and UTStarcom announce the availability of the CDM8945 Music Phone. The Music on Demand (MOD) and Video on Demand (VOD)-capable handset features Verizon Wireless’ newly launched V CAST Music service, which runs on Verizon Wireless’ EV-DO broadband network. V CAST Music customers will be able to download music directly to the phone for [...]

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Nortel Achieves Industry’s First W-CDMA 900 MHz Call

January 25th, 2006

Nortel, QUALCOMM and Orange have successfully completed UMTS and HSDPA calls in the 900 MHz band, a spectrum capable of delivering wireless broadband such as mobile TV, video-on-demand, video telephony and DSL-like services to rural areas. W-CDMA (UMTS) in the 900 MHz band is a cost effective way to deliver nationwide high-speed wireless coverage. It [...]

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Opera Releases Opera Mini

January 25th, 2006

Opera Software today announced the worldwide release of Opera Mini, the full Web browser that runs on almost every mobile phone, including low- and mid-end handsets. The key to the Opera Mini browser is the incorporation of a proxy server, this allows devices not capable of high speed data connections to load pages at a [...]

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BlackBerry 8700g Announced For T-Mobile UK

January 24th, 2006

T-Mobile UK and Research In Motion (RIM) ttoday announced an expansion of T-Mobile’s portfolio of BlackBerry devices with the introduction of the new BlackBerry 8700g. In addition to standard BlackBerry functionality including support for ’push’ email, phone, text messaging, browser, organizer and corporate data applications, the BlackBerry 8700g was completely re-engineered to boost performance and [...]

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How to: SMS Block Error on Sony Ericsson Phones

January 23rd, 2006

Issue: You get the error message “SMS Block” on your favorite Sony Ericsson phone when you try to send a text message. Resolution: The SMS access must be set to GSM in order for the phone to be able to send SMS; if the device is set to GPRS the phone may return the error [...]