We have known for a little while that the Apple iPhone was going to be coming out. We thought, however, that the iPhone, the first version at least, would be little more than iPod with a cell phone built into it. Looks like we were wrong about the second part.
Some of the features include:
- Full functional iPod which supports iTunes
- Cingular Wireless service and all the benefits of network reliability, Rollover minutes, and more
- Visual Voicmail: a first on any mobile phone available in the United States
- Unique internet browsing capabilities
- Choose from 4 gigabyte or 8 gigabyte memory modules
- EDGE, GPRS, GSM Quad-band, and WiFi capable
I can tell you now that the this thing will give the BlackBerry Pearl a run for it’s money with first time smartphone buying consumers.
Apple iPhone
This post title will make absolutely no sense unless you read the title of the previous post. To make a long story short, some analysts don’t think that the Apple will debut their new mobile phone tomorrow. Other analysts, however, do. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple’s mobile device / iPod could debut tomorrow.
Someone is obviously mistaken but what is more interesting is that the WSJ is also reporting that Cingular will be the service provider for the new Apple phone.
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Rumors about a iPod / mobile phone hybrid from Apple that will compete with consumer oriented BlackBerrys have been floating around for a while now. We’re not really sure what Apple is going to call the device seeing how the name iPhone is already taken.
Some reports had the iPhone iMobile device from Apple coming out as early as mid Q1 after being debuted at MacWorld this week, however, Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi thinks otherwise.
Apple has not yet received FCC approval for a phone, and our analysis suggests that phones have typically become available two months after FCC approval,” Mr. Sacconaghi wrote Thursday in a report. “It is possible that Apple could introduce the product, and set a future availability date, but we think this represents a low probability.
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I must not have been paying attention because I missed this last week, however, Sprint has officially announced the Motorola Q.
In a press release that came out last Thursday, Sprint said that the Motorola Q will be available online and in their business channel by the end of the month and in stores in by mid-February.
Hopefully Motorola has gotten many of the bugs worked out that initially plagued the Q when it was first released on Verizon back in May of last year.
Sprint Motorola Q
Rumor has it that Cingular will launch the Palm Treo 750 at CES in Los Vegas this coming Sunday.
Cingular Treo 750, CES
You’ve probably heard by now that BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is suing Samsung, maker of the BlackJack, the hot new smartphone from Cingular, over the name BlackJack claiming that it infringes on it’s trademark name of BlackBerry.
Samsung had to know this was coming didn’t they? I can’t believe that a big company like Samsung doesn’t have at least one patent / trademark attorney on retainer.
If, however, Samsung truly didn’t mean to infringe on RIM’s trademark, why is the BlackJack only called the BlackJack in the country where the brand BlackBerry is the strongest.
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According to the Observer of London Google, in its continuing efforts to completety take over the world as far as being the middle man between information and people who want it, has held talks with Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC and mobile telecom giant Orange about a multi-billion dollar partnership to create a ‘Google phone‘, or, GoogleBerry, as I like to call it.
Their plans centre on a branded Google phone, which would probably also carry Orange’s logo. The device would not be revolutionary: manufactured by HTC, a Taiwanese firm specialising in smart phones and Personal Data Assistants (PDAs), it might have a screen similar to a video iPod. But it would have built-in Google software which would dramatically improve on the slow and cumbersome experience of surfing the web from a mobile handset.
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Some people think that the RIM suing Samsung over trademark infringement is ridiculous, however after the jump, we are going to show you exactly why RIM is bringing this suit up…
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BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has sued Samsung, maker of the BlackJack, a new mobile device with arguably the coolest commercial for a smartphone, for trademark infringement in US Federal Court in Los Angeles last week. RIM thinks that the name BlackJack is so similar to BlackBerry that it could confuse consumers actually looking for a BlackBerry.
I figured that it was just a matter of time before this happened. One of our RIMarkable readers mom mistakenly bought him a BlackJack for Christmas thinking it was the BlackBerry Pearl.
[Via Engadget]
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