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News on Monday, February 16th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
LG previously used WM on one phone, but they’re signed up for 50 phones now, thanks to the enhancements of Windows Mobile 6.5 and whatever back end business room deals have come about from this.
LG doesn’t know software, and to get a phone platform going, they’ve needed an outside OS for quite awhile to become a real player in the smartphone game. But with Android out there, the fact they’re going Windows Mobile is both a good sign for them and a good sign for Microsoft. Fifty phones! I don’t know why they wouldn’t juist make ONE good, high profile phone, but anyhow, Good Job! [NYT]
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News on Monday, February 16th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Sprint just added mobile 3G laptop access to their Simply Everything plan, calling it Simply Everything Plan + Mobile Broadband, which gives you unlimited everything for $150 a month.
For business customers that call, text, email and surf a lot, this could be a rather good plan to cover all your mobile usage. Sprint claims that you can save $600 a year over comparable AT&T or Verizon plans, but we’ll have to do the numbers to see whether or not that’s true. [Business Wire via Phonescoop]
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News on Monday, February 16th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
LG’s previously announced KS360 is going to be the manufacturer’s first Android phone, and will hit this summer with the same slide-out QWERTY, same 2.0-megapixel camera and same specs as before. [T3]
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News on Monday, February 16th, 2009 at 11:11 am
While today’s Nokia announcement onslaught didn’t include the N86, some of the company’s own press materials leaked the handset. Its claim to fame? An 8MP camera with xenon flash, like the Memoir. [Nokia via BGR]
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News on Monday, February 16th, 2009 at 10:20 am
You’ve got to be pretty bold to use your iPhone to count cards in a Vegas casino, especially now that they’re on the lookout for such behavior.
Card counting itself is not illegal, but using a device to help you do so is considered a felony under Nevada gambling laws. Not that casinos are fans of card counting without devices. But if they catch you using this unnamed app they have a choice to either turn you over to the feds or handle your punishment themselves, neither of which seem like great options to me. [AP]
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News on Monday, February 16th, 2009 at 10:05 am
The Palm Pre isn’t pulling any punches when it comes to attacking iPhone weaknesses. It has copy and paste, data tethering and will support Adobe’s Flash.
Flash was confirmed to Newsweek’s Dan Lyons weeks ago, but now they’re being open about the support.
Palm has joined Adobe’s Open Screen Project—an industry initiative designed to bring full web browsing and Flash-based apps to televisions, desktops and mobile devices. So, by definition, this will not only bring a complete web-browsing experience to the Palm Pre, it could also result in the development of standalone Flash apps for the webOS platform. The Flash player for smartphones is expected to be released by the end of the year. [BusinessWire]