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Tue Dec 15, 2009 7:32 am | By Allen Tsai
Luxury retailer Saks Fifth Avenue today started selling the Sony Ericsson Xperia Pureness, a fashion phone with a unique see-through screen, for $990.
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Tue Dec 15, 2009 4:36 am | By Allen Tsai
Google is talking with T-Mobile about the possibility of selling the Nexus One, its upcoming smartphone, at a discounted price for consumers that sign up for the carrier's service.
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Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:01 am | By Allen Tsai
Sony Ericsson plans to launch the Elm and Hazel, two eco-friendly handsets, as part the company's push towards greener features within the next two years.
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Mon Dec 14, 2009 1:13 am | By Allen Tsai
Nokia today announced the 5235, an affordable touch screen music phone aiming to ship in the first quarter at a price of $215.
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Sun Dec 13, 2009 4:45 am | By Allen Tsai
Google has designed a smartphone it plans to sell direct to consumers as soon as next year, in a strategic move to bypass wireless carriers and challenge rival Apple.
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Mon Dec 07, 2009 5:40 am | By Allen Tsai
A new study found no link between rising cell phone use and rates of brain cancer, Scandinavian researchers reported, but added that more studies were needed -- yielding mixed results in the debate on the hazards of handset usage.
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Sat Dec 05, 2009 8:24 pm | By Allen Tsai
Buyers showed little interest in smartphones running Google's Android software because they don't know what it is, said research firm IDC.
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Sat Dec 05, 2009 10:44 am | By Allen Tsai
PC maker Dell said it is forming a mobile device group to launch a bigger push into smartphones.
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Sat Dec 05, 2009 10:18 am | By Allen Tsai
The Federal Communications Commission is looking into why Verizon recently doubled the fees it charges customers who want to break their contracts on smartphones.
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Fri Dec 04, 2009 2:14 am | By Allen Tsai
Motorola said it has invested in a company that makes software to potentially convert any device into a touch screen unit.
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Fri Dec 04, 2009 1:42 am | By Allen Tsai
Verizon said it will release a Google Android update for the Motorola Droid -- to improve the camera's auto-focus feature and the phone's voice reception quality -- in the coming weeks.
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Thu Dec 03, 2009 6:01 am | By Allen Tsai
Verizon is the best in customer support, voice and data service but tends to be costly, while Sprint and AT&T ranked the lowest, according to a survey to appear in the January issue of Consumer Reports.
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Thu Dec 03, 2009 2:57 am | By Allen Tsai
AT&T and Verizon have agreed to drop lawsuits accusing each other of misleading viewers with TV ads, but Verizon said it was continuing to advertise with maps that had started the fight.
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Wed Dec 02, 2009 4:55 pm | By Allen Tsai
Nokia expects the global handset market to recover faster next year than analysts are forecasting -- around 10 percent in volume next year after falling some seven percent this year.
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