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More than just a bug fixing, the N95-3 is an assault to the north american mobile market.

This a list of the changes and improvements done to the successful N95:

• HSDPA on the 850 adn 1900 MHz bands (rather than the 2100 MHz european band).
• Higher-capacity battery.
• Recessed camera lens. Does not have protective shutter.
• Twice RAM
• Availabe in black or “dark sand” rear. Sliver front.

You can see a full technical data sheet here.

 Nokia started selling them on wednesday in its flagship stores in New York and Chicago at a price of $699.

Let there be a new MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator)! And a new MVNO, called XL, was announced is Spain.

Cope, the spasnish catholic church broadcasting system, is the main partner along with a tour operator, Viajes Marsans, with a starting capital stock of 60.200 €.

Neither services, nor prices, nor coverage are still known. What we know is that some advertisment from Marsans Viajes will be included as well as media content generated by the conservative radio station. The broadcasting is expected to start this October.

Further information is expected in the incoming weeks.

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Following the path of the LG Prada, Samsung has teamed up with fashion designer Giorgo Armani to develop a set of gadgets (a mobile phone, a Bluetooth stereo set, a flat TV,…) in order to enter the expading market of fashionable technologies (LG Prada, Ted Baker, Mandarina Duck, Levi, …).

Technical  features:

• Tri-band GSM.
• 2.6 inch QVGA touch screen.
• Only 10.5 thick.
• 3 Megapixel camera.
• Music player. Bluetooth stereo headset.
• MicroSD memory slot.

“Chic” features:

• External design by Armani.
• Leather carrying case.
• Big Armani logo on every device (ready to boost user’s ego).

One remarkable thing is the Bluetooth stereo handset. It has designed by Armani too and is based on the Samsung WEP-410.
The phone will be sold at Giorgo Armani shops as well as some phone stores by November 2007. The price is still unknown but I think that people who are used to buy at Armanis’ don’t usually care about prices…

The future shown in Minority Report might be closer than you expected. Visa has launched a trial of a new system that will send NFC-enabled phones merchant direct marketing offers and will allow to make payments through Visa payWave.

The trial is being conducted in Taiwan between Visa,  Chunghwa Telecom, Chinatrust Commercial Bank (CTCB) and Nokia as well as 500 people acting as customers and will last for six months. Nokia 6131i handset are being used to make contacless payments at 3.000 stores.

The trial objetive is to make payments along to send and receive marketing offers according to pre-registered preferences using NFC (Near Fiel Communication) by passing by some special posters located in shopping areas.

Via: TMC.net

NTT DoCoMo, Inc. today announced flat-rate data communication plans that will take effect on October 22.

Plans will cost 4,200 yen/month (incl. tax) for up to 500,000 packets, then rise on a pay-as-you-go basis up to a maximum of 10,500 yen/month beyond one million packets. The plan requires subscription to the new “mopera U U Flat-Rate HIGH-SPEED Plan” (840 yen/month) or “Business mopera Internet (HIGH-SPEED)” (630 yen/month) for Internet access (certain access points may not be compatible with the plans).

DoCoMo will also offer the 64Kbps (best effort) “Flat-Rate Data Plan 64K” for 4,200 yen/month (incl. tax). The plan requires subscription to the new “mopera U U Flat-Rate 64K Plan” (525 yen/month) or “Business mopera Internet (64K) plan” (315 yen/month) for Internet access (certain access points may not be compatible).

The plans cover sending/receiving messages and viewing still content (text and photos) on Web sites. Streamed video, downloaded FTP file transfers, i-mode communications and voice/videophone calls are not covered. Packet communications outside Japan, as well as via domestic access points that are not compatible with flat-rate packet communications services, will be charged on a pay-as-you-go basis.

The last paragraph scares me. I will never subscribe to a internet access service controlling which services I can access. Customers should pay for the access not for the service they use. Why can’t I use P2P on my mobile? Or VoIP? the last question has a clearer answer but I don’t like it anyway.

Via NTT Docomo Press Note

LG is including DivX decoding capabilities in one of their mobile phones, Viewty (LG-KU990). The mobile phone will be available in mid. October in Europe. The LG Viewty includes 120 fps video recording as well as manual focus, image stabilizer and handwriting recognition that makes editing easy on the Viewty’s 3-inch wide LCD touch screen.

The press note says nothing about recording capabilities. Watching DivX movies in a 3″ screen could be funny, but not functional. Anyway, it looks like there’s a market for this kind of features (Don’t forget iPod Video). If the Viewty would include recording capabilities, that would be another different song. Recall that mobile phones storage capabilities is very limited and including this recording format will improve it enormously as long as DivX videos are quite small ( in fact, it depends on DivX profile used to encode). Maybe in next model, who knows.

Via Slashphone
Link DivX Press Note

After five months of intensive activities, SevenClick celebrated yesterday its official Inauguration Ceremony. The event took place in SevenClick headquarters, Zaragoza (Spain). The show was very surprising and nobody remained indifferent. Guests, apart from knowing by firsthand the objectives and philosophy of this brand new company, could enjoy a spectacular, original and amusing stage.

During the event, Daniel Vecino, CEO and SevenClick’s founding partner, transmitted the master lines of an enterprise project focused on professional Consultancy and Development in Mobile Information Technologies.

“SevenClick will transmit technical and business knowledge generated day by day by SevenClick’s professionals. They will be coordinated by a team of communication and journalism professionals that will make use of Multimedia and web 2.0 tools to communicate that knowledge”, announced Vecino.

Santiago Baselga, the president of TB•Solutions, partner company of SevenClick, transmitted the importance of this brand new investment, as an strategic jump of his company that will complement TB•Solutions’ long experience in TIC sector, more than 20 years, intensively working for banking and public administration.

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Clear and concise. Just the title explains it all…. Over 18.000 free eBooks ready to be downloaded to your mobile device (not just phones but PDAs, iPOD or eBook reader).

The site has a mobile version that allows to navigate through the endless categories, authors…. One of my favorite options is suggestions (You don’t need explanation needed, Don’t you?). Once you have your book chosen, the service presents different formats including:

• jar file (JAVA MIDP)
• Mobipocket
• eReader
• RTF

I’ve been testing the JAR version and I have to say that the results are not very good. It uses a sofware named mjBook 4.0 to read the content. It comes with very limited functionality in my opinion. No chapters, no bookmarking, no pictures, no commands… I think that JME platform allows richer user interfaces. Ok, it’s free and it works, but it is not enough currently.

Anyway, an interesting service for all those that spend long times traveling. At least, is lighter than carrying several books in you bag!!!!!!!!!!!

Link ManyBooks.net ManyBooks.net Mobile Site