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Regarding SevenClick sources and a complete analyst published today by UBS, Apple could launch 3G iPhone version between March & May.

SevenClick sources inform that a Spanish Movistar Distributor expects 3G iPhone in May 2008. At this moment we can not supply more details about the distributor, but sources are near distributor’s main staff.

It has an important value, because it could confirm some rumors informing that iPhone will come to Spain in May with Telefonica. In that way Telefonica may not be interested in selling a GPRS version before Christmas, delaying the distribution of this great device up to release the second edition with 3G. Of course, the announcement of the new Broadcom BCM215551 chip could speed up this new version before Christmas, but from SevenClick we think that May is more realistic.

On the other hand, UBS informs: “…our contacts in the supply chain point toward a new iPhone model to be released by March”. In the same document UBS announces “Apple may push iPhone technology into other products, including Macs”, which could be great news. Everybody is excited waiting new Mac Books and Mac Books Pro with multi-touch screen.

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AT&T has launched today together with Pantech a new terminal that emphasizes for the incorporation of a QWERTY keyboard slider, in addition to the numerical keyboard.

The Panteck Duo is a phone that brings Windows Mobile 6 as the operating system and, in addition, to the sliding numerical keyboard, we can found, at the bottom, a slider QWERTY keyboard. With these, we can write e-mails and instant messanging. As for connectivity, it supports technology HDSPA and UMTS and it includes Direct Push.

It has a price of 200$ along a contract for 2 years.

Via Gizmóvil  

The new software called Touch Commander allows you to emulate the touch user interface of the TouchFlo features of HTC Touch and Touch Dual devices.

You can assign a button to the Touch Commander and it allows you to pull up the interface. Then, you can use gestures to navigate with the finger .

This interface is a like the HTC Touch so much.

Via PocketNow

Actor Sergio Pazos going to begin next November 6th the “Vodafone Challenge”. This Challenge that the company suggested to the actor is that he get inside a truck during 7 days. During this period of time, Sergio Pazos will have to survive only with a mobile and to get everything through it.

The terminal will not allow to make calls or send SMS. He will can only use the internet and multimedia services for the British company.

Infojobs.net, Messenger, Yahoo!, Hotmail, Youtube, Google Maps, ebay.es, MySpace, Meetic, Yellow Pages, Leisure Guide, Entradas.com, Servicaixa, Ivive.com, will be some of the tools that he will can use to be connected with the outside world along with the rest of Internet services in the mobile.

This truck will stay two days in Madrid and then it will travel trough Spain passing round La Coruña, Bilbao and Barcelona.

Via  Xataka Movil

James Gosling mentioned in an interview that JME will finally evolve to a point that its basis will merge with JSE. JME community is not happy with the way things have been done, and found this comment as the beginning of the end.

Well, James Gosling has written a post in his own blog to clarify his comment. In this post, he remarks that Java ME is here to stay, and that hypothetical merge will happen not before a decade. He also mentions that JavaFX, Sun’s newly beat on mobile technology, is based on a JME implementation.

In my opinion, the clarification was needed because the comment has created too much noise. In one hand, Mr. Gosling should be more careful with the way he express opinions. And in other hand, the community shouldn’t be so dramatic. Maybe in a perfect world……

The next release of the popular Java IDE is getting real closer. Although it is scheduled for December 2007, a new beta has been released this week.

With NetBeans 6.0 beta 2 any Java developer can taste all of the IDE features, only a risk of suffering some bugs:

• Code Editor improvements
• Ruby / JRuby / Ruby on Rails support
• Installation and upgrading system have been improved
• A new Swing GUI editor
• New profiling tools.
• New components in Web developing and J2EE programming
• Improved mobility tools. Awesome mobile game designer
• SOA and UML

Although all are necessary improvements, my favourite is the code editor, yet is hasn’t achieved the IntelliSense functionality level. Code completion is much smarter than in previous versions and code snippets are just great.

All these features make NetBeans a great tool to achieve productivity in our developements. A lot of stuff has changed when Visual Studio 2003 was light years away from NetBeans 3.5. … What do you think?

More and more rumours and spreading all over internet about the almost certain coming of the GPhone.

A previous debate subject was to establish the GPhone either a iPhone or a Windows Mobile Competitor but now everybody is talking about the future struggle between Google and the mobile carriers.

It’s obvious that Google is suggesting a bussiness model totally opossed to the actual one, where applications can be freely used in every handset, especially VoIP (which is free and the carrier greatest threat). In addition mobile software develpment is gaining momentum day after day, with more and more people working in giving mobile phone a broader functionality. What will be the impact of this (almost) certain release?

Read more in this article for the Wall Street Journal

Do you remember old days of Napster? I do. It was the time of internet explossion, .com fever, buys and sells, and last but not least, music. Music everywhere thanks to Napster and other P2P applications. Well, Napster was not P2P actually, and that point became its main source of problems eventually due to legal infringements.

Nothing remains currently of the old Napster network. The company was sold by a tremendous amount of money (I can’t remember the exact amount) and the service was transformed into a iTunes like service, with little success in comparison. But the service still remains alive. Alive and kicking.

Napster is making its entiry music catalog available for mobile purchase in mid-November through AT&T network. The costs will be $1.99 per song or 5 tracks for $7.49.

Good news for Napster that could take advantage of mobile phones to boost the service, gaining momentum again. Regarding AT&T, just one open question: Why, being iPhone’s exclusive carrier, don’t AT&T setup an iTunes service through its network?? Is Apple preparing such a service? Do you still doubt it?

Via My Digital Life

After the new version of Installer.app 3.0b7 was launched to access repositories of applications and providing ease of installation, a new software repository for iPhone/ iPod Touch has been made available by Nullriver.

Through this software, they want to launch a new application daily starting from November 1st.

The new repository is called iApp-a-day and it can be found on the main page of Installer.app

Via AppleWeblog

Jazztel, a Spanish telecommunications company, has signed an exclusive agreement with France Telecom aiming for Jazztel to provide mobile phone services over Orange Spanish network.

These services would be launched by the coming months, as Jazztel has said to CNMV, the stock market regulator in Spain.

Jazztel currently offers high-speed Internet, fixed-line telephony and a pay-TV service, so this agreement will make Jazztel capable of issuing cuadruple-play offers in Spain.

Via CellularNews