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Telefonica Movistar has uploaded its iPhone website, where you can join to receive further information about the new iPhone and its lunch, but in the web there is a suspicious slogan: “Movistar brings you the magic of the Iphone, Do you want to know when?”. Umm “When?” sounds not this June, maybe Movistar “will” bring you the magic of the iPhone but who knows when.

Rumors talk about new 3G iPhone will be delayed maybe some weeks, and Telefónica announced that its Iphone presentation will be next June 18th, it sounds not good, because if Telefonica presents the iphone next June 18th and in its web they tell you to register for further information, people like me that want this gadget now probably we have to wait for a “long” time. : (

Link Movistar iPhone

Until now, Adobe has not been able to massively deploy Flash on mobile phones. Flash Lite was nothing but a wannabe, with little impact in the target platforms. Have you ever played a Flash Lite game on your S60 device? neither me. Oh, and the platform is not bad, at least under a programmer perspective. But it is not Flash.

Now, Adobe has come up with a new initiative to relaunch its strategy. It’s called Open Screen and it means to create a unique platform that would allow the old write-once run-everywhere created by Java about ten years ago.

To do so, Adobe has opened up its Flash APIs along with other technologies to create an open platform, promising seamless deployment in every single platform available (who said fear?), from mobile phones to TVs. At least, Adobe has surrounded themselves with some of the most remarkable players in IT World. Take a look at the upper picture to find the names.

Link Adobe OpenScreen Project

We had already talked about QuickOffice, the suite that brings Office document support to Palm, S60 and UIQ users.

Now, in a recent meeting with PC Magazine they showed a new version for Android running. Moreover, they declared to be working on an upcoming release for iPhone.

More accurately, Quickoffice for Android lets users edit Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint documents, access online Google Docs, and access documents stored on home PCs through the Internet.

The last functionality comes from a partnership with SoonR, a company which has a remote-access technology for PC files.

Via EngadgetMobile
Link PCMagazine

Thanks to Mobile Phone Development blog, a really interesting blog for mobile developers, we’ve get noticed of this new useful feature published by Opera friends.

They have called it ‘Opera Mini Connection Help’, and it’s a kind of wizard for configuring the Internet connection of your cellphone. The site includes APN information of many carriers around the world and links to some manufacturers wizards. Only Nokia and SonyEricsson, by now.

If they manage to keep the information updated it will be a really useful helper for a task that is sometimes cumbersome, specially for final users.

Via MobilePhoneDevelopment
Link OperaMiniConnectionHelp

A couple of months ago, Acer announced the unanimously approved acquisition of Taiwan-based E-Ten, the manufacturer of Glofiish line of smartphone and Pocket PC.

Now, Acer’s president, Gianfranco Lanci, states that they’re aiming to launch their first smartphone “near the end of this year of early next year”. In addition, we know it’ll “be Microsoft-based”.

By now, they are in conversations with some carriers in order to sell the handsets. Acer expects smartphone’s sales could reach 10% of the firm’s income.

Welcome to a new actor on mobile scene!

Via EngadgetMobile

Google has recently announced the availability of mobile image ads for AdWorks and AdSense. Supported image formats are JPEG, GIF y PNG.

As Google Mobile blog claims, “These look like standard image ads for desktop web pages but they are smaller to fit on mobile screens and they run on the mobile content network”.

In fact, an image ad will never weight more than 3KB (a 305 x 64 banner).

Mobile image ads are currently available in Australia, China, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, the UK, and the US.

Via Observatorio
Link GoogleMobile

Past April 17, Orange started tests of their new Read&Go device, involving 150 users that will have free access to the service for 2 months.

Read&Go service follows the same scheme of Amazon’s Kindle. It makes use of e-paper for a more comfortable reading of books and newspapers and wireless technologies for providing contents. In this case, Orange seems to bet on adding WiFi support to 3G technologies - opposing Amazon support of only Sprint’s EVDO network.

Five mainstream French daily newspapers have team up with Orange for provinding contents: Le Monde, Le Parisien, Les Echos, L’Equipe, Télérama… Of course, information will be houly updated.

Users will also initially get 30 preloaded books, stored on the reader’s 1GB of internal memory.

We have no data about commercial plans for Read&Go, but I think it’s time for such a device/service to hit European market.

Via blogWimax
Link Boursier.com

A couple of weeks ago, Viviane Reding, European Union Information Technology Commissioner, presented the results of the last report made by this entity about the status of the Telecommunication Market in the European Union countries.

At a high level, the report remarks that consumers are taking advantage of a healthy competence, with subscription rates lowering. Anyway, things are far from being perfect. The commission shows their worries about data plans, with no flat rates widely spread.

Talking about Spain, the mobile phone penetration has reached 110,4%, a bit under European average, set on 111,8%.

Via aecomo

Yesteday at CTIA Wireless 2008, Las Vegas, Microsoft oficially announced the release of Windows Mobile 6.1 and an upgrade for Internet Explorer Mobile.

Microsoft has listed several new phones and updates for this brand new WM 6.1, that will be available soon. Check the post of Windows Mobile Team Blog or the press release for the list.

WM 6.1 most important improvements are:

• Redesigned home screen
• Built-in Task Manager
• Copy&paste support for non-touch devices
• Faster Bluetooth setup
• Significant improvements in performance
• Significan improvements in battery life

On the other hand, the new version of IE Mobile will be availabe later this year. Microsoft claims it ” adds desktop-grade Web browsing to Windows Mobile phones”.

We will be happy to see that, since current IE Mobile is very far from meeting the needs of a modern PDA internet browser.

Via WindowsMobileTeam
Link MicrosoftPressPass

European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has just decided on the final piece of what will become Europe’s NFC standard.

Some issues about communication between the NFC circuitry and the phone’s SIM seemed to be the reason for some delay.

The GSMA says it’ll enable “mobile operators to prepare for the rollout of contactless payment services and other applications that make use of this flexible short-range radio technology”.

For sure, standardization will help in what has been GSMA’s aim: contactless payments to be the morn more than the exception.

Via EngadgetMobile