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iSkin presents its last iPhone protection skin, The fuze combines a soft, shock–absorbing inner–layer and a durable, hard shell outer–layer. It is available for iPhone now and 3G version will be ready soon. Don´t miss it.

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Pedro Carrillo took this pictures, with his Mobile Phone, of Telefonica Movistar iPhone 3G advertisements here in Spain specifically at Dos Hermanas (Seville).

It is a normal way to distribute ads in stores in order to sell any product, that is correct, but the problem is the text written in the advertisement: “Proximamente” (coming soon). Coming soon?!

Why they say coming soon in its ads this week, if the release date is next July 11th?. It sounds like telefonica wont have enough iPhone for all, and i want my iPhone!

Via Applesfera
Photo Pedro Carrillo

Nokia has released today this big news:

Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DOCOMO announced today their intent to unite Symbian OS(TM), S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) to create one open mobile software platform. Together with AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone they plan to establish the Symbian Foundation to extend the appeal of this unified software platform.

The Foundation will provide a unified platform with common UI framework. A full platform will be available for all Foundation members under a royalty-free license, from the Foundation’s first day of operations.

The Foundation will make selected components available as open source at launch. It will then work to establish the most complete mobile software offering available in open source. This will be made available over the next two years and is intended to be released under Eclipse Public License (EPL) 1.0.

“Establishing the Foundation is one of the biggest contributions to an open community ever made,” said Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, CEO of Nokia.

The Foundation’s platform will build on the leading open mobile software platform, with more than 200 million phones, across 235 models.

This is one of the biggest announcements in mobile phones field in years, mobile leades to unify a software, mainly to beat the iphone´s career. I think. iPhone keeps your chin up. :D

Link Nokia Press Release

Google has created a new YouTube Channel called “Mobile Tricks” to show what people do with their Mobile Phones, you can submit your own videos showing your best tricks, ideas…, there are only ten videos right now but some of them very funny. Check it out.

It is of course a funny way of google´s marketing. Submit your video and enjoy.

Via Gizmovil

Remember you must wait 17 days yet to reach this precious gadget, and remember that its price is 8GB 199$/199€ or 16GB 299$/299€. Movistar will bring you this cell phone here in Spain and plans will be detailed next July 1st.

Don´t bite your nails!

iPhone 3G is becoming a real phenomenom and sales are expected to exceed Apple´s supplys. The numbers are impressive: the analysts at Morgan Stanley predicted 27 million iPhone 3G sales in 2009. It sounds inflated, but as 9to5mac.com says:

“More than 130,000 people have signed-up to receive further information from O2 concerning the iPhone 3G when it ships - that contrasts to 35,000 customers who registered such interest for the first edition iPhone, the company admitted.”

In Spain, where the iPhone will launch thanks to MoviStar, there are no news at all, and by now no predictions have been published.

The situation is completely different in Japan, as TUAW highlights. According to a little survey, 91% of Japanese people don´t want an iPhone, and I can understand why: they are far away in the future on mobile technology.

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Links TUAW, iPhone MoviStar, 9to5Mac 1 & 2

As happened earlier with the iPhone 1.0 and iPod Touch, just already developed a stand to put your new iPhone 3G like an iMac.

At this time, the responsible company of this creation has been RockRidge and they launch its stand even before the iphone 3G launch, you can buy it now for 44€. WOW

Features:

• 90 degrees pivot joint
• Aluminum, Resin
• Adjustable viewing angle
• Dock-connection cut-out
• Headphone extension cable in the box

As soon as i get my new iPhone 3G i will get one of this cute stands.

Via RockRidge

10.000 mobile phones per hour were sold in India this first quarter of year, Incredible!.

Acoording to IDC India, 20 million mobile phones were shipped in India along this Q1´08.

Naveen Mishra, Manager, Communications Research at IDC India, said, “As the need of Indian mobile phone consumers is evolving, they are demanding feature-rich devices, which can cater to their business communication requirements as well as their personal needs.”

“This growth comes on the back of a burgeoning mobile services market and lower entry barriers across various customer categories, as average selling values (ASVs) of handsets continue to fall in the wake of a highly competitive landscape populated by close to 25 vendors.”

Overall, Nokia retained the top spot with a market share of 52.8%, followed by LG at 10.2%, and Samsung at 8.3% in terms of units shipped during the quarter ended March 31, 2008.

Via CellularNews

When some months ago Google released ‘My Location’ feature for Google Maps for Mobile a lot of buzz hit the blogosphere. Every tech-blogger wondered about how had Google managed to know the location of cellphones.

But now - just a couple of weeks ago - Google itself has put some light on the business with a post on the Official Google Mobile Blog. And not many people has talked about it. But it’s really good news.

Not only Google has unveiled how they really get to know location, but has announced they are going to give third party developers access to this information.

This will enable development of location-aware applications to every developer.

Now, ‘My Location’ is available in more than 200 countries and across many different platforms, including BlackBerry, Nokia Series 60, Apple iPhone/iPod Touch, Windows Mobile, and many Java phones. Gears for Windows Mobile and Android already contain location APIs.

The major drawback is accuracy, that is clearly insufficient for serious applications. And this issue won’t be solved - if possible - until Google has collected a huge amount of data from cellphones all over the world, which will be possible just when GPS chips were commonplace in every mid-range cellphone.

So, I’m not sure if this new service will have a real impact in deployment of production applications. But, definitely, it will help LBS applications to be mainstream and to boost innovation related to this technology.

Via OfficalGoogleMobileBlog

Yes, we enjoyed with Picasa for iPhone and since april, also for Windows Mobile. There was only one left, and here it is, Picasa for the Nokia S60 platform is finally here.

If you want to give a try of any of this versions, just access picasaweb. It will detect your device and adapt accordingly. And it will do it really nice, I promise.

Here you have a few screenshots, and if you feel like reading, here you have the Google´s Mobile Blog posts for the releases: S60, WM and iPhone.

I bet we´ll have also an Android version as soon as the first devices hits the streets… and I guess that one will be the best of them all.

Via Google Mobile Blog