14th July 2008 by phonearena team Steve Jobs proudly announced that more than a million units of the iPhone 3G have been sold just for the first three days. It took 74 days for the original model to reach this number, but it was available only by AT&T in the U.S. The new iPhone 3G can be ordered in 21 countries around the world, which helps for its bigger sales.

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14th July 2008

14th July 2008, 9:48 AM   by Eric M. Zeman

According to Reuters, Sony Ericsson is seriously considering buying India-based Spice Mobile. Spice Mobile is a cell phone manufacturer. Sony Ericsson did not cite reasons for wanting to buy Spice Mobile, but it could make use of any operational facilities that Spice has for its own devices and it could also give Sony Ericsson an immediate presence in the Indian market. Sony Ericsson is seeking to buy a majority stake. Spice Mobile is currently 64% owned by BK Modi Group. Sony Ericsson has had two consecutive financial quarters with lowered results due to softening demand for some of its phones. No deal with Spice has been finalized.

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11th June 2008, 5:36 PM   by Eric M. Zeman

The FCC will undergo another round of testing TV white spaces to see if devices and services can be used on the empty spectrum between analog TV channels without causing interference. The FCC has already conducted several rounds of tests, some successfully, some not. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin hopes that successful testing will lead to defined white-spaces rules by the end of 2008.

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                               Beginning July 14, Verizon Wireless will offer a new messaging bundle to its customers on INpulse prepaid plans. For $10 a month, you can receive unlimited messaging to VZW customers and 250 messages to any other carrier.

Customers who wish to add the new bundle can do it by accessing My Verizon (either from the phone or from computer), by calling customer service at *611 or by visiting any VZW retailer.

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10th July 2008, 10:42 AM   by Eric M. Zeman

Sprint has added another 14 markets across the U.S. that are now capable of using its new QChat-powered Nextel Direct Connect services. The new areas served are: Buffalo, N.Y., Upper Central Valley, Calif., East Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, Central New York, Capital District Region of N.Y., Norfolk, Va., Phoenix, Rochester, N.Y., Vermont, and Utah. These cities/regions bring the areas covered by this new service to 47.

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10th July 2008, 10:02 AM   by Eric M. Zeman

Today Verizon Wireless announced that beginning Monday, July 14, users of its INpulse pre-paid services will have new text messaging plans to choose from. For $10 per month, pre-paid users will be able to send an unlimited number of text messages to other Verizon Wireless subscribers, including both post- and pre-paid, and will also receive an additional 250 text messages to send to recipients at other carriers.

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10th July 2008, 9:51 AM   by Eric M. Zeman

Today Nokia said that nine more companies have joined the Symbian Foundation. The new companies are mobile operators 3, America Movil and TIM; chip firm Marvell; and software developers Aplix, Elektrobit, EMCC Software, Sasken and TietoEnator. The organization aims to consolidate the Symbian operating system to just one platform and organize developers for the platform to meet increased competition in the market.

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A Nokia site reveals the first information on a couple of new CDMA phones. Both seem to be targeting the Chinese market and we don’t believe they will come to the U.S. carriers, but nothing is impossible.

Nokia 3608 is a very simple clamshell, with 1.3-megapixel camera, microSD slot, two color displays and music controls when closed. It is very similar to the 3606 but lacks the AWS band.

Nokia 8208 on the other hand, is an interesting multimedia device. It is dual-slider, similar to the Nokia N95: on the one side it has numeric keypad and on the other, music controls. It features a 2.2-inch QVGA display with up to 16 million colors and 3-megapixel camera. The 150MB of built-in memory is expandable via microSD card, and a music player and FM radio are present as well, the battery is claimed for 20 hours of continuous play and a 3.5mm jack is present.

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9th July 2008, 4:02 PM   by Eric M. Zeman

Today the FCC agreed to extend the deadline for filing comments on the AWS-3 auction by 16 days, with the new deadline set for July 25. The original deadline had been set for today. While it is not the three months that T-Mobile was pushing for, the FCC did give the carrier a little bit more time to continue testing for interference. All replies to comments are now due on August 11.

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