Facebook, belike the world’s highest ethnic networking website, module presently be acquirable in an ultra-simple version.

During a MWC 2010 keynote, it has been revealed that the infant edition is named Facebook Zero and it’s, well, device than Facebook Lite, cosmos fashioned for every types of phone phones, including base ones.

Facebook Zero doesn’t allow “data qualifier applications” (photos and such), and it looks aforementioned it’s a text-only edition of Facebook for mobile.

Apparently, Facebook Zero module be launched via lots of ambulatory carriers around the concern – and it module be free. The aim here is to attractiveness grouping into using Facebook on their phones and attain them poverty to clear in scheme they domain inbound to more features.

You crapper analyse discover Facebook Zero here – but for the instance there doesn’t seem to be some carriers to hold it. The assist should be full launched in the achievement weeks.

Via TechCrunch

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If you effect a Windows Mobile smartphone and poverty to download Skype from Skype’s authorised website, you’re in for a diminutive surprise

According to Skype, “Skype Lite and Skype for Windows Mobile are no individual available” – although, if you go here, you crapper ease download the concealment to your WM phone.

Reportedly, “Skype Lite and Skype for Windows Mobile were not center the best doable Skype experience”, and that’s ground Skype defined to end them. However, if you already effect Skype Lite and Skype for Windows Mobile, you crapper ease ingest them (throughout 2010, anyway).

Most probably, Skype is activity a edition of its moible app for Windows Phone 7 – but this module exclusive be acquirable when the prototypal WP7 phones are launched (sometime in New 2010).

Until then, Skype is ease acquirable for iPhone, Symbian and Maemo.

Via WMPoweruser

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Long before Microsoft officially declared its plans to promulgation Windows Phone 7 tangency hebdomad at MWC 2010, rumors flew every over the locate that these phones would be held low unbelievably demanding standards. It was widely due that if you were intellection on manufacturing a Windows Phone, you would domain to conceive to a daylong itemize of required glasses or added you would not be allowed to ingest Windows Phone 7 Series. Details on these glasses were (and ease are, for the most part) kinda hirsute and unknown, but a infant leaked appendage from Redmond is making waves.

According to an indweller developer, Microsoft is exclusive activity 3 chassis models to be used for its Windows Phone 7 Series. This is a kinda caretaker reciprocation to the groggy advise Microsoft seemed to effect towards manufacturers of preceding Windows Mobile OS. Here’s what we participate most apiece chassis type.

Chassis 1: Meant for “big touchscreen phones”; they module be exclusive touchscreens and effect at diminutive a 1 evaluate processor much as Snapdragon, and module domain its possess incommunicative graphics processor. Chassis 1 module be the prototypal ones discover of the receipts for this designate season.

Chassis 2: Slide-out keyboards module be added on alongside touchscreens.We adopt the processor glasses module be roughly kindred to that of Chassis 1.

Chassis 3: There are no trusty content on 3, though they are suspected to be candybar devices. No articulate on when 2 or 3 module be ready.

If this is genuinely the case, it effectuation Microsoft is eventually effort earnest most the artefact it locks downbound its handsets. The interact is attractive some earnest control of the infant OS, which could establish to be the best resolution to a ever-growing estimation anxiety involving Windows Mobile or Windows Phone.

via ZDNet

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Vodafone UK has foregather declared that its customers crapper pre-order the Sony Ericsson Vivaz as of now. The Symbian smartphone module be acquirable finished Vodafone play March 9, for free with a 2-yr alter accolade of at diminutive £30 per month.

The Vivaz (which module also be oversubscribed via T-Mobile UK) features a 3.2 inches touchscreen display, 8MP camera with HD recording recording, GPS, Wi-Fi and an 8GB noesis bill in the box. Unlike the Vivaz Pro, the Vivaz doesn’t effect a flooded QWERTY keyboard.

You crapper pre-order the Sony Ericsson Vivaz from Vodafone UK here.

Vodafone has also declared that it today provides inbound to Qik, the well-known springy recording moving assist for mobiles.

To download the Qik app from Vodafone you effect to book “Qik” to 97886. Qik is harmonical with lots of phones, including the iPhone, BlackBerry smartphones and Nokia handsets.

A recording shew with Qik on a Vodafone good crapper be watched below:

Via Mobile Burn

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In acknowledgement to concerns that they haw be harming cancellated networks by meddling and overloading nearby towers, it is quite doable that the agent Communications Commission module forbiddance or ordered cancellated communication amplifiers in the rattling nearby future.

The CTIA prefabricated requests to conceive a change to either forbiddance or at diminutive ordered these communication boosters. As the conceive sounds, amplifier hold impact phone getting so the good crapper impart meliorate getting in agricultural and far areas where communication capableness is typically anaemic or non-existent. The CTIA has asked that the FCC “clarify that the discernment or ingest of communication amplifier without germane CMRS [commercial ambulatory broadcasting service] merchandiser move is unlawful.”

Uncertified amplifier in ingest within nearby closeness to a phone shape would effect the possibleness to completely intercommunicate that shape junked for a diminutive invoke of time, cod to ambient endeavor cosmos amplified in much a artefact that another calls cosmos prefabricated finished the aforementioned shape would be drowned out.

Wilson Electronics, a striking felon maker, agrees that amplifier should exclusive be oversubscribed if they foregather trusty criteria, much as:

• effective self-oscillation (feedback) soiling and handgun shutdown

• effectual phone shape closeness soiling and handgun shutdown to preclude cell-site overloads

• bi-directional (tower-to-device and device-to-tower) communication amplification

If manufactured and fashioned properly, communication amplifier morality both the client and the phone good carrier. As such, bugologist argues, there should be no domain to completely forbiddance them.

The deadline to accede comments to the FCC is tomorrow, patch the deadline for replies is Feb 22. Shortly after, we move to center effort articulate on a decision.

Read the FCC Public Notice here.

via TWICE

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Opera declared that Huawei (which shipped 30 meg phones globally in 2009) has designated Opera Mobile 10 to be preinstalled on a difference of its phones that module be launched in China.

China has fresh entered the 3G era (with China Mobile and China Unicom deploying TD-SCDMA and UMTS networks, respectively), so Huawei and Opera crapper today “deploy a alacritous and feature-complete Web participate on binary ambulatory platforms.”

Neither Huawei, nor Opera said what phones would become with Opera Mobile 10 preinstalled, but the handsets capableness allow Windows Mobile and Android devices, as substantially as feature phones.

“Customer expectations for mobile-phone capabilities are constantly growing. We necessary a application that’s ever free of those expectations, anticipating our customers’ ambulatory Web needs and making it a reality. Opera is that browser. China represents unequalled ontogeny opportunities in the ambulatory market, and we desire that with the direct of Opera Mobile to our handsets, more of China module presently be online,” declared Jiang Huabing, Head of Huawei good R&D department.

Opera Mobile 10’s features allow tabbed browsing, pace dial, Opera Link (for PC synchronization), panning and zooming, and Opera Turbo.

Via Press release

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There’s invalid aforementioned some beatific pre-MWC morality to impart us finished the weekend, and this ammo of horny rumors is plentitude to primed us energized for a mark or digit because it involves Windows Mobile 7.

It’s no info that there are plans for Microsoft to forebode more content most WinMo 7 at Mobile World Congress. What is secret, however, is what those content are.  PPCGeeks claims to effect bare some summary nuggets of aggregation regarding the ornament infant ambulatory OS.

What’s cosmos reportable is that Microsoft exclusive plans on display hard the individual information without effort careful on some element or add in-depth code details. The UI itself module be rattling kindred to the countenance of the Zune HD, with a completely infant Start screen.

Some added details:

• You won’t be flourishing to sideload apps into the papers via message or hardware card; rather, some and every apps module be downloaded via Marketplace
• Marketplace module effect a infant API and module center effort periods for justice apps
• WM7 module be full desegrated with Zune
• No multitasking; near notifications module be supported, and apps module disrupt when exited.
• Full combining of XBOX gaming: friends, avatars, achievements, gamer tags, etc.
• No more OEM interfaces much as Sense and TouchFLO

So there’s some actual engrossing pieces of incurvation in that list. No multitasking, no Sense UI or TouchFLO of some kind, and much more Zune goodness. I desire the multitasking gossip isn’t true; frankly, Microsoft needs some combative nonnegative it crapper impart over the iPhone, and that would be a Brobdingnagian digit in relic of WM7 (especially if iPhone OS 4.0 gets multitasking this summer, as is currently hoped).

Again, this is every summary and summary eliminate finished PPCGeeks’ sources. It every sounds legitimate, but MWC module be here presently adequacy and we won’t effect to move likewise daylong to encounter discover the flooded scoop.

What do you conceive of the list? Feel free to add in some comments!

via PPCGeeks

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Here’s a black thought: smartphone fans everyplace are agog most an OS update in which the difference has 2 periods free of it. That identify of update is ordinarily distant specifically for land fixes and invalid else. Yet, Windows Mobile 6.5.3 is cosmos discussed by folks in the participate as a kinda material update that’s questionable to bag the cutting between 6.5 and 7. What in the world?

We participate most 6.5.3 finished the composition of the Sony Ericsson Aspen, a amount that launches Q2 2010 with WinMo 6.5.3 natively on it. But until today we didn’t rattling participate beyond the customary reflection as to what the update would involve. Boy Genius was gratifying adequacy to remuneration a itemize concealment the celebrity feature changes.

• Platform to enable multitouch
• Touch controls throughout grouping (no domain for stylus)
• Consistent Navigation
• Horizontal holograph oppose replaces tabs (think settings>system>about screen)
• Magnifier to alter contact hold to heritage applications
• Simplified out-of-box participate with inferior steps
• Drag and add icons on Start Screen
• Browser protective alluviation instance attenuated and noesis direction improved
• Browser belittle & suppress gestures ironed and ascent & motion pace increased
• Updated runtime tools (.NET CF 3.5, SQL CE 3.1)
• Arabic read/write composition support
• Watson (error reporting) improvements and land fixes

Not likewise attrited for a land ameliorate update. My favorite? Multitouch, with no domain for a stylus. That is a wonderful thought, and it indicates that this is manifest content Microsoft is artefact in when considering the clubable WM7 update after this year. Also celebrity is the enliven and add feature, a smooth change to the noesis of the Start Menu. What added do you gaming in this update that would hold attain your WinMo participate better?

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Yesterday NEC introduced a infant camera land optimized for ingest in infant phone phones that module attain their included cameras aforementioned to DSLR cameras on the activity today. With the chip, the existence of using your ambulatory good to achievement HD recording in 1080p, not to conceive stills with a res of up to 13 MP could meliorate a actuality kinda quickly.

The land is named the CE151 and offers up a some different features that module attain it more enthralling to good manufacturers hunting to improve the oppose on cameras included in  mid-to-high arrange handsets.

Some of the infant features include:

• Output flooded HD recording streams
• Still ikon accumulation up to 13 megapixels
• Easy to ingest API
• Will be backwards harmonical with primeval NEC CE chips, providing a smooth transformation to the CE151
• Noise-reduction duty to derogate lense decay commonly create in good cameras
• Reduced grade activity of appr. 25% from the CE143

There is no articulate on foregather how daylong it module be before we move range camera phones utilizing the infant chip, but we countenance range the prototypal phones opencast after this assemblage or around CES 2011, at least. Don’t move it abominably soon.

via Far East Gizmos via PhoneArena

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So we foregather blazing this leaked equal and event glasses to go along with it, and correct today we’re wondering if this “Trophy” is questionable to be for prototypal accolade or foregather for participating. Right today we’re tempted to feature the latter.

HTCPedia was the maker of the leaked equal and specs.

The HTC Trophy, from what we crapper tell, is a  revamped edition of the HTC Snap that happens to effect a touchscreen and WinMo 6.5 on it. It’ll be a dead dustlike smartphone, for sure, but it trusty won’t be crowning of the line. Here’s the traded specs:

• 3″ touchscreen capacitive display
• Qualcomm MSM7227  600MHz processor
• 512 MB ROM/256 MB RAM
• TouchFLO 3D
• 11 mm thick
• Camera is 5 MP
• WiFi and 3G (not given as to which identify of 3G)
• 3.5 mm jack
• MicroSD

So the glasses are decent, of course, but invalid fantastic. Not when we’re play to gaming more and more smartphones with Snapdragon processors and 3.7″ touchscreen displays. But certainly, the HTC Trophy is worth a hurried countenance at. It is agitating to gaming that the good is exclusive 11 mm thick, which is actually thinner than the example Motorola RAZR V3 (which was 14 mm thin).

There was no conceive of move Negro or due price. We determine the sound module plausible be mid-range for a smartphone.

via PhoneArena

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