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MOTOROKR phones come with U2
Author: +866.com6 Mar
Motorola and Universal Music singed a new agreement that allowed the handset maker to pre-load, on four of its MOTOROKR phones, U2’s brand new album called No Line on the Horizon.
The phones are MOTOROKR EM35, EM30, EM28 and EM25, and, unfortunately, they will be offered only in Latin America with the latest U2 album.
Apart from having all the tracks from No Line on the Horizon, the MOTOROKR handsets will also come with an exclusive digital song, the “Get On Your Boots” video, wallpapers and ringtones.
(MOTOROKR EM35)
This is not the first time when Motorola launches handsets with pre-loaded music in Latin America: back in September, the American company released the W388 and W231, both of which came with music from NXZero, a popular Brazilian rock band.
Via Motorola
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NAM HTC Touch Cruise with Footprints passes the FCC
Author: +866.com15 Feb
A North American version of the brand new HTC Touch Cruise (also known as HTC Touch Cruise with Footprints or HTC Touch Cruise 09) was recently approved by the FCC, meaning that we might see it soon on sale in the US.
The NAM Touch Cruise comes with quad-band GSM connectivity (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz) and dual-band HSDPA connectivity (850 / 1900 MHz). This makes it suitable for a release via AT&T – but, of course, it doesn’t mean the carrier will actually want to bring the handset into its family of products.
According to its user manual, the Touch Cruise is sold together with a 1GB microSD card that includes “map content for bundled GPS software”, which is, obviously, a good thing.
As for the rest of Cruise’s specs and features, you can view them here.
The smartphone’s European version (with 900 / 2100 HSDPA) will be available for purchase starting this spring, at a price that was not announced yet.
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Amazon to Bring Kindle Books to Your Phone
Author: +866.com7 Feb
Do you love the idea of reading books on your phone and hate the idea of spending loads of cash on a Kindle? Soon, Amazon hopes to bring you the best of both worlds.
Amazon, which is already expected to expand its Kindle brand to a new model sometime soon, has just made known its intent to also bring Kindle books to the mobile phone world.
The company has not announced which phones the Kindle collection will be offered on, and we are eager to hear. Frankly, we anticipate the iPhone to be one of the first phones since firstly Amazon already has an app available on the App Store, and secondly because of the popularity of iPhone e-book readers. It would be the perfect market to test out.
The only known fact at this point is that Amazon is planning on bringing the Kindle book collection to phones. Of course, we will be on top of this story and bring you the latest updates.
Question for the comments: When this is offered on your phone, will you be stepping up to purchase Kindle books?
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Nokia N97 might hit the UK at the end of March
Author: +866.com19 Jan
If you’re in the UK and don’t like the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic but still want a touchscreen Nokia handset, you should wait for the end of March to come, when it’s said that the brand new N97 will be released.
The online retailer Play.com lists the Nseries smartphone as “due for release on 31/03/2009”, with the price tag of 479.99 GBP (about $708).
That’s surely a hefty price, but let’s not forget that N97 is not only the first Nseries to have a touchscreen display, but also the one that offers the widest range of features – you can read about them here.
Of course, the March 31 release date might be pushed back, but at least we know that the UK will get the new Nseries sometime this spring.
In case you want to see a set of live pics with Nokia N97, you can check out the UnwiredView report from CES 2009.
Via N95 Users
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Keyboardless Palm Centro 2 with webOS in the making?
Author: +866.com12 Jan
You have to admit it, the brand new Palm Pre and the webOS platform have about all it takes to bring back Palm’s lost glory.
And since one new smartphone is not enough, Palm surely wants to come up with at least another one. In fact, rumors have it that the Sunnyvale company is already working on the second webOS-powered smartphone.
PalmInfocenter says that this might be the Palm Centro 2, which will be released via Sprint (like the Pre), but sometimes in the fall – thus months after the Pre.
The weird thing about the Centro 2 is that it may not have a hardware keyboard at all, but only a large touchscreen. So, could it look like the mockup below?
I hope it will actually look better 
But we’ll see about that when Palm decides to divulge some official details about its second webOS handset, be it the Centro 2 or not.
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Best Buy starts selling refurb iPhones for $50 less than new ones
Author: +866.com7 Jan
Used iPhone 3Gs are now available directly from Best Buy, at a price that’s $50 less than what brand new units go for.
Whatever way you look at it, this is certainly good news, especially for those who haven’t been convinced of dropping a somewhat heavy $200 for a new phone (with a required two-year contract).
Best Buy says they are doing this in order to appeal to cost-conscious shoppers, according to a report from Reuters. It sounds like a pretty good deal to me.
Both 8GB and 16GB models of Apple’s iPhone 3G are available, with the 8GB model going for $149, and the 16GB model going for $249. Not included in the price is a two-year AT&T contract.
Aside from directly buying the iPhone 3G, owners of the first-generation iPhone also have the option to upgrade their handsets.
And if those refurb units are too shabby for anyone, brand new units are of course available as well.
Via Reuters