Telstra First To Distribute Blackberry Bold In Oz Telstra is set to be the first company to provide business users with the new Blackberry model. According to the company, its first shipment of BlackBerry Bold smartphones arrived in Australia over the weekend, flown in especially from Europe to meet high demand from customers.
HTC Wobble Looking For A Diamond Result With Telstra Struggling mobile phone Company HTC is attempting to go up against the Apple iPhone with their new HTC Diamond. Last week shares in the Company crashed as HTC tries to compete head on with Apple.
Windows Live Messenger For BlackBerry Has Landed According to the RIM BlackBerry website, it looks like the world's most popular instant messaging network can now be accessed on most popular smartphone.
New iPhone Packed With Business Apps & Not Just For Geeks As hundreds of iPhone tragics packed Optus and Vodafone stores in Sydney this morning to get their hands on the new iPhone 3G, Apple announced that more than 500 native applications will be available through the App Store, some squarely positioned in the business PDA environment.
Myer Snares 3G iPhone Deal Myer’s retail jingle may well say that ‘Myer is my store’, but as of today, Myer may well be an iPhone store as the retailer launches a loyalty program that will enable Myer One customers to pre-register for the iPhone through Vodafone.
Vodafone Releases iPhone Pricing Similar To Optus Vodafone Australia today announced that Apple's iPhone 3G will be available on a range of new caps that it says “reflect expected voice and data usage from launch on July 11”.
Nokia Releases Caring & Sharing GPS Phone The Nokia 6220 classic comes with a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and Carl Zeiss optics as well as A-GPS with geotagging, this full-featured device makes snapping and sharing pictures online easy and more fun than ever before.
Samsung Launches GPS Multimedia Phone Say goodbye to roadmaps with the Samsung i560 with state-of-the-art GPS technology. The GPS navigation experience with the bonus Route 66 software includes turn-by-turn voice guidance and a navigation kit.
Local Reseller Starts Selling iPhones Why wait for the Apple store to open, when a local reseller yesterday has already started taking orders from local buyers.
Nokia Turns Up Too Late For iPhone Party They say its better to be late than never, but really, you would think those long Scandinavian winters would have given the Nokia R & D team time to come up with an iPhone alternative much earlier instead of a prototype that will be released sometime next year.
Apple iPhone To Cost $1000? According to an intrepid reporter from APC magazine who went snooping behind the counter at his local Domayne store and took a picture of an inventory price list which revealed that a 16Gb iPhone will leave you a shekel short of a cool $1000.
HTC To Apple: We Dont Care About Your iPhone! According to reports, smartphone maker HTC doesn't see the more affordable yet more powerful iPhone 3G as a threat, with the company's CEO Peter Chou going as far as saying Apple's new handset will have "limited impact" on HTC's sales.
Apple Rebrands Mac Online You gotta give it to Steve Jobs and Apple, if you are going to launch cool new products, you might as well take on the whole global IT sector at the same time.
iPhone Just In Time As Apple Shares Fall Talk about good timing. As Steve Jobs was launching the iPhone, the company’s share price must have been somewhere in the back of his mind as Apples shares feel 2.2 per cent on the New York Stock Exchange.
Samsung Launches iPhone Rival It looks like everyone wants a piece of Apple as Samsung has launched a new touch-screen smartphone only three hours before Apple was unveiling its new version of the iPhone.
iPhone To Earn Apple $50 Billion As Smartphones Boom According to Gartner, the global smartphone rankings have Nokia first with a share of more than 45 per cent, and Blackberry-makers RIM come in a distant second with a share of 13.4 per cent.
Affordable Smartphones From I-mate I-mate has released the Jama 101 and 201, two affordable smartphones which the company claims, will ‘appeal to the savvy consumer, as well as enterprise and small business customers.’
Telstra And Palm Hand Customers Choice According to M2Newswire and Comtex, Palm has announced that its Palm Centro smartphone is available to Telstra Pre-Paid customers in Australia.
Telstra Offers Pre-Paid Palm Smartphone Palm has confirmed that its Centro smartphone will be available to Telstra customers. This ‘smallest and lightest’ Palm phone will be available on May 26 to Telstra pre-paid customers for $299.
BlackBerry May Be Sexy But iPhone Will Be Hot According to Vodafone, Australia’s love affair with BlackBerry smartphones grew 74 per cent last year and the company predicts the Australian mobile email market will more than double over the next 12 months.
HTC Challenges Apple With 2 Million Phones Prediction According to a number of reports, a buoyant and some would say feisty HTC says that it expects sales of its Touch Diamond smartphone to top two million units in 2008, and bringing a war with Apple just that one step closer.
RIM & Microsoft Sign BlackBerry Agreement Microsoft and Research In Motion (RIM) have signed an agreement to provide Microsoft Windows Live services on the BlackBerry platform.
New BlackBery Smartphone For Crack Addicts Just in time to take Apple on in the iPhone market BlackBerry has launched a smartphone of its own, which should please addicted BlackBerry owners.
Philips Invents Sexy iPhone Killer According to overseas reports, rumours of the latest handset hoping to steal some of the iPhone’s thunder have surfaced, and this time the latest contender for the crown is Philips.
Touch Panel Market Growing At Light Speed According to a recent DisplaySearch report, the global touch panel market is on track to grow to $US3.3 billion and 660 million units by 2015, and its mainly thanks to the iPhone.
You Say iPhone, I Say Touchphone Even though we all knew that smartphones were going to be winners, not many envisaged that as consumers, we would be literally bombarded with so many different variants of these increasingly ubiqitous devices.
Vodafone Crows Over iPhone Grab It seems the smiles over at Vodafone Australia are bigger than the one at Luna Park after the telco managed to snatch the much sought-after Apple iPhone deal from right under the jaws of both Optus and Telstra.
Is Apple Set To Squash The Blackberry? According to a report in toptechnews.com, Apple's iPhone has “dramatically shaken up the smartphone market – especially for the leader, Research in Motion”, maker of the Blackberry.
Yes Optus Gets The iPhone According to the well respected and often spot on web site, appleinsider.com, Apple may use Australia as a test-bed and sell the iPhone in a non-exclusive deal, although under a very different agreement than has been done before with other carriers.
Apple To Release $199 iPhone Fortune Magazine has suggested that US telco AT&T, which has an exclusive five-year deal to sell the iPhone in the US, is prepared to sell the device for as low as $US199 for customers who sign a two-year service contract.
HTC Launches PDA With GPS The HTC P3470 PDA phone provides users with not only mobile communication but also a fully-functional satellite navigation system.
HTC Launches A Shift In Mobile Computing HTC has released the Shift, a portable and lightweight device in mobile computing, powered by Windows Vista Business Edition.
iPhone Will Bleed Palm And Blackberry According to a report in Macworld, Palm and RIM's BlackBerry should be prepared to lose market share to Apple's iPhone.
Is Nokia About To Go Head To Head With Apple? According to reports from the US, it seems Finnish phone giant Nokia has been working on a touch-centric device to compete with Apples iPhone and that the device has been codenamed the "Tube."
FreeRange Hatches Free RSS For PDAs FreeRange has launched a free version of its long-standing RSS news reader supporting up to 10 feeds for the BlackBerry and other smart phone platforms, including Windows Mobile, the Palm OS and J2ME.
Panasonic Says TV Screens In Phones Story Is “A Hoax” It seems Aprils Fools Day is getting a bit of an extension this year. Last week, a number of online sites (except for channelnews.com.au) reported that Panasonic was going to start putting tiny LCD TV screens into mobile phones this year.
Intel Invents The Atom And Blows Microsoft Away At the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Shanghai last week, all the hot talk was about the Atom processor, however it was Microsoft which was feeling left out in the cold.
Microsoft Looking To Grab Chinese 3G Market Microsoft says shipments to China of handsets with its software will more than double in the next year amid an expected boom in demand for Web access once the country launches 3G wireless services.
Blackberry Sales Go Ballistic And Its All Apples Fault It seems that cooperation in the IT sector has taken on a new, if unintended form, as analysts claim that the success of Apple's iPhone has helped its bitter rival BlackBerry more than double profits for its maker Research in Motion (RIM).
Microsoft Releases Mobile OS Version 6.1 This new version shows that far from being just an upgrade, version 6.1 has had a significant overhaul of the Internet Explorer Mobile browser, together with many other enhancements, including threaded text messaging.
The Million Faces Of BlackBerry More than one million BlackBerry users have downloaded the Facebook application. This is after Research In Motion launched this BlackBerry application at the CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment Show last October 2007.
Telstra Launches New i-Mate Smartphones Telstra and i-mate have announced the new i-mate Ultimate 8502 and the i-mate Ultimate 9502. These new smartphones will run on the new Next G network and promises to provide users fast upload and download speeds.
First Sony Ericsson Windows Smartphone Coming Sony Ericsson and Microsoft are to cooperate in making smartphones, revealing the world's first Sony Ericsson phone to use the Windows Mobile platform, iin what appears to be a joint move to take on Apple's highly successful iPhone.
New Palm Smartphone Embraces Windows Palm has unveiled the Treo 500 – a 3G smartphone that runs on Windows Mobile 6, features a full QWERTY keyboard, large screen, and offers a ‘comprehensive multimessaging’ functionality.
4 Million iPhones But None For OZ Yet There is no news yet as to when the iPhone will be launched in Australia. However, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said the computer maker had sold more than 4 million iPhones worldwide in the 200 days since the company's trend-setting smartphone was launched.
Telstra, Motorola Flag New Breed Handheld Devices Telstra and Motorola have taken a page out of start-up in the business Datawind’s book, with a ‘made-for-messaging’ pocketable computer that resembles a PDA without the confusing office applications.
i-mate Launches New PDA Range i-mate has unveiled four new mobile devices with an emphasis on customisation and security. The new phones will be available early next year.
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