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Already available in some Verizon stores, the wintery light blue colored version of the LG Chocolate finally has some live photo evidence. The addition of the new color to the others already available (Original Black, Black Cherry and Blue Mint), the Chocolate 8550 now comes in a selection of four flavors. The light blue version has the same price as the other Chocolate models, only $99.99, so it makes for a good gift for the upcoming holiday season.
Worldwide mobile telephone subscriptions have reached 3.3 billion, which is equivalent to half of the world's population. It's taken only 26 years for cell phones to conquer half of the globe. "For children growing up today the issue is not whether they will get a mobile phone, it's a question of when," says Mark Newman, head of research at Informa (the research company who released the information) said. The constant fall of cell phone prices and the massive availability has turned the mobile market into the fastest growing business sector seen in modern times. No doubt this figure will continue to grow.
Publisher's note: don't forget that carriers make money on the subscriptions - not the phones. also, there is a number of people who have more than one subscription, but they are a small minority.
UK mobile regulator Ofcom has announced a new set of rules that will make it easier for users to switch mobile phone providers. Currently, it takes users up to a few days to transfer their phone numbers and such, until the new service is finally up and running.
The new rules means that these wait times will be shaved down to a total of about two hours. Ofcom initially wanted to change the standard transfer time to two days, down from the old five days, but decided to take it even a step further to help make customers lives easier. If mobile companies are worried about not having enough time to implement such a system, don't worry. The rule doesn't have to be fully implemented until September 1, 2009. And something tells us mobile companies aren't going to be rushing to implement the new rule…
These new Sony Ericsson concept phones were posted by a user over at Esato. It's phones like these that make us wish we had a magic lamp and genie, just so we could wish them to be true. Included is the gorgeous premium emotional series concept Z830. Check out these fake specs:
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The vast majority of phones sold are without GPS capability. What happens if you're lost and everyone you call has no idea where the heck you are. There's always stopping at a gas station, but are you willing to lose that much pride? Google has rolled out a new mobile phone locater service which allows phones without GPS support to still be pinpointed within a 3 mile radius, using the wireless carrier's cell towers location. The new service called "My Location," simply requires users to press zero on a mobile handset equipped with the new software, at which point the location will be displayed as a blue dot on the Google map.
Most television services now have a integrated TV programming interface, but what if you aren't at your TV and want to know what's going to be on tonight at 8? If you have a Helio phone, you're in luck. They've just added a new TV Guide application which shows you what's coming up on your favorite channels. You can also forward an upcoming program schedule to one of your friends if you think they might be interested in watching something. A 30-day rental of the app costs $2.99 and is available now.
Word on the street is that the Samsung Ultra Smart F700 is making a jump to the Malaysian mobile market, also possibly moving to other Asian countries. Currently only available in Germany and the U.K., the smooth spring-loaded slide phone offers a haptic touch screen display with a smooth spring opening mechanism for a solid opening and closing of the slider. The phone has gotten some good reviews in the past, with most negative comments spawning from the phone's glossy surface, which evidently shows fingerprints a little too well. According to Samsung, the F700 could make the jump to more Asian countries by early next year.
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