Archive for December, 2009
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Motorola Droid smartphone makes Milestone UK debut
The Motorola Milestone – the smartphone known as the Droid across the Atlantic – is now available to UK customers. The handset runs Android 2.0, the latest version of the Google operating system. Smartphone shoppers can't buy the Motorola device on the high street just yet, however...
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Dell makes smartphone moves with new mobile division
Dell is seeking to boost its presence in a smartphone market dominated by firms like Apple, Nokia and RIM with a new mobile phone division. Headed by former Motorola boss Ron Garriques, previously head of Dell's consumer computer business, the new unit will concentrate on the production of mobi...
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Cancer risk ruled out by new mobile phone study
New research into the possible link between mobile phone use and brain tumours contradicts previous studies by dismissing suggestions that prolonged use of the devices is unsafe. Scientists in Scandinavia concluded that using a mobile phone for over ten years does not increase the risk of an indivi...
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Nokia plans Symbian overhaul and Maemo 6 mobile computer for 2010
An overhaul of the Symbian operating system that powers many of its smartphones and the release of a handset based on the Linux-derived Maemo were two of the main plans for 2010 unveiled by Nokia at its Capital Markets Day this week. The mobile phone giant's CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, said nex...
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Mobile app for Apple iPhone launched by NHS
A new mobile app for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch has been released by Britain's own NHS, and it's designed to help people avoid drinking too much over the festive season and beyond. Called the Drinks Tracker, the mobile app is available for free on iTunes, while the health service is ...
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Nokia dampens rumours about Linux Maemo smartphones
Doubt has been cast on recent speculation that Nokia plans to move its high-end smartphones from the Symbian operating system to the Linux-derived Maemo. It's now claimed the world's biggest mobile phone manufacturer will release just one Maemo handset next year. A source told Reuters: &q...
