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Samsung is set to officially unveil its new Galaxy Nexus Prime smartphone at an event in Hong Kong on Wednesday morning (Tuesday, 10pm EST). But details about the device appear to have been released early by NTT DoCoMo, a major wireless carrier in Japan. In a tweet published earlier today, DoCoMo said, “the latest Android OS smartphone with Google and Samsung Electronics [will be] announced on October 19 in Hong Kong tomorrow. DoCoMo is almost… Read More

The Land of the Rising Sun isn’t just the home of sushi, Sony, and Super Mario, it’s also host to more bizarre gadgets, strange toys, and Hello-Kitty-branded items than you can even fathom.  Here are a few of our most bizarre finds from that land across the Pacific, proving that technology can be used for good, for evil, and sometimes, for just plain nonsense. Face Bank, $23+ Never have we seen a stronger deterrent to saving money – or closing… Read More

STB Chip Corporation (STBX: PK), a smart battery chipset company, has developed the world's first portable cellular phone-use smart battery pack that extends talk-time battery life for mobile handsets by 800 percent. The company will showcase products at the Consumer Electronics Show 2005 beginning January 6 in Las Vegas, NV. The technology users can charge their cellular phones or other mobile devices while on the move, regardless of… Read More

From Macromedia's press release: Macromedia, Inc. today announced that Macromedia Flash Lite 1.1, the Flash Player profile for mobile phones, is now available for service providers and handset manufacturers around the world. Flash Lite 1.1 is a significant update to 1.0, first used in the NTT DoCoMo 505i handsets introduced last year. The new version has support for the W3C standard SVG Tiny (SVG-T), network connectivity, improved… Read More

The ICB3G is an international conference on fourth-generation (4G) mobile communication systems. It was held on May 26 and 27, in Tokyo. The company said that the test achieved a maximum downstream data rate of 300Mbps with an average rate of 135Mbps in a car running at the speed of 30 kilometers per hour in areas 800m to 1km away from the 4G wireless base stations. NTT DoCoMo aims to realize much faster communication speeds by adding the… Read More

Quote from I4U.com: “KDDI announced a Cellular Phone that receives Digital Terrestrial TV Broadcasting and also NTT DoCoMo showed off a concept TV Phone called onQ. Samsung announced that they will launch a Satellite TV mobile Phone (ZDNet). Those are not the first TV Mobile Phones. Last October NEC introduced the NEC V601N TV Mobile Phone. Samsung also announced the SCH-X820 TV Phone in June of last year. The Nokia 7700… Read More

In 2000, NTT DoCoMo paid $6 billion for a 16 percent stake in AT&T Wireless. As a condition of the Japanese telecom's investment, AT&T wireless agreed to launch third-generation mobile services in 13 of the top 50 U.S. markets by June of 2004. DoCoMo hoped to win new users for its i-mode mobile phone platform in the United States. But when the economy soured the pact was recast to cut the number of cities to four and extend… Read More

A mere 19.9 mm when folded, the P505i handset is the slimmest mobile phone in the mova® 505i series1. The P505i handset is equipped with a miniSDTM Memory Card slot allowing users to store theirfavorite still shots or video clips taken from the P505i's two CCD cameras. Sales of the mova® P505i handset is scheduled to begin on August 8, 2003.The mova® P505i handset contains an advanced one-push call-answer button situated on the… Read More

The agreement enables NEC to offer appealing, downloadable Javaâ„¢ applications to U.S. consumers on its High Definition Mobile+ handsets. Specifically, consumers will be able to enjoy a demo version of Dwango Star Diversionâ„¢ – a top down vertical shooting game – that will come pre-loaded on NEC 515 mobile phones. Dwango will offer Star Diversion exclusively to consumers via the NEC 515 wireless handset for six months after the… Read More