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Nokia and T-Mobile have announced that they will be partnering to bring mobile internet and social communities to mobile devices. T-Mobile will support Nokia's Ovi suite of services, such as Share on Ovi and N-Gage.
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First heard as early as one year ago, the HTC Census revisit the FCC approval for Harris. Not for consumer though, the windows mobile smartphone will support EVDO and WiFi connection to send/receive data with no voice call capability.

According to a recent article on popsci , numbers of technical problems have caused the Census project to be terminated which suppose to go live on 2010.

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Verizon Wireless has announced that it plans to launch the RIM BlackBerry Curve 8330 on May 9th online, with stores getting stock on May 12th. The Curve features a 2 megapixel camera and QWERTY keyboard in a slim package.
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Adobe announced the Open Screen Project, supported by a group of industry leaders, including ARM, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics Inc., Marvell, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Verizon Wireless. The project is dedicated to driving rich Internet experiences across televisions, personal computers, mobile devices, and consumer electronics. 

The Open Screen Project is working to enable a consistent runtime environment — taking advantage of Adobe Flash Player and, in the future, Adobe AIR — that will remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and applications across desktops and devices, including phones, mobile Internet devices (MIDs), and set top boxes. To support this mission, Adobe will continue to open access to Adobe Flash technology, accelerating the deployment of content and rich Internet applications (RIAs). This work will include:

- Removing restrictions on use of the SWF and FLV/F4V specifications
- Publishing the device porting layer APIs for Adobe Flash Player
- Publishing the Adobe Flash Cast protocol and the AMF protocol for robust data services
- Removing licensing fees - making next major releases of Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR for devices free

“As a long time strategic partner of Adobe, we are pleased to help launch the Open Screen Project and applaud Adobe’s move toward removing barriers to adoption of Flash technology in the mobile ecosystem. Nokia will continue to deploy Flash runtime technologies on our devices,” said Lee Williams, Senior Vice President, Nokia Devices Software. “Nokia has a long history of pioneering the deployment of Flash technology in the mobile market and we look forward to exploring future opportunities with Adobe AIR for devices. Today’s announcement will help spur a new generation of rich Internet experiences on mobile devices.”

Is this the 3G iPhone? As usual it is almost impossible to see an Apple prototype before it is announced. The 3G iPhone in the picture looks a bit smaller. we can’t determine if there is a secondary video camera on top of the LCD screen though.

Source [iphon.fr] via [engadget]

Screen Digest believes the market for rich media advertising on mobile will reach $2.79bn (€1.77bn) by 2012, with global mobile TV advertising accounting for the lions share at $2.44bn (€1.55b). In terms of the formats that will deliver this revenue, there are those that will deliver, and those that will disappoint.

By 2012 advertising will account for over 20% of mobile TV revenues, but without its own metrics it will struggle to be considered a stand alone advertising channel. Free-to-air broadcast markets such as Japan and South Korea will offer bigger advertising opportunities than markets where mobile TV will be offered as paid subscriptions to the consumer, such as North America and most of Europe. Mobile Video-on-Demand advertising will be small in comparison, reaching €213m ($336m) in 2012 by supporting extracts from popular programmes and sponsoring recurring content such as news and weather forecasts.

In terms of delivering advertising revenues, Screen Digest believes that games, UGC and music will disappoint. However, these formats will provide a valuable source of innovative marketing opportunities for brands aspiring to connect and interact with their customers. For example, Screen Digest predicts that by 2012 over 60 million ad-funded mobile games will be downloaded per year worldwide.

More ubiquitous than the PC, mobile offers the opportunity to send personalised messages to people in all markets. Advertising sent via the mobile phone reaches the recipient directly, wherever they are, at any time and location, offering effective targeting as well as interactivity and consumer engagement.

David MacQueen, Head of Mobile and co-author of the report concludes “Mobile advertising, and mobile rich media advertising in particular, is a growing industry with a rapidly evolving landscape. Nokia, Microsoft and Google have been very active in developing mobile advertising operations, either internally or through external acquisitions. The potential is huge, and some of the world’s largest companies are vying for control of what they see as the next major advertising medium.”

The advertising executives surveyed in GroupM’s agencies in 25 countries were positive about the capabilities offered by mobile advertising, in particular targeting by location, interactivity and high response rates. To date only 15% had used mobile advertising, either as a stand alone or integrated campaign, underlining Screen Digest’s view that this is an emerging technology. Of those agencies that had trialled mobile advertising, 75% had used mobile content at least once as a promotional item, while 67% had at least once placed an ad in rich media. The reasons given for not incorporating it into ad campaigns included poor user experience and usability, handset limitations and the lack of clear measurement metrics.

Neonode announced the availability of Neonode N2, its touch screen phone, in a new range of colors on the company’s web shop. The new color portfolio holding the lively mix of the colors Lime (green), Azure (blue), Rubine (red) and Roza (pink), will initially be available through the company’s web site and is expected to be rolled out to current markets during the course of the year.

“The release of the color portfolio is a natural extension of a great product that has already sold more than 30,000 units in the last quarter of 2007. We strongly believe that the new colors as well as upcoming accessories will constitute a product assortment that will enhance our coming sales of Neonode N2 even further,” said Per Hellberg, Vice President of Sales at Neonode.

The Neonode N2 has been available in black since its launch in August 2007 and sold 31,000 units in Q4 2007.

The Iqua 603 Sun is an unusual headset. While it is reasonably small, comes with a removable ear loop, and has a rechargeable battery, it is how the battery recharges that makes it different. The Sun, you see, has a solar panel on it.
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Sony Ericsson has launched Project Capuchin, an effort to merge Java ME and Flash Lite. The goal is to make it possible for Java ME programmers to use Flash Lite content in Java ME applications for a more robust mobile experience.
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