Nokia appears to have mistakenly let a couple of Chinese cats the out of the bag a bit early. The new 8208,destined for China Unicom, was spotted today on a public Nokia website, and we've got the low-down and photos on this new CDMA 3G fashion cell phone.
NTT DOCOMO announced today that on August 1 it will launch the BlackBerry Internet Service for direct connection to the Internet without the need for a dedicated server. The service can be used with the BlackBerry 8707h, which is being sold in Japan at the moment.
The BlackBerry Internet Service will cost 3,045 yen per month (tax included). The FOMA basic monthly fee and normal packet charges will apply separately. In addition, a discount packet-billing plan to be launched on September 1, called the BlackBerry Data Transmission Package, will enable users to transmit up to 80,000 packets of data per month for a flat charge of 1,680 yen. Data exceeding this limit will be charged at 0.0525 yen per packet.
DOCOMO will demonstrate the new BlackBerry Internet Service during Wireless Japan 2008 at Tokyo Big Sight from July 22 to 24.
Joikusoft Oy Ltd. today announces JoikuSpot Premium Edition, which allows S60 mobile phones be converted to mobile WLAN (Wi-Fi) HotSpots. According to the Joikusoft Chairman and Founder Mr. Tom Ojala “Premium Edition represents a major milestone in our roadmap. Premium will bring a long awaited corporate intraweb (VPN) and email protocol support to the JoikuSpot software allowing business level use of the solution.”
JoikuSpot enables S60 Smartphone to share it’s 3G internet connection wirelessly over WLAN with any compatible WLAN device such as laptop, other Smartphone or e.g. Apple iPod touch. Multiple devices can connect to JoikuSpot in parallel and seamlessly share the same 3G internet connection. JoikuSpot acts thus as an internet gateway to external WLAN devices.
The Samsung WEP700 Bluetooth headset gets reviewed by our sister site, DigitalBurn. Virgin Mobile announces a new entry-level handset, the TNT! Apple is launching the MobileMe service a few days before the iPhone 3G launch, and the AppStore might open early as well.
Only 3% of people recycle their mobile phones despite the fact that most have old devices lying around at home that they no longer want, according to a global consumer survey released by Nokia today. Three out of every four people added that they don’t even think about recycling their devices and nearly half were unaware that it is even possible to do so.
The survey is based on interviews with 6,500 people in 13 countries including Finland, Germany, Italy, Russia, Sweden, UK, United Arab Emirates, USA, Nigeria, India, China, Indonesia and Brazil. It was conducted to help Nokia find out more about consumers’ attitudes and behaviors towards recycling, and inform the company’s take-back programs and efforts to increase recycling rates of unused mobile devices.
Markus Terho, Director of Environmental Affairs, Markets, at Nokia said, “It is clear from this survey that when mobile devices finally reach the end of their lives that very few of them are recycled. Many people are simply unaware that these old and unused mobiles lying around in drawers can be recycled or how to do this. Nokia is working hard to make it easier, providing more information and expanding our global take-back programs.” He added, “If each of the three billion people globally owning mobiles brought back just one unused device we could save 240,000 tonnes of raw materials and reduce greenhouse gases to the same effect as taking 4 million cars off the road. By working together, small individual actions could add up to make a big difference.”
The findings highlight that despite the fact that people on average have each owned around five phones, very few of these are being recycled once they are no longer used. Only 3% said they had recycled their old phone. Yet very few old devices, 4%, are being thrown into landfill. Instead the majority, 44%, are simply being kept at homes never used. Others are giving their mobiles another life in different ways, one quarter are passing on their old phones to friends or family, and 16% of people are selling their used devices particularly in emerging markets.
Globally, 74% of consumers said they don’t think about recycling their phones, despite the fact that around the same number, 72%, think recycling makes a difference to the environment. This was consistent across many different countries with 88% of people in Indonesia not considering recycling unwanted devices, 84% in India, and 78% of people in Brazil, Sweden, Germany and Finland.
Mr Terho said, “Using the best recycling technology nothing is wasted. Between 65 - 80 per cent of a Nokia device can be recycled. Plastics that can’t be recycled are burnt to provide energy for the recycling process, and other materials are ground up into chips and used as construction materials or for building roads. In this way nothing has to go to landfill.”
Many people interviewed for the survey, even if they were aware that a device could be recycled, did not know how to go about doing this. Two thirds said they did not know how to recycle an unwanted device and 71% were unaware of where to do this.
Nokia has collection points for unwanted mobile devices in 85 countries around the world, the largest voluntary scheme in the mobile industry. People can drop off their old devices at Nokia stores and almost 5,000 Nokia Care Centers. To find their nearest take back point people can visit www.nokia.com/werecycle.
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 Photo: Motorola Ming A1600 and A1800 Launched in China Photo 1 |
Motorola today launched the Ming A1600 and A1800 in China, both adding new and enhanced GPS, smart handwriting technology, and business and multimedia functions. The A810 is an entry-level PDA candy bar design.
The A1600 and A1800 features a distinctive transparent flip cover. The A1600 is equipped with a 3.2-megapixel camera with auto-focus and panorama capability and a camera scan talking dictionary, while the A1800 supports CDMA/GSM dual-mode dual standby, integrated incoming call/SMS firewall and a 3.0-megapixel auto-focus camera.
Advanced stand-alone touch-screen GPS helps users find their destination, supporting both independent satellite positioning and GPS positioning. The A1600 and A1800 also position and navigate independently like specialized GPS devicea without mobile network support.
When the exact address is unknown, the A1600 can find the destination by sending an MMS of landmark buildings.
Both devices come with a 1GB microSD card preloaded with the latest electronic maps of the Chinese mainland (not including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan). Motorola will offer a free one-time upgrade of the electronic maps on the A1800, while owners of the A1600 can also take advantage of this upgrade for a small fee.
The large 2.4-inch touch screen provides a clear and comfortable writing experience with rapid cursive Chinese handwriting input. With smart learning (A1600 only), prediction and memory capabilities, the handhelds learn and remember writing habits and increase input speeds.
"Designed specifically to reflect the Chinese preference for writing characters by hand, our pen-based PDA series has met with incredible success in China," said Ray Yam, Vice President, Motorola Mobile Devices, China.
They also offer a suite of mobile business applications, including email, Internet access (A1600 only), a business card reader, Kingsoft translation software, and a Office document reader.
With a 3.2-megapixel camera, the A1600 makes it easy to snap, save and share pictures. The panorama capability can piece together multiple shots taken across a horizon and make a 300 degree panoramic photo.
When reading English documents, the A1600 can scan and translate the unknown words. The integrated talking dictionary can scan characters, recognize the words and pronounce them.
With its CDMA/GSM dual mode, the Ming A1800 supports both SIM and UIM cards and is a dual standby phone, which searches both the CDMA and GSM networks for the strongest signal. Users can answer calls from either network without needing to manually switching networks.
The 3.0-megapixel auto-focus camera captures memorable moments. The Ming A1800's 150MB on-board memory, expandable to 4GB with microSD card, offers enough storage space to save plenty of photos.
The A810 is an entry-level PDA with a built-in 2.0-megapixel camera and microSD slot expandable to 2GB.
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