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Mobile entertainment publisher GOSUB 60 announced the launch of MobileDeluxe.com, a website dedicated to premium mobile game content.

MobileDeluxe.com includes a free trial feature that allows players to demo certain games on their phone prior to purchase. An industry first, each game purchase is accompanied with the Mobi-D Guarantee - giving players a 100% refund up-to 23 days from game purchase if not fully satisfied with their GS60 mobile game.

"Each new venture and decision at GS60 aims to accelerate mass market adoption for mobile games," said Josh Hartwell, CEO of GS60. "In developing a direct-to-consumer brand, we wanted a name that stemmed from our most successful properties - Solitaire Deluxe and Sudoku Deluxe. MobileDeluxe.com resonates with consumers familiar with our most popular game titles, fulfills our commitment to quality and provides a clear path to purchase, creating a positive experience that drives consumers back to make additional purchases."

MobileDeluxe.com offers high quality GS60 games and supports downloads for most Java carriers in the U.S. including AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. Consumers with BREW carriers such as Verizon and Alltel can also browse the growing catalog for details and features of GS60 games and make a purchase on the carrier deck. For a monthly subscription, games are priced at $2.99. For unlimited access, games are $6.99.

Best Buy is revealing that Samsung's Instinct is a best-seller for the electronics retailer. A spokesman told Wireless Week that the touchscreen device, which runs on Sprint's network, has sold better than any other phone the company has carried since the Motorola Razr launched two years ago. Best Buy didn't give out any specific figures but said Sprint's device offered up "record sales" in the first two weeks.

Nokia's Beta Labs are a hotbed for new S60 applications, and today's addition is Nokia Chat, a Jabber-based IM application for smartphones powered by Nokia's S60 3rd Edition. Nokia chat allows for private IM sessions and even integrates presence and location information.
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The folks at 4iPhone have a hosted Exchange service that gives you full Active Sync and Direct Push to your iPhone, at least once the version 2.0 firmware is available. I suppose that's news in and of itself, but what I find amusing is that they recognize that push email is going to have a huge impact on the iPhone's battery life.

What are they doing about this? They signed up to be resellers of mophie's Juice Pack, which is an iPhone battery-the first to receive the coveted "Works with iPhone" certification from Apple. 4iPhone is selling this battery on their site along with their service-if you want it.

From the press release:

The added "juice" gives consumers up to an additional 250 hours of standby time, 8 hours of talk time, 6 hours of Internet use, 7 hours of video playback, and 24 hours of audio playback. The juice pack™ also integrates a 4 Led 'charge status' indicator and its own 30-pin dock connector, making it incredibly simple to recharge the juice pack™ using standard iPhone accessories.

While the battery idea is nice, the battery currently only works with the first generation iPhones. A version for the new iPhone 3G-which will need it much more than the original-is coming. See full article.

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Here is a set of comparison photos between the new Apple iPhone 3G and iPhone. According to PhoneDaily HK, the new iPhone 3G has a better 3.5mm headset jack design that more 3.5mm connector can be fit in easily. The new plastic material of the back cover also better than the old material.

can you differentiate which is the new iPhone 3G? The one at the left is the new iPhone 3G, the right iPhone is the old version. Both iPhone 3G and iPhone interfaces are responsive, however, the interface is slightly slow when the user interface is changed to Chinese interface according to PhoneDaily.

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After about 2 months of the Vista problem announcement, Nokia has now released an upgrade for its Nokia Software Updater. The new version 1.4.49 include a better support of Windows Vista to upgrade your Nokia phone firmware.

You can download the software from http://www.nokia.com/softwareupdates

Other than the new software updater announcement, Nokia has posted another notes below

Support for Nokia 5310 and Nokia 6500 Classic has temporarily been removed from the Nokia Software Updater service. Other Nokia products are not affected. Support will be reinstated as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

After camping for 3 days, here is the first person that bought an iPhone 3G! Congratulations!

Source [1stinline]

Over 500 Native Applications for iPhone & iPod touch Available at Launch
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The FCC, ever a source of new cell phone information, has approved the well-known Research In Motion BlackBerry Bold 9000, which is the first BlackBerry to offer tri-band UMTS (850/1900/2100MHz) support, with HSDPA for fast data speeds.
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The first iPhone 3G is already available now in New Zealand, due to the time zone they are the first country that start selling the iPhone 3G. Together with the iPhone 3G, the new iPhone App store is also available now through the new iTunes software.

552 applications are available currently, with 135 of these are free to download to your iPhone.

via [iphonebuzz]