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3GSM Barcelona 2006

March 30, 2006 at 3:06 pm by | In Mobile News

3GSM Barcelona The show in Barcelona this year proved to be a brilliant show case for mobile phone content services. Over 30 content providers gathered to show off their fantastic content services including music, video and picture download services.

3GSM also showcased a number of new and exciting handsets. Nokia introduced the new Nokia N80, E60 and E61. Sony Ericsson gave us a sneak preview of the W810i, but it was Samsung that impressed us with its multitude selection of brilliant handset.

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Alltunes Mobile Service

March 30, 2006 at 2:33 pm by | In Mobile News, Mobile content/services

Alltunes is a new service for previewing and downloading songs to a mobile handset. It is run by the same people behind the website, www.allofmp3.com

Using Alltunes, you can search for a song you are interested in, from an album, or chart hit, favourite group or singer. All searchable from your mobile phone.

In total it is claimed that the catalogue lists 38,000 albums, 11,000 artists. More than half a million tracks!

It is possible to listen to any track free of charge or download it directly to your phone.

The full catalogue is about 15MB in size, so initially you download it to your PC then transfer it to your phones memory card. The catalogue is updated on a daily basis, when you connect with your phone to the network.

The catalogue is easy to search; you can browse by full or part name of a song, album or band. The catalogue is listed alphabetically. The Alltunes service works on Symbian Series 60 handsets.

More details can be found here:

http://www.alltunes.com/en-mobile.shtml

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Most popular mobile phones in Europe

March 29, 2006 at 2:03 pm by | In Mobile News

A report from Telephia, the leading provider of performance measurement information to the mobile phone industry shows an increase in the poularity of the RAZR in Europe, moving up from 3.1% market share to 6.2%. Top 8 handsets listed below:

Model	Q3 2005	Q1 2006
RAZR (V3, V3x)	3.1%	6.2%
6230 (6230i)	5.2%	3.4%
6101	0.3%	2.6%
D600	2.2%	N/A
K750i	2.0%	2.2%
6630	2.0%	2.3%
N70	1.9%	N/A
6680	1.7%	1.3%

The list clearly shows Nokia once again as the dominant manufacturer in Europe, with 5 of the top 8 placings. Just one appearance each from Motorola, Samsung and Sony Ericsson. Strong showing also from the Symbian smartphones from Nokia, the N70, 6630 and 6680.

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Samsung SPH-S4300

March 29, 2006 at 1:47 pm by | In Mobile Phones

Samsung have released the Samsung SPH-S4300. Not much info around at the moment, the phone has 1GB of memory, a USB port and it can play MP3, OGG and WMA files.

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Orange M600

March 29, 2006 at 10:14 am by | In Mobile Phones

Orange have announced the launch of the SPV M600:

Orange SPV M600

The Orange SPV M600 is the new and improved smart PDA handset from Orange and boasts a whole host of new features over its predecessor the SPV M500. The main new feature is the handset is supported by Windows Mobile 5.0, this is the latest mobile operating system from Microsoft. Other improvements include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v2.0, 2.0 mega-pixel digital camera and a brilliant 128MB ROM memory compared to the 64MB on the SPV M500.

Featuring EDGE, Bluetooth, WiFi and a 2.0 megapixel camera, the Quad band M600 is expected to be free on most Orange tariffs.