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Sprint partners with GetJar, releases over 60,000 free apps
LG outs GS500 Cookie Plus touchscreen phone
T-Mobile USA to offer Swype keyboard on HD2, more devices
New T-Mobile myTouch 3G for 2010 available with 3.5mm jack and Swype
Opera Mini for iPhone to be announced during Mobile World Congress
Pharos announces the 565, world's "first" rugged Windows Mobile 6.5 PDA
WiFi handsets in U.S. to quadruple by 2015
Press Release: Mobile Broadband Investment Set to Soar as HSPA Connections Pass 200 Million

Sprint partners with GetJar, releases over 60,000 free apps

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 12:53 PM PST

This afternoon Sprint announced a new partnership with GetJar in which it will offer GetJar's library of over 60,000 applications for free. Apps include Facebook, Weather Channel Mobile, YouTube, and more. The app catalog is available for feature phones such as the LG Lotus Elite, Samsung Reclaim, and Sanyo 2700. BlackBerry and Windows Mobile owners will also have access to some apps. A link to GetJar should be available on the Sprint portal on most handsets under the "Downloads" section.
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LG outs GS500 Cookie Plus touchscreen phone

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 10:56 AM PST

LG today announced the follow up to its Cookie phone, the GS500 Cookie Plus. The feature phone focuses around social networking and will eventually be available in 45 countries.
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T-Mobile USA to offer Swype keyboard on HD2, more devices

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 09:23 AM PST

T-Mobile USA and Swype today announced that T-Mobile will begin offering more devices with Swype's keyboard technology. The first Swype capable device on the carrier is the myTouch 3G for 2010 phone, and T-Mobile will support it on the HTC HD2 when it launches this Spring. For an introduction to Swype, check out our hands-on.
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New T-Mobile myTouch 3G for 2010 available with 3.5mm jack and Swype

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 08:40 AM PST

Today T-Mobile launched a new phone that will replace the original myTouch 3G. Its dimensions are the same, but there are a few hardware and software enhancements that should have made this phone worthy of a new name.
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Opera Mini for iPhone to be announced during Mobile World Congress

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 06:51 AM PST

Norwegian browser developer Opera plans to announce Opera Mini for iPhone during the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona next week, the company said today. The browser would compete with Apple's pre-installed Safari browser on the iPhone, although Opera co-founder Jon von Tezchner told the Associated Press he doesn't think Apple will deny its approval into the App Store, claiming that Apple will "not deny their users a choice when it comes to what browser they use." We'll be reporting from Barcelona, stay tuned.
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Pharos announces the 565, world's "first" rugged Windows Mobile 6.5 PDA

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 06:26 AM PST

Pharos today announced the first rugged Windows Mobile 6.5 PDA, the 565.
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WiFi handsets in U.S. to quadruple by 2015

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 05:50 AM PST

The Coda Research Consultancy says that handsets equipped with WiFi radios will quadruple between 2009 and 2015. With a 25 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR), there will be 149 million WiFi phones in the United States by 2015, the study claims. Also by that time, 66 percent of all mobile handsets shipped will be equipped with WiFi, a majority of them being smart phones. The 802.11n standard will dominate, and the firm expects 95 percent of WiFi phones to use this standard in 2015.
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