Nokia has just launched the 5800 XpressMusic and it’s a lot like the iPhone. As Nokia’s first mass-market device with a touch screen, the 5800 is being positioned as a lifestyle device for music, just like Apple iPhone. The touch interface is designed to have shortcuts from the homescreen to menu items such as calendar, [...]

Sprint’s XOHM mobile broadband service, based on WiMAX technology, is now live and operational in Baltimore. According to Sprint, the 4G network will offer high-speed mobile Internet browsing, social-networking tools, location-centric services and multimedia including music, video and on-demand at download speeds of 2-4 Mbps. This is faster than data rates available on Sprint’s EVDO [...]

Google’s very own Android phone has hit the market today. T-Mobile is launching the G1, the world’s first Android-powered phone. Rumors have been floating around the Google phone built by HTC, as HTC filed for FCC approval for a touch screen device.
The G1 is a full touchscreen device and has an inbuilt QWERTY keyboard that [...]

Google maps now offers street view on java powered and Blackberry mobile devices. Street View can be launched from any address and if Google has photos in their database from that location, maps will display the street view for the address. Street View can be overlaid on the map or in full screen and also [...]

Research in Motion, the company behind the popular blackberry line of phones, has announced that it will be partnering with Microsoft and TiVo to further enhance it’s mobile services offerings. With the iPhone taking the smartphone market by storm, RIM is rumored to be working on it’s iPhone competitor, a touch screen Blackberry. Meanwhile it’s [...]

Research in Motion has just announced the first Blackberry flip phone, the Blackberry Pearl Flip 8220. The 8220 smartphone will be available from wireless carriers around the world beginning this fall. In the US, the Pearl Flip will be available exclusively from T-Mobile beginning this fall.
RIM did not reveal pricing for the 8220 and said [...]

We had previosuly covered the launch of the Blackberry partners fund, a $150 million fund with investments from Research In Motion, the RBC and Thomson Reuters aimed at supporting developers of applications running primarily on RIM’s Blackberry phones.
The fund website recently went live and now the fund has announced the developer challenge for BlackBerry® Developers [...]

We just mofused our site at imediapress.mofuse.mobi. Mofuse, a mobile services company, gives content publishers the ability to publish their content to the mobile web seamlessly. Mofuse just secured its first round of seed capital.  The Slater Technology Fund, a Rhode Island-based early-stage fund that is backed by the State of Rhode Island, provided the [...]

Google’s first Android phone, the HTC dream, has apparently cleard FCC regulations as HTC has filed a request with the FCC for granting short-term confidentiality on certain documents on the Dream till the 10th of November. This leads to an obvious speculation that the 10th of Nov. is the release date for Google’s first Android [...]

Zumobi is a new, free application that delivers fun and informative content via widgets to your Windows Mobile phone. Zumobi widgets are called Tiles and feature small information from the web or small applications. Originally developed by Microsoft Research, Zumobi initially ran on Windows Mobile 5 and 6 smartphones. Pledging to offer “an open, device-neutral [...]

Apple’s $99 a year MobileMe service was launched in WWDC in June this year. It is a new Internet service that delivers push email, push contacts and push calendars from the service in the “cloud” to native applications on iPhone™, iPod® touch, Macs and PCs.
Apple, however has had its share of troubles with the service [...]

What happens to most mobile devices when people no longer use them? That was the question Nokia asked more than 6, 500 people in 13 countries around the world. The surprising results showed that most are stored away at home because very few of us don’t know that that they can be recycled or how [...]

Sony Ericsson and MGM have announced Mr 007’s phone in QUANTUM OF SOLACE. The limited edition Titanium silver C902 Cyber-shot phone will be available worldwide Nov. 2008 and will be the phone in the next Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Columbia Pictures release of EON Productions’ 22nd James Bond adventure, QUANTUM OF SOLACE. A picture of the red colored [...]

Game publisher Ngmoco Inc. has raised an undisclosed Series A round from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Maples Investments as it readies to release new games on Apple’s App Store, where iPhone users shop for new features.
CEO Neil Young is a former executive from Electronic Arts, where he oversaw the development of several hit [...]

IRVINE, Calif. Samsung Electronics America has announced today, two new ultra mobile personal computers (UMPC). The Q1U-CMXP, a Q1 ultra mobile model with integrated HSDPA 3G cellular modem and the Q1UP-V, a Q1 Ultra [...]

Samsung’s innov8 is a new phone with an 8MP camera for completely high resolution photography and multimedia experience. It also offers a surround-sound cinematic video experience, mobile Internet browsing and mobile gaming capabilities. The phone will be available in the global market from August 2008. Starting with Europe in August it will then be expanded [...]

Palm, Inc. and Sprint have introduced the Palm(R) Treo(TM) 800w, Sprint’s newest smartphone with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. The phone is designed for business users and operates on the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network and comes out of the box with support for EV-DO Rev. A data speeds, WiFi for data and GPS capabilities.
Revision A of [...]

Apple® today announced it sold its one millionth iPhone™ 3G on Sunday, just three days after its launch on Friday, July 11. iPhone 3G is now available in 21 countries—Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the US—and will [...]