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...Happy Ring Tone Mobile-phone titan Nokia may be rebounding after a poor first half. It raised earnings forecasts for the third quarter, citing market-share gains and stronger-than-expected demand...
...many foreign airports have rental counters where you can pick up a phone when you arrive and drop it off when you leave--the fees can get steep. If you travel internationally more than seven days a year, it might be worth buying a Mobal GSM World Phone. The Nokia 3410 model phone costs just $49 when purchased online, and can be used in 125 foreign countries as far flung as Sweden, New Zealand and Afghanistan. Calls are charged per minute ($1.75 to $9.95, depending on where you are and what country you're calling), but there are no monthly...
That may not be anywhere near the hundreds of millions of mobile phones sold every year, but the growth has made a huge impression on cell-phone and PDA vendors. Nokia, Siemens, Samsung, Sony, Ericsson, Microsoft and PalmSource have licensed RIM's e-mail software, helping the company ring up $594.6 million in revenues in 2003, making it almost double its size of a year earlier. Why did the device catch on so fast? Unlike earlier handhelds, the BlackBerry pushed e-mail right to the device, rather than merely alerting users that they had e-mail the device could fetch...
...gloomy December morning in Helsinki in 1997 when 26-year-old Vesku Paananen woke up with a hangover after a night of Koskenkorva vodka and beer. Paananen, a chief technology officer with new-media company Yomi Group, was jolted out of bed by the annoying ring tone of his Nokia 6110 mobile phone. "I didn't want to hear 'de de de de deeeee' ever again," Paananen recalls. "I wanted to hear Van Halen's Jump, and I was willing to pay for it." The technology was there to program mobile phones to play pop tunes rather than electronic bleeps...
...digital world. LG has a distinct advantage: its ultrawired South Korean home base. The demanding Korean market, where an amazing 84% of households using the Internet have high-speed access, propels LG to develop more advanced products and provides a testing ground for new technologies. LG has outpaced Nokia and Motorola in cramming the hottest new features into a mobile phone. One of its latest models, the SC8000, which came out in Korea in April, combines a pda, an MP3 player, a digital camera and a camcorder. The advantage is paying off. In May, LG launched a new mobile phone...