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HTC, the Taiwanese smartphone maker who used to be in an exclusive relationship with Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT ), but is now engaging in a ménage à trois with Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) being the +1, is going to be releasing a new handset soon code named Dragon. Specification wise, it’s an exact clone of the recently announced Touch HD2 : capacitive 4.3 inch touch screen with 800 x 480 pixel resolution, 1 GHz Qualcomm ( NSDQ: QCOM ) Snapdragon processor, and while the camera hasn’t been identified yet, I would not be surprised if it turned out to be a 5 megapixel module. The 3G logo in the status bar indicates that this is a GSM device as well, a plus for us people in Europe and Asia.

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HTC Dragon: Take the Touch HD2, take off Windows Mobile, and slap on Android 2.0

As it prepares to launch the Motorola Droid smartphone, Verizon ( NYSE: VZ ) Wireless released a viral video arguing how it’s better than the iPhone. The upcoming device will be more customizable, more open, have a better camera with flash, full QWERTY keyboard, widget support, and so on. I’m not sure that will persuade the iPhone fanatics but it’s worth trying, nonetheless.

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Video: Verizon’s anti-iPhone commercial – Droid Does

Despite the fact that many smartphone users download multiple applications to their devices, Strategy Analytics argues that only about four to six applications are consistently used on a regular basis. The research company surveyed smartphone users in the US and the UK, and has concluded that the iPhone users have downloaded and installed the largest number of applications, but these are not necessarily used on a regular basis

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Strategy Analytics: Smartphone owners use four to six apps regularly

CBS Interactive has recently launched the new CBS Mobile SURVIVOR mobile website along with the dedicated Palm ( NSDQ: PALM ) Pre application. As a result, mobile users will be able to access full episodes, clips and videos of the eliminated Survivors, manage their Survivor Fantasy team, and potentially win the weekly $10,000 prize when they vote in the “Player of the Week” competition. In addition and as expected, you can also dig deeper in into the show to learn all about the cast, location, as well as access the latest Survivor Guide

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CBS Interactive launces new Survivor mobile website, Palm Pre application

Following on from my last post ( here ), I got a mail from the Syndiant CTO (a nice chap called Karl, who really wanted the IntoMobile readers to get the full effect of their pico projector demo image, by seeing it at higher resolution) – so, for the benefit of those that would like to see my previous post image at hi res, check it out by clicking on the thumbnail image to the left. Again, for more on Syndiant, click here .

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Update: Syndiant demo new pico projector module

Fastcompany.com has an interesting piece about a an iPhone app that was created to monitor your heart rate, and then broadcast it to the social network of your choice! The concept fits within the wider area of ‘body computing’, which apparently is about using technology to monitor physical health. You apparently need to get a patch first that you wear on your chest – this contains the necessary circuitry to sense and broadcast the information to the iPhone, where it’s read in to the App. From there it’s a question of choosing how you want to share that information.

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Monitor your heart rate using an iPhone App

No, no, no, not a quantity of 3 handsets, but rather some of the range of upcoming handsets from Operator “3″ in the UK! New Media Age has confirmed that Spotify has done the deal to enable it’s streaming music service to go on selected devices from 3 – which is it’s first mobile operator partnership. The service will go on the HTC Hero, and that’s apparently due before Christmas – after that, there is (again, apparently) going to be a further set of devices that will come bundled with the service – of those, I’d bet on the INQ devices being at least one of them! Interestingly, this means that Spotify and Nokias ‘Comes with Music’ will go head to head, in a battle of the music services – however, whilst the CWM business model is well known (the device subsidises the music subscription), the Spotify tariffs are not yet known. In terms of direct-to-customer Apps, Spotify already has an App for the iPhone and Android devices, weighing in at £9.99/month – so it should be fascinating to see if the 3 deal betters this.

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Spotify to put its service on 3 handsets

Well spin me around and call me Santa – there appear to be two wireless charging solutions that have come to light within days of each other – what is that all about! On my travels the other day, I noticed a swathe of posters for the POWERMAT solution at Heathrow Airport – it stuck in my mind because the posters literally were everywhere. Then, only a couple of days later I see a post on TechDigest about the POWERPAD (by Gear4), which apparently claims to be the worlds first dedicated wireless charger for the iPhone.

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Clash of the wireless charging solutions…

In a follow-up post to the one I wrote about entering the competition itself (here), Smaato (a leading mobile ad optimizer and mobile advertising company) has announced the winners of the Smaato Mobile Advertising Awards 2009: •    Overall iPhone category winner: Waze •    Overall Mobile web category winner: Flirtomatic •    Overall Apps category winner: Aloqa •    Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT ) Phone category winner: SPB TV •    Motorola ( NYSE: MOT ) Android category winner: Aloqa But more interesting for me were the trends that were distilled from the entrants in to the awards: 1)    Location, location, location With success seen from location-based apps from Smaato Award Finalists such as Waze, Aloqa, Lucky Magazine (NearbyNow) and Yoose, the app enthused public is demonstrating that they are curious about socializing with other people using the same app, in the same geographic region.

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Smaato Mobile Advertising Award winners 2009 announced – and key trends emerge too

The HTC is ANOTHER new Android device that has just come to market (seems to be an Android onslaught at the moment, what with the likes of the Motorola ( NYSE: MOT ) DEXT and Samsung i7500 too). It’s a mid-ranger in my view, with specs that aren’t quite as impressive as the Hero – but one thing it does do is wrap up all that Android niceness in a ‘cute’ hardware ID – yes, I said cute! Anyhow, eXpansys have been in contact to let me know they are doing the device for £294.99, with a £20 eXpansys voucher included – to spend on whatever else you heart might desire in their store: The  HTC Tattoo is an Android-based phone that brings broad personalisation to the masses. With its distinct design and ability to personalise all aspects of the phone, from its hardware to its applications and content, people are able to express themselves and create their own individual mobile experience

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HTC Tattoo with £20 eXpansys Vouchers

Yep, today was/is the day when the Palm ( NSDQ: PALM ) pre goes live in the UK, and you can get your grubby/clean (I don’t know what your personal hygiene is like, do I?) mitts on one. I figured it might be interesting to go take a wander to the local O2 ( NYSE: TEF ) shop in Staines at lunchtime, to see how much the Promo effort was in full swing – and what I actually was confronted with was Samsung Genio posters in the shop window – harrumph! On looking around a bit more, I managed to find two videos promotions running on PDPs at the back of the store – not exactly ‘front of house’! A nice comparison is what happened when the iPhone 3GS launched – they had posters everywhere, in all O2 shops… so this tells me that either O2 aren’t expecting as much interest, or who knows – maybe they spent all of their print media budget and can’t make any more posters On a marginally more serious note, it’s good to finally see Europe getting the Palm Pre – now if only Palm’s PR company in the UK would respond to our emails and give us a device or two to trial… (hint hint Palm PR!)

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Palm Pre goes live in the UK – less promo than iPhone had

The Samsung Omnia II seems to pop up every now and again , but we have yet to see or hear any details of the touchscreen smartphone coming to the US. But, if a new tip from one of PhoneArena’s readers pans out, we’ll be seeing the Omnia II going live in less than a month! The Omnia II boasts an eye-popping 3.7-inch WVGA AMOLED touchscreen display, 5-megapixel camera (auto-focus and dual-LED flash), GPS, WiFi and hefty on-board memory stores, so you can see why we’re excited.

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Verizon to drop Samsung Omnia II i920 on November 1?

Now that the dust has settled from the initial announcement that Rock Band is headed to the iPhone , it’s time for EA Mobile to keep this hype train going.  What better way than to offer a teaser trailer. As is customary with almost all “teaser trailers”, you’ll see very little  gameplay footage here.  For the most part, you’ll be watching a video of four people who are stuck in a boardroom fantasizing about performing in front of an audience in some club.  I’m curious as to what kind of office allows a woman to dress the way she does in the video and for a black gentleman to be sitting in on a meeting while holding drumsticks.

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Rock Band iPhone Teaser Trailer Bringing Fun To BORED-room Meetings

I’ve been busy teaching our eldest little to talk, and daily she’s picking up new words Fortunately, I’m not just sticking to the tried and tested method of data-input to said little ‘un via the medium of books; I’ve also implemented tech solutions too! One of these is the download of some Apps to the iPhone – namely the First Words series! There are three Apps you can get, each costing £1.19: First Words: Animals First Words: Vehicles First Words: At Home The concept is very simple as you can see from the screenshot below: The idea is to slide the letters in to place to form the word – each letter is pronounced as you touch it, and then the whole word is spelled AND pronounced once you have completed the block-moving.

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First Words series of Apps for iPhone are excellent!

Nokia ( NYSE: NOK )’s Comes with Music, an idea I’ve been shitting on since the day it was announced, is a scheme thought up by executives in Finland to offer devices for around 110 EUR more than they should cost and in return you get one year of unlimited DRM infected downloads. The whole concept seemed as if it was built to attract those people who were too dumb to do any comparison shopping, or for parents who are having the living shit scared out of them by the ever increasing media coverage on people who have committed acts of piracy and are now facing huge fines. For a service that has been out for over a year now, to get only 107,227 users as of July, is pretty weak.

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Nokia Comes with Music only has 107,227 users after being operational for one year

During Nokia ( NYSE: NOK )’s Q3 conference call ( see my live blog here ) the company alluded to some changes in management. They didn’t exactly specify what was going to change, that is until this morning when they issued this press release : Nokia today announced some changes in the roles of its Group Executive Board members. Rick Simonson, currently Nokia Chief Financial Officer, has been appointed to head of the Mobile Phones entity within the Devices unit as of November 1, 2009 .

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Nokia’s Executive game of musical chairs: CFO Rick Simonson to head Devices Unit on November 1st

Samsung has launched a new version of its highly popular F480 all-touchscreen handset. The so called Samsung TouchWiz F488i comes with an upgraded “3x TouchWiz User Interface,” which includes Shortcut Pages and Extended Desktop, offering more widgets (MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Picasa, Flickr), Feature Tab Page View and Photo Contacts.

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Samsung TouchWiz F488i adds updated TouchWiz UI on top of the original F480

TimeBridge, the web service that helps folks run meetings more efficiently, is going iPhone. As a result, users of the Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) iPhone and iPod Touch, who at the same time rely on TimeBridge for their meetings will be able to do all the coordination work while on the go. Key features of the iPhone app include: Access all TimeBridge meeting information – who, what, when, and where; Ping late attendees and send them late messages via SMS and/or email; Join TimeBridge conference calls; Access online agenda and track time spent on each topic; View real-time availability of contacts; and Reply to TimeBridge meeting invitations

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TimeBridge iPhone-izes its meeting service

3GVision has launched its i-nigma 1D/2D Barcode app for the iPhone, which includes an easy to use point-and-scan feature enabling users to get instant access to information behind the barcode with zero clicks. I’m not sure I understand much about it, except that it is used for scanning barcodes, hence here’s an excerpt from the press release: The i-nigma 2D barcode application for iPhone supports QR (Quick Response), Data Matrix and 1D EAN13 as well as multiple barcode colors and backgrounds. Moreover, the iPhone application exhibits extremely high immunity to angles, enabling 360° reading tilt angle, auto focus and scan mode which makes accessing the mobile internet extremely fast and easy.

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3GVision brings its i-nigma 2D Barcode app to the AppStore

Federal judge Denise Cote has dealt a blow to the music industry’s American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) with a new ruling that ringtones are not considered public performances and therefore aren’t subject to music royalty fees. Yes, that means the ASCAP was seeking to collect a royalty fee every time a musical ringtone went off in some pocket or purse

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Judge Curbs Music Industry Greed, Shoots Down Ringtone Royalties

Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT ) and T-Mobile ( NYSE: DT ) have come out with assurances that most ( probably all ) Sidekick data has been recovered and will soon be restored to affected Sidekicks. You’d think that announcement alone would be enough to preempt any class-action lawsuits against T-Mobile or Microsoft (which owns Danger, the company responsible for maintaining Sidekick data). And, you’d be wrong.

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T-Mobile gets class-action sued over Sidekick snafu

Sidekick users can mostly breathe a sigh of relief today. T-Mobile ( NYSE: DT ) Sidekick data has been mostly recovered! Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT ) confirmed today that they have “recovered most, if not all, customer data for those  Sidekick customers whose data was affected by the recent outage .” Microsoft will soon begin restoring data to Sidekicks affected by Microsoft’s recent server crash, but is waiting to verify data integrity and the viability of their restoration plan. The announcement from Microsoft comes on the heels of speculation late last night that had Microsoft employees optimistic that they could recover much the Sidekick data previously thought to be “almost certainly” lost.

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Microsoft: Most Sidekick Data Recovered