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It’s been a little while since I’ve covered any T-Mobile 3G network expansion news , hasn’t it!? This morning I happened to come across a list of cities recently upgraded to 3G on T-Mo… In fact, below is the list of cities upgraded to 3G in November: Albany, GA Amarillo, TX Abilene, TX Salinas, CA Norwalk,CT Bellingham, WA Oklahoma City, OK Gainesville, FL Fresno, CA Albuquerque, NM If you’re in one of the upgraded areas, congrats! If not, or heck, if you’re just not sure, hit up T-Mobile’s Personal Coverage Check Map . Very handy

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T-Mobile 3G Expansion News for November

Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) just issued a press release announcing a 2% reduction in research and development staff located in Oulu, Finland and Copenhagen, Denmark: Nokia continues to streamline its R&D operations Espoo, Finland — Nokia plans to align its research and development (R&D) operations in Finland and Denmark to be in line with the company’s focused portfolio of future products. The planned changes are expected to affect up to 230 employees at Nokia’s Oulu site in Finland and approximately 100 employees at Nokia’s Copenhagen site. The total number would represent approximately 2 % of Nokia’s R&D personnel globally

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Nokia to cut 2% of their R&D staff, that’s 330 people

Chillingo keeps pumping new games to the AppStore. Their latest baby is called Ravensword: The Fallen King, and it’s probably one of the best (if not the best) RPG title for the iPhone/iPod Touch. As you’re probably aware what RPG genre brings to the table, I’ll quickly jump to the game features: Gameplay is a hybrid between 3D action game (FPS), adventure and RPG

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Chillingo’s Ravensword: The Fallen King is easily the best RPG title in the AppStore

During the Mobile Asia Congress, the GSMA unveiled Mobile’s Green Manifesto, developed in collaboration with The Climate Group, to set out how the mobile industry plans to lower its greenhouse gas emissions per connection. The manifesto makes specific policy recommendations for governments and delegates attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen to realise the full potential of the role that mobile communications can take in reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. Through the Green Manifesto, the mobile industry outlines its goals: To reduce its total global greenhouse gas emissions per Connection by 40% by 2020 compared to 2009

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GSMA launches Green Manifesto to outline how the mobile industry can lower emissions

Just when we talked about Oberthur’s EcoSIM card , the company announced that it has demoed a visual voicemail service running on their Multimedia SIM Card GIGANTIC WUAOW during the CARTES & Identification 2009 exhibition in Paris. Oberthur’s “partner in crime” is Spanish Telefonica ( NYSE: TEF ), which will undoubtedly sell the service as soon as all trials are completed

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Oberthur Technologies shows visual voicemail service using a multimedia SIM card

The metaphorical ink on the just-leaked Motorola ( NYSE: MOT ) Motus spy pic hasn’t yet dried and were already hearing rumors that the Android handset will sport some really unique features. If you thought the form factor was a bit odd, you’re going to want to sit down for this. Word has it that the Moto Motus will feature a “reverse flip keyboard,” and (as if that isn’t crazy enough) something called a “rear directional touchpad.” Of course, the Motus is also rumored to be packing the usual assortment of smartphone features

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Motorola Motus rumored to sport reverse keyboard and backside touchpad?

For all our readers in the UK, eXpansys have been busy cooking up some news deals to tempt you in your hour of need for gadget-related goodness: Acer beTouch E200 Windows Mobile 6.5 Normally £249.99 Now £219.99 Save £15 http://www.expansys.com/d.aspx?i=188960&partner=uknews Acer beTouch E100 Windows Mobile 6.5 Normally £234.99 Now £219.99 Save £15 http://www.expansys.com/d.aspx?i=188962&partner=uknews Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) 6700 Classic Silver Normally £209.99 Now £194.99 Save £15 http://www.expansys.com/d.aspx?i=178270&partner=uknews GMAX 2-Bay Alloy Desktop Hard Drive Enclosure Normally £39.99 Now £34.99 Save £5 http://www.expansys.com/d.aspx?i=189769&partner=uknews Novatel Wireless Merlin XU870 3G HSDPA 3.6/7.2 Mbps ExpressCard Normally £49.99 Now £29.99 Save £20 http://www.expansys.com/d.aspx?i=190396&partner=uknews B-Stock Palm ( NSDQ: PALM ) m500 PDA + Accessory Pack Normally £34.99 Now £24.99 Save £10 http://www.expansys.com/d.aspx?i=191498&partner=uknews Chilly the Singing and Dancing Polar Bear Normally £7.99 Now £4.99 Save £3 http://www.expansys.com/d.aspx?i=176849&partner=uknews Premier Systems Keyring Breathalyser Normally £4.99 Now £1.99 Save £3 http://www.expansys.com/d.aspx?i=176853&partner=uknews Acer beTouch E200 Windows Mobile 6.5 -  Normally £249.99 Now £219.99 Save £15 Acer beTouch E100 Windows Mobile 6.5 -  Normally £234.99 Now £219.99 Save £15 Nokia 6700 Classic Silver -  Normally £209.99 Now £194.99 Save £15 GMAX 2-Bay Alloy Desktop Hard Drive Enclosure – Normally £39.99 Now £34.99 Save £5 Novatel Wireless Merlin XU870 3G HSDPA 3.6/7.2 Mbps ExpressCard – Normally £49.99 Now £29.99 Save £20 B-Stock Palm m500 PDA + Accessory Pack – Normally £34.99 Now £24.99 Save £10 Chilly the Singing and Dancing Polar Bear – Normally £7.99 Now £4.99 Save £3 Premier Systems Keyring Breathalyser - Normally £4.99 Now £1.99 Save £3 Personally, I am liking the look of the HSDPA ExpressCard – I’ve been trying to find a use for my ExpressCard port on the Mac – seems like this might be it! These deals are available on Friday the 20th of November 2009 between 11am and 5pm by following the links above only.

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So I was typing away this evening, and thinking about the movie Swordfish – an enjoyable romp featuring John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, and of course (who could forget) Halle Berry There are several priceless moments in that film where the lead characters are spewing techno-babble that is devoid of any joined up thinking – trojans, firewalls, ciphers, you name it – all mashed together in meaningless, cringe-inducing, gibberish. But that’s kind of what makes the movie good! It got me thinking, there must be some of these types of moments involving mobile devices – and then suddenly a couple hit me – but before I name them, feel free to zing a comment on the end of this piece if you can think of others – as I said, there must be lots, right? Great moment #1: Die Hard 4.0 (2007) – Justin Long is using a Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) Communicator, when the mobile networks all drop (as the bad guys are busy taking them down)

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If you’re looking for a new BlackBerry ( NSDQ: RIMM ) smartphone with no strings attached, you might want to look in T-Mobile ( NYSE: DT ) USA’s direction. The carrier has announced their T-Mobile Complete program, which gives customers a choice of four no-contract BlackBerry smartphones to be used with T-Mobile’s pre-paid plans. The kicker

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T-Mobile Complete offers no-contract BlackBerry smartphones – The first bill is on them!

If you prefer warm, indoor shopping to cold, outdoor, middle-of-the-night Black Friday shopping, then you may be happy to hear that Best Buy “is bringing the excitement of Black Friday a week early this holiday season.” How is this possible? How can one retail store bend the fabric of the time-space continuum in such a way? According to a recent press release: Effective November 19, 2009, Best Buy will move the everyday low price on all entry level 32-inch Dynex LCD HDTV’s to $299.99 and 40-inch Dynex 1080p to $499.99.

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Best Buy drops everyday price of 40-inch 1080p TV to $500, 32-inch 720p to $300

Velcome, darling! Look what we have for you! Sergey Brin wearing VFF KSOs, CrunchGear’s favorite, as Greg calls them, “crazy monkey shoes.” I’m personally a VFF convert and I’m very impressed that Sergey is willing to walk around in these. For those not in the know, Vibram Five Fingers are ultralight running/sports shoes with separate pockets for each toe

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This season, crazy monkey shoes are the new hotness at the Chrome OS event

While you won’t be able to sense it at first, expect to feel a high frequency buzz from the direction of Redmond in the next few months. That’s the Windows 7 and Office group fearing the rise of a new juggernaut on low-cost computing hardware, ChromeOS. ChromeOS may not be powerful, it may not play Far Cry and it may not run Microsoft Office but it’s a game changer.

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What ChromeOS Means For Netbooks And Why Microsoft Needs To Be Scared

I just finished watching Google ( NSDQ: GOOG )’s live webcast announcement of Google Chrome OS and besides being let down that we, as in general consumers, are not going to be able to play with it for a year, I was stunned to hear Google admit that they’re going to be creating reference hardware. Google will not only be building the software for Google Chrome OS, but they’ll be handpicking, and optimizing software for, the hardware that will be under that thin Chinese plastic case we call an exterior. This is big stuff.

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Google goes on the record, says they’re creating reference hardware for Chrome OS; what about Android?

Hey, Verizon ( NYSE: VZ ) and AT&T ( NYSE: T ) aren’t the only ones getting into hissy fits over inaccurate ad campaigns ; telus ( NYSE: TU ) has just launched their own litigation against Rogers ( NYSE: RCI ) on similar grounds. Shawn Hall,? senior communications manager with telus , said “Rogers has no network advantage and should not be misleading Canadians with false superiority claims,”  although those claims were apparently accurate until telus opened up their HSPA network a few weeks ago .

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TELUS Sues Rogers over Ads

Today Virgin Mobile Canada released an official statement regarding iPhone availability: Virgin Mobile Canada will launch iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS in Virgin Mobile Retail Stores and online in Canada in the coming months. I’m not sure if they could have been any more vague… But at least this is an official ‘it’s coming’ statement. My buds over at MobileSyrup believe ‘coming soon’ means February 2010

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Virgin Mobile Canada Launching iPhone 3G and 3GS ‘in the Coming Months’

Now that Windows Mobile 6.5 is getting out there into the public , it’s time we started seeing something regarding the next generation of Windows phones. Apparently an early demo of WinMo 7 was shown to a private audience; some folks, like @ryanblock , kept their yap shut about it (presumably under the force of a non-disclosure agreement), but some of SoloPalmari ’s impressions made it out to Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) Translate before getting DCMA’d in the face: Revolutionary, no need to take away: the next version of Windows Mobile, as shown by the leaks and the first screenshots of the new system, the Web will soon be spring, we are faced with an upheaval of the logic of interaction and not just a substantial revision of the interface. The concept of “applications”, as the programs continue to live their important identities, will bend to the principle of “user experience”.

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Windows Mobile 7 Shown in Secret, Impressions Leak

Imation today officially starts shipping “the world’s first Wireless USB external hard drive,” the Imation Pro WX. It’s a 1.5TB hard drive with an MSRP of $450 — too rich for my blood but it may be able to find a home in small businesses or larger households. Seeing as though you’d need a special wireless USB connector attached to each computer, a network hard drive will still make a bit more sense for most people (no special equipment needed, longer range, etc.) until the prices of these wireless USB products start to fall

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Imation Pro WX wireless USB hard drive now shipping: 1.5TB for $450

The most visited technology blog, Engadget , recently changed their design. People appear to have mixed feelings about the new look , and I could personally care less since I read Engadget via RSS. That being said, I think I speak for everyone at IntoMobile when I say that Engadget was what inspired us to start blogging in the first place, and eventually, one by one, come together to form IntoMobile

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Hey Engadget, love the new look, but your RSS feed is now a bit of a sneaky bastard

Funnily enough, the Malcolm Frontier promo video showcasing its “iMojito” all-in-one iPhone case and wallet (naked girl on a scooter, naked guy on fixed-gear bike, naked guy running, all SFW) demonstrates my first thought about this case: At the end of the rather nice video spot, the naked guy (on foot) grabs the wallet (cash, cards, iPhone) from the naked girl on the moped (she’s carrying it in her mouth.

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iMojito: The Vegan Friendly iPhone Case and Wallet

AT&T made the commercial below to get back at Verizon ( NYSE: VZ ) Wireless for airing commercials that point out AT&T’s lacking 3G coverage . Not only is AT&T’s commercial stupid, but the money they spent hiring some actor who has a rather familiar face, sadly his name escapes me at the moment, plus production costs, could have instead been poured into something more useful such as improving the actual network Verizon is mocking.

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AT&T spends money making a terrible commercial insulting Verizon rather than improving their network

Skype Lite is a simple client for Skype that can be downloaded on most popular Java-enabled phones from the world’s top five handset manufacturers (LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson). Features: Make Skype-to-Skype calls to other Skype users anywhere in the world Send/receive instant messages to/from individuals or groups Make Skype calls at low rates to people on landline or mobile phones Receive calls to your online personal phone number on Skype See when your Skype contacts are online/available to chat Download Skype Lite For Java-enabled mobile phones

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Helix Wind, the company which we’ve already mentioned in the past, will trial its cell tower-powering wind turbines in Southern California. Installation will occur in early 2010, and the test will run for three months. In addition to providing power to the cell phone towers, Helix will also test whether it’s feasible to sell excess power to the power grid under a power purchase agreement.

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Helix Wind to power-up cell phone towers in Southern California