They’re giving away a free Samsung Sway with a two year plan. The Samsung Sway is a pretty basic unit with a built in camera, Bluetooth connectivity and MP3 player. Check it out now!

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Sure, their phones may have music but if you can afford an ipod, you’d probably buy one and use THAT for music. Besides, if your phone did everything, it would suck the life out of your battery.

Do you prefer to keep your music and phone separate? What would make you turn your phone into your primary music player?

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We all love coupons. A freebie is a freebie right? But sometimes the effort needed to cut out and save box tops may seem so insignificant, we forget to do so. With the rise of digital marketing in the past 10 years, email coupons have become a new way of sending promotions. Mobile coupons are pretty hot too — having grown to 10 million redeemed coupons in 2009. This was a 25% increase from 2008 according to coupon processing company, Inmar.

The joy of coupons processing through phones is simply, its convenience. You’ll never forget your phone. You’ll never forget your coupons.

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Yeah I think I just made that term up. “DSR” stands for “Developer Service Representative.” If you hang a left and check out a recent (dramatized) conversation between the developer guys from VoiceCentral and Apple.

Well, as the author said, it was barely a conversation as the guy on the other end of the line was an impenetrable wall. VoiceCentral allegedly duplicates features that the iPhone has and it was “confusing the community.”

Here’s the cake. It’s basically a quote of a dramatization of the phone call:

Me: “So how do we know whether it is still viable for us to consider Apple a partner if this is how the scenario plays out. If you were in my shoes would you continue to invest blood, sweat, tears and money in something that can be killed off at any moment without your say so?”

Richard: “I understand your point but I can’t help you with that.”

It is during times like these where I feel happy for the guys who develop for Symbian and Windows Mobile because at the very least, there is no moderating board that approves or disapproves applications. Strictly speaking, laissez faire is out the window when Apple makes phone calls such as these. Are these one in a million cases … or do they happen more often than you think?

Yeah Apple’s soon to be the next Microsoft when it comes with over the top stringent measures that border on paranoia.

[photo c/o author]

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The DTV100’s special thing is that it comes with a dual standby, dual SIM feature allowing two SIM cards to be active at any given time. Add the fact that this baby can receive analog transmissions from local television stations, you’ve got a winner when it comes to idle time. Forget games, watch TV! This phone retails for about a little more than a hundred dollars (Philippine PHP 5,499.00 to be exact).

[photo author's own]

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A diamond encrusted Nokia E71 will cost you £5,999 (GBP). It’s a damn good phone, and by george, it looks amazing. The sides and back of the unit is encrusted in VS1 diamonds and is exclusive to Continental Mobile.

[photo c/o ContinentalMobile and Engadget]

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China made TORQUE phones are fast becoming a staple in the Asian market. Not only are they cheap, they’re pretty efficient as well. The D100 is TORQUE’s latest mobile handset that, not surprisingly, retails for less than $100. It’s most highlighted feature is its DUAL SIM network compatibility, thus making this the cheapest dual SIM phone in the market.

I’d really love to know how much dual SIM technology costs. As I was told, the most expensive component thus far for mobile phones is the WiFi chip that extends to about USD $10.00. With the phone retailing for about $70.00, I wonder how much fo that went to the dual SIM technology —- and if it is cheap, why isn’t the adoption of the two SIM phone not as rampant today?

[image c/o author]

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Tough luck. This is the worst thing that can happen if you lose your cell phone. The Cell Phone is a film by Korean conglom Hanwha that tells the story of a young executive who loses his cellphone to a stalker who wants more than what he can bargain for.

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Raul Kaidro, who is the spokesman of the SK Certification Center in Estonia, says that it will be easy and secure: The voters will just need to previously obtain a free authorized chip. This chip will have an encrypted digital signature, which will allow them to identify themselves and vote using a text message.

The tech to implement this isn’t the hard part. In the same way that each mobile phone has a unique IMEI number and can be tracked and disabled by telco providers, the security chip works the same way. Truly though, you’d have to assign one person to a single phone.

And how much does this chip cost?

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As a tech journalist, I repeatedly have to write about the mobile phone industry and almost sound like a broken record when it comes to naming specs for mobile phones. Bluetooth, WiFi, HSDPA, Song ID, GPS with geotagging and facetagging are all common connectivity options we see in today’s stable of phones. Most, if not all, are starting to sport the same standard features. What am I driving at here?

Remember when the Centrino package was launched many years ago? It wasn’t a processor, but a total marketing platform for Intel to show that when something is labeled as a Centrino, it isn’t just the processor we’re talking about but several other options geared towards mobile computing such as wireless connectivity and decent battery life. Why can’t we do the same with mobile phones?

There are certain implications when we see phones branded as “Nseries” or “XpressMusic” or “Live and Loud” or “this runs on Android” … the XpressMusic series always connote that the phone has a separate audio processor and a guaranteed 3.5mm audio jack. Why can’t it work for connectivity? Because not all XpressMusic phones have WiFi!

So instead of having to say that this or that new phone comes with a plethora of connectivity options and features, we could just say that this mobile phone is certified as well .. err .. a “Blentrino.” And that would mean a total connectivity package – Bluetooth, WiFi, HSPA, GPS!

Worth it? C’mon!

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