The Motorola QA30 features a similar bodystyle to the UTStarcom Blitz with a sliding QWERTY keyboard resembling the Q series, EVDO data, 2.5 inch landscape QVGA display, HTML browser, threaded SMS.messaging, Bluetooth with stereo audio support, 3.5mm headphone jack, speakerphone, 2.0 megapixel camera with video recorder, microSDHC slot, and Celltop support.

No pricing or availability details are available at this time.

Christmas day seems more presents, so as expected Verizon has launched their holiday sales flagship and gambit against the iPhone in the BlackBerry Storm.

BlackBerry Storm Features:

• 3.25-inch LCD Hi-res HVGA display (480 x 360 pixels)
• USB 2.0 high speed
• 1GB built-in flash memory
• Bluetooth 2.0
• microUSB connector
• 3.2 mpix camera
• 3.5mm jack
• full desktop-style HTML browser
• 3G modem support
• UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA (2100MHz), EvDO Rev A
• removable 1400 mAh battery

Nokia plans to launch a mobile phone service in Japan next spring, a move expected to intensify competition among Japanese cellphone carriers, Japanese daily Yomiuri Shimbun reported on Saturday.

Finnish cellphone manufacturer Nokia is expected to use lines owned by Japan’s biggest mobile phone carrier, NTT Docomo Inc, under an arrangement called mobile virtual network operator, the paper said.

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The update adds Google Street View (with pedestrian and public transit directions), albeit without the compass functionality found in the T-Mobile G1, updates to Safari Mobile and Mail, location sharing through email, further fixes for dropped calls, app screenshots and rating options in the App Store, toggle capability for Auto-Correct, and the capability to download podcasts directly on the device over the air via Wi-Fi or the 3G/EDGE network.

Other novelties that the iPhone 2.2 OS brings include:    

• Location sharing via email

• Enhanced performance and stability of Safari, for a better Web browsing experience

• Podcasts can be downloaded with iTunes (via Wi-Fi or a cellular network)

• Fewer dropped calls and call setup failures

• Enhanced Visual Voicemail messages and overall sound quality

You can download the iPhone 2.2 software update right away, via iTunes, of course.

 Source: Apple
Via | iPhone News

Nokia and IBM today announced IBM Lotus Notes support for a number of Nokia’s S60-based mobile phones, meaning that millions of Lotus Notes users are now able to access email with their Nokia devices.

This means that more than 80 million users – the estimated number of Nokia S60 3rd Edition handset owners – will be able to access corporate email accounts through Lotus Notes Traveler. 

Nokia says that the support for IBM Lotus email on the S60 platform will be effective starting December 2008, so for the moment you still can’t have real-time access to email, calendar and address books via the Lotus Domino Server.

Everyone know the Bruce Lee movies.Nokia revealed a Bruce Lee edition of a Nokia N96.The handset has Bruce Lee’s face and signature on the back case, and it’s packed with rare photos of the legendary actor. The phone further comes bundled with several accessories and a Bruce Lee doll, made by a company called Enterbay.The Bruce Lee Nokia N96 costs 8,788 Chinese yuan (about $1,286) and it can be bought form here.

T-Mobile USA is introducing web2go, providing customers with better Web browsing, improved search with Yahoo! oneSearch, a customizable home page and a simplified shopping and download experience.The new interface allows customers easier access to browse and purchase ringtones, games, wallpapers and other applications and services for their handsets. A My Downloads section saved on the web will allow users to install their downloaded content on a new handset. Web2go is available now on most T-Mobile handsets, with nearly all models covered in the coming months. Owners of existing handsets from the provider will receive an automatic update to web2go.

Web2go is available today across the majority of new T-Mobile phones, including most Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and BlackBerry handsets. This enhancement is automatic for T-Mobile customers with compatible phones. T-Mobile plans to make web2go available on nearly all new T-Mobile phones over the coming months.

Alltel has recently added the HTC Touch Pro to its line-up of phones. The QWERTY smartphone is available now, priced at about $280 to new subscribers with a contract and after a $100 rebate. The 2.8-inch, 480×640 screen of the device will show the same Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional operating system though with a somewhat different TouchFLO 3D user interface than the Sprint version of the phone.The handset includes a 3.2-megapixel camera with autofocus and flashlight.

T-Mobile USA will provide Yahoo’s OneSearch search engine on its phones, a Yahoo executive said Wednesday.

T-Mobile is placing a OneSearch button on its phones in a deal that is to be announced soon, said Marco Boerries, executive vice president and head of Yahoo’s Connected Life Division, at the Open Mobile Summit conference in San Francisco. The carrier’s decision to place a OneSearch button in the software of its subscribers’ handsets is a much-needed win for Yahoo as it struggles against Google and Microsoft for search advertising dollars and looks for a successor to outgoing CEO Jerry Yang.

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A claim from BGR today suggests Palm is converting its Treo Pro to CDMA for Sprint. The cost of the reported phone as a subsidized item is unknown; Palm sells its unlocked model for $549. However, the CDMA Treo Pro already has a rough launch date estimate of January 11th.