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Affordable Nokia E73 Mode headed to T

Nokia and T-Mobile are proving to be quite a pair when it comes to delivering smartphones at an affordable price. First, there was the Nokia Nuron and now there’s the Nokia E73 Mode. The E73 Mode is a QWERTY messaging smartphone (Nokia’s thinnest to date) that will be available starting June 16 for just $69.99 …

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Acer Liquid E comes to Canada

Acer America announced Wednesday that its Liquid E handset is now available through an exclusive deal with Rogers Wireless. Effective immediately, customers can pick up the Android 2.1 device for as low as $49.99 as long as they agree to a three-year contract. The Liquid E features a 3.5-inch WVGA touch display, a 5-megapixel camera, and support for Wi-Fi (802.11 …

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LG and T

As surprising as it may seem, T-Mobile has never had an LG phone on its network, at least until this summer. The companies’ first-time collaboration will be marked by three new phones: the LG Sentio, LG dLite, and LG GS170. The Sentio and the dLite will have T-Mobile’s Social Buzz, an app designed to give an easy view and access …

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I want my MTV…app

If you’re over the age of, oh, 25, this may not interest you much. For you youngsters out there, however, this is, like, so totally cool: MTV just got its own app. Free but ad-supported, MTV News serves up the latest pop-culture gossip–er, news–about music, movies, TV, celebrities, and gaming. It’s available for the iPhone and the iPod Touch now; …

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Streaming video to outpace P2P traffic growth

Video is still the killer app of the Internet, but peer-to-peer services like BitTorrent will no longer account for the bulk of traffic on the Net as streaming services grow at a quicker pace over the next few years. For 10 years, peer-to-peer traffic, such as BitTorrent, which includes some video, has been the largest type of traffic on the …

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Live Ashes cricket on Vodafone, 3

Streaming video from this summer’s Ashes cricket series between Australia and England will be available exclusively to both Vodafone and 3 Mobile customers. For anyone who follows the machinations of mobile phone companies, this will come as no surprise that Vodafone and Hutchison (3 Mobile’s owner) merged in Australia last year to become VHA. According to VHA, this summer’s Ashes …

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Motorola Flipout makes official debut

We’ve already heard so much about the Motorola Flipout that at this point, the official announcement just seems like an informality, but here it is, Moto’s newest Android phone. Similar to the Nokia Twist, the Flipout sports a square design that twists open to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard. With its fun design and such hip colors choices as Licorice, …

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White Bold finds a home at Vodafone

With hopes of capturing the hearts of a more fashionable crowd, the BlackBerry Bold is soon to be strutting its stuff in white, and will be available exclusively through Vodafone from 6 June. Model Didier Cohen with the White Bold at its launch event. (Credit: RIM) Technically speaking, the White Bold is identical to its darker brethren, and as such, …

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