Articles tagged with: Mobile Email and Smartphones

Mobile Internet, multimedia and mapping capture 40% of smartphone face time

Hannu Verkasalo, who has the public examination of his doctoral dissertation at Helsinki University of Technology on April 17th, says that "the usage of new smartphone applications, including the mobile Internet, games, multimedia and map applications, has been increasing among smartphone users and reaches already 40% of total face time". However, most of the usage is still based on voice and text messaging.  more

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Acer Announces Plans for Four Smartphones.

Acer, the third largest vendor in the global PC market is, as widely touted last week, introducing a new line of smartphones. No prices or launch dates were provided.
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Africa is the Next Frontier for Mobile Email Services

Mobile email vendor, Synchronica says that it is now running service trials with three mobile operators in Africa following the take up of licenses by two mobile operators in the continent. The software uses industry standards for push email and synchronization and works with more than 1.5 billion phones in use around the world today.  more

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Sprint Expands Range of Phones That Get Corporate E-Mail

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Sprint Nextel plans to give a number of its non-smartphones access to corporate e-mail accounts in an effort to entice subscribers and stave off customer defections.  more

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