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AT&T announced new programs for holiday. Custumers can get free ring tones, answer tones and a free mobile game. To get the free content, any AT&T customer can send an SMS with the word “gift” to the 7230 number and will instantly be provided with a link from where the free tones and the free game.

AT&T’s subscribers will be able to get three free Christmas themed ring tones – Jingle Bells, Noche de Paz and The Dreidel Song – and three free answer tones: “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree” by Cyndi Lauper, “Feliz Navidad” by Jose Feliciano and “Wizards in Winter” by Trans-Siberian Orchestra. The other free title that AT&T offers is Santa’s Tower Bloxx, the Christmas edition of the construction puzzle game developed by Digital Chocolate.
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Even after Steve Jobs stated that “Java’s not worth building into the iPhone”, it seems that Apple reconsidered the fact that the iPhone is not really a business phone and agreed to give it some entertainment functions. Furthermore, you should know that Apple thought about embedding Java compatibility into the iPhone even before launching it on the market.

This is proved by the ARM11 family processor running at speeds up to 667 MHz that is compatible with Java accelerated engine Jazelle. Jazelle is a technology that executes the Java bytecode directly in hardware on many ARM microprocessors. It is able to achieve a similar high peak performance to software compilation techniques, with fast start-up and smooth execution in a small memory footprint. Jazelle also enables multitasking, which means that users will be able to run multiple Java applications and games in the background with minimal overhead.
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In December this year, Samsung will bring the D880 Dual Sim handset, a mid-end phone that offers the highly useful feature of using two SIM cards at the same time, enabling users to place affordable calls by easily switching data plans. Besides this, the handset offers a quite nice 3-megapixel camera with auto focus, a 1200V powerful battery and connectivity through Bluetooth 2.0 and USB 2.0. Samsung D880 will be available for a retail price of about $600.

Twice phone from Samsung is Samsung SGH-J750, available now exclusively via M1, a leading mobile communications provider in Singapore. The handset is free for those who make a two-year contract with M1 and comes with features like a 1.3 megapixel camera, MP3 player, Bluetooth and USB connectivity and microSD card slot. It’s not a great device, but a normal one created for those who want an affordable mobile phone.

Another slider that Samsung offers this winter is the fashionable L600, coming in pink and violet and targeting girls and women. The slider is not a high-end phone (it doesn’t have 3G performances for example), but its smooth design will surely attract ladies. Samsung L600 provides Bluetooth and USB connectivity as well as GPRS and EDGE technology. A 2-megapixel camera can offer medium quality photos while the music player can support a large number of media files. The handset will retail for $400. [via]

Fourteen independent Windows Mobile experts selected Opera Mobile as the winner in the all-important Internet Browser category in the 2007 Best Software Awards. All providers and developers of mobile Internet technology and applications have been analyzed by a judging panel of experts from the wireless community. Among main competitors there also count ThunderHawk and Skweezer, both highly evolved applications.

The greatest advantage that made judges choose Opera Mobile over all other competing softwares is that it resembled most of all the features and advantages that desktop browsers have to offer their users. Moreover, it’s a perfect match with mobile devices running on Windows Mobile. The software is currently being used by some of the leading handset producers, such as Sony Ericsson, Motorola, HTC, KDDI, Kyocera and many others. This preference should also account as recognition for the browser’s quality, although the official award is just as good as it gets.
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BlackBerry Connect software v4.0 will allow users to access wireless email services, including attachment viewing and wireless email synchronization. All this will be possible in connection with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Internet Service.

Among the features that BlackBerry Connect v4.0 has to bring, there is also better attachment and the possibility for users to view images, footnotes and tracked changes. Moreover, it will give access to remote look-up of corporate email address directory and bring triple DES or AES wireless encryption.

The software also includes wireless IT policy enforcement and commands. This means that Sony Ericsson P1i users will have the chance of benefiting from just about the same advantages as those owning BlackBerry smartphones.
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Samsung U900 comes equipped with a 3 megapixel camera, which should manage to bring great quality captures from the company that manage to break the world record on camera phone performances with a 10-megapixel one. The device looks to earn a place as Samsung A990’s successor, also a highly evolved mobile phone. There are also autofocus and a camcorder included, as to bring captures as close as possible to the performances of a dedicated digital camera.

Samsung U900 has a swiveling screen that makes it possible to watch high-quality shows through the VCAST Video service. Moreover, users will be able to download music directly to the phone, through VCAST Music. This is a media phone above anything, which can be guessed from the easy access buttons on the top clap that make handling playlists easy.
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