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Today Nokia announced a bright new addition to their CDMA portfolio, the Nokia 2608. With its high-gloss exterior, racy stripe down the middle and three colorful options, the Nokia 2608 fold phone was designed for style enthusiasts and consumers who want convenient functionality when they’re on the go. Whether it’s fuchsia with pink stripe, silver with green stripe or black with blue stripe there are choices for expressing individuality.

Chunghwa Telecom has set December 13 as the official date of iPhone 3G available in Taiwan. The company would sell iPhones with a two-year service contract for a minimal month fee of NT$1,049 (about US$ 31).

People can get a free iPhone with 8GB memory space by signing up a two-year contract with a monthly charge of NT$2,549 (about US$ 76). Another option is also available: buy the iPhone from this operator for NT$26,600 (about US$ 800) and get a prepaid number.

Just in time for the holidays and all the photo-friendly activities that come with the season, Sprint and VeriSign Messaging and Mobile Media announced today an enhancement to Sprint Picture Mail that allows Sprint customers to send digital photos and videos straight from their phones to popular social media sites, including MySpace, Photobucket and YouTube.

Possibly the next innovative way of getting a large display screen with a smaller phone body size, Samsung SDI has presented their foldable AMOLED display prototype during the FPDI 2008. There are 2 pieces of thin AMOLED displays placed side by side, creating a almost perfect large WQVGA display screen. You can only see a very thin line at the joint of 2 AMOLED displays. Check out the video here.

PocketGear announced the launch of AndroidGear.com. The new app store offers a wide range of freeware and commercial applications for Android-powered smartphones based on Google’s open source operating system, Android.

PocketGear is celebrating the launch with a 25%-Off site-wide-sale at all of its app stores, including PocketGear.com, PalmGear.com, SymbianGear.com, RIMGear.com, Mobile2Day.com, and of course AndroidGear.com. By entering the voucher code “SALE25″ users save 25% on all apps purchased until November 30, 2008. The sale code is also valid on all of PocketGear Germany’s sites.

Heading out to holiday dinners, get-away vacations, or just being away from home no longer means missing out on your favorite television programming. That’s because TiVo launched TiVo Mobile, a free mobile phone-optimized Web site that allows subscribers and non-subscribers alike to browse, search, and discover television shows, regardless of mobile platform, carrier or browser. TiVo subscribers have the option to schedule recordings on their Series2 or Series3 TiVo boxes directly through the site, bringing a new level of ease to recording TV.

Beginning Monday, Dec. 1, 2008, first-time Firefly subscribers can choose from two new rate plans: 25 minutes for $9.99 or 150 minutes for $19.99. No contracts or access fees are required and the new plans are available to any new subscriber, regardless of where they purchased their Firefly phone. Firefly is also offering limited edition glowPhone bundles, specially priced at $59.99. Bundles are available in pink or black and include a glowPhone, carabineer and special rubber skin. For individual glowPhone purchases, Firefly is giving away a free headset valued at $15.99.

Lenovo today announced plans to bring customers a new security defense against unauthorized data access on Lenovo ThinkPad notebooks. The Lenovo Constant Secure Remote Disable feature lets users send a simple text message command via a cell phone to render their PC useless to unauthorized users when the notebook is lost or stolen. Lenovo’s Remote Disable feature will be available on select ThinkPad notebooks equipped with mobile broadband starting in 1Q 2009.

This no-frills clamshell GSM phone features quad-band world roaming, full-duplex speakerphone, voice memo, MMS, and an external display.

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PayPal today announced a new way for members to add even more security to their PayPal accounts using their mobile phones. Customers can now choose to receive a unique six-digit security code via text message to their mobile phones prior to logging in to their accounts.

Sony Ericsson has just launched the latest panels for the Xperia X1, including the Facebook panel and Microsoft Windows Live panel. The new Facebook application built for Sony Ericsson uses the unique interface of the Xperia X1 to deliver an intuitive version of the site, putting images of your friends onto your phone’s desktop (standby screen) and showing their latest status updates as you touch their images. Touch through to access more Facebook features.

The Salling Media Sync, which synchronize playlists, music, and podcasts in iTunes onto mobile devices, will now support T-Mobile’s G1 and Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X1. The new version also improves performance with HTC’s TouchFLO 3D devices. Version 1.0.2 “massages” metadata inside audio files on-the-fly, before they’re sent to the device, resulting in smoother on-device browsing and an enhanced album artwork experience.

Sony Ericsson has just launched the latest panels for the Xperia X1, including the Facebook panel and Microsoft Windows Live panel. The new Facebook application built for Sony Ericsson uses the unique interface of the Xperia X1 to deliver an intuitive version of the site, putting images of your friends onto your phone’s desktop (standby screen) and showing their latest status updates as you touch their images. Touch through to access more Facebook features.

Streamezzo announced that its Rich Media Client is now available for the BlackBerry smart-phones, enabling developers to build services for many RIM’s smartphones, including the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220.

Following of today’s announcement, service providers and mobile operators can extend the deployment of their Rich Media Application portfolios to the BlackBerry platform.

U.S. Cellular and LG announce the availability of the LG Rhythm to U.S. Cellular customers. The LG Rhythm was created with music enthusiasts in mind and is easy to use with its unique textured slide design. The stylish LG Rhythm offers a 1-inch circular touch screen and one of the most advanced music systems available in mobile phones today. The built-in music player includes Digital Signal Processing as well as an audio equalizer professionally tuned by Mark Levinson. The phone also includes an FM transmitter that easily streams songs to a car stereo or to another receiver. The included 3.5 mm stereo headset allows users to easily toggle between music and incoming calls.