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Sprint Nextel To Acquire Virgin Mobile USA

Sprint Nextel and Virgin Mobile USA announced today that their boards of directors have approved a definitive agreement for Sprint to acquire Virgin Mobile USA for a total equity value of approximately $483 million, which includes the value of Sprint’s current 13.1% fully diluted ownership interest in Virgin Mobile USA. In addition, at closing Sprint will retire all of Virgin Mobile USA’s outstanding debt, which is $248 million net of cash and cash equivalents as of March 31, 2009, but is expected to be no more than $205 million net of cash and cash equivalents on Sept. 30, 2009.

Following the closing of the transaction, Sprint’s prepaid business will be led by Dan Schulman, current Virgin Mobile USA chief executive officer, who will report directly to Dan Hesse, Sprint Nextel president and chief executive officer.

Following the closing of the transaction, Virgin Mobile USA will continue to license the Virgin Mobile USA brand from the Virgin Group under the terms of an amended and restated Trademark License Agreement. Sprint will pay $12.7 million for the initial term, which will continue through the end of 2021. The agreement contains several renewal provisions that will allow Virgin Mobile USA to extend the term until 2047.

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BlackBerry Bold Gains Telstra Blue Tick certification

It appears the Research In Motion BlackBerry Bold smartphone is well liked over in Australia, as Australia’s Telstra award the BlackBerry Bold the coveted Blue Tick certification.

Apparently the Blue Tick award was given for the BlackBerry Bold’s awesome reception. Country wide group manager for Telstra, Brett Riley has said that existing BlackBerry Bold handset can upgrade software as of today and new customers can buy Blue Tick enabled devices as of August.

Telstra’s Blue Tick recommends mobile phone for use in Metro, rural and regional areas. Telstra worked with Research In Motion to develop the software that will boost the BlackBerry Bold’s performance and coverage.

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LG LV7500 the non-whistling Whistle

We are not too sure just why LG has decided to name this mobile phone the LG LV7500 Whistle, it doesn’t make any kind of whistling noise on operation but I’m sure LG had their reasons.

Anyway, we learnt today courtesy of aving, a few details of the new G clamshell LG LV7500 Whistle phone which is destined for the Korean market.

The LG LV7500 Whistle features some 115 LEDs which can be user customised to we think, flash messages, and will be available in 4 colours, hot pink, white, dark navy, sky blue and is to carry a price tag of about 400,000 won which is roughly $325

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Samsung Solstice SGH-A887

This finger-touch phone features a large touch screen, 3G data, video sharing, memory card slot, GPS navigation, 2-megapixel camera, and stereo Bluetooth. It sports Samsung’s TouchWiz interface with drag-and-drop widgets, including Facebook, MySpace and Yahoo! oneSearch.

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China Mobile: TD-SCDMA to Penetrate 70% of Country

China issued 3G licenses in January, 2009, to three telcos, China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom. The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said the country would invest CNY400 billion (US$59 billion) in the next three years. China Mobile received a licence for TD-SCDMA, the domestically-developed 3G standard, …
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Motorola Reports Second-Quarter Financial Results

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T-Mobile USA and RIM Introduce the New BlackBerry Curve 8520

T-Mobile USA and Research In Motion (RIM) announced the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone, a new addition to the BlackBerry Curve series of smartphones, with availability expected on August 5. The new BlackBerry Curve 8520 comes in black and frost colors and features a highly tactile full-QWERTY keyboard for comfortable, accurate typing. It has also got the traditional trackball removed and replaced with a touch-sensitive optical trackpad.

Other than the usual BlackBerry emailing features, the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 also comes with a 2 megapixel camera, built in bluetooth, WiFi, microSDHC card slot and 256MB built in memory. For those business users who love music, the 8520 curve’s 3.5 mm headphone jack and music player shortcut keys on top will let you enjoy the music listening easily.

BlackBerry Curve 8520 specifications:

• Size: 109 x 60 x 13.90 mm
• Weight: 106 g
• Memory: 256 MB internal flash memory
• Expandable Memory Hot swappable micro SD
• Battery: 1150 mAh removable/rechargeable cryptographic lithium cell
• Battery Life: 4.5 hours talk and 17 days standby time12
• Navigation Trackpad – Located on front face of device,
• Display: 320 x 240 pixel color display, transmissive TFT LCD, supports over 65,536 colors 2.46″
• Camera: 2 megapixel camera
• Wi-Fi 802.11b/g enabled
• Bluetooth Bluetooth v2.0 + EDR
• 3.5mm headphone jack
• Micro USB port
• Network Quad-band: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS networks
• Quad-band: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz EDGE networks

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Photo gallery of Nokia N97 and Samsung OMNIA HD

When doing a comparison between two giant smartphones what people want to see is loads of images along with the specs and details so they can gain a good overview of what the smartphones deliver.

Well the guys over at fonearena have just done that with an image battle between the Nokia flagship N97 and the Samsung Omnia HD smartphone.

I could go through all the specs but that has already been done; however, there is a cool gallery of both smartphones on their website so you can take a look there, but don’t forget to pop back and let us know your views on both the Nokia N97 and the Samsung Omnia HD.

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PCD TXTM8 / TXT8026

This uniquely-shaped, affordable messaging phone sports a landscape display and slide-out QWERTY keyboard. It’s similar to the Blitz, but with support for CDMA 1700 networks. Key features include a music player, stereo Bluetooth, memory card slot, and 1.2 megapixel camera.

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Hands-free Vehicular Calling

MobileCOM, a mobile data system for first responders developed by Tiburon, allows first responders to receive dispatch, state and national database queries, and location mapping data, from their vehicles, hands free, reports Urgent.com.

“Users don’t have to take their eyes off the road for license plate lookups,” said Del Pullen, product …
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