http://phone-guide.com Your guide to phone, cellular, and VoIP technologies and plans Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:44:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yahoo has just signed a deal with Samsung to be preloaded on millions of the makers phones. According to Venture Beat, Samsung is the second biggest handset maker after Nokia. Yahoo's deal, which extends an existing partnership, starts in May 2010 and could number "tens of millions" of phones, which ... http://phone-guide.com/yahoo-signs-deal-to-be-on-more-samsung-phones.php Despite the high-profile negative feedback, RIM is claiming that their recently release BlackBerry Storm is Verizon's best-selling device - despite that a survey says only 33% of Storm owners are "very satisfied" with it. And of course, that could mean many things. Then again, the fact that RIM is trying to ... http://phone-guide.com/blackberry-storm-selling-well.php Flickr: hyku. (CC license) Samsung will have their own Android-based Google phone in 2009. It will be released in the second quarter of the year. Availability in the U.S. will be through Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA.  A full touch screen is a possibility, and being a Google phone, apps such ... http://phone-guide.com/samsungs-android-google-phone-coming.php Nokia's 3110 Evolve, as the name suggest evolved from the previous Nokia 3110 Classic mobile unit. Being touted as an eco-friendly phone, the 3110 evolve has three major features that set it apart from other Nokia and other brand of mobile phone. These features are: Design – Measuring just 108.5mm long, ... http://phone-guide.com/nokia-3110-evolve-an-eco-friendly-mobile-phone.php Nokia is giving its millions of users a new entertainment medium on their mobile phone, the Nokia Internet Radio. If you are a Nokia mobile phone user, the new Nokia Internet Radio, is a new web-based service that lets you discover and listen to radio shows broadscasted over the ... http://phone-guide.com/nokia-internet-radio-live-radio-broadcasts-via-mobile-web.php Following the sleek and stylish design of previous LG Chocolate handsets in colors black, red, green, and white, Verizon Wireless has launched extended the Chocolate line-up with the new cool Blue Ice flavor. Its silky-smooth slim slider design comes coated with a frosty blue finish and loaded with the same ... http://phone-guide.com/verizon-wireless-launches-lg-chocolate-in-blue-ice-color.php According to a new study by ABI Research, the market of GPS-enabled mobile phones will experience a rapid growth in the next five years. This market is projected to deliver more than $50 billion next year and will double in 2012 to reach $100 billion. In terms of units, shipments ... http://phone-guide.com/gps-enabled-handset-a-100-billion-market-in-2012.php Handset manufacturer Nokia plans to launch touch-screen mobile phones in the near the future. In the recent Symbian Smartphone Show held in London last October, they already boasted their Symbian Series60 (S60) touch-screen interface. More importantly, the Finnish company has already filed a patent about its technology as early as ... http://phone-guide.com/nokia%e2%80%99s-touch-screen-concept-likely-to-clash-against-apple.php Designed with a hidden slide-out QWERTY Keyboard and trackwheel navigation, the Verizon Wireless XV6800 is like a mini computer. The mobile operator claims this is the "ultimate connectivity device" since it has a built-in Wi-Fi and high-speed wireless broadband. Running on Windows Mobile 6 Professional, mobile users can access MS ... http://phone-guide.com/verizon-wireless-releases-xv6800.php Thankfully, the Levi’s co-branded mobile phone is not something that you can wear and need to unbutton or unzip to make a call. The Levi’s phone from modelabs, is a mobile phone inspired by the legendary denim brand, Levi Strauss Co. The Levi’s Phone is geared for fashionistas and Levi’s denim ... http://phone-guide.com/introducing-the-levis-phone.php