September 9, 2004 articles

Nokia increases quarterly estimates

Sep 09 2004 - 08:17 PM ET | Nokia
Finally a stroke of good luck for Nokia--the Finnish company has announced that it expects to exceed quarterly profit estimates for the third quarter of 2004. Based on the first two months of the quarter, Nokia expects to make EUR...

Old 'brick' phones back in style

Sep 09 2004 - 07:58 PM ET | In The News
The NY Times has an article about old 'brick' style cellular phones catching a geek-chic wave. Quoted in the article is Eugene Auh, a proud owner of a Motorola DynaTac. It did not explain how Mr. Auh plans to use...

T-Mobile Sidekick II release very close

Sep 09 2004 - 04:39 PM ET | Danger, Rumor
Edward C. Baig of USA Today penned a review of the T-Mobile Sidekick II in today's paper. In the review he says (emphasis added by MobileTracker): bq. Let me briefly weigh in on one other clever messaging phone T-Mobile is...

FCC announces 3G spectrum auction

Sep 09 2004 - 04:01 PM ET | In The News
The FCC today announced a new auction for 3G spectrum space in the US. The 20 MHz of spectrum should be sold within 15 months. bq. It [the FCC] started the process to make paired, five megahertz blocks of spectrum...

T-mobile to launch Windows smartphone in Europe, USA

Sep 09 2004 - 02:48 PM ET | Smartphone, T-Mobile
T-Mobile is set to launch the Smart Digital Assistant (SDA)--its first Windows powered smartphone in Europe. Priced at 100 Euros with a new activation, it's on the lower end of smartphone prices. Features of the SDA include: * VGA amera...

T-Mobile USA launches 1,000th retail store

Sep 09 2004 - 02:43 PM ET | T-Mobile
T-Mobile opened its 1,000th retail store in the US today. The pace so far this year has been nearly one store every other day. The new store today is located at 699 Market Street in San Francisco. As part of...

Nokia 7260 announced

Sep 09 2004 - 10:17 AM ET | Nokia
Nokia has officially announced the Nokia 7260. Images of this phone were leaked several weeks ago to various online message boards. At the time the photos were said to be an updated Nokia 7610, but that does not appear to...

Nokia 7270 announced

Sep 09 2004 - 10:09 AM ET | Nokia
The Nokia 7270 was announced today at the Totally Fashion event in Shanghai. It's another bold design from Nokia, and is one of only a few flip phone from the company. The housing is etched stainless steel. The 7270 comes...

Nokia 7280 announced

Sep 09 2004 - 09:59 AM ET | Nokia
Nokia today announced the 7280, a sleek highly styled cell phone without a conventional key pad. Instead of a keypad, the Nokia 7280 has a, "discreet keyless dial" (Ed. note, we're not sure how this works...). The rest of the...

10 megapixel camera phones in future

Sep 09 2004 - 02:13 AM ET | Camera
Carl Ziess has announced a new lens for camera phones that packs higher quality in a smaller space. At about the size of a pea, the new lens sports three-elements and extremely aspheric surfaces. Carl Ziess partnered with Dialog Semiconductor...