Ad-funded, youth-targeted European mobile virtual network operator Blyk announced yesterday that it had secured a massive $50 million (40 million euros) in funding from its existing backers, which include Goldman Sachs, IFIC and Sofinnova Partners, no mean feat for a company whose business model relies almost entirely on advertising at a time when the downturn is clearly hurting ad revenues. But Blyk CEO Pekka Ala-Pietilä, and ex-president of Nokia, says that the company, which now has 200,000 users in its targeted age group of 16-24 who have agreed to view ads in return for free airtime, is not only poised to "weather the storm," it may well have edge during the recession.

Blyk has "taken measures to streamline and cut costs"--what does this mean exactly? "It means first of all that we are experiencing tougher times and unpredictable times ahead of us, and we like everyone else are feeling the impact, so we have to be well prepared and to do things differently internally. We are working more smartly, and we have to cut the number of people. But I can't disclose that number."

More on advertising, funding and other topics after the jump

Growing the subscriber base: "This hasn't been a challenge. Now more than ever people want free things."

The downturn is obviously having an impact on advertising, what does this mean for Blyk, given that your model is so reliant on it? "In Blyk's case there are interesting things that will help us weather the storm. If you can send relevant messages, you cut down on waste. Our form of advertising is extremely measurable, and during times when people are very careful when planning how best to spend their money, we see this even giving us an edge. (Blyk claims an average response rate of 25 percent for the 2000+ campaigns it has run in the UK.) Also, the mobile advertising industry is still small and we believe it will be less impacted because of its relatively smaller size."

But despite the cuts, international expansion is going ahead...: "Yes, it's going ahead. In the last few months, we've had increasing interest in Blyk's media model. It was at such a level that we needed to go back and rethink what does this mean as an opportunity for us. We are embarking on a path for partnering with operators, with media, and with ad agencies. To deliver the Blyk media experience, from end to end, from operator to consumer, the whole ecosystem, or constellation, is very muti-faceted, very complex. By partnering, we speed up our footprint, by using competencies from each of the partners."

Aside from Europe and Asia, what plans are there for the US, where the Blyk model might be more of a challenge to implement as mobile users pay to receive SMS? "Again, with this partnership approach, I can envisage a partnership model in which we work together with key players in the US. This is part of our motivation?if we have the flexibility in our model, we don't need to be fixed too tightly [to our existing business model] and can expand in markets and countries where [industry practices] are different."

Despite the sizable funding you've been able to bring in, and as you say the very measurable results you can show, there still seems to be lingering skepticism over the Blyk model. Why do you think is? Where is it coming from?: "Mobile advertising as a market is still nascent. The different facets of mobile advertising have not been discussed that deeply, the awareness is not deep. Mobile advertising is still used as an umbrella term to mean one monolithic market. That doesn't do us justice; it's not the right way to assess things."

"Mobile advertising is at least four things--content, messaging, search and display. It's not fair to take a stand on all in one go. On the content and messaging side, which form Blyk's main model, what is already emerging is the recognition that messaging works well with consumers because messaging is already part of their everyday behavior. It fits naturally within the mobile experience. Complemented with targeting, which makes messaging relevant, its the holy grail. Relevant messaging is not seen as an ad, but content. We know that young people want content from the areas of their interest, which is why we have got the high response rates. When people look at our model, to say mobile advertising is too constraining, too limited. It doesn't take into account the different [strands] within it: we can do above the line, below the line, direct sales, and also market research."

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• Blyk Hits 100,000 Customers

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Before 2007, using the internet on your phone would make you want to kill yourself, if you were dumb enough to believe the crap splattered across that tiny screen even was the "internet." But the combination of increased bandwidth and better mobile software means that more phones really are promising to deliver the real internet, in living color. We tested eight different browsers, and while some put smiles on our faces, others proved that rendering HTML correctly is a far cry from actually giving you an awesome web experience. And what about 3G vs. Wi-Fi? Everything the carriers have told you is a lie. This is the true state of mobile web.

Before we give you the rundown of each of the most prevalent mobile browsers, here's how they all stacked up in a timed test of how fast (and how well) they could render websites, chosen for their diversity and particular challenges:

CHART KEY: Number value is time for complete page load in seconds; page rendering is rated from "Fail" to "Excellent" for each; and the color (red, yellow, green) indicates overall performance taking into account both speed and rendering accuracy: Green = good overall, Red = fail overall.

This second chart runs through the same procedure with all of the phones that had Wi-Fi options:

It's a pretty daunting pile of numbers, so let's break it down into standard prose, rating each browser as we go:
Android
A fast, smart mobile browser based on WebKit. It tackles most sites with (almost) unrivaled grace and speed. Panning and zooming could be smoother and more responsive, but with a ton of options for getting around a page—various touch methods and the trackball—few sites will be challenging to zip around. The only thing we really miss is multitouch for zoom. Buttons just aren't a very elegant or precise solution, and while the whole-page magnifying glass technique is nice, we'd love something a bit more refined. Overall though, we're happy campers on Android's browser. Grade: B+

BlackBerry Bold
Leaps and bounds ahead of the browser BlackBerry users have put up with for years, it renders most pages correctly, even if scripts give it a conniption fit (hence its long load times for Wikipedia and the WSJ). It uses the standard "click to zoom" metaphor, which works well enough, though getting around a page with the trackball can be kind of a work out for you thumb. The Column View, which squeezes a whole page into a single column, is fairly convenient and makes it easier to get around wider pages, even if it doesn't work equally as well on every site (nice on Wikipedia, ugly on Giz). Hopefully they fix the script performance in the Storm, which is using an updated version of the Bold's browser. We humbly suggest they ditch their home-baked browser for one based on WebKit, which would help out there. Grade: B-/C+

iPhone
What can we say? It's still got the best mobile browser around. It crushes basically everything but Android's browser—which is also based on WebKit—in speed and outclasses its still classy brother-from-another-mother (and everyone else) with the ease and elegance of its multitouch zooming. Some pages still give it fits, and it's missing Flash support, but it really does deliver an unrivaled mobile web experience. We love it, but make no mistake we're eagerly waiting for something better. (Mobile Firefox? Is it you?) Grade: A-

Nokia E71 Symbian S60
Hey look, another web browser with WebKit guts! It doesn't perform quite as well as Android's or iPhone's iteration where speed or render accuracy are concerned (can any Symbian nuts explain why?), but it does a serviceable job. The big thing it has going for it is Flash Lite 3 support, though performance there is kinda assy and memory intensive. Navigation is tougher with the E71's d-pad than with a trackball, but the whole page magnifying approach makes it easy enough to get around (too bad you have to dig through a menu or two to get to it). Not bad, but short of excellent. Grade: B-

Internet Explorer on Windows Mobile
Jesus Christ. This is a joke, right Microsoft? Hahaha. No really, this is the worst smartphone browser on the planet. It couldn't render its way out of an ASCII-art paper bag. It totally screwed up every single test page, except for Wikipedia, which it only mostly screwed up. Good luck navigating a page if you're granted the miraculous occurrence of it being rendered in a state that's usable. Grade: F-

Opera Mobile on Windows Mobile
Microsoft's own intentions notwithstanding, you can use the internet on a Windows Mobile phone. You just need Opera Mobile. It's kind of hobbled by Windows Mobile's assy performance, but it usually gets the job done. Not as quickly or always as accurately as its WebKit rivals, but it's definitely usable. Interestingly, it benefits more from the extra bandwidth offered by Wi-Fi than the WebKit browsers do. Menu-based zoom is annoying and imprecise. Touch-based panning worked okay, though a little laggy. We mostly navigated with the Samsung Epix's optical cursor, which worked pretty well, somewhere in between a d-pad and a trackball. Grade: C

Sprint Instinct
Holy CRAP. This is not the painfully lousy browser the Instinct shipped with not by a long shot. The original was slow and fairly feeble, even if it was the head of its (dumbphone) class. The new 1.1 browser really is a life-changing upgrade. It suffers in the chart because it's much slower than most other browsers, and zooming is still clumsy, but once the page loads, it's much smoother to pan and actually move around. I got a bit annoyed that it lied about pageload time, hanging at the last 2 percent of the status bar for half the load, but it usually gets things right. This is the best non-smartphone browser you can get. Grade: C+

LG Dare
Like the Instinct, the Dare proves you can actually get a usable browsing experience on a feature phone. It's a little nimbler at loading pages than its Korean blood rival, but the reason it ultimately posts lower marks than the Instinct is that it buckles way more easily under a moderate to heavy pageload, turning it into an unresponsive picture of the website you were trying to look at. Still, it renders most pages fairly accurately, and we like the sliding zoom scroll bar, at least in theory, since it seems like an intuitive way to deal with the zoom issue. Unfortunately, it works more like a glorified pair of buttons. (Note: I don't think the speed was actually a piddly 300 Kbps—I think it just had a problem dealing with DSL Reports' mobile speedtest, even though it's text-based for the dumbest of phones.) Grade: C

Methodology
We tested every browser only using the full—not mobile—versions of selected sites, over 3G and, whenever possible, Wi-Fi. All scripts were turned on, and the cache was cleared before each round of testing. We took the average of a series of five sequential speedtests to give us an idea of the bandwidth we're dealing with, and timed how long it took to completely load a site according to each browser's progress bar. We assessed whether or not it rendered the page correctly, on a scale ranging from "excellent" to "good" (a couple things out of place) to "utter fail" (I've seen prettier train wrecks).

A few additional issues to note: Internet Explorer would not work on Wi-Fi. Opera yes, our Skyfire install, yes, Internet Exploder, no. (Samsung suggested it might be because of Opera.) We didn't pursue the matter because of how IE did in the 3G tests: A page that looks like a pile of blended dog poo is going to look like that no matter how much faster it loads. Sprint's updated Instinct and Verizon's Dare, which we included as best-of-class examples of feature phones, don't have Wi-Fi capabilities. We left out Opera Mini and Skyfire, since they both leave most of the hard work to servers which essentially spit out a kind of image file—besides, we don't think this kind of internet-by-proxy browser will be around for much longer.

The Big Gulp
Remember our mantra it's code that counts? It's true for mobile internet too. An awesome browser can make up for a mediocre network, but a terrible browser delivers a crappy experience no matter how great the network is. It's all about the browser. As it stands, WebKit is clearly the best thing going, but even then, software implementation matters, or Nokia would deliver as good a performance as Android and iPhone. Proving the point, it's striking how little Wi-Fi actually boosted speed beyond 3G—hell, WebKit browsers on 3G slid past some of the others that were running on Wi-Fi.

Another thing to note is that the zoom metaphor is a tricky thing to nail. Buttons are too brutish, the magnifying glass is imprecise. Multitouch seems to be the best way to handle zooming in and out in a way that's intuitive and precise. Hopefully we'll see other developers start to use multitouch interfaces in touchscreen phones (*cough*ANDROID!*cough*).

As much as this blow-by-blow battlemodo shows you all the problems we encountered, the big picture is that really, mobile web is pretty dandy right now, and getting dandier. It could be more reliable, faster, maybe a little more versatile, but for the most part, yes, you can access the internet on your phone. Compared to just two years ago, that's really saying something. We can't wait to see what it'll look like in two years. Maybe Internet Exploder will actually work. Nah, that's a little too sci-fi.

Before 2007, using the internet on your phone would make you want to kill yourself, if you were dumb enough to believe the crap splattered across that tiny screen even was the "internet." But the combination of increased bandwidth and better mobile software means that more phones really are promising to deliver the real internet, in living color. We tested eight different browsers, and while some put smiles on our faces, others proved that rendering HTML correctly is a far cry from actually giving you an awesome web experience. And what about 3G vs. Wi-Fi? Everything the carriers have told you is a lie. This is the true state of mobile web.

Before we give you the rundown of each of the most prevalent mobile browsers, here's how they all stacked up in a timed test of how fast (and how well) they could render websites, chosen for their diversity and particular challenges:

CHART KEY: Number value is time for complete page load in seconds; page rendering is rated from "Fail" to "Excellent" for each; and the color (red, yellow, green) indicates overall performance taking into account both speed and rendering accuracy: Green = good overall, Red = fail overall.

This second chart runs through the same procedure with all of the phones that had Wi-Fi options:

It's a pretty daunting pile of numbers, so let's break it down into standard prose, rating each browser as we go:
Android
A fast, smart mobile browser based on WebKit. It tackles most sites with (almost) unrivaled grace and speed. Panning and zooming could be smoother and more responsive, but with a ton of options for getting around a page—various touch methods and the trackball—few sites will be challenging to zip around. The only thing we really miss is multitouch for zoom. Buttons just aren't a very elegant or precise solution, and while the whole-page magnifying glass technique is nice, we'd love something a bit more refined. Overall though, we're happy campers on Android's browser. Grade: B+

BlackBerry Bold
Leaps and bounds ahead of the browser BlackBerry users have put up with for years, it renders most pages correctly, even if scripts give it a conniption fit (hence its long load times for Wikipedia and the WSJ). It uses the standard "click to zoom" metaphor, which works well enough, though getting around a page with the trackball can be kind of a work out for you thumb. The Column View, which squeezes a whole page into a single column, is fairly convenient and makes it easier to get around wider pages, even if it doesn't work equally as well on every site (nice on Wikipedia, ugly on Giz). Hopefully they fix the script performance in the Storm, which is using an updated version of the Bold's browser. We humbly suggest they ditch their home-baked browser for one based on WebKit, which would help out there. Grade: B-/C+

iPhone
What can we say? It's still got the best mobile browser around. It crushes basically everything but Android's browser—which is also based on WebKit—in speed and outclasses its still classy brother-from-another-mother (and everyone else) with the ease and elegance of its multitouch zooming. Some pages still give it fits, and it's missing Flash support, but it really does deliver an unrivaled mobile web experience. We love it, but make no mistake we're eagerly waiting for something better. (Mobile Firefox? Is it you?) Grade: A-

Nokia E71 Symbian S60
Hey look, another web browser with WebKit guts! It doesn't perform quite as well as Android's or iPhone's iteration where speed or render accuracy are concerned (can any Symbian nuts explain why?), but it does a serviceable job. The big thing it has going for it is Flash Lite 3 support, though performance there is kinda assy and memory intensive. Navigation is tougher with the E71's d-pad than with a trackball, but the whole page magnifying approach makes it easy enough to get around (too bad you have to dig through a menu or two to get to it). Not bad, but short of excellent. Grade: B-

Internet Explorer on Windows Mobile
Jesus Christ. This is a joke, right Microsoft? Hahaha. No really, this is the worst smartphone browser on the planet. It couldn't render its way out of an ASCII-art paper bag. It totally screwed up every single test page, except for Wikipedia, which it only mostly screwed up. Good luck navigating a page if you're granted the miraculous occurrence of it being rendered in a state that's usable. Grade: F-

Opera Mobile on Windows Mobile
Microsoft's own intentions notwithstanding, you can use the internet on a Windows Mobile phone. You just need Opera Mobile. It's kind of hobbled by Windows Mobile's assy performance, but it usually gets the job done. Not as quickly or always as accurately as its WebKit rivals, but it's definitely usable. Interestingly, it benefits more from the extra bandwidth offered by Wi-Fi than the WebKit browsers do. Menu-based zoom is annoying and imprecise. Touch-based panning worked okay, though a little laggy. We mostly navigated with the Samsung Epix's optical cursor, which worked pretty well, somewhere in between a d-pad and a trackball. Grade: C

Sprint Instinct
Holy CRAP. This is not the painfully lousy browser the Instinct shipped with not by a long shot. The original was slow and fairly feeble, even if it was the head of its (dumbphone) class. The new 1.1 browser really is a life-changing upgrade. It suffers in the chart because it's much slower than most other browsers, and zooming is still clumsy, but once the page loads, it's much smoother to pan and actually move around. I got a bit annoyed that it lied about pageload time, hanging at the last 2 percent of the status bar for half the load, but it usually gets things right. This is the best non-smartphone browser you can get. Grade: C+

LG Dare
Like the Instinct, the Dare proves you can actually get a usable browsing experience on a feature phone. It's a little nimbler at loading pages than its Korean blood rival, but the reason it ultimately posts lower marks than the Instinct is that it buckles way more easily under a moderate to heavy pageload, turning it into an unresponsive picture of the website you were trying to look at. Still, it renders most pages fairly accurately, and we like the sliding zoom scroll bar, at least in theory, since it seems like an intuitive way to deal with the zoom issue. Unfortunately, it works more like a glorified pair of buttons. (Note: I don't think the speed was actually a piddly 300 Kbps—I think it just had a problem dealing with DSL Reports' mobile speedtest, even though it's text-based for the dumbest of phones.) Grade: C

Methodology
We tested every browser only using the full—not mobile—versions of selected sites, over 3G and, whenever possible, Wi-Fi. All scripts were turned on, and the cache was cleared before each round of testing. We took the average of a series of five sequential speedtests to give us an idea of the bandwidth we're dealing with, and timed how long it took to completely load a site according to each browser's progress bar. We assessed whether or not it rendered the page correctly, on a scale ranging from "excellent" to "good" (a couple things out of place) to "utter fail" (I've seen prettier train wrecks).

A few additional issues to note: Internet Explorer would not work on Wi-Fi. Opera yes, our Skyfire install, yes, Internet Exploder, no. (Samsung suggested it might be because of Opera.) We didn't pursue the matter because of how IE did in the 3G tests: A page that looks like a pile of blended dog poo is going to look like that no matter how much faster it loads. Sprint's updated Instinct and Verizon's Dare, which we included as best-of-class examples of feature phones, don't have Wi-Fi capabilities. We left out Opera Mini and Skyfire, since they both leave most of the hard work to servers which essentially spit out a kind of image file—besides, we don't think this kind of internet-by-proxy browser will be around for much longer.

The Big Gulp
Remember our mantra it's code that counts? It's true for mobile internet too. An awesome browser can make up for a mediocre network, but a terrible browser delivers a crappy experience no matter how great the network is. It's all about the browser. As it stands, WebKit is clearly the best thing going, but even then, software implementation matters, or Nokia would deliver as good a performance as Android and iPhone. Proving the point, it's striking how little Wi-Fi actually boosted speed beyond 3G—hell, WebKit browsers on 3G slid past some of the others that were running on Wi-Fi.

Another thing to note is that the zoom metaphor is a tricky thing to nail. Buttons are too brutish, the magnifying glass is imprecise. Multitouch seems to be the best way to handle zooming in and out in a way that's intuitive and precise. Hopefully we'll see other developers start to use multitouch interfaces in touchscreen phones (*cough*ANDROID!*cough*).

As much as this blow-by-blow battlemodo shows you all the problems we encountered, the big picture is that really, mobile web is pretty dandy right now, and getting dandier. It could be more reliable, faster, maybe a little more versatile, but for the most part, yes, you can access the internet on your phone. Compared to just two years ago, that's really saying something. We can't wait to see what it'll look like in two years. Maybe Internet Exploder will actually work. Nah, that's a little too sci-fi.

¡Estreno de Café! En este momentos realiza una actividad con los medios que estamos presentes junto a los teléfonos que nos han otorgado para probar.

Estoy probando con detalle, es muy fácil de navegar en el menú, tanto como el Bold en una pantalla vertical, es un poco alargada la zona de las teclas aún estoy probando la escritura. Sí, las teclas son más grandes y resultan cómodas, son de una goma y flexibles para el uso.

Cualquier pregunta déjenla en los comentarios para aprovechar que tengo el equipo en las manos

Publicado desde el Nokia E71 | 19 Nov ‘08, 7.08am PST PST

¡Café instántaneo! En este momento estamos en el salón en plena presentación de @Blackberry cada una de las sillas tiene un Blackberry 8220 como obsequio a la prensa y una invitacion a probar el equipo y los servicios de Digitel GSM.

DIGITEL HABLA DE CASI 14 MIL CLIENTES QUE VAN DE 14 A 35 AÑOS. No hay distinción entre hombres y mujeres todos son amantes de la tecnología

Nos hablan de los teléfonos en detalle, representantes de rim se encuentran aquí más adelante todos los detalles

Publicado desde el Nokia E71 | 19 Nov ‘08, 6.38am PST PST

¡Café monaguense! Trece iPhone en un día se vendieron ayer en Maturin, estado Monagas. así lo informa nuestro reportero Domenico Falzano.

iPhone 3G Maturin

Saludos, desde el dia de hoy a las 9.00 am, aproximadamente se dio la luz verde para la venta de la manzana de la discordia, el iPhone 3G debuto en Maturin y con muy buenas expectativas, el agente integral MONAGAS PHONE CLUB, sera el encargado de la venta de este equipo en todo el estado Monagas. Fotos tomadas con un Nokia N82.

Material POP del iPhone Movistar.

Ya desde muy temprano los clientes estaban esperando para comprar su iphone 3G en sus dos presentaciones 8gb y 16 gb en sus dos colores, mientras estuve alli pude ver a varias personas adquirir este equipo, muchos usuarios del Iphone en su version anterior venian a renovar, se llevaban hasta de dos equipos!!! que tal??

La MACBOOOK usada para facilitar la programación del iPhone por  iTunes.

El amigo Luis Tomaselli, dueño de MONAGAS PHONE CLUB, esta muy contento por haber sido el seleccionado para la venta de este equipo, me pudo comentar que envio a dos de sus empleados para el curso de capacitacion que dicto la gente de Apple, para la venta de este equipo, tambien me dijo que no ha tenido problema alguno para la activacion de los equipos, “estamos activando con una MacBook, para que sea mas facil la activacion” me comento a con-cafe.

Otra vista del material POP del iPhone 3G.

Pude conocer de muy buena fuente, que en la region Guayana solamente seran 3 los Agentes que venderan el iPhone 3G, uno en Puerto Ordaz, uno en Ciudad Bolivar, y en el estado Monagas Phone Club en Maturin.

Dotación del iPhone 3G.

Cabe recordar que MONAGAS PHONE CLUB, esta ubicada en la calle Monagas, frente a la Plaza del Estudiante en la ciudad de Maturin, estado Monagas.

Asi que los que quieran comprar esa manzana ya saben donde ir…

Saludos…

Domenico Falzano

Gracias Domenico. Buen trabajo!

La caja de color negro es donde viene el iPhone de 8GB y la blanca el iPhone de 16 GB.

There?s been some controversy regarding the unbelievably low price of Nokia?s first full touchscreen phone, the Nokia 5800 XPressMusic. We reported a while back that it?s debuting in Russia and Spain with a significantly higher price tag than what was previously announced, but it turns out that this price includes some added perks.

Original reports pegged the 5800 XpressMusic phone for ?429 or roughly $550 in Spain. However, we?ve now learned that this price includes a 100 Euro voucher for music downloads and a 3 month subscription to Nokia Maps Voice Navigation service. It?s still a ?279 phone, but in fairness, that price does include some additional services and goodies. It?s a nice bundle although I would have preferred to have been given the option of just getting the phone as opposed to strictly limiting my purchase powers to the bundled package.

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AT&T today launched the LG Incite, a Windows Mobile device with a modern design.

The Incite has a sophisticated, sleek design, a crystal-clear 3.0-inch touch screen and a 3.0-megapixel camera. Running on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, the Incite has Microsoft Office Mobile, Microsoft ActiveSync 4.5 and Windows Media Player 10.

Consumers can navigate through the menu using their fingers, the scroll button to the upper right of the screen, or the included stylus. A configurable, drag-and-drop favorites menu accesses favorite applications.

Users can text message using an on-screen virtual keyboards - a full, QWERTY keyboard in landscape mode or a 20-key keyboard in portrait view. Haptic keys provide vibration feedback.

Users can access business and personal email through Microsoft Direct Push and AT&T's Xpress Mail service.

Bluetooth 2.0 lets users wirelessly listen to music via stereo headsets, transmit data to other Bluetooth-enabled devices and make handsfree calls. It also has domestic and international 3G capabilities and Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g).

AT&T Mobile Music service lets users download music from eMusic, storing songs on microSD memory cards up to 16GB. The Incite features AT&T Video Share for live video over wireless devices while participating in a voice call.

It comes pre-loaded with AT&T Navigator, powered by TeleNav, for turn-by-turn voice and on-screen directions with 3D moving maps. AT&T Navigator also features traffic alerts, re-routing and other location-based services.

The LG Incite is available now in stores and online for $199.99 with a new two-year agreement and mail-in rebate.

- LG Incite Specs

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This is probably one of the more affordable Supernova phones from Nokia. The 7100 Supernova retails at about 70 Euros and is targeted towards developing countries. It isn’t really about the fashion - and come to think of it, the positioning of the phone puts design in second place as the 7100 Supernova comes with a few tools that support … well a mileu of develpment tools like agriculture information for pricing of produce; so Mr. Farmer can have a second opinion aside from the middle man’s prices.

The Nokia 7100 Supernova is a stylish addition to the popular Supernova collection. Designed for style and entertainment, the colorful device is highlighted by its large, high resolution color screen, FM radio and a 1.3 megapixel camera and support for Share on Ovi, Nokia’s online photo sharing service. The Nokia 7100 Supernova will also include support for Mail on Ovi, as well as a browser for surfing information on the Internet. The Nokia 7100 Supernova is expected to begin shipping in the fourth quarter of 2008 with an estimated retail price of 75 EUR. [PRESS RELEASE]

The Supernova 7100 comes with Bluetooth, a 1.3MP camera, FM radio and Nokia Life Tools. And yes even if we aren’t third world, this phone is yummy.

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AT&T today launched the Samsung Eternity, a touch-screen phone with a full-touch QWERTY keypad and support for AT&T Mobile TV.

The Eternity features a black and chrome exterior with a large 3.2-inch touch screen with haptic support, providing subtle vibrations that confirm selections.

Samsung's TouchWiz user interface has specially designed widgets to customize the phone. A quick and simple "drag and drop" feature lets users instantly access their favorite functions, such as the clock, music player, instant messaging, photos and AT&T Mobile TV all from the home screen.

Three dedicated keys on the lower portion make navigation straightforward. It has a built-in accelerometer to automatically detect motion and the orientation to auto-rotation of the display for motion sensing games and photo scrolling.

The Eternity includes a 3.0-megapixel camera with video capture, Video Share calling, advanced messaging capabilities, including Mobile Email and instant messaging (Yahoo!, Windows Live, AOL), Bluetooth technology and a microSD memory card slot supporting up to 8GB.

AT&T Mobile TV provides streaming television content and sporting events from programs such as CBS Mobile, CNBC, Comedy Central, ESPN Mobile TV, FOX News, FOX Mobile, NBC 2Go, MSNBC, MTV, Nickelodeon, CNN Mobile and PIX.

Its browser can surf the Internet, navigate pages with the touch of a finger and support easy zoom-in and zoom-out capabilities.

"The Eternity brings the big screen to the palm of your hand," said Bill Ogle, Chief Marketing Officer, Samsung America. "This touch-screen mobile TV handset is part of Samsung's TouchWiz line of phones and keeps you entertained and connected on the go."

The Samsung Eternity is available through stores or online for $149.99 with a two-year service agreement and after a $50 mail-in rebate.

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