SmartPhones

Finally, the smartphone maker whose devices were previously only available to US customers through Verizon Wireless is launching its first handset catered to the U.S. market - and it won't be running on the Verizon network.

Instead, the LG Incite, a 3G touch screen smartphone running Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, will be carried by none other than AT&T.

Equipped with WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, and support for Microsoft Office documents, the Incite also includes support for AT&T Video Share, which allows people to share live videos over their wireless handsets while they’re on a voice phone call.

It also comes with AT&T’s Xpress Mail Service and AT&T Mobile Music service, adding heaps of value to the premiere AT&T LG that the Verizon LG can’t claim.

This has the Korean smartphone maker joining AT&Ts lineup (that already includes the best that Apple, Samsung, HTC, and BlackBerry have to offer) just in time for the holidays.

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The CEO of Symbian, the company, producer of Symbian, the operating system, OS for such popular smartphones as the LG Joy, Motorola MOTORIZR Z8, Samsung SGH series, several Sony Ericsson smartphones, and dozens of Nokia smartphones, has suggested that collaboration with search giant Google, and makers of the long-awaited (by users) and feared (by competitors) Android mobile OS, would be more than welcome by him.

Avoiding specifics as to whether the releationship would remain in the realm of applications or venture into OS territory, chief Symbian-ite Nigel Clifford points out that Google and Symian have already been working closely together for a while now, mainly on search and mapping applications for Nokia smartphones.

It would be quite difficult for the two to merge their operating systems, so the likes of RIM and Apple don’t have too much to be nervous about, but the mutual back-scratching of the two giants in their respective industries leaves a lot for fellow partners Motorola, LG, Samsung, and others a lot to be excited about. Only time will tell however, what such a collaborative venture will produce.

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The world’s largest mobile phone maker has finally decided to join the touch screen revolution. Is it too late for Nokia to compete in this arena, though – with LG, Sony Ericsson, and Samsung already upping the stakes set by the Apple iPhone? Doubtful.

Apple may have pioneered consumer-friendliness in technology, but Nokia pioneered quality, and they’ll do it again, and continue to do so, with the increasingly coveted touch screen next up at bat.

A flurry of blog postings in late 2006 about the Nokia Aeon (which doesn’t exist yet) gave a sneak peek into Nokia’s plans for improving upon Apple’s greatness. The innovation? A full-phone touch screen. In other words, a touch screen display that occupies the entirety of the face of the phone.

It was in the Research and Development stages then, and it’ll still be a while longer before such technology can be made viable, but that hasn’t stopped Nokia from putting its proverbial nose to the grindstone nonetheless and coming up with its first entry in the touch screen arena.

Proving that battling Apple requires strategic planning on multiple fronts, Nokia’s as yet unnamed first touch screen venture will be an unlimited music phone. Look for it later this year.

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