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iPhone's coming next year, but will it look anything like our gorgeous mockup?!..


The latest word on Apple’s iphone? It’s coming. Next year. And that’s direct from the manufacturer.
At least, that’s the story if you believe Chinese-language newspaper the Commercial Times.
The paper reckons it’s got sources inside the companies creating components for the ipod, who tell them the contract for Apple’s first music playing phone has just gone to Foxconn Electronics.
The company, a subsidiary of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, is apparently on track to deliver 12 million iphone handsets in the first half of 2007, providing more supporting evidence for a launch at Macworld in January.
According to the paper’s insiders, Foxconn has also snagged a contract to deliver revamped Macbook Pros, with 15-inch screens, due for launch early next year.

Originally Posted by sihmar_online

The release of a most interesting and expected Pocket PC Phone – the MDA IV has been delayed till autumn 2005, according to the recent info. I’d remind you that the shipments of the MDA IV were scheduled for summer, however the provider T-Mobile Germany decided to shift the sales date to early autumn. The other potential providers – Vodafone and Orange do not expect that the device will appear under their trademarks before autumn.


The MDA IV based on HTC Universal platform is a UMTS/GSM/GPRS (900/1800/1900 MHz) handset with integrated Wi-Fi, 520 MHz Intel processor, 128 MB of RAM, QWERTY-keyboard, full value VGA (480x640) screen, two cameras (VGA and 1.3-Mpx), Bluetooth and so on. They mention that the MDA IV will be powered by not yet announced Windows Mobile 2005 with the code name Magneto, and support Push-Service and video telephony.

there are two devices that is almost the same as this.. the dopod 838 and the 02 xda exec

nice phones keep posting guys...

May 23, 2007 (IDG News Service) -- PARIS - European legislators hope that a compromise agreement to cap mobile phone roaming charges will become law before the summer holiday season begins. But a network operators' group warned to expect delays because even if the law takes effect as planned July 1, network operators won't have to offer the new tariffs until September.

Under the proposed law, "Roaming on public mobile networks," European Union mobile subscribers traveling in another E.U. member state will pay no more than 0.49 euros (US 66 cents) per minute, excluding taxes, to call home or another European country, unless they opt out of the new tariff. The price will be further limited to 0.43 euros in 2009, while the cost of calls received while traveling will be capped at 0.24 euros per minute this year, and 0.19 euros in 2009. In addition, network operators will see the wholesale prices that they charge one another for carrying roaming traffic capped at .30 euros per minute this year and 0.26 euros by 2009.

Network operators slammed the law as bad for competition, and for consumers in the long term. The average cost of roaming calls has fallen from .83 euros per minute before taxes in 2005 to .59 euros in the first quarter of this year, thanks to "innovative" tariff plans, mostly based on volume discounts, according to the GSM Association, whose members are operators.

One operator, Vodafone Group PLC, said customers opting for its Passport international tariff already pay less on average than the price caps proposed by the European Parliament. However, only talkative customers see the benefits: Each call they make is subject to a "connection fee" of 1.10 euros or US $1.48, so to get the lower per-minute rate, they must spend more in the first place.

The European Parliament voted on the text of the hastily translated compromise agreement on Wednesday, but before it can take effect, it must also be approved by the European Commission and the Council of Ministers, then published in the Official Journal.

Now that a compromise has been reached, parliamentarians hope that the member states' telecommunications ministers will give their assent when they meet on June 7, while German representatives have said they will do everything possible to have the new rules published in the journal by June 29.

Even then, operators may be able to escape the price caps until September: They will have one month in which to inform customers of the new tariffs following introduction of the rules and then customers have up to two months to decide whether to accept them. If they choose to do so, operators then have another month in which to make the switch. If customers do nothing, operators must apply the new tariffs within two months of making the offer in any case.

"In theory, ... assuming their operators waste no time in offering and activating the new rates and they themselves waste no time in choosing them, customers may be able to benefit from the Eurotariff immediately after the regulation's entry into force," the Parliament said in a statement.

That may be the theory, but in practice it seems likely to take much longer. Many operators will find it difficult to move their customers to a new tariff in the time allowed, while some will have difficulty contacting all their customers within the month, the GSM Association said.