Following the launch of the Motorola ROKR E2 at Music Matters Hong Kong in May, Chinese consumers will be the first in the world to buy the music-optimized mobile handset at GOME outlets across the PRC, available now.
Recently named China's most valuable home appliance retailer by World Brand Lab, GOME is the ideal destination for young and style-conscious consumers to purchase electronic and mobile devices.
"The global debut of the ROKR E2 at GOME is a key result of the strategic partnership we have with Motorola," said Wang Junzhou, vice general manager of GOME Home Appliances and general manager of Strategy & Co-operation Center. "The ROKR E2 is already a hit at GOME, after only a few days on the market, the ROKR E2 is one of the best selling handsets at GOME."
The E2 has a 3.5mm standard headset jack and dedicated music player keys to access music that allows users to store songs on any removable SD card.
"Early ROKR E2 results already exceeded Motorola's expectations. It is the handset of choice for mobile music enthusiasts who want to carry just one device that keeps them connected and in tune with the fast pace of their lives," said Michael Tatelman, Motorola corporate vice president and general manager, North Asia Mobile Devices.
ROKR E2 features an MP3 player compatible with a variety of
different audio formats, giving users the ability to download and play MP3, WAV, AAC files and more. Dedicated music keys on the handset's side and front let users navigate playlists, play/pause, skip backward/forward, and hold.
With a USB 2.0 cable, it takes just seconds to transfer a song from PC to ROKR E2.
Connection can also be achieved via a standard 3.5mm headset or wirelessly via the built-in stereo Bluetooth audio connection. Motorola also has a range of music accessories to optimize the ROKR E2 experience including the newly announced O ROKR Eyewear, Bluetooth DJ Headphones S805, and JBL OnTour Mobile. Additionally, ROKR E2 comes with airplane mode, allowing safe listening while flying. Other multimedia features include a 1.3 megapixel camera for pictures, video capture and playback.
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Blue Frog Mobile Launches TXTV With Text Messaging for Los Angeles TV Viewers
TXTV, the first service of its kind in the United States, allows television viewers to send text messages directly to their TV screens and chat with other viewers. It is the first technology to offer true two-way participation between viewers, using their mobile phones and their television sets. With TXTV, viewers can interact with television programs and with one another for a true participatory TV experience.
Blue Frog Mobile Launches TXTV With Text Messaging for Los Angeles TV Viewers
TXTV, the first service of its kind in the United States, allows television viewers to send text messages directly to their TV screens and chat with other viewers. It is the first technology to offer true two-way participation between viewers, using their mobile phones and their television sets. With TXTV, viewers can interact with television programs and with one another for a true participatory TV experience.
RIM BlackBerry 7130c
Research in Motion's BlackBerry 7100 series was a new direction for the company, offering its customers a more compact and consumer-friendly device with the familiar BlackBerry functionality. The line has continued to evolve over the past year, and its latest model, the RIM BlackBerry 7130c, is a winner. It offers many of the features found in its siblings, such as a speedy Intel processor, robust e-mail capabilities, a sharp screen, and Bluetooth, but it also boasts a more refined and lightweight form factor that makes it the best-designed model we've seen to date. You may be thinking, "Great, it has a nice design, but how does it perform?" The answer: very well. It's an excellent phone and e-mail device with EDGE capability and a vast range of features. The RIM BlackBerry 7130c is a great smart phone for mobile professionals and consumers alike who need to stay connected on the road. It's now available through Cingular for a fair price of $199 with a two-year contract.
The RIM BlackBerry 7130c has a great design, plain and simple. Though the 7100 series has always had a compact form factor, the BlackBerry 7130c most closely resembles a candy bar phone in look and feel. It's sleek (4.5 by 2.1 by 0.7 inches) and incredibly light (4.2 ounces), which makes it comfortable to hold up to your ear for conversations. As a bonus, the handset is attractive, with an appealing silver and midnight blue color scheme.
The 7130c's 2.25-inch (diagonal) screen dominates the face of device and displays 65,000 colors at 240x260 resolution. It's not quite the 320x240 pixels of its full QWERTY cousin, the BlackBerry 8700c, but the 7130c still shows off sharp images and text. It's also equipped with light-sensing technology that automatically adjusts the backlighting depending on your environment, and unlike that of many other phones, the display is readable in sunlight. Customization options are plentiful, including the ability to change the backlight time and the font family, style, and size, as well as to turn antialiasing on or off.
The RIM BlackBerry 7130c has a great design, plain and simple. Though the 7100 series has always had a compact form factor, the BlackBerry 7130c most closely resembles a candy bar phone in look and feel. It's sleek (4.5 by 2.1 by 0.7 inches) and incredibly light (4.2 ounces), which makes it comfortable to hold up to your ear for conversations. As a bonus, the handset is attractive, with an appealing silver and midnight blue color scheme.
The 7130c's 2.25-inch (diagonal) screen dominates the face of device and displays 65,000 colors at 240x260 resolution. It's not quite the 320x240 pixels of its full QWERTY cousin, the BlackBerry 8700c, but the 7130c still shows off sharp images and text. It's also equipped with light-sensing technology that automatically adjusts the backlighting depending on your environment, and unlike that of many other phones, the display is readable in sunlight. Customization options are plentiful, including the ability to change the backlight time and the font family, style, and size, as well as to turn antialiasing on or off.
Konami Buys Los Angeles Mobile Content Company
Konami Digital Entertainment has acquired Blue Label Interactive, a Los Angeles-based developer of mobile entertainment content. Financial terms were not disclosed. Konami said it acquired Blue Label Interactive for its technology tools and programming expertise in the mobile entertainment area. The firm said that it believes that the mobile, console, and online content categories are converging and that the acquisition will allow it to remain at the forefront of the mobile entertainment area. Blue Label Interactive develops mobile software for the entertainment industry, and was founded in 1999.
Nokia 6151 3G Mobile Phone
Nokia has introduced the 6151 - a mobile phone that makes 3G affordable to the mass market. The company reckons it well sell for around £164 sim-free when it becomes available to retailers later this year.
One thing the 6151 can't do is video calling - there's no front-mounted camera on the phone. But apart from that, it pretty much covers everything else adequately. Features include a rear-mounted 1.3MP camera with 4x digital zoom and video capture ability, music and video playback, an FM radio with Nokia's Visual Radio technology, Bluetooth ships as standard and push-to-talk for networks that support it.
One thing the 6151 can't do is video calling - there's no front-mounted camera on the phone. But apart from that, it pretty much covers everything else adequately. Features include a rear-mounted 1.3MP camera with 4x digital zoom and video capture ability, music and video playback, an FM radio with Nokia's Visual Radio technology, Bluetooth ships as standard and push-to-talk for networks that support it.
Mobile TV Will Reach 102 Million by 2010
By the end of 2010, mobile TV broadcast subscribers worldwide will reach 102 million, a massive jump from 3.4 million in 2006, according to a report.
Recognising that using cellular networks to deliver content that millions want to watch simultaneously requires much greater bandwidth than is currently available, carriers are turning to mobile TV broadcast networks, which have a much lower cost per bit for video delivery, according to market research company, In-Stat.
"The greatest challenge for mobile TV broadcast operators is to acquire the spectrum necessary to offer services," says Michelle Abraham, In-Stat analyst. "Spectrum availability may determine which of four standards is chosen, and also impacts the business case for the deployment of a network."
Mobile carriers, mobile TV network operators, and content providers will soon be testing business models to determine what mobile phone subscribers are willing to pay to watch and what advertisers are willing to pay to reach them.
Recognising that using cellular networks to deliver content that millions want to watch simultaneously requires much greater bandwidth than is currently available, carriers are turning to mobile TV broadcast networks, which have a much lower cost per bit for video delivery, according to market research company, In-Stat.
"The greatest challenge for mobile TV broadcast operators is to acquire the spectrum necessary to offer services," says Michelle Abraham, In-Stat analyst. "Spectrum availability may determine which of four standards is chosen, and also impacts the business case for the deployment of a network."
Mobile carriers, mobile TV network operators, and content providers will soon be testing business models to determine what mobile phone subscribers are willing to pay to watch and what advertisers are willing to pay to reach them.
Bridge Mobile, NeuStar and ESPN STAR Sports team up to launch Mobile ESPN Service in Asia Pacific
Bridge Mobile has secured the Mobile ESPN content licensing rights through NeuStar Asia Pacific, a Singapore-based subsidiary of NeuStar, to distribute ESPN STAR Sports content to its respective Bridge Mobile Alliance member operators in Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore and Taiwan.
By teaming up with ESPN STAR Sports and NeuStar, and leveraging on Bridge Mobile's regional infrastructure, we are able to bring to live a full suite of sports mobile content service offerings across the region, for many users to enjoy, Sim said.
Under the deal, NeuStar is the appointed provider of Mobile ESPN to Bridge Mobile, for a full suite of ESPN STAR Sports content and service applications covering major sports such as football, cricket, tennis, golf, rugby, and major sports leagues including the English Premier League (EPL), Major League Baseball (MLB) and National Basketball Association (NBA), amongst others.
Mobile ESPN is the mobile sports content service by ESPN STAR Sports, a joint venture between two of the world's leading cable and satellite broadcasters, ESPN and STAR. ESPN STAR Sports broadcasts the world's premier live sports and leading regional sports events to over 139 million households on ESPN and over 63 million households on STAR Sports.
Mobile ESPN's coverage of the 2006 World Cup is the first sports content to be commercially launched. The services are delivered through a regional infrastructure platform provided by Bridge Mobile and NeuStar.
Said Sim, “With World Cup 2006's coverage as the first offering, we will continue to work with our partners to deliver many other sports content in the months ahead."
In addition to Mobile ESPN, Bridge Mobile will also be sourcing for more content, to expand its regional mobile content suite of service offerings, to be delivered to Bridge Mobile Alliance's 80 million combined customer base across the Asia Pacific region.
By teaming up with ESPN STAR Sports and NeuStar, and leveraging on Bridge Mobile's regional infrastructure, we are able to bring to live a full suite of sports mobile content service offerings across the region, for many users to enjoy, Sim said.
Under the deal, NeuStar is the appointed provider of Mobile ESPN to Bridge Mobile, for a full suite of ESPN STAR Sports content and service applications covering major sports such as football, cricket, tennis, golf, rugby, and major sports leagues including the English Premier League (EPL), Major League Baseball (MLB) and National Basketball Association (NBA), amongst others.
Mobile ESPN is the mobile sports content service by ESPN STAR Sports, a joint venture between two of the world's leading cable and satellite broadcasters, ESPN and STAR. ESPN STAR Sports broadcasts the world's premier live sports and leading regional sports events to over 139 million households on ESPN and over 63 million households on STAR Sports.
Mobile ESPN's coverage of the 2006 World Cup is the first sports content to be commercially launched. The services are delivered through a regional infrastructure platform provided by Bridge Mobile and NeuStar.
Said Sim, “With World Cup 2006's coverage as the first offering, we will continue to work with our partners to deliver many other sports content in the months ahead."
In addition to Mobile ESPN, Bridge Mobile will also be sourcing for more content, to expand its regional mobile content suite of service offerings, to be delivered to Bridge Mobile Alliance's 80 million combined customer base across the Asia Pacific region.
Da Vinci Code Mobile Game
Blaze's Mobile Games Based on Sony Pictures' Movie the Da Vinci Code are now Available on Over 150 Mobile Operators World Wide In Over 70 Countries Blaze Entertainment (Blaze), a leading global mobile entertainment publisher, today announced that they have completed a worldwide launch of games based on the enormously successful movie The Da Vinci Code. The games were launched on over 150 mobile carriers around the world in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. These games became available on carrier networks beginning in April up through the movie launch May 19th, 2006.
Navy Challenge Mobile Game
Vivendi Mobile Games has announced the availability for Europe of Navy Challenge, a latest generation mobile game based on classic battleship game-play. Navy Challenge revives on mobile the battleship genre with state of the art graphics in isometric 3D and never seen before features which bring increased strategic depth and replayability to the mobile gamers. Navy Challenge will soon be available across European Mobile Operators decks and independent mobile games portals.Set in World War 2 era Pacific theatre, Navy Challenge offers the player to command the US, Italian, Japanese or Chinese fleet. On a board divided in cells, you play turn by turn and shall sink all enemy ships before your opponent sinks your fleet. The ships placed on the board are in isometric 3D and show superb fire special effects when damaged. The more you progress across levels, the more powerful the Artificial Intelligence will be.
Rick Ross Ringtones
In a new format set to recognize music sales and popularity, cell phone's ringtone units will be added as a numerical translation for musical success. Rick Ross was one such artist recognized by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) with a gold award for his song "Hustlin'" and its downloadable excellence.On Wednesday, Ross was paid homage with a Gold plaque bearing the image of a cellphone rather than the traditional vinyl record replica. Alongside 84 other winners of the Gold celly-emblazoned wall piece, which symbolizes 500,000 units moved, and 40 members who sold over 1 million ringtones to claim Platinum status, Ross detailed how the music industry is constantly in motion.The Miami rapper stated, "The ring tones are just another gateway to connecting with the kids and the fans. That's just the next level." Furthermore, RIAA Chairman Mitch Bainwol cited, "Just a few short years ago, it was unthinkable for sales on ringtones to go platinum. But here we are. We're transforming the way we hear music."Other artists honored in download sales includes heavyweights such as Kanye West, 50 Cent, Beyonce, the Black Eyed Peas, and more. Likewise, experts have alluded that an estimated 10% of music sales is generated through ringtones alone.Rick Ross' debut album The Port Of Miami will be released on Def Jam later this year. Check back to SoundSlam for additional news.
LG VX8300 Mobile
Basking Ridge and San Diego, Verizon Wireless, the nation’s leading wireless provider, and LG Electronics MobileComm USA, Inc. (LG Mobile Phones) today announced the availability of the LG VX8300 phone, the latest addition to the line-up of Music-enabled phones. Incorporating many of the popular features from its predecessor, the LG VX8100, the LG VX8300 features significant upgrades including a slimmer, more streamline form factor, OLED external screen and microSD external memory. V CAST Music lets customers play music on their wireless phones. V CAST customers can browse, preview, download and play high-quality digital music from their LG VX8300 over Verizon Wireless broadband network.
Mobile Samsung X820 D830 D900
South Korean handset maker, Samsung, has unveiled three new mobile phones aimed to compete with the wildly popular Motorola RAZR.
The X820, D830, and D900 all follow the same impressively slim design scheme, and are being firmly targeted at the American market.
The Samsung X820’s candy-bar body measures just 6.9 millimeters thick and weighs only 66 grams. It has a 2-megapixel digital camera build right in. The D830 is slim clamshell, weighing 85 grams, and featuring a 2-megapixel digital camera.
The D900, meanwhile, has a 12.9 millimeter sliding design, and includes a powerful 3-megapixel camera.All three of these super-slim camera phones are expected to hit the U.S. market by the end of the year, in time for the 2006 holiday shopping season.
The X820, D830, and D900 all follow the same impressively slim design scheme, and are being firmly targeted at the American market.
The Samsung X820’s candy-bar body measures just 6.9 millimeters thick and weighs only 66 grams. It has a 2-megapixel digital camera build right in. The D830 is slim clamshell, weighing 85 grams, and featuring a 2-megapixel digital camera.
The D900, meanwhile, has a 12.9 millimeter sliding design, and includes a powerful 3-megapixel camera.All three of these super-slim camera phones are expected to hit the U.S. market by the end of the year, in time for the 2006 holiday shopping season.
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