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• 16 December 2008

• News: Carphone Warehouse offers free mobile phone

  The Carphone Warehouse is giving away a free handset to customers that stump up for £30 worth of air-time.

• 15 December 2008

• Motorola W180 credit-crunch mobile phone

  All credit due to Motorola - it's come up with what many of us have been after for years: a mobile phone that allows you to make phone calls and to store contacts and doesn't cost a king's ransom.

• News: Microsoft launches iPhone photo app

  Microsoft has launched an app for Apple's iPhone.

• News: Apple's iPhone to get MEMS gyroscope

  Nintendo's Wii-style advanced motion-sensing abilities is coming to Apple's in 2009, according to reports in Taiwan.

• 12 December 2008

• Cowon S9 Portable Media Player

  Cowon has added a new portable media player to its stable. The S9 sports an OLED (organic light-emitting diode) touchscreen and supports Bluetooth v2, so can be used with wireless headphones. 

• News: Windows Mobile and Symbian get StreetView

  Google has made StreetView available to Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 handsets.

• News: 'GPS tax' could raise mobile phone prices

  The European Commission is considering imposing a 14 percent import tax on mobile phones that feature GPS or TV functionality.

• News: Google re-releases SMS Gmail chat function

  Google has once again released an SMS chat function for Gmail users.

• News: T-Mobile music store boosted by Last.fm

  T-mobile has joined forces with Last.fm, Wikipedia and Shazam to offer an improved Mobile Jukebox to its users.

• News: RIM deal to push video to BlackBerry

  BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) hopes to add a content delivery platform to its offerings with a planned acquisition of Chalk Media.

• 11 December 2008

• News: T-Mobile announces RIM BlackBerry Curve 8900

  To no one's great surprise, given that it is already selling the Curve 8900 in Germany, T-Mobile has announced that will be offering the latest RIM BlackBerry Curve business smartphone in the UK. What is surprising is that T-Mobile will start selling the handset from tomorrow - a week ahead of network operator rival 02.

• News: Nokia Comes with Music DRM cracked

  A software company claims it can legally bypass Microsoft's Digital Right Management system that stops digital music files download using Nokia's Comes with Music service, being burnt to CD or transferred to other digital audio players.

• News: Steve Jobs 'wrong' on netbook sales

  According to the latest smartphone sales numbers from Gartner and DisplaySearch's netbook sales numbers, 4.7 million iPhones were shipped in Q3 2008 while a whopping 5.6 million netbooks were sold in the same period.

• News: Microsoft Zune Phone to rival Apple's iPhone

  Rumours that Microsoft is considering launching a Zune Phone have surfaced again.

• 10 December 2008

• News: Sony Ericsson joins Open Handset Alliance

  Sony Ericsson is just one of 14 companies that have joined the Open Handset Alliance, which supports Google's Android platform.

• News: Vodafone offers £20m for navigation firm Wayfinder

  Vodafone has put in an offer of 239million Swedish kronor (£19.7million) to purchase navigational software manufacturer Wayfinder.

• 09 December 2008

• News: 02 announces BlackBerry Curve 8900

  02 has confirmed that it will be offering the RIM BlackBerry Curve 8900 business smartphone to UK customers. It will be onsale in the UK from 20 December.

• News: 30,000 PDAs to help police fight street crime

  Police officers across the UK are being given PDAs in an effort to reduce paper form filling for officers out on the beat.

• News: Outrage over drug dealing iPhone app

  A drug dealing game for Apple's iPhone has raised concerns.

• 08 December 2008

• News: Carphone Warehouse co-founder quits

  The co-founder of The Carphone Warehouse has quit following concerns over the use of his shares in the company.

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