Cell Phones Watch

Yep, everyone's favourite fast-sandwich vendor is now available on Symbian . At least, it is if you live in the Greater London area – no doubt the system will get extended in due course.
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LG’s first quad-core smartphone, the Optimus 4X HD, is launching in Europe next month, taking on other four-core flagships such as the HTC One X and the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S III. Just one caveat: The top-of-the-line Optimus 4X HD might not make its way to the U.S.
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Editor's Rating: User Rating: Good: AT&T's Samsung Focus 2 has an attractive design, a nice screen, a solid 5-megapixel camera, and 4G LTE speeds. Bad: Memory and battery life are in shorter supply on the Samsung Focus 2, and the glossy body likes to play slip-and-slide. Bottom Line: A generously low $50 price tag pumps up the value on the Windows Phone Samsung Focus 2, which has a satisfying …
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Paul Murphy / Eyewitness News Email: pmurphy@wwltv.com | Twitter: @pmurphywwl BATON ROUGE, La – Once again, Louisiana lawmakers put the brakes on a bill that would have outlawed handheld cell phone use while driving. New Orleans East State Representative Austin Badon appeared before the Senate Transportation Committee asking members to make Louisiana the 11th state in the nation to pass such a …
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Roughly $2 billion a year from the Universal Service Fee on the bottom of your phone bill is collected, and now the debate of using that money to continue to provide free cell phones to the poor is heating up.
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If you're interested in buying HTC's new flagship Android phone the One X or the brand new EVO 4G LTE for Sprint, you may be waiting a while.
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A proposal to ban the use of hand-held cell phones while driving has failed to win support in the Louisiana Senate.
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There are nearly 4,000 different types of devices running Android, OpenSignalMaps has found. More than 1,300 of them have custom ROMs that tweak the android.build model. Android brands are almost as diverse as the models, OpenSignalMaps discovered. Further, the application programming interface level, meaning the Android version, has also become more fragmented over time.
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The average data, texting and minute plan for a smartphone is estimated to cost around $2,100 for a two-year contract.
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Law enforcement officials and civil liberties advocates clashed Thursday at a US congressional hearing on a proposed law to protect the "location privacy" of people using mobile phones.
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