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iPhone Tops Nielson's List of Most Used Phones
PUBLISHED: 12/22/2009  BY: Ed Hardy
Nielson is best known for tracking how many people watch TV shows, but it also covers many other products, including mobile phones. According to this company's figures, Apple's iPhone and various Blackberrys were the most frequently used models through most of 2009.
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AT&T Launches LG Windows Phone with 1 GHz Processor, Pico Projector
PUBLISHED: 12/16/2009  BY: Ed Hardy
AT&T has begun offering the LG eXpo, which offers a unique combination of high-end features. This smartphone runs Windows Mobile on a 1 GHz processor, and sports a miniature projector, fingerprint scanner, WVGA screen, sliding keyboard, and much more.
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LG eXpo: a Windows Phone with 1 GHz Processor, Pico Projector
PUBLISHED: 12/1/2009  BY: Ed Hardy
LG has just taken the wraps off a smartphone that will offer a combination of high-end features not found in any other device: 1 GHz processor, a miniature projector, fingerprint scanner, WVGA screen, sliding keyboard, and much more. The LG eXpo will be released by AT&T next week.
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New Study Warns that Cell Phone Use May Slightly Increase Cancer Risk
PUBLISHED: 11/4/2009  BY: Ed Hardy
An extensive study overseen by the World Health Organization has found that cell phone use may cause a slight but measurable increase in several types of tumors, some of which are dangerous.
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Most Popular Smartphones of October 2009
PUBLISHED: 11/2/2009  BY: Ed Hardy
At the beginning of each month, Brighthand publishes a list of the smartphones and other mobile devices that readers have shown the most interest in during the preceding four weeks.
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Microsoft Promises 30 Windows Mobile 6.5 Devices this Year
PUBLISHED: 9/23/2009  BY: Ed Hardy
Windows Mobile 6.5 will debut on October 6, and it's going to quickly be available on a wide variety of smartphones. A Microsoft executive has promised the new version of his company's mobile operating system will be on over 30 smartphones by the end of this year.
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AT&T May Launch the LG Monaco and HP Obsidian in Q4
PUBLISHED: 9/21/2009  BY: Ed Hardy
According to an roadmap that has leaked out of AT&T showing upcoming Windows phones, this carrier plans to offer the LG Monaco and HP Obsidian in mid- to late Q4.
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LG Unveils Its First Android Smartphone
PUBLISHED: 9/14/2009  BY: Ed Hardy
LG has just taken the wraps off the GW620, its first model based on Google's Android OS. This consumer-focused smartphone will have a 3-inch touchscreen and a sliding keyboard when it debuts later this year.
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LG Demos Mysterious Android Smartphone
PUBLISHED: 9/8/2009  BY: Ed Hardy
LG has given the world a glimpse of its first Android-based smartphone, which will have a sliding landscape-oriented keyboard. Details on this model -- code named the LG Etna -- are still somewhat sketchy, however.
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LG Promises 13 Windows Mobile Phones by the End of Next Year
PUBLISHED: 9/3/2009  BY: Ed Hardy
LG clearly intends to become a big player in the Windows Mobile market. Today it promised to release three smartphones running Microsoft's operating system in the next few weeks, and ten more by the end of 2010.
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Details Start To Emerge on the Android-Powered LG GW620
PUBLISHED: 7/19/2009  BY: Ed Hardy
LG has promised to release three phones running Google's Android OS, but so far hasn't revealed anything about these. Nevertheless, some of the details for one of them has leaked out.
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Get Ready for Google's Android OS to Take Off
PUBLISHED: 7/17/2009  BY: Ed Hardy
So far, Android hasn't lived up to its hype, but Brighthand's Ed Hardy predicts that by the end of this year there will be so many models running Google's mobile operating system on the market that no one will be able to doubt that it's here to stay.
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