This week was jam-packed with news at the mobile front, so it was easy to overlook a couple of stories here and there. Here’s one of the other stuff that happened within the wide world of wireless for the week of August 15, 2011:
Phone Releases
Fido launched the Samsung Galaxy Q, generally known as the Gravity Smart within the US, on Thursday. [via MobileSyrup ]
The BlackBerry Curve 9360 can already be purchased on Telus for $50 with a 3-year contract, and the Torch 9860 would be available on August 30th. [via IntoMobile and CrackBerry ]
SouthernLINC Wireless announced the immediate availability of the Motorola Titanium , offered for $150 with a two-year commitment.
T-Mobile released the Samsung Gravity TXT, a basic messaging phone that’s on sale for $10. [via UnwiredView ]
Cricket has begun offering a brand new messaging phone called the Samsung Comment , which offers a whole QWERTY keyboard, stereo bluetooth, a microSD slot and 1.3MP camera. It may be had for $90 with out commitment required. [via PhoneScoop ]
Other news
The govt of South Korea , in reaction to Google’s planned acquisition of Motorola, now intends to form a consortium of local companies with the intention to interact in building a brand spanking new mobile operating system. [via 0 IntoMobile 0 ]
Randall Milch, Chief Counsel for Verizon, is so frustrated with the patent wars happening that this week he 1 filed an appeal 1 to President Obama, soliciting for him to supply assistance within the matter. [via 2 PhoneScoop 2 ]
The Motorola PRO is predicted to debut within the UK in mid-September, though pre-orders are already occurring at select authorized resellers. [via 3 UnwiredView 3 ]
Leaked posters indicate the 4 BlackBerry Torch 9850 4 may be offered by Verizon and screenshots show an identical phone going to US Cellular, though we’re still unsure of the discharge date or pricing. [via 5 CrackBerry(1) 5 and 6 (2) 6 ]
Last week we reported at the rumored 7 Sony Ericsson Nozumi 7 , a smartphone so we can likely feature a 1.4GHz single-core Qualcomm S2 CPU, Adreno 205 GPU, and four.3-inch display with 1280 x 720 resolution. On the time, it was assumed to be only selling in Japan; however, there is a good possibility the Nozumi will come to be available globally instead. [via 8 XperiaBlog 8 ]
Pantech’s LTE phone on Verizon may very well turn out to be being called the Breakout (instead of 9 the “Apache” 9 ), in accordance with a leaked screenshot. When released, it’ll feature a 1GHz CPU with 512MB of RAM, dual cameras, and may be preloaded with Gingerbread. Not much to put in writing home about at this stage within the game, considering these are incredibly the image of the specs of the LG Revolution. However, it might be the 1st 4G phone on Big Red that has a 4-inch display. [via 0 AndroidCentral 0 ]
T-Mobile can be planning to throw a knowledge pay-per-use feature onto any smartphone that currently has its internet access blocked. If this occurs, it is going to affect current customers in addition to new ones. [via 1 TmoNews 1 ]
Dish has petitioned the FCC for permission to apply 40MHz of allocated spectrum to start building out an LTE-Advanced network. [via 2 PhoneScoop 2 ]
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