Handhelds running its PocketPC software, such as HP's iPaq and the new T-Mobile smart phone, now claim 21% of the market.
You can buy access to unlimited music on your Zune, but you can't listen to those tunes on your Windows Mobile smart phone.
And in 2002, it built and designed the first Windows-powered smart phone for European mobile operator Orange.
Point-of-Sale (POS) mobile payments where a smart phone becomes the authentication device to complete a transaction at checkout.
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Xobni, a San Francisco-based startup that builds products to help people manage their email and relationships, on Tuesday launched Xobni Mobile, its first smart phone application for BlackBerry.
Ultimately, a China-domestic smart phone operating system (with Chinese-made apps) plus a domestic mobile search engine will be the best strategic 3G smart phone combination for MII.
With millions of smart phone users worldwide, many mobile start-ups are coming up to serve them.
And since Bluetooth is compatible with just about every computer, tablet and mobile phone (not only the smart ones) these days, it's easy for friends or business associates to connect to the speakers, too.
Moving forward the company aims to achieve further brand acceptability among all target segments through a broader offering of cutting-edge handsets that combine mobile phone functionality with enriched content and smart device capabilities for greater high-speed voice and data capacity.
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The South Korean company has rushed to remedy that with its own smart-phone platform, Bada, and by producing mobile phones that use Google's low-cost Android operating system.
Intermec, Inc. (NYSE:IN) today announced the CS40 - introducing the first rugged mobile computer with the size and styling of a smart phone.
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SpyderLynk, for instance, has developed Snap Tags, an application-free alternative to a 2D mobile barcode that works with either a standard or smart phone.
Touting itself as the industry's "first smart mobile provider, " Zact takes an entirely different tact to cell phone service, offering the consumer total control over voice, text and data plans, even across multiple devices.
China Mobile has been in desperate need for a flagship high end smart phone.
For all its success in mobile phones, Samsung is an also-ran in the global smart-phone market.
China Mobile had been in desperate need for a flagship high-end smart phone.
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The Mogul doesn't look quite as futuristic or elegant as the iPhone, but it has some features Apple's phone lacks, like a removable battery, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard for thumbing messages, access to a "third-generation" (3G) Internet connection for fast mobile Web access and downloadable software applications that let you turn your smart phone into a mini computer.
In October, T-Mobile began selling the G1, a handset built around Google's smart phone software.
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The division's first product, Smart Steps, will provide retailers and other bodies with location "heat maps" of mobile phone users' movements throughout the day.
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