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Nokia and Motorola the world’s biggest branded handset makers, both unveiled phones this week that switch between cellular coverage outdoors and cheap wireless Internet calls inside — all on a single phone number.

The new hardware is a response to growing demand. Mobile networks, aware that they can’t beat Internet call operators like Skype for cheap indoor coverage, are itching to join them.

The new Nokia 6136 and Motorola A910 handsets, like a handful of others announced by smaller manufacturers in recent months, can connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi, rather than Bluetooth, to make cut-price calls from the home, office or public hotspot.

Other mobile operators have waited for the Wi-Fi phones before adopting the technology behind the mid-call switching between broadband and cellular networks, called Unlicensed Mobile Access.

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Social networking on mobile devices is about to take off with the latest venture by Earthlink founder, Sky Dayton. Helio is leveraging the experience to take social networking, and MySpace on to mobile devices.

With the launch of the Helio service, users will be able to post and read the site for free. The service will launch in a few months with two different phones.

“We’re able to leverage a lot of that experience about how to take social networking and put it on a device,” said Sky Dayton, founder of Earthlink and chief executive of Helio.

Helio’s two phones, dubbed “Hero” and “Kickflip” will be based on Korean designs. Made by Pantech and VK Mobile, the phones will feature large color screens and cameras, but no QWERTY keyboards.

Helio is run on a mobile virtual network operator, meaning it won’t have its own cellular network, and instead, it will buy access to Sprint Nextel Corp.’s and Verizon Wireless’ high-speed networks.

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Skype Technologies and the Hutchison 3 Group (Hutchison 3G) has announced a partnership to provide what could become the world’s first commercial VoIP service for mobile phones.

Hutchison 3G, which operates IP-based mobile broadband networks in several European markets, will become one of the first mobile phone operators in the world to embrace VoIP, a technology many in the industry view as a major threat to their cash-cow voice business.

In a first step, the two companies will test the technology on the Hutchison 3G network in Sweden before rolling out trials across its other markets, which include Austria, Italy and the UK.

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Microsoft introduced its Office Communicator 2005 at 3GSM in Barcelona. The product is basically integrated voice, video, telephony client software made for wireless and handheld devices.

The interface is based on the Office Communicator 2005 desktop client, with the mobile version providing integrated and seamless communication across all messaging, web video conferencing, voip, and IM.

The software is designed to work off of the LIVE Communications Server to provide the seamless voice and data communications. The software can also be used to create and manage IM presences over a WiFi Network, as well as provide a WiFi bridge to users working via a hotspot or home network.

The mobile version can be set to engage IM group chats from handheld devices.

Communicator Mobile is expected to be available for download for LCS customers within 60 days.

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Research In Motion Ltd. secured the top spot for small, handheld computers last year, despite the threat that its BlackBerry service could be shut down in the United States over a patent dispute.

RIM held 21.4 per cent of the market for personal digital assistants in 2005 as its sales soared 47 per cent from a year earlier. RIM’s growth sped by the overall market, which expanded by 19 per cent.

Global sales of PDAs hit a record of 14.9 million last year. RIM racked up sales of 3.2 million. “Generally, BlackBerry users are staying put because of the high cost of switching, lack of suitable alternative devices, and the low probability of BlackBerry service being shut down.

Blackberry has since developed a patent workaround called Multi-Mode Edition. Which is a software update that enables underlying changes to the message delivery system.

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Opera Software announced the worldwide release of Opera Mini, the full Web browser that runs on almost every mobile phone, including low- and mid-end handsets.
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Monitoring your network from anywhere you have a mobile connection just got a bit easier with Idokorro Mobile Admin.
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