Omnifone unveils rival to iPhone, iTunes
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Omnifone, a British mobile music company, is unveiling a new music service Monday aimed at cell phone users who crave music while on the go, in the first of what is expected to be many challenges against Apple Inc.'s upcoming iPhone and its ubiquitous iTunes Store.
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Vodafone plans to launch several phones targeting holiday shoppers in Europe, including a high-end, touch-screen rival to the iPhone.
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âThe phone is so sleek and thin,â reports David Pogue (New York Times) in his review of iPhone, that âit makes Treos and Blackberrys look obese.â And the software transcends. âItâs fast, beautiful, menu-free, and dead simple to operate.â If you need âto answer a call, you can tap Answer on the screen, or pinch the microscopic microphone bulge on the white earbud cord. Either way, music or video playback pauses until you hang up.â As for email, itâs âfantastic. Incoming messages are fully formatted, complete with graphics; you can even open (but not edit) Word, Excel and PDF documents.â And âthe Web browser,â he points out, âis the real dazzler.â No âstripped down, claustrophobic My First Cellphone Browser; you get full Web layouts, fonts and all, shrunk to fit the screen. You scroll with a fingertip â much faster than scroll bars. You can double-tap to enlarge a block of text for reading, or rotate the screen 90 degrees, which rotates and magnifies the image to fill the wider view.â In short, Pogue calls the iPhone, âthe most sophisticated, outlook-changing piece of electronics to come along in years.â
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Apple bears the ultimate responsibility for making iTunes compatible with rival music players, says the agency leading a European effort to make it happen. By the Associated Press.
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Vodafone is in talks with Apple to  launch the U.S. firm's iPhone combined music player and  telephone in Europe, and talks partly hinge on volume  guarantees and subsidies, a Dutch magazine reported.
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Calling its user interface âsimplicity itself,â Bob LeVitus (Houston Chronicle) praises iPhone. âItâs easier to use than any phone before it, and it introduces a fantastic new feature known as âVisual Voicemail,â which lets you browse through all of your voice messages on screen and listen to them in any order.â As an iPod, LeVitus adds, iPhone offers âthe best video functionality ever in an iPod. Everything â movies, TV shows, photos, video podcasts, and album art â looks absolutely fantastic on the high-res display.â And âspeaking of screens, iPhoneâs is huge, gorgeous, and touch-sensitive,â providing ârich, deeply saturated colors at an ultra-high resolution which adds up to a sharp picture.â
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Handset-to-handset fighting Whenever a single monolithic company has launched against the globe spanning iTunes, Apple has been able to move the goalposts and push further and further towards a monopolistic market share of online music, but this week a genuine challenge has emerged, one that we are certain will dent the success of Apple, and we suspect that it will be reflected in the companyâs share price before too long.â¦
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DALLAS - Sprint Nextel Corp., seeking to compete with Apple Inc.'s iPhone, has introduced a touch-screen handset that can download music and play video.
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Company unveils 'WidSets' for Java-enabled phones.
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Even before Apple Inc.&#39;s much anticipated iPhone hits the shelves later this month, users of many different kinds of phones can listen to their iTunes music, via a new service from Seattle company Melodeo Inc.
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And Vodafone rejigs data tariffs O2 is considering introducing business tariffs for customers who want to use iPhones at work.â¦Learn &amp; Contribute, Live &amp; Online - The Register Debates Green Computing
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Apple&#39;s iPhone officially has a phone company partner in the UK. After weeks of rumors, Apple announced Tuesday that O2 -- the largest UK mobile phone operator -- would be its exclusive wireless carrier there.
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Mobile operator O2 has beat out Vodafone to win the UK contract for Apple's iPhone, expected on sale by Christmas.
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Sony Ericsson has launched a shot across Apple's bow with its Experia X1 multimedia cell phone. Announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the X1 features a three-inch VGA touch screen, an arc slider and a full keyboard. It supports the fast 3G networks HSDPA/HSUPA, as well as slower EDGE and GSM networks, and it supports WiFi. The X1 weighs 5.1 oz.
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LONDON - Virgin launches its rival to Apple&#39;s iTunes and Roxio&#39;s Napster in the US today, although consumers will get no break on price because the service charges the same 99 cents a song to download.
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Microsoft&#39;s online music store, known as MSN Music store, is being hailed as the most capable competitor to the iTunes Music Store of California&#39;s Apple.
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Omnifone, a British mobile music company, will unveil a new music service Monday aimed at cell phone users who crave music while on the go, in the first of what is expected to be many challenges against Apple ...Comment