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Worldwide PDA Shipments Top 17.7 Million Units in 2006, Says Gartner
Mobile data access, particularly wireless e-mail, drove the worldwide PDA market to record shipments of 17.7 million units in 2006, an 18.4 percent increase from 2005, according to Gartner. "60 percent of all PDAs shipped in 2006 offered cellular connectivity, up from 47 percent in 2005," said Todd Kort, principal analyst in Gartner's Computing Platforms Worldwide group.
BlackBerry 8707v
General
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Network |
UMTS / GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 |
| Announced |
2006, May |
Status
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Available
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Size
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Dimensions |
110 x 69.5 x 19.5 mm |
Weight
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139 g
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Display
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Type |
65K colors |
| Size |
320 x 240 pixels |
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- 35-key QWERTY keyboard
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Ringtones
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Type |
Polyphonic, MP3 |
| Customization |
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Vibration
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Yes
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Memory
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Phonebook |
Yes |
| Call records |
Yes |
| Card slot |
No |
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- 64 MB flash memory
- 16 MB SRAM
- Intel PXA901 312 MHz processor
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Data
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GPRS |
Yes |
| HSCSD |
No |
| EDGE |
Yes |
| 3G |
Yes, 384 kbps |
| WLAN |
No |
| Bluetooth |
Yes, v2.0 |
| Infrared port |
No |
USB
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Yes, miniUSB
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Features
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Messaging |
SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging |
| Browser |
HTML |
| Games |
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| Colors |
Silver |
| Camera |
No |
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- Java
- Organizer
- Built-in handsfree
- To-do list
- Document viewer (Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Corel WordPerfect and Adobe PDF)
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Battery
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Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh (C-S2) |
| Stand-by |
Up to 400 h |
Talk time
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Up to 4 h
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Nokia starts 'broadest' price drop
Nokia has made its broadest price drop ever, according to distribution sources. Prices have been cut on 43 handsets, which accounts for almost the entire UK range. Most handsets have been reduced by around 10%. The popular 6021 is down from 54 to 50, the 6233 has had 15 slashed from its original price of 139 and the N73 has been cut from 229 to 211. The price drops came into effect on Monday.'In the eight years I have been working with Nokia, I have never known them to drop the price on much more than ten handsets at a time,' said one source at a major handset distributor.Nokia says the price cuts are to 'clear a space' for newer models, such as the N95 due in March. 'We tend to use this time to adjust the pricing model, firstly, because it helps the channel, and secondly, because it starts to clear a space in the range for the newer models,' said a spokesman.The move has left some handset distributors worried.
Weld County offers cell phone recycling
It is estimated that there are over 200 million cell phones in use in the United States today, and over 130 million of those will be retired each year.
Instead of throwing away these used cell phones, it's much better to recycle them, Weld County suggest. Toward this effort, the Weld County Household Hazardous Waste Program has joined the Rechargeable Battery and Recycling Corporation�s Call2Recylce program.
Through the Call2Recycle program, we area able to accept all types of cell phones and rechargeable batteries found in cordless electronic products, such as power tools, laptop computers, digital cameras, two-way radios, camcorders, and remote control toys. This program is offered at no charge to Weld residents.
To drop off your cell phones and rechargeable batteries, you can visit either one of the county's two facilities, 1311 N.
Harney Heights Neighborhood: Taking back the STREETS
Dolores McClelland, a 75-year-old apartment complex owner, wasn't about to permit some of her renters to make other tenants' lives miserable with a boisterous, noisy and seemingly endless party. When a tenant telephoned McClelland to complain about the racket one evening last year, she drove to her complex along Bryant Street with her hair still wet from a shower. Exiting her car, she discovered that the party included more than a dozen loud men who'd been drinking. So she confronted the offending tenants and their guests -- face to face -- and ordered them to stop the noise. That's when a young man who'd been at the party came up behind her and punched her on her left shoulder, knocking her down. "He punched me so hard that I went down to the ground and hit my head on a garden statue," she said.
Senator argues for hands-free cell phones, covered loads
LITTLE ROCK - Taking up causes he has fought for in previous legislative sessions, Sen. Kim Hendren, R-Gravette, spoke Monday to a Senate committee about bills he has filed to limit cell phone use by drivers and require truck drivers to keep gravel loads covered.The Senate Transportation, Technology and Legislative Affairs Committee, of which Hendren is a member, took no action on either bill.Senate Bill 7 would allow use of a cell phone while driving only if the driver is using a hands-free phone device and has both hands on the steering wheel. Exceptions would be made for law enforcement officers, emergency personnel and drivers contacting law enforcement or emergency personnel.A first offense would be punished with a warning. For second and subsequent offenses, a driver could be fined $50.The offense would not be a primary offense, meaning drivers could not be stopped for that offense alone.Hendren showed the committee two hands-free devices that would meet the requirements of the bill: a device with a speaker that can be clipped to a sun visor and a device with an earpiece.Hendren said he knows a Siloam Springs woman whose teen-age child was hit and killed by a driver who was talking on a cell phone."After this happens to you or to me, then we're going to say, 'My, my, I wish I'd have done it," he said.The senator first proposed legislation requiring the use of a hands-free device in 2001.
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