Life in Las Vegas just got a lot more productive for those who want high-speed Internet at any place or time. Sprint announce the launch of Sprint 4G mobile broadband throughout the Las Vegas metro area. As a result, streaming video, fast file downloads and uploads and turbo charged web browsing are no longer just home, office or coffee shop benefits. Sprint 4G customers can enjoy a blazing fast mobile broadband experience across the city, whether they’re working at a remote location, relaxing in the park, sitting at a favorite eatery or as a passenger on the freeway or public transportation - all for just a $10 per month premium over current Sprint 3G mobile data plans.

Sakhr Software announce its Mobile Speech to Speech Arabic Translator for BlackBerry smartphones. Sakhr’s Spoken Translator lets English and Arabic speakers communicate in real-time using a BlackBerry smartphone - speaking sentences in either language, viewing the translation, and playing it out loud. Its high accuracy and performance are enabled by Sakhr's technologies for speech recognition, machine translation, and text-to-speech.

Navigon AG, innovator in the navigation market, announce the availability of a free update for its North American version of the MobileNavigator for the iPhone. The free update adds a couple of new features and enhancements to the MobileNavigator. Navigon’s route planning function known from the companies PND line enables users to plan a route with different destinations ahead of time. Taking advantage of the iPhone’s own functionalities, a call POI function allows to directly call the number of a POI such as a restaurant or hotel by simply clicking on the number. It is even possible to save the number to the user’s contacts.

Google has found yet another goose that lays the golden eggs, or at least it is starting to look like that for Android. Manufactures are more than eager to jump on the Android train in order to not miss out. During the last few weeks, quite a number of Android smartphones have either been introduced or leaked through non-official channels, and it looks like we are about to see another one. ZiiLabs, part of the renowned Creative Technology, and designer of the striking ZiiEgg, is now going to use the Android platform to dive into mobile telephony and with that thought in mind, it seems only a matter of time before we will get to see a Zii Android smartphone or a ZiiEgg smartphone.

Mutualink, a Connecticut based company specializing in advanced interoperable communication technologies, announced the public safety industry’s first smartphone powered interoperable gateway device. The mobile handheld interoperable device, named Smartphone Commander, provides anywhere, anytime field functionality on Mutualink’s secure distributed ad-hoc multi-media interoperable emergency communications resource sharing platform. The Smartphone Commander enables on scene incident commanders to create incident defined interoperable communication sessions, invite participants and contribute and remove disparate communication assets on the fly, including two-way radio, video, telephony and data.

The LG Shine has another successor with the very unoriginal name LG Shine 2. Since this month, AT&T is offering the new LG Shine 2 handset in its package and is focusing on the bottom end of the market with this stylish budget phone. According to recent information, the LG Shine 2 mobile phone will be available on November 22nd for the very low price of 80 Euros. There is no information available about whether and when the LG Shine 2 will be available outside of the U.S. market, but it is safe to assume that you can put the LG Shine 2 on your wish list. Perhaps not quite feasible for St. Nicholas, but the LG Shine 2 could easily be a present under the Christmas tree.

Is the end of Windows Mobile in sight? That would be quite a strong statement at the offset. However, when we look at the sales figures that Windows Mobile smartphones achieve compared to the competition, things do not seem to be looking up for Microsoft. According to research, market growth is about 13%, while smartphone sales figures with the Windows Mobile operating system have plummeted. There are at least 20% less smartphones with the Windows Mobile operating system the market, while this is obviously a growing market. This is a result that generally speaking would make any healthy entrepreneur undertake measures.

With the rise of the Internet, the opportunity to exchange data in large quantities has become widely available. Many programs and Web pages are more than eager to use this option. The current mobile phone is likely to have an internet connection at its disposal. This woke up several phone manufacturers, among which Sony Ericsson, which has resulted in a music portal that even allows the owner of a mobile phone to choose from a wide array of music and download it immediately. We have tested the Sony Ericsson W9965 including its PlayNow Plus service.

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If you want to pimp your colorful Samsung Corby mobile phone, you should look at the new Samsung WEP490 headset. The Samsung WEP490 is a standard Bluetooth headset, but has a unique, new appearance. Fitting in the Samsung Corby fashion style, the WEP490 headset is also available in bright colors. From the moment that the Corby Mobile was introduced, the Samsung phone became extremely popular. And don't ask why, because in terms of telephone specifications, we are not even talking about a high-end handset. Undoubtedly the success of the Samsung Corby phone is thanks to the bright colors that the youth immediately associate with trendy & hip.

Casio Europe GmbH announce the release of a new industrial PDA. The Casio IT-800 offers 3.5G wireless WAN (GPRS/UMTS/EDGE/HSDPA) capability, providing a high-speed data connection (download speed of up to 7.2 Mbps), as well as voice communication for telephone functionality. This makes the remote access and downloads of information from an office server very easy and also enables field workers to communicate rapidly with the management department without using a mobile phone.