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EA Mobile reveals 2009 iPhone game lineup

EA Mobile on Tuesday discussed their 2009 plans for the iPhone and iPod touch platform. The company plans to offer games based on well-known properties in the EA library for PC and consoles.

Many of the titles have been previously announced, such as Tiger Woods PGA Tour, an adaptation of the long-running golf game which has previously seen incarnations on the Mac, both from EA in its partnership with TransGaming and from Aspyr Media. Other games include Wolfenstein RPG, FIFA Soccer, Madden NFL (American football), NBA Live, Spore Creatures, Mystery Mania, American Idol, Command & Conquer, SSX (a snowboarding game), Need for Speed and The Sims 3. EA Mobile also plans to release iPhone/iPod touch games based on popular board games, including Connect 4, Battleship, Risk, Monopoly “classic,” Trivial Pursuit and Clue.

EA Mobile indicates that Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf and Trivial Pursuit will be coming in Spring and late April, respectively. Other release dates were not available.

via Mobile Tech Moment

T-Mobile trialling Bluetooth technology advertising

T-Mobile today announces that it is trialling Bluetooth as part of a campaign to encourage more people into its stores. Piloting the scheme at six stores across the country, passers by will be prompted to enable Bluetooth on their mobile phones to receive T-Mobile offers and deals.

The activity, known as ˜Proximity Marketing’, will be run in conjunction with Hypertag, a provider of proximity solutions. Hypertag has installed Bluetooth tags in the six T-Mobile stores, which send out invites to pick up a free gift and promotional offers to customers’ Bluetooth-enabled phones as they pass the store. Graphics in the shop windows also prompt customers to turn on their Bluetooth to receive the offers, which cost nothing to receive.

Skype 3.0 Beta for Windows Phones

Skype have just released a 3.0 beta version for Windows Mobile Phones. New in this release is the ability to send spreadsheets, photos, music and other files Skype-to-Skype for free as well as great value texts to mobiles abroad, and a great way to avoid roaming charges abroad if you text on Skype from a WiFi zone. You can download it directly on to your phone and install it straight away, or you can save it to your PC and transfer it on to your Windows® Phone device. See the easy downloading guide for step-by-step help.

AT&T Breaks the E71x, then delays it.

Over the weekend there was a lot of excitement over the fact that this was going to be the week that AT&T would finally start selling Nokia’s masterpiece, the E71x, but alas the news was too good to be true. With today being the scheduled release date, and no E71x in sight qwerty loving S60 fans across the country had their dreams smashed. According to BGR the trouble comes from a bug in the email or exchange synching software. I find this pretty hard to believe, I have been using an unlocked E71 with exchange since Thanksgiving (late November for those of you outside the U.S.) and have never had a problem with synching at all, and on top of that Nokia has sold millions of these phones around the world for nearly a year. If there was a problem with something as vital as email synch, I’m sure someone besides the guys at AT&T would have spotted it by now. While I am disappointed that my fellow countrymen will be denied such a great phone for an extra few weeks, this really questions what AT&T did to this great phone that would break it.

Acer A1 coming September

You gotta love rumors that come across like “This comes from a guy, who knows a guy…“  Such is the case with the Acer Android-based handset rumor.

This one comes via TalkAndroid who found it in The Philippine Business Mirror. An unknown source within Taiwan-based Acer claims that their first Android handset will be known as the A1 and will feature  a full touch screen.  This handset is rumored to be launching in September alongside 3 other phones.

[Via Androidguys]

Have questions about Windows Mobile?

Aaron Woodman, Director for Consumer Experiences for Windows Mobile, will be available the week of March 23rd to take questions on anything related to your consumer experiences with Windows phones. Post your questions over at the Facebook discussion board here.
Aaron may not be able to answer every question—and he won’t be giving away any deep trade secrets—but he has a wealth of fascinating knowledge to share so get your question posted there now.

Windows Mobile 6.5 latest build caught on video

We mentioned last week how Microsoft had dropped the honeycomb layout of the new program launcher in Windows Mobile 6.5. Well Brandon over at Pocketnow has flashed up his HTC Touch HD with a new build from xda-developers and sure enough the honeycomb has gone. Also worth mentioning is that the UI is starting to look a little more polished. Take a look for yourself after the break.

AT&T finally ready to sell the Nokia E71, only 9 months late to the party

After nearly a year of availability around the world, AT&T is finally done with its pre-release testing and will begin selling the Nokia E71x this week. A Scheduled release date of March 24th puts America only one day away from the official carrier release of the best business device that has ever come out of Finland. The E71x is basically the same as the E71, and features GPS, HSDPA, a front facing qwerty keyboard in a slim and sexy package. At $200 dollars this is a little pricey, but if you are in the market for a business device and don’t want a Blackberry, this is the phone for you. Let’s just hope AT&T didn’t cripple all the great features.

Source: Boy Genius Report

Telefónica and Vodafone announce milestone pan European collaboration

Telefónica and Vodafone, two of the world’s largest telecommunications operators, today announce a wide-ranging strategic programme to share mobile network assets across selected European operations.

As part of the collaboration, Telefónica and Vodafone are actively exploring opportunities to cooperate in related areas such as the provision of transmission services.

Telefónica and Vodafone will use the agreements to aid the roll out of their respective networks, enhancing service quality for customers in the longer term. The agreements will also reduce the environmental impact of both companies’ roll out activities, due to the consolidation of existing sites and joint build of new sites.