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Filed under: Games, Multimedia, Software, Nokia

It’s gonna be a good long while yet before we know whether Comes With Music is the rousing (and profitable) success Nokia hopes it is, but it seems Espoo might already be looking into what other sorts of media can be all-you-can-eat-ified for the benefit of its handsets. They’re generally being coy about what the future holds for unlimited media, but company exec Tom Erskine noted that they’re being “open minded” about the natural fit that games and movies would have with the Comes With model. Seriously, who wouldn’t be down with an entertainment-focused Nseries that bundled a year of gaming? EA’s European marketing director added that his company — which just happens to make a crapload of mobile games — is “supportive” of any creative ideas handset manufacturers dream up, which certainly sounds to us like code for “we’d totally be down for Comes With Games.” Nokia, we eagerly await this initiative you’ve yet to announce.

Games, movies next for Nokia’s “Comes With” franchise? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tags: Benefit, Creative Ideas, Engadget Mobile, Exec, Franchise Software, Games Software, Handset Manufacturers, Handsets, Initiative, Mobile Games, Multimedia Software, Natural Fit, Nbsp, Nokia, Profitable Success, Quot, Software Nokia, Sorts, Tom Erskine, Unlimited Media

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, ATT

We didn’t see this one on our exhaustive leaked Nokia roadmap, but our homeboy Boy Genius has uncovered pics and specs of a new Nokia flip destined for AT&T. Codenamed “Wahoo,” the quad-band clamshell features an engaging attention half-QWERTY keypad, an internal 2.2-inch QVGA display and a 1.36-inch external unit, push-to-talk, microSD expansion, and A2DP support — which you’ll need because Nokia seems to think a 2.5mm headphone jack is still somehow acceptable. No word on a release date, but if you’re waiting on pins and needles for a phone with a display that small we really can’t help you anyway.

Nokia “Wahoo” 3G half-QWERTY flip swings into view originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tags: 3g, 5mm, A2dp, Amp, Boy Genius, Clamshell, Codenamed, Handsets, Headphone Jack, Nbsp, New Nokia, Nokia, Pins And Needles, Quad Band, Quot, Qvga Display, Qwerty, Release Date, Roadmap, Swings

Filed under: Handsets, HTC, T-Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, Android

Are you excited? Giddy? You should be. The inevitable has occurred, and even though it’s far from elegant (and far from guaranteed-to-work), tethering on the T-Mobile G1 is a go. According to a few users over at TmoNews, this particular solution enables owners to share the G1’s Dat. connection via USB, which — for all intents and purposes — is tethering. You’re plan to have to put in some serious days minutes to get everything up and running properly, but trust us, it’ll be worth it. Navigate down to the links below for all the instructions you could ever need… hopefully.

[Via AndroidGuys]

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First T-Mobile G1 tethering “solution” comes to light originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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