The Bluetooth SIG has a long history of promoting its members’ “special interests” by leaking valuable tidbits about their handsets before they’re announced. The recently unearthed LG C900 is the latest of these, being pegged for a launch date “around” September 28th by the SIG’s detail page on the phone. The QWERTY slider, which is referred to in C900N, C900k, and C900B versions, will be available in Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. Phone Arena conjectures that the launch date lines up with AT&T’s marketing materials timing and the slated Q4 launch of Windows Phone 7, so the C900 probably has a decent chance of being the first Windows Phone 7 phones to market if LG’s own GW910 or some more secretive set doesn’t beat it to the punch. Still, September is a bit earlier than any of the launch windows Microsoft has managed to let slip, and as far as we know Microsoft won’t even be accepting apps in the the Marketplace before October.

LG C900 due to bring Windows Phone 7 to market near September 28th, according to Bluetooth SIG originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Bluetooth 4.0 devices to make the scene later this year originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Bluetooth SIG’s device database isn’t typically the most helpful when it comes to tracking down specs and gorgeous, high-res photos — but often, it’s first way we hear of a new device, so we’ll take what we can get. Take this F350 from ZTE for example; from the single picture the SIG’s given us, we can’t even make out whether it’s a landscape or slider, a pivot, or a full touchscreen (doubtful) phone, but we can make out a shiny little Verizon swoosh three-quarters of the way down. It’ll apparently have a camera, voice command capability, Bluetooth (of course), and a 1X radio, but we’re not clear on whether that means it won’t have EV-DO. Now that we know Verizon’s working with ZTE, this makes quite a bit of sense, doesn’t it?

ZTE’s F350 has a Verizon logo on it, you do the math originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Bluetooth low energy and its predecessors (think Wibree) have been in the pipe for ages now, but we might actually see this tech take off en masse for the first time now that the Bluetooth SIG has officially added it into a release: 4.0. While Bluetooth 3.0 was all about high energy with the introduction of WiFi transfer, 4.0 takes things down a notch by certifying single-mode low energy devices in addition to dual-mode devices that incorporate both the low energy side of the spec plus either 2.1+EDR or 3.0. In a nutshell, the technology should bring a number of new categories and form factors of wireless devices into the fold since 1Mbps Bluetooth low energy can operate on coin cells — the kinds you find in wristwatches, calculators, and remote controls — and the SIG’s pulling no punches by saying that “with today’s announcement the race is on for product designers to be the first to market.” Nokia pioneered Wibree, so you can bet they’ll be among the frontrunners — bring it, guys.

Bluetooth 4.0 finally rolls low energy tech into a shipping standard originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Remember that nameless midrange flip from Nokia that the FCC outed complete with AT&T branding not long ago? Well, we’ve now got a name to put with the face: 6350. The good folks at the Bluetooth SIG have come through once again, revealing a picture — admittedly a small one — of the phone that we can safely identify as the same thing we’d seen getting FCC approval a little while back. We don’t have a launch date yet, but the SIG confirms that it’s an HSDPA-equipped piece with a 2 megapixel camera — in other words, nothing that’s going to knock your socks off, unless your socks are mysteriously knocked off by 2 megapixel cameras, in which case you need to check your socks.

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Mystery Nokia flip for AT&T turns out to be 6350 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We haven’t heard a peep about the so-called Nokia Mural flip since May — basically an eternity (as opposed to an Eternity) by mobile standards. Was it canceled? Did AT&T get distracted playing Call of Duty 4 and forget to release it? It’s possible — crazier things have happened — but we’re taking some comfort this week in the knowledge that the Bluetooth SIG hasn’t forgotten about the darn thing anyway. What’s more, they’re showing it with the AT&T logo up front, the first time we’ve actually seen it there; the FCC docs where we first learned of the phone had it blurred out (though there was plenty of other evidence to gather that AT&T was the destination from day one). Given that the Mural doesn’t seem to be running S60, we’re having a hard time getting too worked up about the fact that it hasn’t launched — but we’re sure they’d manage to sell a few if it was actually on a shelf somewhere.

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Nokia 6750 Mural for AT&T still exists, because the Bluetooth SIG says so originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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