British marketing research firm YouGov published its report on Smartphone Mobile Internet Experience. 2121 smartphone users took part in the poll. The most alerting tendency is the drop in preferences for Nokia by 12% within 6 months, which correctly describes Nokia, its products and marketing. The number of people who plan to buy Nokia smartphones soon decreased two times. It is sad, but Nokia may label YouGov as one of unreliable information sources and claim that everything they say is not true. It is easier to ignore your market position, than to improve the situation.

The CTIA, a group representing mobile operators, is trying to block a San Francisco ordinance that would require stores to disclose radiation levels for the phones they sell.

In a lawsuit filed Friday, the CTIA argues that the ordinance unlawfully interferes with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's authority over cell phones.

The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, seeks to block the ordinance, which was passed last month and requires retailers to post information about the Specific Absorption Rate for the phones they sell. SAR is a measure of cell phone radiation, and the FCC has established a SAR limit for phones sold in the U.S.

The San Francisco ordinance attempts to unlawfully regulate emissions from cell phones, a duty reserved exclusively by the FCC, according to the lawsuit. "Federal regulation is so pervasive in this field that no room is left for any state action," the CTIA argues.

The ordinance also conflicts with federal law by challenging the FCC's determination that all FCC-complaint handsets are safe. "The FCC has stated that any cell phone that complies with the standard is safe, regardless of whether its SAR value is at or somewhere below the SAR limit," the suit reads.

Finally, the ordinance runs foul of the Communications Act, which prohibits state-imposed conditions on entry to the wireless market, including point-of-sale warning and labeling requirements, the suit alleges.

"CTIA's objection to the ordinance is that displaying a phone's SAR value at the point-of-sale suggests to the consumer that there is a meaningful safety distinction between FCC-compliant devices with different SAR levels," it said in a statement.

San Francisco officials say consumers have a right to know about a phone's radiation level, which allows them to make decisions based on that information. The radiation levels are already disclosed to the government, and "this same information should also be made easily accessible to the consumer," San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said earlier this year.

The issue of cell phone radiation has been of increasing interest to lawmakers. Earlier this month, Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich announced plans for a bill that would require warning labels on cell phones about the potential risks they pose. He noted that some studies find links between cell phone use and health issues while others don't, but that studies funded by the telecom industry are less likely to find a link between cell phones and ill health.

This is pretty confusing considering it is just Qik and Fring offering the same service for the green bot right now, so we trotted along to Adobes London office to get a closer look at this demo. As with many things in life, not all went as planned as you can see after the break video stream froze up on several occasions, but then again Adobe's Mark Doherty only spent three days cooking this simple app. 

While Nokia's just waiting for a Linux SDK before it can start porting Flash apps to its devices within 2010, Adobe implied that it's still waiting for two other vendors to respond Palm's already been shown a Flash build running on web OS devices, and it's just a matter of the company signing up for Adobe's device certification system; RIM, on the other hand, is a bit more vague, but we were told it's definitely interested in both Air and Flash. And here's the surprise of the day: no comment on Flash for iOS. Check the Embedded Video Down there from MobileEngadget

Motorola is having great time with Android the latest Moto droid is the Motorola Quench XT3. We've seen it before under the name XT502 Greco though its specs have been lowered somewhat since then.

The Motorola Quench XT3 is a touchscreen bar, similar to the original Motorola Quench. The Quench XT3 runs Android OS 1.6 Donut. Another change to the official spec sheet compared to the rumors is the 3MP Camera.

The rest of the Motorola Quench XT3 specs are standard Android fare 3.2" HVGA touchscreen, a 600MHz Qualcomm MSM 7227 CPU, Wi-Fi b/g, GPS and support for microSD cards up to 32GB.
The Motorola Quench XT3 will be launching in Taiwan some time in August alongside the original Motorola Quench.Taiwan's Far EasTone Telecommunications will carry the Quench XT3 though no price has been announced yet.

The transition from hearsay to "in the wild" photos is always an important one the BlackBerry 9780 went pretty quickly from specs found in the user agent profile XML to live photos, in fact it took just a few hours.

The user agent XML profile is a pretty common source of info for rumored phones. In the case of the BlackBerry 9780, it reveals a HVGA screen (480x320) BlackBerryOS 6, GSM with 2G and 3G connectivity as well as Wi-Fi b/g.

Aside from the new OS, the BlackBerry 9780 (dubbed Onyx II for now, though that will certainly change) is pretty much the same as the BlackBerry 9700 Bold (which was initially rumoured as Onyx). The live photo adds another similarity between the two the phones look almost the same.

But along with the photo came another nugget of information the BlackBerry 9780 packs 512MB RAM (double than its predecessor) and will likely have a 5MP camera.

Source: CrackBerry