AT&T settles suit over third-party ringtone downloads

AT&T has agreed to settle a class action suit issued against it in Georgia, for allowing third parties to charge customers on unclear or wholly undisclosed terms for downloads.

IDC: Despite the iPhone, RIM’s smartphone share still rises

While many have said Apple’s iPhone would immediately spell trouble for RIM’s BlackBerry, it’s not happening yet according to the latest research.

India still wants RIM to open a backdoor to BlackBerry security

By Tim Conneally, BetaNews

For several months, Indian security officials have wanted Research in Motion to decrypt BlackBerry-delivered e-mails so the government may have access to them, should the need arise. Both sides could reach a solution as soon as tomorrow.

In short, the Indian government believes BlackBerry communication is too secure, and could allow subversives a safe, untraceable method of communication unless something gets changed.

Tomorrow, there will reportedly be a meeting between government officials and RIM representatives to hopefully reveal the solution to this conundrum.

Thus far, RIM has failed to acquiesce to any of the Indian Ministry of Telecommunications suggestions, which included the relocation of BlackBerry servers to India.

Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications, Vodafone-controlled Vodafone Essar, and BPL Mobile all offer BlackBerry services in India. A report earlier this month estimated 114,000 subscribers there.

Samsung’s newest S60 phone will be the first with Safari

By Tim Conneally, BetaNews

Announced last week, Samsung’s L870 Symbian S60 3.2 Smartphone will be the first handset other than Apple’s iconic iPhone to come equipped with Safari as its native mobile browser.

The S60 default browser is based upon the same WebKit browser engine as Safari, so having Safari on board instead may not necessarily be a great technological leap. Like Safari, the S60 browser currently boasts desktop-quality browsing, and has generally been viewed as an excellent application in its own right.

Browser breakthrough aside, the L870 is a tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE device that supports HSDPA data transfers, has a 2.4″ QVGA TFT display, a 3 megapixel camera, and 100 MB of on-board memory that is expandable to 4 GB via microSD.

Interestingly, the 13.5mm thick handset falls short of the iPhone in that it lacks Wi-Fi connectivity to fully exploit Safari’s browsing capabilities…yet it has an FM radio.