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Found in "joi ito" via "gizmodo" (two technology blogs) today is a very in depth study by Motorola on our body language when using mobile phones. Dr Sadie Plant, who ... Read More

MSNBC has a story today about how wireless pagers let deaf people communicate like never before, like this student whose car broke down at 2 a.m. on a remote road ... Read More

One of the features I like about my digital camera is the possibility to take pictures in burst mode, like a series of 5 quick pictures of a person, then ... Read More

Were cell phones absolutely obliged to deliver the same kind of experience than a Windows PC computer? This morning, Gizmodo.com posts on a conversation going on in newsgroups about a ... Read More

All these free cell phones offers that you get either by mail or in popups are rarely as interesting as the phones already offered for free by the big 6 ... Read More

Most cell phone companies are now charging customers to cover the costs associated with supporting number portability, except T-Mobile. Verizon had previously said it may not charge at all or ... Read More

More than three weeks after starting to have technical problems caused by a software update, AT&T Wireless still struggles in some areas but says that customers' accounts will be credited. ... Read More

The phone isn't new but is gaining in popularity as its price goes down. Is it worth a few hunderd bucks?

The Associated says for the first day of the number portability rule, "probably fewer than 100,000 customers requested the switch", compared to predictions of up to a million. (source) Yet, ... Read More

A bill being introduced in Congress this week by a Republican congressman will limit the ability of cell phone companies to add your cellular number to a wireless 411, planned ... Read More

Should real camera makers be nervous? Japan camera phones already make much better pictures than ours, and industry experts predict that 2-megapixel phones will be available in 2004 in the ... Read More

The Dow Jones Business News reports a slow start today for wireless portability, assuming that "Some people likely are waiting a few days or weeks to switch, taking heed of ... Read More

According to my tests, either cell phone companies hired a bunch of new customer service representatives for this week or we just ain't seeing the number portability rush that was ... Read More

The Number Portability rule means more competition ahead for the 6 big cell phone companies, and analysts say that, in the long-term, 6 cannot survive. So what are the strenghts ... Read More

Today is the D-day of number portability, a new rule that forces cell phone carriers to let you keep your number if you leave for another carrier. Planning to go ... Read More

High expectations on the Number Portability rule that, starting November 24, will allow you to switch cell phone carriers while keeping your number? Business 2.0 has a list of tips ... Read More

The first Motorola camera phone in the US (More than a year later than others) is available starting today at T-Mobile. The Motorola V300 is a feature-rich phone with 1000 ... Read More

Kazaa, the most opopular peer-to-peer download software, with over 60 million users, will start selling ringtones along with MP3 downloads. Users will be suggested ringtones that match their music search ... Read More

It had to happen: with cell phones being so widespread, most of them with wireless internet capabilities, there was just a step to mobile flirting and that's what match.com's "Match ... Read More

A Belgium family is suing the undertakers who prepared their son for a funeral for being negligent: they forgot to remove the cell phone, and it rang from inside the ... Read More

The safety of the radiation emmited by cell phones resurfaces as a Federal-funded study is announced, but the results may take up to 9 years to become available, due to ... Read More

Yesterday at the Comdex in Las Vegas, AT&T launched its nationwide EDGE high speed data network. Cingular already offers EDGE connectivity but not on a nationwide network. EDGE stands for ... Read More

A German company launched the "Cryptophone", a cell phone with strong encryption technology that can be detected by eavesdropping equipment used by government agancies to listen to phone calls. The ... Read More

We aren't close to stop discovering how camera cell phones are changing the cellular landscape. The USA Today has an article about how camera phone sales are going so well ... Read More

Following Nokia, which recently announced a new cell phone with a TV tuner, Samsung says to ABC news that it's planning to launch TV cell phones as well. Samsung's TV ... Read More

This isn't exactly new: SMS spam has existed for years on cell phones, but it's getting worse and European countries are adopting new laws against it. Well... you know that ... Read More

It's not specifically about cell phones, but TechNewsWorld has an interesting article about a fast spreading phenomenon: Skype, a free long distance Internet service that attracted 2.5 million users in ... Read More

Nokia won't disclose the details, but says it has a new plan to defeat makers of counterfeit batteries for Nokia cell phones, which have been blamed for many recent explosions ... Read More

Sprint PCS launched today a new service called MobiTV, allowing users to view news clips and the latest music videos on select cell phones, including the Samsung VGA1000 and A600 ... Read More

According to a study conducted by PriMetrica and Ernst & Young, one half of American households would switch to wireless if offered a family-share service plan with 600 shared anytime ... Read More

After Verizon wireless launched the Motorola v60p, the first Push-to-talk (PTT) phone out of Nextel's line of "iDEN" technology phones, we're now seeing Nokia launch one of these cell phones ... Read More

The games that run on the N-gage gaming platform and cell phone have been cracked, and are now being runned on other handsets, like the Siemens SX1. Nokia has already ... Read More

The rumors were accurate. Verizon launched today the new Samsung SCH-i600 PDA phone, featuring Microsoft's "Smartphone" platform, the second such phone to launch in the U.S. after the Motorola MPx200. ... Read More

Rarely do cell phones launch first in Canada - in most cases, they appear first in the U.S. and Canada gets them a few months later. But today, Audiovox launched ... Read More

The i600 will look like the currently available i500, a clamshell PDA phone, but will feature Microsoft's "Smartphone" operating system, the second such phone to launch in the U.S., after ... Read More

Cingular just launched two new GSM phones and, bet who did them: LG. LG had been concentrating on CDMA handsets so far but here they are with two GSM handsets ... Read More

A new kind of ticket, "Mobi-tickets" will be launched next month at The Metro Theatre in Sydney, Australia. Fans of Magic Dirt, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Frames and Killing ... Read More

A U.S. survey found that 30% of teenagers are looking forward to buying a cell phone this holiday season and that more than half of them will pay for it ... Read More

Nokia recognized yesterday to The Register that there is a lot to do if the company wants to meet its expectations with the N-Gage gaming platform and cell phone, but ... Read More

The LG VX6000 is a popular phone since it offers a built-in camera in a flip cover form factor at a low price, a good keypad and general design. So, ... Read More

Handspring, the maker of the Treo 600, has started taking pre-orders for the GSM version of the Treo 600, but warns potential shoppers to expect delays due to the high ... Read More

A Thailand company executive had a surprise this week when his phone exploded in his hand, throwing shrapnel over a radius of 3 metres. In other cases earlier this year, ... Read More