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Cell Phones Blog February 2004 Archive

By Adam Fendelman, About.com Guide to Cell Phones

Nokia's new communicator will have the EDGE

Wednesday February 25, 2004
Nokia has updated again its "Communicator" device, a hybrid cell phone and palmtop computer with the Symbian operating system. This time, the Communicator 9500 has EDGE high-speed data, a VGA ... Read More

New: Get your Ringtone-a-day homepage

Tuesday February 24, 2004
Here is my latest free ringtone service: the ringtone-a-day homepage. Just set that page as your homepage to get one of our free ringtones everyday. It's the perfect way to ... Read More

Our Free ringtones available again

Monday February 23, 2004
Yesterday, there was a brief interruption of this site's availability of free ringtones and the ringtone converter while I was traveling with limited resources to fix this. But thanks to ... Read More

New LCD display can be seen from both sides

Monday February 23, 2004
Clamshell phones with an internal and external display will be lighter and simpler when a new display technology announced last week comes to the market: it is a single LCD ... Read More

Cingular buys AT&T Wireless

Tuesday February 17, 2004
Those who were looking to leave AT&T for Cingular won't have to: Cingular is buying AT&T Wireless for $41 billion and both networks will merge, which should provide greater coverage ... Read More

My Review of the Motorola V300

Tuesday February 17, 2004
The Motorola V300 is a good feature-rich phone, but its lack of wireless PC connecvtivity such as infrared or bluetooth hurts (Motorola is coming up with bluetooth-enabled phones soon). But ... Read More

Sprint and Fuji will offer camera phone photo printing

Friday February 13, 2004
According to Reiter's Camera Phone Report, Sprint PCS will offer customers the possibility to print photos taken with their camera cell phone for a cost of $.19 to $.35 each. ... Read More

60,000 consumers went all-wireless with Number Portability

Friday February 13, 2004
60,000 U.S. consumers decided to switch from landline to cell phone using the Number Portability rule that allow you to keep your number when switching to another phone company. Apparently, ... Read More

Verizon adds new Samsung camera phone

Tuesday February 10, 2004
Verizon adds a new camera phone today: the Samsung SCH-a610, with a built-in flash, digital zoom and a 65,000-color TFT display. As in other Samsung phones, the camera is built ... Read More

New: The Mobile Notepad

Monday February 9, 2004
It occured to me last week-end: with all the notes I print before leaving home, with all the phone numbers I need to bring but not necessarily add to my ... Read More

After Bluejacking, Bluetooth phones are now at risk from Bluesnarfing

Monday February 9, 2004
You probably heard of Bluejacking, a method by which someone can send a message to your cell phone using the Bluetooth technology. Now, according to ZDnet, "A security flaw has ... Read More

Samsung working on Satellite TV cell phone

Monday February 9, 2004
There's seems to be no limit to what cell phones can be (appart from phones): Samsung is now working on a chip that would allow cell phones to receive Satellite ... Read More

Take my visitor's survey

Monday February 9, 2004
Here for the first time? Regular visitor? I'd like to know you better and learn more on what you are looking for. Please take a few seconds of your time ... Read More

New: Technical analysis of the most recent cell phones

Friday February 6, 2004
Let's say you wonder what are the strong and weak points of the recently launched Motorola V400. All you have to do is to search that phone on this site ... Read More

Study: New-York drivers ingore statewide cell phone ban

Wednesday February 4, 2004
According to a study released today, the percentage of New-York state residents chatting on their cell phone while driving is back to 2.1 percent, just about what it was before ... Read More

NEC about to launch its credit card-sized camera phone

Wednesday February 4, 2004
I hate to report on cell phones that are only available in Asia since it's so frustrating for us, North-Americans, but I make exceptions when it's truly interesting. Last fall, ... Read More

Preliminary Review: The Audiovox CDM8900 camera phone

Tuesday February 3, 2004
The CDM8900 camera phone is a good entry-level, light and well-equipped cell phone. But is it a good choice for everybody? Read the Audiovox CDM8900 Review

Nokia announces sports phone... without GPS!

Monday February 2, 2004
Nice effort from Nokia to launch the Nokia 5140, a sports-oriented phone with an integrated flashlight and a digital compass and a "Nokia Fitness Monitor" accessory. But, silly enough, GPS ... Read More

Sprint starts new video phone, the Toshiba VM4050

Monday February 2, 2004
Similar to the recently launched VM4500, the new VM4050, manufactured by Toshiba, is more "photo-oriented". It is slightly heavier but it has a large 2.2 inch display with 260,000 colors ... Read More

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