Remember the 5800 XpressMusic? It’s the first touch phone from Nokia (NYSE: NOK), and saw a bumpy start here in the U.S., with units pulled from the shelves because of nonworking 3G connections. It later returned, and now gets a major upgrade in key areas such as responsiveness, data speeds, and camera features.
The free [...]
EBay Inc. will start providing its Skype Internet-calling service on Apple Inc.’s iPhone, extending its push in wireless devices and putting it in more direct competition with AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless.
Customers can call and message other users of the Web- calling service with their iPhone for free, starting tomorrow, Skype said in an [...]
Just days before CTIA kicks off in Las Vegas, AT&T announced its attractive spring lineup of handsets on Monday. The carrier is focused on bringing texting and e-mail capabilities to everyone, whether they’re a teenager or a business executive. And while messaging phones can run a bit on the boring side, the new lineup has [...]
The housing for a new T-Mobile phone is made from recycled water bottles, and the phone itself can be recycled when it reaches the end of its life, according to a T-Mobile announcement.
Is the new phone actually environmental or just a gimmick? We don’t know. Either way, we like the decision to consider the environmental [...]
Integration of Virgin Mobile to Media proving complicated
When Virgin Media became the first ‘quad-play’ operator in the UK, offering cable TV, broadband, landline and mobile services, spirits in the camp were high and the company began a series of large-scale advertising campaigns to drive subscriptions.
But two years down the line, have consumers got what was [...]
SAMSUNG Mobile, Australia’s number two mobile phone brand, brings a stylish and easy to use touch phone to the market, the SAMSUNG F480. The ultra-slim, credit card sized phone is available in three fashionable colours - Ice Silver, Coral Pink and Topaz Gold boasting a modern and contemporary design. Whether you want to experience high [...]
At a time when growth in the Indian cellphone market has flattened out, handset vendors are seeing growing demand for mid-to-high end
camera phones.
As a result, mobile phone vendors are finetuning business strategies by expanding their portfolio of high megapixel phones at lower prices, rolling out various imaging solutions and tying up with partners in the [...]
The CTIA 2009 spring show is just a few days away, and there are sure to be new product announcements. HTC, Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, LG–they’ll all be there. However, there’s one company in particular that’s at the forefront of my mind, and it would be Palm. I’m sure you can guess why.
Both Palm and [...]
Mobile Phone manufacturer, Sony Ericsson, has launched its latest mobile phone, the T707, with tennis star and style icon Maria Sharapova.
With a touch of glamour and style, this new innovative phone, is unique and includes eye-catching light effects and gesture control that reportedly guarantees users will never be left in the dark.
Maria Sharapova commented, “The [...]
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has selected Spreadtrum Communications Inc. (Shanghai, China) to supply wireless baseband chipsets for use in mobile phones Spreadtrum has said.
Spreadtrum’s QS520 GSM/GPRS and QS1001 EDGE transceivers have been designed into international mobile phone models and Spreadtrum has started shipping the QS520 and the QS1001 chips to Samsung in volume, the company [...]
Bringing the Ultra Back
Unveiled at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the Ultra Touch S8300 is Samsung’s first flagship phone for 2009. While the Ultra series was famously known for its slim phones, the latest breed of Ultra phones has evolved into a more feature-oriented handset and while still slim, that appears to be [...]
Siemens’ OpenScape Xpressions and OpenScape UC Application Enterprise Edition are designed to make it easier for large enterprises to adopt unified communications.
Siemens is hoping to make the idea of implementing unified communications easier for customers to swallow with a host of enhancements to its OpenScape Xpressions and UC Application products.
Long a player in telecommunications products [...]