Verizon Wireless’ innovative Chaperone service has been launched for new handsets. The child-tracking program was previously only available on the LG Migo. Chaperone is now available on the following handsets: LG 3450L, LG VX8300, LG Chocolate and the Motorola KRZR K1m.
Chaperone uses GPS to keep tabs on kids. Parents can log in and see [...]

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Apple rumor site ThinkSecret is reporting that the iPhone may begin shipping prior to June. At its MacWorld introduction earlier this month, Apple CEO Steve Jobs noted that the unusually (for Apple) distant launch date was because Apple wanted to announce the product before the FCC had a chance to spill the beans. The iPhone [...]

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The Wall Street Journal has an article about Research In Motion’s fastest growing customer, consumers. The company previously courted business users almost exclusively, but the BlackBerry Pearl has helped open up a new market for the company.
According to the article, everyone from college students to stay at home mothers have taken up the Pearl [...]

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Wirefly has released a list of their top selling phones for the year of 2006. Unsurprisingly the Motorola RAZR topped the list. However there are some surprises:

Cingular RAZR by Motorola (in various colors)
T-Mobile RAZR (in various colors)
Verizon Wireless RAZR (in various colors)
Cingular Sony Ericsson z520a/z525a video phones
T-Mobile Motorola v360
Verizon Wireless Motorola v276
Sprint Nextel Motorola i850
Sprint [...]

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CES 2007 – SanDisk has announced a 2GB Memory Stick Micro M2 card, the largest in the industry. The new format is being used by several Sony Ericsson music phones but not much else. The company will also sell 1GB and 512MB M2 cards.
M2 cards are exceedingly small, but not the smallest (that’s microSD [...]

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CES 2007 – Sprint Nextel has announced officially supported Mac OS X compatibility with one of its EV-DO Rev A cards. Previously the easiest way to get EV-DO on a Mac was to go with Verizon (Mac OS X offers built-in support for a couple of the Verizon cards). Compatibility is for the AirCard 595 [...]

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Palm has cut a deal with Access for a perpetual Palm OS Garnet license. Back in September of 2005 Access bought out PalmSource, the company that makes PalmOS.
Palm paid Access $44 million for the license, which is a steal considering Access paid $324 million for PalmSource.
Under terms of the agreement, ACCESS has granted Palm [...]

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Cameron Marlow, a researcher at Yahoo!, has put up a simple tool to calculate the number of key presses it takes to enter in data via multi-tap. His goal was to see how long different URLs would take to key into his mobile browser. Since predictive text doesn’t work for non-words like most URLs, multi-tap [...]

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Free 411 (1-800-FREE411) has surpassed the 100 million use milestone. The relatively new service has still only captured a small percentage of the US directory assistance market, but is rapidly gaining ground. According to the company this means US callers have saved approximately $150 million (citing $1.50 for the average lookup).
The company provides its [...]

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Opera Software has announced the availability of Opera Mini 3.0, the second major update to the package this year. The free application is a web browser designed to work on the vast majority of mobile phones sold. This differs from Opera Mobile which is designed expressly for smartphones. Opera Mini has been well received and [...]

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The Nokia 2626 is a colorful new feature phone designed for emerging markets. The handset comes in several color schemes in addition to the pink shown at right.
The feature list is shorter than the other handsets Nokia introduced today, but that’s to be expected for an emerging markets phone. The notable feature that’s not [...]

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A new report from Strategy Analytics says that the global market for mobile broadband will reach 500 million users by 2010. Next generation technologies like WiMAX and UMTS TDD will help fuel the growth but not dominate it. The report notes that most of the market will be taken up by technology such as EV-DO [...]

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Symbian Limited announced yesterday that the company has shipped over 100m Symbian powered smartphones. The phones are in use on over 250 carriers and have been on sale since the Ericsson R380 launched in 2000. Sales have picked up recently with 13m in the third quarter of 2006 alone (up 52% from a year ago). [...]

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New York City’s ban of cell phones in schools is not going over well with parents. The ban has actually been in effect for years, but has only been loosely enforced (more of a don’t act don’t tell policy). When random weapons checks started being performed this year, school officials started yanking cell phones too.
“These [...]

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Verizon Wireless has launched the Motorola V325i, a slightly updated version of the V325. The V325i is identical to the V325 with the addition of Bluetooth. The handset remains at the low-end of the Verizon lineup.
Features of the V325i include:

Bluetooth
Speakerphone
VGA camera

Verizon is selling the V325i now for $29.99 after contract and $50 in instant [...]

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