While it’s not headed stateside, the KTFT EV-K100 is still worth a look for its extremely thin figure–just 7.9mm thick. It almost makes the Motorola RAZR V3 (14mm) clunky. To put the numbers in perspective, 7.9mm is almost exactly 1mm thicker than the iPod nano.
The South Korean handset manages to pack in a [...]

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The Wireless Report has done a survey of the plethora of plans, services and tiers in an attempt to define a baseline wireless customer to compare the top four U.S. wireless carriers in the U.S.
The report sets the baseline user as a person who uses 400 to 600 minutes, voicemail, call waiting, caller ID, free [...]

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Vizrea Snap was introduced this morning at the DEMO conference. The service attempts to simplify sharing photos and video from mobile phones. MobileTracker caught a sneak peek of Vizrea Snap last week and was impressed with the simplicity. Currently the phone software is only compatible with Nokia S60 handsets, but there is a Java [...]

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Opera Software today released its mass market mobile browser, Opera Mini. Until now the software was only available in Norway and other select European countries. Unlike Opera Mobile, Opera Mini is designed to be used on the vast majority of phones that ship in the US–any modern phone with Java. In the US that means [...]

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NewScientist has a piece about a new battery technology developed recently in Singapore that uses urine to provide electric current. Only a drop or two is needed, but the urine powered battery could actually power your cell phone in a pinch:
The battery is currently suited for use with disposable devices โ€“ it is not yet [...]

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SimWatcher is a new app with a very simple goal: it sends a text message to an address when a new SIM card is put into it. The message will contain the phones new number which should help you track any bad guys.
The instructions are in Dutch, so it might be wise to wait for [...]

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Sanyo came out as the highest rated mobile phone in the annual J.D. Power and Associates 2004 U.S. Wireless Mobile Phone Evaluation Study. Sanyo phones ship in the US from Sprint PCS, with the MM-7400 being its latest offering. Five factors went into the survey:

Features
Durability
Physical design
Battery function
Operation

The full ranking is as follows:

Sanyo
Samsung, LG
Motorola, Audiovox, Kyocera
Sony [...]

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Om Malik is excited about M-Systems, an Israeli company with a big idea for the common SIM card (the card that ships with all GSM phone, holding numbers and identifying the phone number)–put lots of memory on them! It’s hard to believe this hasn’t happend yet, but adding lots of memory to a SIM card [...]

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We’ve mentioned a ton of new phones for the US lately, so many that its hard to keep track of what’s coming when. Below we have an exclusive look at all the dirt on the phones you ask about. If you have anything to add, please send it to news@mobiletracker.net.
Currently the report has information on [...]

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Today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal has an excellent piece on keeping track of your cell phone minutes. It’s a battle almost all cell phone users admit to fighting, and the article gives some great information.
The wireless providers don’t make it easy to keep tabs, analysts say, because they get a tidy profit margin [...]

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Avis Rent A Car and Motorola today announced recompletion of a plan to provide Avis customers with Motorola gear to give driving directions on the go–from mobile phones. Avis Assist is now available in 57 US cities. The description given sounds useful:
To map out a route, travelers simply contact the call center for a live [...]

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Sony Ericsson and NTT DoCoMo have announced the world’s smallest internet-capable cell phone. It’s just 9.0 cm (3.6 inches) long, 3.9 cm wide and 1.9 cm thick. It weighs in at 69 grams (2.42 ounces).
Due to the size, it doesn’t sport many of the featurs of other DoCoMo phones. The target demographic are males in [...]

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AT&T Wireless has signed a deal with MapQuest to provide maps to its customers through its mMode service.
“Mobile users can quickly find their way with full-color, interactive maps that pan and zoom. Step-by-step driving directions are available and displayed in an easy-to-read format. Once downloaded, directions can be conveniently saved on the phone. Customers can [...]

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If Bluetooth is to slow for you, read up on ultrawideband (UWB). It’s not new (originally developed by the US military back in the 60’s) but due to the falling cost of chips, it’s getting cheap. It boasts speeds of 480 megabits which is on par with IEEE 1394 (AKA FireWire), or about 100 times [...]

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If you can live with one bad review, the Sony Ericsson T610 will cost you just $99. Amazon.com is selling the phone for $149.99 $299 (see this for explanation) and offering a $150 rebate. On top of that T-Mobile is offering a $50 rebate. Of course you need a new service contract to get the [...]

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