Following up our story on Tuesday, we have found an airline that is going to allow passengers to use non-voice functions of their mobile phones while flying. Don’t celebrate too much though–it’s Scandinavian Airlines. Now, we’re sure than Scandinavian Airlines is a fine operation, but don’t expect the FAA here in the USA to jump […]

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Gizmodo notes that Dell and Good Technology are partnering to make a wireless device. Besides the new device that will be available next year, Dell is going to start selling the G100 email pager. The G100 looks and acts pretty much like Research In Motion’s Blackberry line of handhelds.

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Symbian has released the 7th version of their popular mobile operating system. The new release add multi-tasking (surf the net AND download a file at the same time), an updated Java implementation, boosted multimedia capabilities and Arabic/Hebrew language support.
It’s not clear if you can update your mobile device but our guess is not. You’ll have […]

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Sprint has inked a deal with Sony Ericsson for exclusive distribution of the industry’s first CDMA Bluetooth integrated phone. It’s dubbed the Sony Ericsson T608 and is expected to ship in the second quarter of ‘03. As for the phone it is Java enabled and supports most of Sprint’s Vision service. As soon as […]

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UK readers will be happy to note that The Register is reporting you’ll soon be able to hail a cab in London via your mobile phone. The service will be available to customers of Vodafone, T-Mobile and O2 but there will only be 500 cabs equipped when the service launches next week. Look for this […]

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A study was released today that found US mobile phone subscribers spend more time gabbing on their mobile than on their land line. The Yankee Group said the average cellular subscriber knocked back 490 minutes which just betters landline averages of 480 minutes. Look to see this gap widen as phones/services get cheaper.

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Kyocera today announced plans to become the first manufacturer to offer entry-tier, affordable BREW-enabled CDMA phones with enhanced color displays that use software to emulate 16-bit, 65,000-color performance. The new BREW-enabled versions of the phone are collectively known as Kyocera’s KX400 Series.
For non-mobile-geeks, BREW is Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless. Basically a technology that lets […]

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Word on the street is that Samsung and Nokia are joining forces to make 3G and 4G phones. Not much is even known about 4G, but two mega co’s teaming up is never a bad thing (well, except Sony and Ericsson if you consider making money a priority).
What’s 4G and when will it be here? […]

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Gizmodo points to a new phone from Kyocera that’s got a unique swivel design. The Kyocera A5305K3G (try saying that 5 times fast) is a 3G phone and packs all the features you’d expect out of one (video for example). It’s coming out in Japan next month, but there is no word yet on […]

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One of the most popular pages we have is our collection of Sony Ericsson news–they are a hot company with savvy users (incidentally savvy users make up the bulk of our readers). Too bad they can’t swing a profit though. The company lost a massive $114 million in the first quarter of ‘03, but it […]

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