ALLTEL is giving away $1 million to one lucky customer for a, “Dream home.” The TXT2WIN $1 Million Home Sweepstakes features Ty Pennington from the ABC show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.
ALLTEL customers can enter the sweepstakes by sending the text message “home” to the number “123456.” The chance of winning increases for every text, picture, […]

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Pantech PG-3200. Live pictures
Package:

Handset
Battery
Charger
Manual

The phone Pantech PG-3200 is a miniature clamshell with two colour screens and a VGA camera with the dimensions of 75×38×21.5 mm and weighing 70 g. Due to its size, the handset is certainly intended for women most […]

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Australian researchers are preparing a study that will use mobile phones to help monitor adolescent depression and suicidal factors.
Under the program, teenagers download specially-designed software on their mobile phones which asks a series of questions twice a day to gauge the youths’ moods and susceptibility to depression.

400 teenagers will participate in the study for 12 […]

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Some corporations ban camera phones for security purposes (corporate espionage!), but Matthew Stevens is alive because of the tiny camera embedded in his mobile phone. Mr. Stevens was bitten by a Brazilian Wandering Spider, which if not treated correctly can be fatal. Despite the shock of being bitten, Stevens snapped a photo of the spider […]

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The May edition of Wired magazine features a mini-review of the Samsung A800 with a Sprint logo on it. The 2-megapixel camera phone was shown off at CTIA (see MobileTracker’s coverage), but a carrier wasn’t specified. Though magazines sometimes feature phones that never come out as intentioned, as was the case with the NEC […]

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Sprint PCS on Tuesday began shipping the highly-anticipated LG MM-535. Sprint PCS announced that it would be carrying this phone back in March. Features of the MM-535 include:

Megapixel camera (with flash and video capture)
Slide-style design
176 x 220 pixel 262K color display
20MB internal memory plus miniSD card slot
MP3 player

Sprint PCS is selling the LG MM-535 […]

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Nokia has announced the N90, a high-end camera phone with Carl Zeiss optics. The twist-style phone features two displays and a lot of extras:

352 x 416 pixel main display
Bluetooth
2 megapixel autofocus camera with flash and video capture
31MB memory plus RS-MMC slot (64MB card included)
GSM 900/1800/1900, EDGE and WCDMA

The Nokia N90 is slated to ship in […]

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Nokia today officially announced the N91 which was shown in spy shots earlier this week. It’s a high-end music phone with a built-in hard drive. The case is made out of steel, like the 8801.
Features of the Nokia N91 include:

4GB hard drive
3.5mm headphone jack
Line-in for recording
Bluetooth
WCDMA/WiFI/USB

Playback time for the music side of the phone is […]

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Nokia today took the wraps off the N70, a handset similar to the 6680. Like the other N series handsets announced today (N90 and N91), the N70 is a Series 60 handset.
Features include:

2-megapixel camera
RS-MMC card slot
Bluetooth

The Nokia N70 is expected to be available in the third quarter of 2005. Additionally, a variant of the […]

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The FCC has approved (FCC ID QMNRM-18) the Nokia 6638, the first CDMA Series 60 phone. Visually, it looks just like the Nokia 6630 with the addition of a [very long] antenna. Since the 6638 is a CDMA handset, Nokia is most likely aiming for a US release.
Features are typical for a Series 60 smartphone:

176 […]

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