Siemens today announced the CX75, a mid-line camera phone.
Features of the Siemens CX75 include:

Tri-band GSM
132 x 176 pixel screen with 65K colors
VGA camera with video recording and 5x digital zoom
Small and light: 103ื44ื17 mm with weight of 85 grams

The C75 will be available in August 2005, pricing is unknown but likely on the lower end. [...]

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The Wall Street Journal has a large piece in today’s issue (humorously titled, “Why You Still Can’t Hear Me now”) on the sometimes unpredictable wireless reception common in the US. The article notes that despite recent spectrum buyouts and mergers, surveys show that reception hasn’t improved in recent years. Also mentioned is new technology that [...]

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Several US Wireless carriers have announced their preparations for hurricane season are complete. Six hurricanes made landfall in the US last year, making it one of the worst seasons on record.
Preparations for wireless carriers include network testing, preparing mobile cell sites and installing or checking battery backups. With the power out and phone lines broken, [...]

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In Cingular’s fifth annual wireless usage surgey, men once again lead in the number of minutes used. This year men talk 35% more, more than double the 16% figure from last year’s survey.
Despite common misconceptions men do communicate, or at least attempt to, using an average of 571 minutes a month, compared to an average [...]

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Cingular announced today that it will start providing Good Technology’s GoodLink software to corporate clients looking to have push-email. By sharing the profits with Cingular, Good is showing another sign that upsetting market leader RIM (maker of BlackBerry) is its number one goal. Two phones carried by Cingular are compatible with GoodLink, the Treo 650 [...]

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LG C3400. Live pictures

Package:

Handset
Charger
Manual
Strap
Headset
Disk with software

LG lived on the Russian market any which way till recently spending great money on advertising its phones but still having poor sales. The waste of the shipped [...]

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Samsung C210. Live pictures
Package:

Handset
Manual
Headset

Samsung has fixed its positions in the 150 USD price segment promoting its C-series. Taking into consideration the company’s refusal to decrease the price for the mid-class models, we see a necessity of renewing the model line [...]

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Review GSM/UMTS-smartphone Nokia N90>>>
As different to other N-series models the N90 uses glass optics by Carl Zeiss. The company claims the fact as a great advantage over all the models present on the market including own developments. Considering a small size of the camera module we can’t speak about its qualitative realization even on the [...]

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A ringtone made its way to the top of the British singles chart this Sunday, topping Brit-rock group Coldplay. Ringtone Crazy Frog Axel F outsold Coldplay’s Speed of Sound 4-1, making for a disapointing opening weekend for the popular band.
Crazy Frog Axel F is based off the revving sound of a Swedish mo-ped. It marks [...]

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SE-NSE.com, an unofficial Sony Ericsson forum, has posted drawings of two new handsets purported to be in development by Sony Ericsson. Going by the codenames Zoe and Ellen, the two handsets are designed to sell for less than most current Sony Ericsson handsets. This fits in line with what we noted last week about the [...]

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T-Mobile USA, a division of Deutsche Telekom, is still planning on launching a 3G network in 2007. T-Mobile USA CEO Robert Dotson believes his company will continue to grow at about 1 million new customers per month through the end of the year. “We are a growth machine. We have to grow, grow, grow,” Dotson [...]

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The long running debate of whether cellular phones should be allowed on aircraft is still raging, now CTIA is urging for more research to make sure airborne networks don’t interfere with existing terrestrial networks:
Steve Largent, President and CEO of CTIA commented, “While the industry recognizes the consumer demand for wireless service anytime, anywhere - even [...]

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WireFly is hosting a Memorial day weekend sale that has made some high-end handsets exceptional deals. Since this sale is limited to this weekend, move fast if you’re interested.
The Motorola RAZR V3 is being sold for free after rebate. Previously, the lowest price for the RAZR was $49.99 from Amazon.com.
The PalmOne Treo 650 with Cingular [...]

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As expected, Cingular Wireless has reintroduced its Go Phone service, bringing all of the company’s pre-paid services under the brand. Go Phone was originally marketed by AT&T Wireless and was left largely untapped since the merger last year. There are two rate plans, pay as you go or pick your plan (described in detail below).
Earlier [...]

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Gartner says sales of mobile handsets are above expectations and as such revised the sales outlook for 2005. The first quarter saw sales of 180.6 million units, compared to 153.7 million in the year ago quarter.
Total projected sales for 2005 has risen to 750 million units, up from 720 million. While the figures disagree somewhat, [...]

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