Let’s be straight: nothing says “I’m a successful businessperson” quite like a dock for your smartphone. You know, smack in the middle of that solid oak desk of yours — the one in the corner office. What, you say your fancy new BlackBerry Bold doesn’t have connections for a proper dock? Well, hell, you’ve got [...]

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Giving a cell phone to a younger child or a teen/tween is a good thing. It allows you to keep in touch with your child and makes it easier to know where they are, even if it’s only within your neighborhood. The catch is that kids don’t understand often how a phone works and that [...]

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LG this evening planned to cement its hold on touchscreen phones with the KP500. Unlike LG’s normally high-end full touch devices, the new handset is designed to be inexpensive enough for those who would opt for a conventional phone without sacrificing some of the core touch features: it has the same three-inch touch display as [...]

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Korean-based phone manufacturers Samsung, and LG are set to release handsets, based on Google’s Android Operating System. This will occur by Q3 next year, at the earliest. This gives both manufacturers quick a while to fine tune the handsets. Currently, there is one handset based on Android, which is announced, and to be available in [...]

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Today Samsung introduced a new phone called the Pixon. The Pixon’s primary feature is an 8 megapixel camera with auto-focus, fast-shutter, face detection, geo-tagging and LED flash. It features a photo browser that interacts with the accelerometer to flip through photo albums. The video camera can shoot at 30 and 120 frames per second, allowing [...]

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Ever get so pissed at your cell phone that you just want to chuck it into the trash? If Sony Ericsson’s GreenHeart phone ever sees the light of day, you’ll be able to do it, and nature will take care of the rest. For now, the phone is a concept (aren’t they always?), but the [...]

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It looks like the Safari browser of the iPhone/iPod Touch is up for some changes when Apple releases firmware 2.2 update. Apparently, the guys at Apple decided to do some minor tweaking to the mobile internet browser by relocating the refresh button to the inside of the url field, and making the whole address bar [...]

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Sprint announced a new mobile banking application that will allow customers to perform a wide variety of banking actions directly from their mobile phones. MyMoneyManager is a free download that allows customers to view account balances, view account transactions, pay bills, transfer money and search for nearby ATM and branch locations. Right now, BB&T, Citibank, [...]

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Sony Ericsson are working on a successor to the immensely popular K750 handset - codenamed Kate, and to be park of the CyberShot line of handsets. As seen in the images below, it somewhat resembles the company’s C902 handset, looks-wise. It should be announced later next month, and be available by the end of the [...]

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New technology allowing customers of UK banks to manage their accounts through their mobile phone is being introduced, reports the BBC.”Lloyds TSB will next month be the first to allow customers to transfer funds between accounts within the same bank via their mobile.
The software already exists which would allow people to make payments to other [...]

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Sprint announced that it has completed the sale of is cellular towers to TowerCo for $670 million. It sold 3080 towers to TowerCo, which will take over the operation and maintenance costs of the towers. Sprint has also signed a leasing agreement to use the towers so it can continue to operate its cellular networks.

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Two days ago, Samsung unveiled the Haptic 2. Our new mobile phone is available in two flavor: 4GB (SCH-W550 or SPH-W5500) and 16GB (SCH-W555).
It comes with a 3.2-Inch LCD touch screen, DMB, e-dictionary, Bluetooth, 5Mpix camera… The UI had also been upgraded, and the users will be able to create their own vibration mode, and [...]

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The megapixel race seems to show no sign of slowing down – what with many 8MP cameraphones to be available in the coming months – one being available now – the i8510, from Samsung. Now, the first 9MP unit is available – all that’s left to do is for a phone manufacturer to implement it [...]

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Anyone who follows boxing knows that the heavyweight division is lacking today. Two of the most promising heavyweight boxers are the Klitschko brothers Vitali and Wladimir. Mobile game maker Artificial Life has produced a mobile boxing game for mobile phones.
Boxing matches in the game are held in training rooms, large arenas, players get tips between [...]

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