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Cellphone Makers Practise Airborne Calls
News Airborne cellphone service took a test flight last Thursday, in a safety and technology demonstration aimed at easing fears that mobile calls interfere with navigation systems. Even though commercial availability of cellphone use in-flight is...
[July 19, 2004, 10:25]
Kyocera Decrees Cellphone Safe
News The Kyocera phone was one of four reported cellphone explosions in the last two months. Kyocera Wireless is once again shipping Phantom model cellphones, after an investigation concluded that the phone did not explode as a Nebraska family had...
[October 17, 2003, 8:35]
Easy BT Pairing -- Paired To Cellphone & PDA
Member Review My complaints are that the earbud rubs, making my ear canal sore, and it is easily dislodged. The sound, both in and out, is excellent. I am able to hear very well, even in a noisy environment. I also love not being tethered.
[January 28, 2005, 8:25]
Chinese Cellphone Standard Attracts German Support
News China's home-grown cellular standard is attracting more support from domestic and multinational firms. German electronics kingpin Siemens on Friday said it has joined with China telecom equipment firm Huawei to develop, manufacture and market...
[September 2, 2003, 9:40]
NEC Adds Digital TV To Cellphone
News NEC has demonstrated a prototype third generation mobile phone that doubles as a portable digital television. The company says it is probably the first company in the world to show this combination of technologies, and that it expects to launch a...
[July 14, 2003, 14:32]
Networks Of Light Build On Cellphone Tech
News The University of California at Davis announced this week it has received a grant from the Defense Department to build a new generation of mobile phones that transmit and receive optical signals. The optical mobile phones could make wireless...
[November 27, 2002, 15:57]
The Open Source Cellphone: Lead Users And Early Adopters In The Mobile Phone Industry
White Papers This paper proposes that disruptive applications and business models for mobile phones in North America are limited not by hardware or software capabilities, but by a restricted application development environment and the inability of heavily...
[April 18, 2007, 0:00]
Mobile Makers Anticipate Record Year
News Cellphone manufacturers will ship 585 million phones in 2004, marking the second consecutive record-setting year for an industry mired in a slump not so long ago, according to a study from market watcher Strategy Analytics.
[February 4, 2004, 9:50]
Mobile Standard Comes In From The Margins
News The cellphone standard EDGE is surprising many by staking a permanent claim. The 100-kilobit-per-second cellphone technology was meant as a stepping-stone for cellphone carriers as they progress toward 3G, or third-generation, telephone networks...
[January 27, 2004, 14:25]
Mobiles Change Into Cashpoints
News Japanese wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo has launched a service for smart-card handsets that lets customers use their cellphone as a mobile wallet. Information is transmitted from the cellphone over NTT DoCoMo's own network or is sent to a special...
[August 10, 2004, 8:50]
Motorola Resorts To Intel Chip
News Motorola's upcoming Linux-based cellphone will be its first handset to use a processor from chipmaking rival Intel. The move is a boost for Intel because it gets the company's chips into a device from a leading phone maker and into a market...
[October 31, 2003, 10:45]
Hong Kong Awaits New Year 3G
News Hong Kong's first commercial 3G cellphone service will finally launch in early January, said Hutchison Whampoa Group, with NEC agreeing to deliver 3G handsets. The service will be matched to Japanese electronics giant NEC's 'c616' cellphone, a W...
[December 23, 2003, 8:55]
Q&A: Mobile Phone Inventor Says Dream Isn't Real Yet
News Cellphone inventor Martin Cooper doesn't get any special treatment from carriers just because he created the now ubiquitous cellphone three decades ago. So the first cellphone call was to talk some smack?
[April 7, 2003, 15:37]
Kyocera Bridges Mobile Standards Divide
News Mobile phone maker Kyocera on Tuesday unveiled its first handset to use Qualcomm's GSM1x technology, which bridges two cellphone standards that are not interoperable. Qualcomm created GSM1x so that cellphone carriers using the world's most popular...
[August 13, 2003, 12:10]
'Good Citizenship' Comes Between Australians And Their Mobile Porn
Talkback Why can't they just let me have what I want on my cellphone! I get my moan tones which are erotic cellphone ringtones at moantones.com and that stuff is hilarious! Sheesh do they have to act like we are a bunch of babies!
[October 8, 2004, 13:56]
Smart Fuel Cell Shows Off Alcoholic Laptop Power
News Running your cellphone on alcohol is becoming closer to reality than a drinker's dream, thanks to Bavarian technology. Munich-based Smart Fuel Cell GmbH has shown early production examples of a methanol-fuelled device capable of producing 40 watts...
[April 23, 2002, 17:18]
Japanese Telco Looks To Linux
News Japanese cellphone service provider NTT DoCoMo is urging its handset suppliers to build Linux-based cellphones, in a milestone for the operating system's acceptance by the wireless industry. Interest in Linux by cellphone manufacturers started in...
[December 4, 2003, 9:00]
Nokia Investigates N-Gage Hacking
News Mobile phone giant Nokia is investigating whether hackers managed to disable security that protects its N-Gage cellphone games. If various Web reports are true, someone has discovered a way for the games to be played on any cellphone that, like the...
[November 12, 2003, 9:35]
EC May Ease Spectrum Trading
News European cellphone service providers may soon have an easier time selling or trading spectrum, a fact that promises to upset the continent's mature cellphone market and open it up to foreign prospecting.
[July 16, 2004, 8:50]
Intel Deal Provides WiMax Boost
News Intel and cellphone pioneer Craig McCaw's latest company, Clearwire, plans to develop and install high-speed networks based on broadband technology commonly referred to as WiMax. McCaw is the mobile-industry billionaire behind McCaw Cellular...
[October 26, 2004, 9:20]
