Depending on where you read the news, Palm and its upcoming "future of the company" webOS-enabled devices are either going to be a huge hit or a dismal failure. Along with buzz about the addition of a "Pre lite" ...READ»
It should come as no surprise to smartphone users, but a customer satisfaction survey recently performed by JD Power has smartphones scoring higher than their limited-tech dumbphone siblings. And, of course, Apple's cellphone is the ...READ»
Nepal Telecom has some lofty plans for its cellphone service. The company is expanding its network coverage to one of the most special spots on Earth: the top of Mount Qomolangma...aka Mount Everest.
Climbing to Everest's ...READ»
The group in charge of the Bluetooth protocol unveiled the specifications of the next-generation of the technology, originally dubbed Bluetooth High Speed Technology and also labeled Bluetooth 3.0 HS. It's completely back-compatible ...READ»
Once upon a time people talked on mobile phones. Then along came the Blackberry and asked, "Sir, would you like some email with your phone, to go?" Before long, the tech savvy discovered texting, which was even better: ...READ»
Samsung, with its suite of successful smartphones, is in a better position than most mobile phone makers to know about the future of the devices--and it's betting that in just three years 29% of all cellphones sold will be smart ...READ»
In two months to the day, Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference will kick off, and global attention will be intensely focused on the keynote speech, where it's widely expected Apple will announce an updated iPhone. It's been ...READ»
"Wires, wires, wires" or possibly "a nest of vipers" could serve as a description for the space beneath my desk, where my MacBook's battery cable snakes through a spaghetti of others from my phone, my ...READ»
Verizon's has revealed how it plans to integrate the software side of next-generation cellphones into its business: It aims to support just four different operating systems.
The problem with the current cell phone model, ...READ»
Augmented reality has been slowly moving beyond the realm of science fiction into real life, but it just got a large boost from Nokia. The Finish cellphone maker has introduced a public version of an app dubbed "Point and ...READ»
What do you do if you've got a pile of devices that are currently among the hottest gizmos on sale across the world, and there's a likely three-month gap before your highly anticipated next-gen device launches? You dump 'em to make ...READ»
Michael Dell, eponymous CEO, gave some strong hints today during a speech in Japan that his company would be getting into the smartphone game. His words come hard on the heels of recent rumors that Dell cellphone prototypes had been ...READ»
Palm's upcoming Pre wonderphone has been the focus of attention here and elsewhere in the media for two reasons: First, because it appears to be a serious contender; second, because it looks like Palm is betting the bank on the ...READ»
Apple is revealing the "state of play" of its next iPhone firmware--iPhone 3.0--in a special event tomorrow. And gadget-hounds are predictably excited about what goodies the new code will include. Leading the rumor list is a ...READ»
The future of the phone gets a bit closer to reality today with the introduction of Google Voice. The key feature of Google Voice is that it recognizes the words in a voicemail message left for you, and can then email the transcript ...READ»
Samsung has knocked out cellphones like there's no tomorrow recently--and its latest pair of touchscreen smart phones come with a novel feature--programmable gestures. Programmable gestures, like those used with graphics pads and on ...READ»
Intel doesn't think that the home phone is dead--despite some pretty compelling evidence that more and more people are using cellphones as their main telecommunications systems. And it wants to combine a home phone with another ...READ»
LG's users have just been branded "tech boffins" in a UK survey of cellphone users, and that kind of meshes with news of a new smart phone from the Korean company. The LG Versa, you see, is a unusual modular smart phone. ...READ»
Nokia may be entering the laptop business. In an interview this week, Nokia's CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said, "We are looking very actively also at this opportunity." His reasoning is sound: Mobile computing devices and ...READ»
The cellphone is already a constant companion for most of us. But a few developments around the world are utilizing cellphones in new ways that, if popularized, will make it hard to get by in life with a cellphone in your pocket ...READ»
I ranted about the current trend toward ever-more megapixels in the cameras of smart phones the other day. But the other optics in those teeny tiny cameras are also worth a mention--they're pretty universally bad. And now a company ...READ»
Yesterday the GSM Association announced, surprisingly, that they had reached an agreement on a universal standard charging system for cellphones--and a large number of major manufacturers have signed up. But is it actually a good ...READ»
Samsung's Omnia HD, rolled out at Mobile World Congress, brings one fantastic new feature to the world of cellphone video-making: It shoots in 720p high-definition. And that's a first, and a welcome one at that--if only because it ...READ»
Nokia's just pulled the wrappers off of its Ovi application store at Mobile World Congress--can it really compete against the might of Apple's App Store and the iTunes eco-system?
Ovi is basically following on the coattails of ...READ»
Many devices have been labelled "iPhone killer"--the BlackBerry Storm and T-Mobile G1 among them. And now, even Intel has its sights on bettering Apple's all-in-one media player smartphone?
"iPhone killer" is a description that ...READ»
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