More Smartphones Articles

  • 02 November 2007

  • News: iPhone is 'invention of the year', says Time

    Apple's iPhone has been named 'invention of the year' by Time magazine.

  • News: Mobile phone payments take step forward

    A trial group of Taiwanese citizens are already using their mobile phones to pay for subway rides using a contactless payment system, and they will soon start testing handsets with credit and cash cards on board.

  • News: Scepticism over Google mobile OS

    While it isn't yet clear what type of mobile announcement Google plans to make, it is clear what Google should do and why the company is interested in mobile services, experts say.

  • 01 November 2007

  • News: Gphone rumours send Google stock soaring

    Reports suggest Google's so-called Gphone platform will be launched in mid-2008, leading to a surge in the value of the search engine giant's shares

  • 31 October 2007

  • News: Google phone platform coming in 2008

    Google will release a mobile phone platform in mid-2008 that incorporates a variety of Google online services and lets outside developers create applications, according to The Wall Street Journal.

  • 30 October 2007

  • News: Apple stops selling iPhones for cash

    People looking to walk into an Apple retailer and buy an iPhone with cash will be out of luck. The company is now accepting only credit or debit card payments for the devices so they can track who purchases the phone, according to an employee at the Apple Store in New York's SoHo neighbourhood.

  • 29 October 2007

  • News: 3G Skypephone offers free calls in the UK

    UK mobile phone operator Hutchison 3G UK has rolled out the Skypephone, a handset designed to simplify use of the Skype VoIP (voice over IP) application.

  • News: T-Mobile gets customised Windows Mobile skin

    Microsoft has built a custom Windows Mobile user interface for a new phone that T-Mobile USA expects to announce today, evidence that Microsoft may be getting more serious about pursuing the consumer mobile market.

  • 27 October 2007

  • News: The 13 most-exciting mobile technologies

    Most of us take it for granted that we can check email with our mobile phones. But not long ago, this was a truly disruptive technology that changed how we did business and stayed in touch when we were away from home and the office.

  • 26 October 2007

  • News: Each Apple iPhone costs AT&T $18 per month

    Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster believes Apple is taking $18 per month for each iPhone subscriber under its deal with AT&T.

  • 24 October 2007

  • News: Flash launches mobile web-browsing technology

    Flash Networks yesterday announced Open Mobile Browsing. Flash claims that OMB provides mobile internet browsing that resembles the fixed-line desktop web experience.

  • News: Windows Live gets mobile features

    Microsoft yesterday expanded the capabilities of its Windows Live ID service. The company made it possible for users to sign up for an ID from a mobile device. Microsoft also added support for single sign-on for its Windows Live services.

  • News: RIM unveils first BlackBerry for China

    After months of delays getting approval to bring BlackBerry devices to China, Chinese people will soon be able to get their hands on RIM's push email mobile-phone handset.

  • News: Microsoft to open up Mobile Device Manager

    Microsoft's new Mobile Device Manager faces a shortcoming because it is exclusive to Windows Mobile devices, but that might change, an executive said yesterday.

  • News: Judge sides with Qualcomm in Nokia patent spat

    Qualcomm scored a minor victory in its continuing spat with Nokia when a judge last week recommended ending the investigation Nokia brought against it in August for infringing patents.

  • 23 October 2007

  • News: Breakthrough could boost iPod & iPhone capacities

    Samsung Electronics has developed a chip-manufacturing technique able to significantly increase the amount of music, pictures, videos and other data people can store in future iPods, iPhones and other devices.

  • News: Sharp builds world's thinnest mobile phone LCD

    Both Sharp and AU Optronics said today that they had developed prototype displays that are less than a millimetre thick.

  • News: Interview: BT predicts future of computing

    Artificial intelligence, intelligent viruses and Second Life 10.0 are all real possibilities, according to BT futurologist Ian Pearson. In this interview, he explains why we won't understand intelligent machines when they finally arise, and warns of the big ethical dilemmas we'll face

  • 22 October 2007

  • News: Group slates iPhone 'green' witch-hunt

    Greenpeace's claims that Apple's iPhone contains a range of potentially dangerous chemicals have been slammed by chemical industry group The Bromine Science and Environmental Forum (BSEF).

  • News: Smartphone supercomputers on the way

    Engineers at the University of Edinburgh claim to have made a breakthrough which could lead to the development of mobile phones that are as powerful as laptops.

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