More Smartphones News

17 March 2009
News: Mobile internet users more than double

Mobile internet use has more than doubled in a year - and that's not including any social networking traffic.
News: Truphone offers cheap BlackBerry calls

VoIP service Truphone has unveiled an app for BlackBerry handsets that will allow mobile phone users to make international calls at reduced rates.
News: Google Android installed on three new HTC phones

High Tech Computer (HTC) will ship "at least" three smartphones this year that use Google's Android software, HTC's CEO said today.
16 March 2009
Video: Nokia expands the Comes With Music range

The world's biggest cell phone maker is looking to launch its music subscription service in more countries in the coming months and this week unveiled its first music-centric phone with a QWERTY keyboard.
News: 800,000 alternative energy-powered base stations in 2009

Over 800,000 base stations will utilize alternative energy solutions such as wind or solar energy, and nearly 70 million mobile devices will be ethically disposed of or will be recycled in 2009.
News: Mobile phone trial on London Underground scrapped

Plans to trial mobile phone use on London's tube network have not been implemented due to high costs, it has been revealed.
14 March 2009
News: How iPhone apps could change the world

Since Apple's iTunes App Store opened its doors in July 2008, the world has been treated to more than 20,000 apps for the iPhone 3G and the iPod Touch. As of February this year, 500 million apps had been downloaded from the store.
13 March 2009
News: iSendMMS brings MMS to Apple iPhone at last

Swedish company Mobispine has launched iSendMMS, an application that lets iPhone users send MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) messages.
News: Apple iPhone 3.0 coming next week

Apple plans to preview version 3.0 of its iPhone software next week, prompting speculation that a third-generation iPhone may be with us this summer
12 March 2009
News: O2 to get exclusive Palm Pre deal in UK?

Web reports surfaced earlier today claiming the Spanish operator Telefonica had secured a distribution deal that extended to its O2 subsidiary in the UK. Palm Europe says it has "no announcements to make"
News: Vodafone to offer DRM-free music

Vodafone has signed a deal with the three of the UK's biggest record labels in a bid to offer customer Digital Rights Management-free (DRM) music on their mobiles.
News: Google Voice offers cheap VoIP calls

Google has launched a VoIP service for mobile phone users that looks set to rival apps from Skype and Truphone.
News: Microsoft offers app developers 70% of sales

Microsoft has revealed it will hand over 70 percent of any sales of software sold in its app store to the developer.
News: Mobile phone market decreases for first time

The worldwide mobile phone market will decrease by about 8 percent this year, although smartphones will remain a growth area, according to a new forecast from IDC.
News: MIT mobile phone batteries charge in seconds

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scientists have developed a way to charge lithium ion batteries in seconds, instead of hours, opening the door to smaller, faster-charging batteries for mobile phones and other devices.
11 March 2009
News: T-Mobile G1 users get paid-for Google apps

T-Mobile G1 handset owners will be able to download paid for apps for their phones from tomorrow.
News: Nokia unveils new Comes with Music handsets

Nokia has unveiled three new handsets that are compatible with its Comes with Music service.
News: Apple blocks Twitter app from iTunes store

Apple has rejected a Twitter app from being made available in its iTunes app store because it contained obscenities.
News: Google blocks free iPhone text messages

Google will block an Apple iPhone application that harnesses its Google Talk chat program to provide a free text-message service after too many users flocked to download it.
10 March 2009
News: iPod menus to speed mobile phone web browsing

sNorwegian company bMenu has launched a mobile portal called bMenu.mobi, which uses its own technology to pare down the navigation of websites to just an iPod-like hierarchical menu. The goal is to speed up downloads and reduce data downloads, according to the company.