Articles on Mobile Phones

Iran election protests harness power of Twitter, New Media - Jun 16, 2009

Blogs UPDATE: Twitter has announced that its network maintenance has been rescheduled as its "network partners at NTT America recognize the role Twitter is currently playing as an important communication tool in ... Read story »

"Traditional" media putting the nails on their own coffins? - Jul 18, 2009

Blogs I read an interesting article in today's The Guardian which quotes the Financial Time's editor Lionel Barber predicting that most news organizations will be charging for online content within a year. Is it ... Read story »

Cyclist's speaker does music and mobile - Sep 16, 2008

Crave I'm not sure how well this works, but it sounds like a great idea. A new company called CyFi is selling a clip-on, wireless speaker for bikes that is about the ... Read story »

Visa's charge card concept goes wireless - Sep 26, 2008

Crave Visa is adding a wireless twist to the old phrase "Charge It." The credit card processing giant announced Thursday several initiatives to allow its credit card toting customers the ability to ... Read story »

Blood-type phone charm could score you a date - Sep 26, 2008

Crave A bloody odd cell phone accessory--a strap that displays your blood type for all to see--is apparently quite popular in Japan. But lest you think it was invented to aid victims ... Read story »

Motorola preps its own Android phone - Oct 21, 2008

Crave Motorola, which has been struggling to find a home run hitter to replace its RAZR, appears to be gearing up to debut a social-networking smart phone that uses Google's mobile operating ... Read story »

3G arrives in China--now where's my iPhone? - Jan 8, 2009

Blogs The wait is over. Nary 24 hours ago, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT, as in "got their MIITs in everything", for short) issued China's first 3G licenses. China's ... Read story »

Major phone-makers to adopt micro-USB phone chargers in Europe - Jun 30, 2009

Crave Side by side view of a micro-USB connector and a regular USB connector. Apple and other big phone makers have struck a deal with the European Commission to start selling ... Read story »

IEA: Little gadgets consume gigawatts of power - May 14, 2009

Crave Without more efficient consumer electronics, the world will need to build hundreds of gigawatts worth of new power plants to run the exploding number of electronic gadgets, according to the International ... Read story »

T-Mobile G2, T-Mobile G1 v2 details surface - May 12, 2009

Crave While the Android 1.5 Cupcake update is on its way to T-Mobile G1 owners, the bigger question on some people's minds is when we're going to see a new Android device ... Read story »

Can't be Spiderman? Act like one instead - Aug 16, 2007

Crave Here's one for Spidey emulators who can't seem to get enough of the arachnid hero. The invention involves a phone mounted on a sliding tray clipped to the wrist. And when ... Read story »

Nokia hearts Microsoft, and vice versa - Aug 23, 2007

Crave We can almost picture Symbian S60 users doing the ^5 with their Windows Live counterparts (or is it the other way round?) and Rick Astley crooning Together Forever in the background. ... Read story »

Sony Ericsson's new designer phone - Aug 24, 2007

Crave It looks like the designer bug has finally caught up with Sony Ericsson. Its recently launched T650i takes a leaf out of the books of previous premium offerings such as the ... Read story »

Readers share their iPhone unlocking experiences - Sep 21, 2007

Crave What's the one thing that US and Europe have which Asia doesn't? No prizes for guessing, duh. And you think we're going to let it go just like that. Since our ... Read story »

More shades for LG Shine - Sep 25, 2007

Crave It has always been at the back of our minds, but we never thought it would really happen. Vendors actually listen to customer surveys and focus group discussions. Akihabara News is ... Read story »

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