Apr 30 2003 - 05:54 PM ET | Miscellaneous
Following up our story on Tuesday, we have found an airline that is going to allow passengers to use non-voice functions of their mobile phones while flying. Don't celebrate too much though--it's Scandinavian Airlines. Now, we're sure than Scandinavian Airlines...
Apr 30 2003 - 05:43 PM ET | In The News
Gizmodo notes that Dell and Good Technology are partnering to make a wireless device. Besides the new device that will be available next year, Dell is going to start selling the G100 email pager. The G100 looks and acts pretty...
Apr 29 2003 - 10:40 PM ET | Smartphone
Symbian has released the 7th version of their popular mobile operating system. The new release add multi-tasking (surf the net AND download a file at the same time), an updated Java implementation, boosted multimedia capabilities and Arabic/Hebrew language support. It's...
Apr 29 2003 - 08:11 PM ET | Sony Ericsson
Sprint has inked a deal with Sony Ericsson for exclusive distribution of the industry's first CDMA Bluetooth integrated phone. It's dubbed the Sony Ericsson T608 and is expected to ship in the second quarter of '03. As for the phone...
Apr 29 2003 - 06:21 PM ET | Unique
UK readers will be happy to note that The Register is reporting you'll soon be able to hail a cab in London via your mobile phone. The service will be available to customers of Vodafone, T-Mobile and O2 but there...
Apr 29 2003 - 06:18 PM ET | In The News
A study was released today that found US mobile phone subscribers spend more time gabbing on their mobile than on their land line. The Yankee Group said the average cellular subscriber knocked back 490 minutes which just betters landline averages...
Apr 29 2003 - 09:26 AM ET | Miscellaneous
Gizmodo linked to an article by Guy Kewney that asks if cell phone are really as dangerous on airliners as the airlines say. An interesting read, let's hope an aerospace nerd reads and can fill him in. "Can a mobile...
Word on the street is that Samsung and Nokia are joining forces to make 3G and 4G phones. Not much is even known about 4G, but two mega co's teaming up is never a bad thing (well, except Sony and...
Apr 28 2003 - 06:28 PM ET | SMS
McDonalds has dropped its use of SMS for marketing. It had an opt-in text club which must not have been either large or successful....
Apr 28 2003 - 10:39 AM ET | Kyocera
Kyocera today announced plans to become the first manufacturer to offer entry-tier, affordable BREW-enabled CDMA phones with enhanced color displays that use software to emulate 16-bit, 65,000-color performance. The new BREW-enabled versions of the phone are collectively known as Kyocera's...
Apr 26 2003 - 01:19 AM ET | 3G, Camera, Kyocera
Gizmodo points to a new phone from Kyocera that's got a unique swivel design. The Kyocera A5305K3G (try saying that 5 times fast) is a 3G phone and packs all the features you'd expect out of one (video for...
Apr 25 2003 - 02:19 AM ET | Sony Ericsson
One of the most popular pages we have is our collection of Sony Ericsson news--they are a hot company with savvy users (incidentally savvy users make up the bulk of our readers). Too bad they can't swing a profit though....
Apr 25 2003 - 02:11 AM ET | In The News
AOL Time Warner has struck up a deal with Symbian, makers of the popular mobile OS with the same name. In the past this would be a great thing, but lately AOL has been the kiss of death (biggest quarterly...
Apr 24 2003 - 05:15 PM ET | Site News
Today we're officially launching the latest section to MobileTracker--phones.mobiletracker.net. All the information we get on phones that we feature will be kept with care over at MobileTracker Phones. Every entry includes a large picture of the phone, our un-biased take,...
Sprint is now selling the new Sanyo 8100 camera phone for a mere $99 after a $100 rebate. The rebate makes the phone the cheapest integrated camera phone on the market--Sony Ericsson's T300's camera is an external attachment. Sprint has...
Apr 23 2003 - 11:31 PM ET | Miscellaneous
Silicon.com has posted a roundup of true stories about how mobile phones saved the day. Some are quite humorous: "I was researching my family tree by browsing through the burial records which are held at the local crematorium. I was...
Apr 23 2003 - 08:46 AM ET | In The News, SMS
It looks like people in the US have finally figured out how to text message via their mobile phones. American Idol, a popular show seen on Fox, has allowed its viewers to cast votes by sending text messages. To date...
Apr 22 2003 - 07:27 PM ET | Nokia
Nokia, the worlds largest mobile phone maker, has purchased Eizel--a small mobile software company. The swallow up cost $21 million US and should bring Nokia customers better email....
