Jul 31 2003 - 11:33 PM ET | Cingular, Rumor
Cingular is going shopping--according to unnamed sources the company is working on a deal with Nextwave. As with most rumors, neither company has confirmed the reports. If Cingular should prevail in its rumored deal to purchase 34 licenses from bankrupt...
Sprint PCS launched a gadget that it says will convert cell phones into wireless gaming consoles. The Game Pad game controller works with Samsung A600 handsets. The phone slides into the Game Pad, allowing people to play using its key-press...
Jul 31 2003 - 09:54 PM ET | Sony Ericsson
MacMinute noted that Makayama Software has released a Mac OS X version of Moviemaker for P800, new software that allows you to create movies for playback on the Sony Ericsson P800 mobile phone. "The software dramatically reduces file sizes, so...
Cell phone tycoon Howard Chui has posted his review of the Nokia 3300. The phone is being marketed towards music lovers with features such as MP3 and AAC music playback and a FM stereo radio. It's got other goodies too:...
Jul 30 2003 - 03:05 PM ET | Sprint Nextel
You can now acccess AOL's email and Instant Messenger services via a Sprint PCS Vision enabled phone. AOL and Sprint PCS have a longstanding agreement to work together and this is simply the latest partnership....
Jul 30 2003 - 02:56 PM ET | Siemens
In an attempt to cut costs further, mobile phone maker Siemens is cutting 2,300 jobs in its handset division. This brings the total number of jobs Siemens has cut in its mobile phone division in the last two years to...
Jul 30 2003 - 11:42 AM ET | DoCoMo, Unique
Cell phones containing platinum are likely to hit the market next year after an announcement by DoCoMo that it will start shipping 3G phones that use fuel cells instead of batteries. Fuel cells require platinum as a major component to...
Jul 29 2003 - 01:29 AM ET | In The News
The woman behind most of the voice-mail systems has died according to the NY Post. Jane Barbe could only be named by a few, but was heard by 40 million people a day for over 10 years....
Jul 28 2003 - 04:32 PM ET | Sony Ericsson
Despite a ton of chatter, the T608 is still not on the market. MobileTracker took a lot of heat from Sony Ericsson fans for declaring the phone KIA, even though the company stated it axed the North American CDMA unit...
Jul 28 2003 - 04:22 PM ET | Unique
A few weeks ago we mentioned a story on an interesting new sport--mobile phone throwing. Well, it's gone global. The original story was out of the Ukraine, but the world championships are in Finland on August 23rd. Nokia's HQ is...
Asus has a new clamshell smartphone in the works. The AGP-600 will run the latest version Microsoft's mobile OS, which is something few big names have done so far. As far as phones go, it looks decent: is a GSM,...
Jul 27 2003 - 08:26 PM ET | SMS
Times have changed--if you're a Malaysian Muslim man, you can now divorce your wife via a text message! You may remember that in 2001 a story came out stating that divorce by SMS was wrong. bq. "Hamid Othman, adviser to...
Jul 26 2003 - 05:16 PM ET | Site News
We're looking for a few qualified people to be moderators over at the boards. Although it's not a paying position right now, you'll get a decent amount of authority and the inside scoop on MobileTracker projects. Any interested parties should...
Verizon Wireless fixed a bug in its text messaging website that let anyone retrieve lists of customers' cell-phone numbers and private text messages. It's been a problem for about 3 months (way to go Verizon), but the fix still is...
Jul 25 2003 - 07:21 PM ET | Bargain, Samsung
Samsung USA has a new promotion for its s307 phone--a free DVD player. You have to sign up through Cingular, and do so before August 10th. The DVD player is pretty decent... Even progressive scan. It lists for $89.99 on...
MobileBurn has gotten ahold of some photos of upcoming Sony Ericsson phones. The Z600 is a clamshell with features similar to the T610. The T810/900 is the model after the P800, and has had some chatter on both sides about...
Jul 25 2003 - 01:19 PM ET | Sony Ericsson
Gizmodo has a long piece on a topic brought up by Ziff Davis--the death of Sony Ericsson. Don't worry, they are guessing that Sony will just buy out Ericsson's share in the partnership. As you may have remembered, Sony Ericsson...
