October 13, 2003 articles

Vodafone, Microsoft pair up

Oct 13 2003 - 02:51 PM ET | Smartphone, Vodafone
Showing once again that Microsoft is serious about becoming a major player in mobile, they today announced a partnership with Vodafone that aims to promote programming standards for software that could work easily on both mobile phones and personal computers....

Lucent, AT&T Wireless test 3G in Miami

Oct 13 2003 - 02:44 PM ET | 3G, AT&T Wireless, DoCoMo
Lucent and AT&T Wireless have announced they are testing a next-generation W-CDMA (commonly known as 3G) wireless network in Miami, Florida. You may remember that back in August we mentioned AT&T Wireless had bought 3G gear. Japanese wireless mega-carrier NTT...

4 Siemens fashion phones announced

Oct 13 2003 - 10:42 AM ET | Siemens, Unique
Four new Siemens phones under the Xelibri brand have been announced. All of the models attempt to be at the cutting edge of style. It's not just style though, all of the phones include color displays, voice-dialing, polyphonic ringtones, and...

Review: Z600 is near perfect

Oct 13 2003 - 12:28 AM ET | Camera, Review, Sony Ericsson
Michael Oryl at MobileBurn got ahold of a made-for-Malaysia Sony Ericsson Z600 and posted a review. To say he liked it is a huge understatement: bq. "All I can say is that the Z600 is a damn fine handset. I...