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VoiceSignal is embedded in the BlackBerry Pearl sold by Cingular as well as by T-Mobile. VoiceSignal boasts of "no-training," eyes-free, hands-free dialing. Users will be able to dial a contact through voice command. This application will include some nifty features that make sure voice-command...

Reviewers are either ambivalent or lukewarm about the new stylins of the Sony-Ericsson Z530i. I have known a few girls in my life and I will say with equivocation that the pink-camouflage theme is way too cool to be put into words. SE had the help of Boost Mobile. The Z530i with VGA camera, MP3 and...

T-Mobile has over two months head start but Cingular will get the Christmas crowd with the imminent launching of their BlackBerry Pearl. This Blackberry (formerly going by the codename 8100) is sleeker than what you're used to in RIM gadgets. Cingular's price will match T-Mobile's at $199 with a...

The Nokia 6086 will have the near-divine capabilities of switching from GSM networks to nearby wireless local area networks (WLANs) seamlessly. Yes, it's both a quad-band GSM and a WiFi phone. With this handset, you'll always have a signal wherever you happen to be in the world. From the photos,...

Phonemag has some very interesting information about how much people who can afford to lose their data the least take their cell phones and PDAs for granted. I nearly dropped my Nokia a week ago from my flat's balcony during a longish voice call. The top danger spot for electronic data devices,...

Mobile porn has made $1.4 billion this year and the forecast - yearly revs will more than double in five years - is sunny. Juniper Research predicts that by 2011 mobile adult content will reach a yearly sales of $3.3 billion. The highest growth will be seen in Europe with a 39% share and Asia at...

Microcell Telecommunications, Inc (later renamed by Rogers to Fido Solutions) was the first GSM provider in Canada and the first in North America to provide GPRS. In 2004, Rogers Wireless bought the company for $1.4 billion. It took a lot shorter than ten years for Fido to reach the one...

If you were a marketing team for a hot new mobile phone model and you're thinking of a pretty face for your campaign, you'd either go out of your way selecting a concept-based spokesperson like Ai Sugiyama or you can go for the obvious and pick one of the hottest supermodels on Earth, a certain Bar...

We knew three weeks ago that it's a done deal, and here it is indeed. Starting December, Verizon V Cast clients can enjoy YouTube videos on their mobile, albeit in a more censored form than what YouTube visitors are used to. The exact launch date is not known and Verizon keeps mum about it, but...

People who want to switch to a different color RAZR V3m might just be tempted to change carriers to Alltell. In the U.S., Motorola sells more cell phones than any other manufacturer and the RAZR V3 and it's couple other incarnations, including the V3m, is just the phone for carriers to get more...

The basic Nokia 8800 Sirocco - the one without the gold - will set you back at least $1k. The 8800 Sirocco Diamond Edition - the one in gold casing - is selling for $3450 in some places. The phone has a TFT-LCD screen, a 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth and music player and is most likely meant for...

Just how good is the camera in your phone? If you think that a 3.2 megapixel camera in your handset is not enough to make you a professional photographer, then you will do well to check out Newsflash, an exhibit at The London's Air Gallery featuring images taken with a camera phone. Included in the...

Samsung handset buyersowners in Europe will get "Eragon" trailers, wallpapers and screensavers. For fantasy fans and Samsung handset owners, this is an advanced Christmas present, pure marketing if dragons are not your cup of tea. Owners of any Samsung phone model can receive the downloads by going...

Popular Science magazine has chosen the Nokia N95, one of the newest device in Nokia's N series, worthy to receive this year's "Best of What's New" award. For some critics, the N95, which costs $700 USD off the shelf, is much too powerful to fit into the usual definition of cell phone: "It's not a...

Flickr, the popular photo sharing site has released info on the most popular cameras used by Flickr clients. Nokia tops the list of camera phone manufacturers while ranking 9th overall. The list is still dominated by cameras that don't talk back like Canon and Nikon, which took #1 and #2 spots...

Apple stocks went up 2% yesterday starting from a 1% jump on Wednesday due to rumors, more like a substantial hearsay, that the iPhone is on the way and will soon hit the market in 2007. Two iPhone models are going to distributed, according to the official grapevine. Suppliers in Taiwan are going to...

Still thinking about the iPhone? Scott Ard discusses the Apple product everyone's holding their breath for on CNET. Ard thinks that the iPhone, if it will come out at all, will have instantaneous no holds-barred connectivity with one's Apple computer. "I would like to see an iPhone that connects to...

"Computer programs in the form of firmware that enable wireless telephone handsets to connect to a wireless telephone communication network, when circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of lawfully connecting to a wireless telephone communication network." Thus spoke Librarian of...

Announced over a month ago, the Treo 680 will now be available at Cingular. The low-cost smartphone does not have Wi-Fi or Skype telephony, but users will be able to access Cingular's high-speed EDGE network though the device. It's a basic smartphone and looks as cutting edge as a butter knife. Palm...

Sprint will be coming out with the Samsung M610, a super slim clamshell phone to add to its "Ultra" series. Someone has actually gotten close enough to measure it and got 0.47 inches for the width, and too bad they didn't get a metric tape measure. Packed in this supermodel size is a 2 megapixel...