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Samsung introduced the three megapixels, three times optical zoom camera phone SPH-2300 to the Korean market. The new device looks like a traditional compact digital camera at the front side and like a phone at the back side. This might be the...

The pictures of three of the future Sony Ericsson mobile phones were posted on several online forums yesterday. One of the phones is Sony Ericsson P910, codenamed Layla, the successor of the P900 with QWERTY keyboard on the backside of the flip. The...

The upcoming Siemens S65 generates a lot of interest. This business class phone has a lot to offer, but its release is delayed comparing to the rest of the 65 series - Siemens C65, CX65 and M65 are already out. It will be very interesting to see how...

The launch of the first integrated e-mail and SMS text messaging fully certified by Microsoft will help businesses save time and money on both their phone bills and also on the management of field based personnel. The new software package,...

The 2004 Asia Telecom Index reveals that amongst the current and future subscribers in Asia among the most-desired features are color screens (77%), integrated digital cameras (71%) and multi-media messaging (67%). Surprisingly, voice recorder has...

Alcatel and Sony Network Services Europe announced that PacketVideo Network Solutions, a subsidiary of Alcatel, has been selected to provide the server and media player technology for Sony's StreamMan, the world's first personal mobile music...

Nokia is marking a new direction in cell phone technologies, testing wireless mobile phone headsets powered by tiny fuel cells – a hydrogen-based energy source, which can increase the life of portable devices. The cells are recharged by squirting...

Next generation slider phone from Siemens mobile: the elegant SL65 with integrated video camera Today Siemens Information and Communication Mobile (Siemens mobile) launches a new flagship in the Siemens mobile portfolio: The Siemens SL65 is a new...

Nokia revealed the latest additions to its product portfolio at the annual Nokia Connection conference. Held simultaneously in Singapore and Helsinki, the conference also witnessed the launch of the world's smallest 3G GSM/WCDMA phone. Chairman...

To make entering text on mobile phone applications ranging from calendar entries and notes to e-mail and text messaging faster and easier, Nokia today introduced the portable, practical Nokia Wireless Keyboard. Bluetooth technology connects this...

A unique new service for mobile phones which allows users to create, download and send animated cartoons to mobile handsets, was launched by mixipix in Glasgow. The mixipix cartoon messaging service allows users to choose from a huge range of...

Unveiled today at Nokia Totally Board in Thessaloniki, Greece, the Nokia 3220 is highlighted by transparent Nokia Xpress-On grips, which pulsate with light effects to indicate calls, messages, and in sync with the beat of ringtones. Self-styled...

Siemens has dropped the sale of fashionable mobile phones under the Xelibri brand. The line has now been stopped after selling just 780,000 devices - less than 2% of Siemens' total handset sales - in 2003. The Xelibri phones had to be introduced in...

Tel. Me, an Austrian manufacturer of MP3 players and high-end smartphones, has brought this week a bankruptcy petition with the Viennese commercial court. An investor round could not be time-fairly entered, is called it in an explanation of the...

Vodafone Japan (Vodafone K.K.) recently announced a new range of handsets for Summer 2004, all of them exclusive to Japan only and more advanced than anything announced for the rest of the world. One of these phones is the Sharp V602SH, the...

Siemens has licensed the flagship application from Openwave Phone Suite Version 7, Openwave Mobile Browser Version 7. The browser represents an advance in mobile browsing technology, including significant developments in page rendering and...

A French company is planning to overthrow the dominance of Java as the primary language used to program games and content for mobile phones. Actimagine's technology, called MobiClip, can transform common programming platforms like Flash, and files...

TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited and Alcatel announced the signature of a memorandum of understanding ("MOU") to form a joint venture mobile handset company. The two groups have decided to join together their strengths in the mobile...

Samsung SDI has announced development of a next-generation flat panel display, which can be used as the internal screen of a dual-display cell phone for the first time in the world. The organic light-emitting device (OLED) has been manufactures...

Colly Myers, a former PSion director who helped found Symbian in 1998, has launched a new service for mobile users through his UK start up company, IssueBits. Customers on Orange and Vodafone mobile networks will be able to have any questions...