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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...

According to a research by Canalys, the mobile device market in Europe, the Middle East and Africa continued to show good growth of 62% in the first quarter of 2004. Nokia remained overall market leader, but its share fell slightly sequentially....

After the several leaks of unofficial pictures of the so called N-Gage 2, Nokia today announced the new version of the N-Gage game deck and the real name of the device is N-Gage QD. It is quite surprising that the new version is no longer tri-band...

Intel announced a new family of processors based on Intel XScale® technology that can handle multiple forms of wireless broadband access with enough computing power to provide cell phones with full motion video conferencing capabilities and PDAs...

Nokia has introduced an exclusive, limited edition of the sophisticated Nokia 7200 mobile phone. With tailored, pure white leather covers, the Nokia 7200 Limited Edition offers state-of-the-art technology - including an integrated camera, colour...

Picsel Technologies Ltd. announced Picsel Browser running on the Brew Plattform, the smartphone operating system from Qualcomm. It supports BREW V2.1 and beyond and allows users to display Flash, video, Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat files. This...

CTIA Wireless is the largest, most comprehensive telecom trade show in the US. The CTIA event draws attendees from a dozen of different industries, serving the different aspects of wireless - providers, users, developers, buyers and manufacturers....

At Mobile Developer Conference (DevCon) 2004, Microsoft announced the new Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition - an extended version of Windows Mobile 2003 software platform. The Windows Mobile platform adds support for dynamic screen switching...

A few days after SanDisk presented its Reduced-Size MultiMediaCard (RS-MMC) at CeBIT, a further announcement ensued. The company's TransFlash storage device, which was introduced in February 2004, will be integrated in Motorola's new V710 and A840...

At CTIA Wireless 2004 Conference Digit Wireless, LG Electronics and TELUS Mobility announced an agreement to produce the world's first Fastap™ enabled mobile phone. Digit Wireless's Fastap keypad allows mobile phone users to quickly and intuitively...

Motorola introduced the new model A840, one of the first mobile handsets to combine CDMA and GSM technology for reliable global roaming and a single-number experience for seamless mobility. The Motorola A840 mobile device supports 800/1900 CDMA,...

Sagem myS-7 is the company's first smartphone running Windows Mobile 2003 software. It includes the familiar Pocket Outlook® software, which gives access to e-mail, contacts, calendar and tasks as well as other Windows applications like Internet...

The new Panasonic X300 is the first mobile phone featuring a unique one-push button pop-up screen. Such kind of screens is mainly used on camcorders and come to make filming easier by holding the mobile phone sideways, rather then straight on. The...