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What's Not Hot in Japan? Try iPhone

It may come as surprise to all of us here, but iPhone sales are not cutting it in Japan. Apple's partnership with Japan's third-largest mobile operator, Softbank Corp., to sell the iPhone 3G certainly created a buzz. Like elsewhere,...

Posted on September 15, 2008 5:30 PM

Only Apple and RIM Can Make Good Smart Phones?

The U.S. market for smart phones continues to be a tough nut to crack for the established handset makers. Top-tier players such as Nokia, Motorola and Samsung control 80% of the market for cell phones but have struggled in...

Posted on September 3, 2008 10:01 PM

fring touchtone DTMF support - uh hello?

I've been playing around with fring for awhile now. I like fring which I like to call "the Swiss army knife of mobile VoIP and IM", since it works with Skype, SIP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ,...

Posted on August 25, 2008 4:53 PM

Moto Looks To Get Its Mojo Back

Motorola, the world's third-largest handset maker, has just unveiled two new low-end phones on that allow users to listen to songs and surf the Web. Facing stiff competition from handsets such as Apple's iPhone and the Nokia line, Motorola...

Posted on August 21, 2008 10:04 PM

Nokia N78 Comes to U.S.

Gadgety mobile phone lovers across the United States can now buy the newest Nokia Nseries device -  the Nokia N78, which hits American store shelves today. Featuring integrated A-GPS, a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and high-speed HSDPA...

Posted on June 24, 2008 11:41 AM

Krusell's Top 10 Mobile Phones for May

And now, for all you stat junkies, Krusell's Top 10 selling mobile phones for May 2008 (and the iPhone is not #1): 1. Nokia 3109/3110 2. Nokia 6300 3. Nokia E51 4. Sony Ericsson K810i 5. HTC Diamond 6....

Posted on June 11, 2008 11:36 PM

O-FONE Supports SIP on Symbian S60 mobile phone

Rich received an email from O-FONE claiming they are the "First s60 SIP Symbian client". I'm not so sure about being the "first" since Truphone has a SIP client for Symbian phones, so do Jajah & Fring -- and there...

Posted on May 7, 2008 9:58 AM

Skype and other VoIP Apps on Mobile Phones

It seems new software comes out daily that enables you to run a VoIP application, such as Skype, on your mobile phone natively, through a bridged gateway, or using the Skype API. While Skype is certainly the most popular VoIP...

Posted on April 1, 2008 1:09 PM

Talkonaut 4.0 native Symbian S60 edition released

The GTalk2VoIP dev team just released their VoIP+chat application for Symbian S60 phones that runs as a native (.sis file) application. I should stress that several Nokia smart phones come with a SIP stack, however they are limited to WiFi...

Posted on February 28, 2008 1:05 PM

JoikuSpot Turns Nokia phone into WiFi hotspot

How would you like to turn your Nokia smartphone into a WiFi hotspot for free? Well, JoikuSpot offers a free application that you can load on your Nokia phone to do just that. When installed on the Nokia phone,  laptops,...

Posted on February 6, 2008 2:07 PM

Nokia N810 Internet Tablet - woohoo!

The multi-faceted Nokia N810 internet tablet has finally arrived on store shelves. This highly anticipated Linux-based gadget has more gadgety features than you can shake a stick at - including a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, built-in GPS, digital audio/video playback, Bluetooth,...

Posted on November 21, 2007 10:22 AM

Skype on the Nokia N800

Just yesterday I mentioned free Wi-Fi on the 'Nokia' N800 and today I come across an article from jkOnTheRun about him seeing Skype running on the Nokia N800. Two nice pieces of news for this handheld computer device. He noticed...

Posted on June 28, 2007 3:11 PM

fring coming to Windows Mobile phones

Some big news from fring, a popular free mobile VoIP software. fring will soon announce support for Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0 devices. Currently, Fring only works on Nokia phones which use the Symbian operating system. What, no iPhone support?...

Posted on June 19, 2007 11:43 AM

Wibree joins Bluetooth

The ultra low-power Wibree wireless standard founded by Nokia will become part of the Bluetooth specification. Once the spec is integrated into Bluetooth, low-power PAN (Personal Area Network) devices such as watches, toys, consumer health care devices and sensors will...

Posted on June 12, 2007 9:50 AM

Nokia N95 unboxing

This is the unboxing of the Nokia N95 mobile phone, one of the hottest phones on the market... The N95 features a cool 2-way slide concept for switching between different viewing modes, integrated GPS functionality, a 5 megapixel camera and...

Posted on April 30, 2007 9:19 AM

Nokia Sells a Lot of Mobile Phones!

Hard to believe that Nokia sold 40 million "multimedia phones" last year and nearly 70 million music phones. The company said the total multimedia phone market was 90 million units in 2006, and is expected to grow to 250 million units in 2008 -- that's...

Posted on February 23, 2007 3:34 PM

GrandCentral supports Gizmo Project

GrandCentral, one of several companies offering "single phone number" find-me/follow-me routing, has added support for SipPhone's free Gizmo Project VoIP service. SipPhone’s popular VoIP service allows users to make and receive free phone calls worldwide over the Internet on personal...

Posted on February 21, 2007 7:45 AM

Well, We Lined Up for Vista ...

Funny (for me, not for Microsoft) to see this report about no one lining up to buy the new Windows Vista and 2007 Microsoft Office when it went on sale in SF. Well, if you attended the big soiree in NYC...

Posted on January 30, 2007 5:16 PM

Cell Phones Killed the Video Star

Got a cell phone, become a video star -- why not? Musician Rob Dickinson’s new video, “Oceans,” is the first music video created solely on a Nokia Nseries multimedia computer, the N93. (You can call it a cell phone, too.)...

Posted on November 16, 2006 9:15 AM

QuickOffice Does the Symbian Shuffle

For anyone going mobile, the less gadgets the better. (Rather than the more the merrier.) Why carry a separate cell phone and MP3 player when you can carry a single gadget that does both?For that matter, why carry a cell phone and...

Posted on November 3, 2006 3:57 PM

Top Selling Cell Phones: Updated

The ballots are in for the best selling cell phone (on a global basis), according to Krusell, the Swedish manufacturer of carrying cases for portable gadgets. The Krusell list is based upon the number of pieces of model-specific mobile and...

Posted on October 6, 2006 4:55 PM

Nokia's Been Busy in the Lab

A Bluetooth killer or an enhancer? Seems Nokia's announcement today about its Wibree technology may be either one. A unique radio technology extending local connectivity to small devices, Wibree is an open industry initiative developed by Nokia Research Center. It complements other local connectivity technologies, consuming...

Posted on October 3, 2006 5:50 PM

Nokia Goes By the Numbers No Longer

According to a published report today on Yahoo! via Reuters, Nokia is abandoning its long-standing practice of giving its cell phones numbers instead of names. Seems that it's influenced by Motorola with all of its snazzy phone names. Would a rose...

Posted on September 8, 2006 10:23 AM

(Green)Peace, Baby!

It's not easy being green, but gadget companies do have a sense of "eco-friendliness," according to Greenpeace, which has recently rated CE companies in its Green Electronics Guide. Apparently Nokia's decision to distance itself from PVC resulted in high marks in...

Posted on August 30, 2006 6:00 PM

Mobile Phones: Who Needs All of Those Features?

Here's the study I've been waiting for.  According to a recent PC World/IDB News Service report, feature-rich phones do not drive sales. (Really?) The study, by J.D. Power and Associates (they of the manmy car satisfaction surveys) showed that U.S. consumers are...

Posted on August 9, 2006 6:05 PM