Irish start-up Cubic Telecom has launched what it claims to be the first “truly global” mobile phone at TechCrunch 40 trade show in San Francisco. The new phone relies on GSM radio paired with the MAXroam SIM card, the “world’s first universal SIM card,” which offers favorable country-to-country phone rates anywhere in the world. The…
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India now has more than 200 million mobile phone users
See, it’s not just China who’s growing like crazy in terms of number of mobile phone users. As a matter of fact they may be the world’s fastest growing economy, but it’s India which at the moment gets more mobile phone users every month. After adding another eight million subscribers last month, Indian mobile phone…
Chinese iPod style phone; We actually thought this is how the iPhone is going to look like
If you find the device on the image above familiar, just remember all those “iPhone is coming” articles prior to the official launch. When no one knew how Apple’s handset is going to look like, some of us — including the people from the Business 2.0 magazine — thought it will look like this. The…
HTC Kii – new HTC smartphone gets outed by Bluetooth SIG
Could HTC have another smartphone waiting in the wings? Well, if the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is on the money (and we have no reason to really think otherwise), then HTC’s newest codename seems to be “Kii.” We love the codenames coming out of the Taiwanese manufacturer’s labs – just where do they get…
Native iPhone chat application goes version 1.0 – Apollo IM is finally final
Everyone’s favorite little natively installed IM chat application for the iPhone is finally, well, final. We’ve been watching Apollo IM since the early days of third-party, natively installable iPhone applications, and we’re glad to see that it’s finally grown up. Apollo IM has gone to version 1.0 and is now available through Installer.app (we just…
LG KU990 Viewty YouTube phone gets DIVX certification
With a spec-sheet that would make a techno-geek weak in the knees with excitement, the LG KU990 “Viewty” YouTube phone brings LG’s A-game to the smartphone market. If you’ve had a chance to check out that preview vid that Stefan posted a little while back, then you know just how badass this thing is going…
MySpace announces free, ad-supported mobile phone
The uber-popular (at least as far as a spam-infested, pseudo-wannabe-celebrity-populated social network can be…Facebook anyone?) social network has just announced a new mobile version for MySpace-branded mobile phone for MySpace junkies. It looks like MySpace will be joining the likes of Google in bringing an ad-supported mobile phone to market. Adding to the premium subscription…
AT&T Smart Limits taken down – parental controls put kids in danger
When is a parental control system for mobile phones actually more harmful than helpful? Well, when a system blocks call-backs from 911, we’d say it does a lot more harm than good. It turns out that the recently launched AT&T Smart Limits service did more than give parents extra control over their kids’ wireless usage,…
Sony Ericsson K630i for Vodafone shows up on FCC
Sony Ericsson has been on a tear with handfuls of handsets recently passing through the FCC’s testing labs. The newest Sony Ericsson handset to get outed by the FCC is the SE K630i candybar, seen here in Vodafone guise. We’re not quite sure what to make of this one, but we know that it’ll be…
Disney Mobile may be looking to quit the MVNO-game, surprise surprise
The MVNO business is tough, there’s no doubt about that. These days, it seems that most MVNO startups out there are either folding up or barely staying afloat, and it seems Disney’s own wireless venture, Disney Mobile, is in that same boat. According to Silicon Alley Insider, Disney CFO Thomas Staggs hinted, at a recent…