Alcatel’s new music phone for the masses comes to us as the Alcatel OC701. We got some live pics of this puppy and we gotta say that, for an entry-level device, this thing looks pretty cool. The “rubbery” look is pretty attractive and the phone even comes with a remote control for playing all that…
Low-light filter for cameraphones promises crisp pictures in the dark!
Eastman Kodak Co. promises to take those barely decent cameraphones to the next level. With their new low-light filter technology – essentially a color-filter – Kodak says that they can double sensitivity to light by any digital camera’s image sensor. This is especially important to cameraphones – which have always suffered in low lighting conditions,…
Men chat more on mobile phones than women
You read it right. Apparently, men are yakking it up a bit more, on average, than women – at least on mobile phones. The survey, conducted by International Communications Research for AT&T, was completed in May 2007 and comprised of 1,006 respondents (half male, half female). Men averaged 458 wireless minutes per month, while women…
88% of Serbians use mobile phones – Serbia mobile phone usage on the up and up!
Serbia has really been burning rubber when it comes to market penetration for mobile phone usage! In the past year, 1.8 million Serbians has started using mobile phones – amounting to a 22% increase over the previous year. As of May 2007, Serbia has reached mobile market penetration of 88% – quite an impressive number…
Peter Adderton steps down as Amp’d CEO
MocoNews is reporting that the CEO of the now-defunct MVNO is no longer going to have a CEO placard sitting on his desk. As you probably remember, Amp’d recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection – their teen subscriber-base just wasn’t paying up on their bills (who woulda thought teens weren’t going to be responsible?).…
Opera Mini Dimension is closer than ever!
Remember when we told you that the new version of Opera’s mobile browser – Opera Mini Dimension – would be opening its beta program up to the public? Well, that’s still on the way (read: not open yet, but you can sign up for notification when it opens), but for now we’ll all have to…
Okwap C150 – dual SIM support, not much else
Okwap has released their C150 non-sliding slider phone for Asian consumption. Upon cursory inspection, you would think that the buttonless face slides up to reveal a keypad, but you’d be wrong on both accounts. The face neither slides, nor is there any keypad. Instead, the Okwap C150 illuminates a touch-sensitive directional pad (lighting up in…
UTStarcom DV007 swivel camcorder phone does Linux
UTStarcom has rolled out their new DV007 camcorder phone. The clamshell twists for recording pictures and video – like Nokia’s N93. The UTStarcom DV007 is powered by an Intel processor running a Linux OS. That’s right folks, this little sucker runs Linux – so all you Linux modders can get crazy with this thing! Aside…
Sprint announces Samsung UpStage in red
In the age-old tradition of changing up a handset’s color to keep things fresh – Sprint has announced their Samsung UpStage in a new Red color scheme. As expected, we’re looking for this Red Samsung UpStage around June 18th. As these things go, the only thing to change from the previously-black version of the UpStage…
Huge HTC Touch gallery – tons of pics
We like us some HTC Touch goodness just as much as the next guy, that’s why we love all these HTC Touch pics! The Apple iPhone competitor is really kicking up its marketing game, weeks before Apple’s iPhone launch on June 29. With its new TouchFLO interface, the Touch is really going give the iPhone…