A while ago, we brought you the M500 wristwatch phone from Tech of Australia. As expected, from the FCC filing, the watch phone rocks a tri quad-band (850/900/1800/1900 Mhz) GSM radio, Bluetooth, MP3 and MP4 player (for audio as well as video playback), and a surprising 3 hour 20 minute talktime with 80 hours of…
Get FREE MMS Messaging on your T-mobile BlackBerry!!
If you use a BlackBerry on T-mobile’s network, you’re in luck! Now you can get free MMS messaging on the incoming and outgoing sides. The “BlackBerry Feature Enabler” service from T-mobile gives BlackBerry users the ability to send and recieve free MMS messages with a simple call to your T-mobile customer service representative (CSR) and…
Sony’s New Flexible OLED Screen
OLED’s are the future. They offer color saturation, long life, and now flexible screens! That’s right, Sony has debuted the world’s first flexible OLED screen. The new Organic Light Emitting Diode is made with plastic, as opposed to glass, which allows it to bend and twist like an Olympic gymnast. Sony hasn’t specified what applications…
Softbank Adopting Common Mobile OS Strategy
Dow Jones is reporting that Softbank has announced that they are going to adopt a common mobile operating system for their handsets. Following NTT DoCoMo’s lead, the other Asian carrier will be using what it calls a “Portable Open Platform Initiative” for their future handset. The software development side of the mobile phone industry accounts…
No Apple iPhone Pre-Orders? Not if you goto an AT&T store!
A Channel Checkers survey reveals that the official AT&T policy on prohibiting Apple iPhone pre-orders is not being upheld by AT&T (Cingular) stores. Out of 36 stores surveyed, approximately 64% of store representatives are quietly taking down a waiting list for the upcoming Apple iPhone. It should be noted that 36% of stores reported that…
SMS Trojan Virus on Series 60 Phones
Russian anti-virus firm, Kaspersky Labs, has announced the discovery of the first SMS Trojan virus for devices running Series 60 operating systems – called Trojan-SMS.Symb.OS.Viver. This trojan infection will force your Series 60 phone to send SMS text messages to premium SMS services. These services can charge upwards of $10 per text message, which they…
Hearing Aid and Mobile Phone Combo Concept
We can’t really relate to the problem of having to use a hearing aid and a mobile phone at the same time, but we do imagine that it could become somewhat of a hassle. This new concept combines an in-ear hearing aid with a mobile phone module that could make talking on the phone a…
Verizon’s Answer to AT&T’s Apple iPhone – The LG KE850 PRADA Phone?
We were all wondering what Verizon could have in store as their answer to AT&T’s Apple iPhone. Verizon COO, Denny Strigl, told USA Today that, “We do have a very good response in the mill. You’ll see that from us in the late summer.” Now, word on The Street has it that Verizon’s answer to…
Sony Ericsson Accidentally Confirms W999i!!
We love it when manufacturers tip their hand by accident. In this case, Sony Ericsson’s rumored W999i Walkman Phone was mistakenly outed when the company posted the W999i on the GSM Association’s website. The details on the phone are still slim, but we have confirmation that the phone does exist, that it will be released,…
Survey: Brand’s Country of Origin Not Important
A new study by marketing-research firm, Anderson Analytics, shows that a mobile phone manufacturer’s country of origin has little affect on college students’ perception of the brands’ phones. Among polled college students, 47% thought Motorola was a Japanese brand (come on people, doesn’t anyone remember the US Army radios made by Motorola?), but ranked Motorola…