We all love playing games on our cell phones. Remember when Snake first hit the scene? Mobile gaming has come a long way since then, but Screen Digest analysts are saying that growth in the mobile gaming market is slowing down – almost to a stall. Japan and Korea have been driving the growth of…
Nokia Preps “Un-Plug” Alerts for Mobile Phones
Nokia, ever the green-minded cell phone manufacturer, wants to cut back on electrical consumption, save precious resources, and save the user some precious green. Like many consumer electronics that rely on an external battery charger, mobile phones will draw a trickle of electrical current even when fully charged. This “trickle” of electrical current can add…
Mozilla says Firefox Mobile is in the works
Mozilla has confirmed, through CEO Mitchell Baker, that developers are working on a mobile version of the uber-popular Firefox browser. The “Firefox Mobile” browser aims to bring the full, desktop experience that users of Firefox already enjoy, to the mobile arena. This is a long-term project and Mozilla is working ot ensure that the customizability…
Sun Microsystems debuts the jPhone, Linux-based Java Mobile FX OS
Sun Microsystem’s recent acquisition of SavaJe’s intellectual property has finally borne some mobile-OS fruit. As if to celebrate the merger’s finalization, last Friday, Sun debuted it’s Java phone (jPhone, anyone?) at JavaOne. The jPhone is powered by Java Mobile FX software, which is based on the SavaJe code that Sun acquired. The Java Mobile FX…
SKY IM-R200 Revealed By Pantech & Curitel – LCD Keypad Slider
Pantech & Curitel’s high-end brand, SKY, has just announced their newest phone – the SKY IM-R200 slider. While this baby is packed with a 2 megapixel camera (with autofocus), microSD slot, 116 MB onboard memory, and secondary video conference camera, the nifty LCD keypad is what gets us all excited about the newest slider to…
Get FREE Incoming Calls on T-mobile!!
T-mobile already offers some cheap wireless plans and data rates, but if you want a decent amount of monthly anytime minutes and an unlimited data plan, you’re going to be ponying up around a C-note every month. Even if you don’t have an unlimited data plan, you can still save money by downgrading your plan…
Bamboo Mobile Phone Concept – Self-cleans with nano-particles
There are a lot of cell phone concepts out there, a fair amount of which are actually wood-based, but this one takes the cake. Instead of focusing on way-out-there design elements that will likely never see the light of day, this Bamboo phone actually has a patent to back it up (filed in June 2006,…
Yinke M002 Brick Phone – Motorola Brick Phone Clone?
We have no idea why any manufacturer would opt to make a brick-like cell phone, other than being a clone of that Motorola brick phone that we showed you recently. The Yinke M002 Brick Phone was unveiled at the Canton Fair 2007 in China. Being from China, we’re not at all surprised to find the…
New, Cheaper, Longer-Lasting Batteries on the way
The US Department of Energy has made a breakthrough in battery technology at their Argonne National Laboratory. Lithium-ion batteries have recently made news for their lack of stability and capacity, but this new breakthrough promises more stable, longer-lasting, and cheaper batteries. A two-component, Manganese-based design helps to increase capacity to 250 mAh/g – doubling current…
RIM: Mobile Voice System converges Office Phone System and your BlackBerry
The BlackBerry, iconic symbol for corporate America (and anyone else fancying themselves important enough to get push-email), has taken another step in erasing the line between work and not-work. RIM’s introduction of its Mobile Voice System marks the end of the “I’m out of the office” excuse – as “the seamless convergence of a BlackBerry…