Watch out, China's upper-class is growing. And, with that growth comes a demand for respect from handset manufacturers. Sharp, looking to cash in with the affluent Chinese population, is making plans to enter the Chinese handset market ahead of the Beijing Olympics. "There is a growing number of consumers in China who want to buy high-tech [...]

It looks like liquid lenses are about to make a big splash in the cameraphone world. Varioptics and Seiko have partnered up to manufacture 500,000 continuously variable liquid-filled lenses for the mobile market, starting in Q3 of this year. Liquid lenses offer the advantages of being able to continuously adjust focus with barely any power draw [...]

I never quite understood handset makers that make us use headphones in order to listen to the local radio stations. Yeah, there are already multiple radios in each handset including the FM receiver, but apparently it's the antenna that's a problem. Still, one would think they could use a metal around the casing for that [...]

In Canada, Telus Mobility is launching a new discount wireless provider called "Koodo Mobile." And while they still haven't announced anything official we managed to get some early info. There's no doubt that with tagline "Good Call", and sentences like "Get Fat-Fee Mobility", "Make every second count with per-second billing", "We stretch your budget with plans [...]

Toronto-based digital music provider Puretracks along with handset development partner Magnet Mobile Media have developed a new DRM-free mobile music store and service for select RIM's devices, including the popular Curve, Pearl and 8800 series smartphones. A sneak peek of the Puretracks Mobile Edition music service for BlackBerry was unveiled on March 12 at the [...]