Today the EU commissioners announced that they have chosen the mobile TV standard known as DVB-H as the preferred technology for the member nations of the European Union. Read the full story here.

My friend Katie showed me her Helio Ocean the other day. Needless to say, I was very impressed. The Helio Oceans dual slider with its full QWERTY keyboard and numeric keypad caught my eye first. But, once I started playing with it, and realized all the things it could do... I was sold!

Here's some good news for Helio users, as the MVNO started offering Opera Mini web browser for select handsets. Owners of the popular Ocean model may have already found the way to get Opera Mini working with their double-sliding handset and they don't want to "experiment" with Helio's mumbo-jumbo. However, if you have some other-than-Ocean device, [...]

"Regular" diamond entrusted iPhone not good enough for you? How about the one designed by Austrian luxury designer and jeweler Peter Aloisson? His iPhone design has between 318 and 320 diamonds, with 138 of them being encrusted with the so called princess cut (the rest of the 180 diamonds are brilliant cut). In total, all [...]

Broadens the Unwired Enterprise and Addresses Business User Demand Read the full story here.

The day has come and Koodo Mobile's website is up and running, just like we've expected. Currently the Telus owned MVNO is offering three phones - Samsung U410, MOTOKRZR and Motorola W385, which cost CA$75, CA$200 and CA$125 respecitvely. But the price can go down, not with a contract - but with the so called [...]

Newest Version Includes Features to Maximize Productivity, Simplify Mobile Office Experience for On-the-Go Professionals Read the full story here.

LG's youth-oriented slim slider, the KF510, shows off its new red color scheme in the UK. The aesthetically pleasing thin slider boasts a 3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth stereo, and touch sensitive control keys that are animated. Read the full story here.

Nokia has announced the black color version of its popular N82 S60-based smartphone. The N82 features a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, Carl Zeiss optics, and a Xenon flash for taking superb pictures. The new black color scheme should be widely available within weeks, with an estimated price of 400EUR (US$631). Read the full story here.

Today Sprint announced that it will be rolling out Openwave's OpenWeb HTML to WAP transcoding technology on its network. OpenWeb will allow any WAP enabled Sprint phone to more easily access regular, non-Mobile websites. Read the full story here.

MySpace, the popular social networking service, has officially launched a mobile-friendly version of its website. This is in contrast to the carrier-specific mobile applications, available for a monthly fee, that it has previously offered. Read the full story here.

Nokia today unveiled the Nokia N82 in stylish black, letting users geotag images captured on the integrated 5.0-megapixel camera. The 5.0-megapixel camera features a Xenon flash and Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus with a dedicated assist lamp, fast reloading between shots and DVD-like quality video capture. Taking advantage of its integrated A-GPS functionality and high resolution camera, the Nokia N82 automatically tags images with capture location metadata, making it possible to view the capture ...

Wait, does anyone actually take baths anymore? I sure don't. None of my friends (girls and guys) do either. I guess it's popular in Japan. A new study from Sega polled 16,250 people regarding their mobile phone use. Following on the absence of 2G mobile phone sales in January, the new report finds that the island-nation [...]

Microsoft recently hired Len Kawell as a “Distinguished Engineer in the Mobile Communications Business Group." His job involves: "Scaling Windows Mobile to new kinds of kinds of devices with larger screens and faster processors – also known as Mobile Internet Devices, or MIDs." Could this be Microsoft admitting that the very thought of sticking Vista on a [...]

It looks like the British arm of the world's largest wireless operator is getting ready to seriously push the mobile data plans that helped boost its 3Q 2007 earnings by 35.5%. Vodafone UK has given 450 of its senior managers their walking orders, choosing to instead invest resources into in-store staff. Vodafone says that the move [...]

Sure, there are handsets out there that boasts 8.5mm thickness, but you sure aren't going to find an image sensor inside that's capable of capturing more than a few megapixels. But, when you're talking about an 8 megapixel CMOS image sensor with anti-shake, low-light compensation, ISO 1600, smile recognition (what's with this smile recognition recently?), [...]

It was bound to happen. AT&T has started to offer refurbished iPhones at a discounted price. The AT&T website shows these refurbished iPhone 8GB handsets with a $249 price tag. That's $150 off the current retail price for an 8GB iPhone! Talk about a deal. If the unsubsidized price-point of the iPhone has kept you from [...]

The iPhone v1.2 OS firmware that's been running on the iPhone SDK's emulator and a few iPhone hackers' handsets has been spotted with location logging capability. Positional data from cell tower triangulation and WiFi hotspot locations are apparently recorded and logged in the iPhone OS 1.2. iPhone Atlas found evidence of the location logging, and it [...]

Things aren't going all that well for our favorite IPO-scandal monger in the States. Virgin Mobile USA announced disappointing subscriber growth in Q1 2008 and cut its 2008 earnings forecast by 40%, resulting in a drop in Virgin's share prices. So, in an effort to boost revenues, and hopefully profits, in other markets, Virgin Mobile's [...]

Apple's iPhone is getting seriously gussied up for its new role as an enterprise smartphone. With Apple bringing Microsoft Exchange support to the iPhone with the next iPhone update and Cisco already branding iPhone features with their VPN technology, not to mention IBM's Lotus for iPhone, the iconic handset is sure to fire up corporate [...]