Why does Apple have less than 3% market share? They refuse to license the "most advanced operating system" to other vendors. Their ecosystem is profitable, but that is because they enjoy a monopoly whereby they can charge whatever they want for hardware since you need their machines to run their software. I was close, really close, [...]

Well that sure was quick. Just this morning I was worried that one of the largest mobile phone forums would be in for the long legal-haul with the US's largest mobile TV provider. As you'll probably recall, Howard Forums' (HoFo) owner, Howard Chui, was warned by MobiTV's legal team to take down a post on [...]

It's one thing to bleed cash all over the sparkly granite flooring, but it's a completely different thing to bleed precious executives onto the open job-market. Motorola's troubles are mounting ever greater with their recent problems with the latter - Moto is bleeding executives. Following on the recent resignation of Motorola's CTO, a couple more [...]

If you want to believe the latest hearsay to come out of Taiwan's handset manufacturing industry, then yes, HTC is set to launch a mobile internet device (MID) in 2008. The MIDs would hit the market sporting the more robust x86 chip architecture and should prove to be more compatible and will perform better than [...]

GPS on the iPhone. Now that would be nice. Sure, Google Maps My Location feature gives a good approximation of your location, but if you want turn-by-turn navigational features you're going to have to wait and hope that Apple endows the next-generation iPhone with integrated GPS. Now, remember that little outfit that slapped together the locoGPS [...]

I'm not actually sure whether this is something new or not, but just this morning I've spotted that AT&T now has two of the existing clamshells in new colors - Nokia 6085 in pink and MOTORAZR V3xx in lavender. Nothing special here in terms of specs and we've already covered each of the devices mentioned [...]

Just in time for the Beijing Olympic Games, Spain-based Mayhem Studio announced Ancient Olympics mobile game. The sports title features funny, cartoon-like characters and it's up to you to beat all other players in disciplines like 100-meter sprint, 110-meter hurdles, hammer throwing, long jump and javelin affairs. Each of the characters posses characteristics that give them [...]

Designing a new mobile phone is a demanding task. But what happens when someone steals months of design work in a matter of days? Well nothing, if you happen to be a Chinese handset maker. Lately, we've spotted the fake "version" of Nokia's stylish music and gaming phone - N81. As you've just seen from the [...]

It seems rumors were correct. Now when SDK is out, Gameloft started to "create a strong line-up for 2008" and announced it will bring over 15 titles to the iPhone. At this stage, we don't know which titles they're talking about nor when will they appear. However, something tells us the release of Gameloft's first [...]

Latest Nielsen Mobile's bi-annual Mobile Advertising Report suggests that 23% or 58 million of all U.S. mobile subscribers have been exposed to advertising on their phones in the past 30 days, with half (51% or 28 million) of all data users who recall seeing mobile advertising responded to a mobile ad in some way. Nielsen Mobile [...]

We've already covered AAA's mobile offering in the past. Now they've announced that users of the popular BlackBerry 8130 and 8830 smartphones can also use their service, whether they are AAA members or non-members. As with the standard Java ME-based version, the RIM-made device owners can also receive visual and audible (turn-by-turn) directions to any [...]

03/05/08 - Print and fax documents directly from your BlackBerry phone.

The AP is reporting of a woman that was arrested for arson after setting fire to roughly US$42,000 worth of cell phones after her husband walked out on the couple's marriage. Read the full story here.

It's not like there isn't already enough to get excited about with the next revision of the iPhone firmware. We've got the iPhone SDK going final, enterprise support (Microsoft Exchange), and the Apple AppStore to look forward to. What more could Apple possibly have in store for us? Well, Doc over at Macenstein put his [...]

Everyone and their grandma (not to mention aunt, uncle, and sister) are now offering unlimited calling plans like it's going out of style. So, it was only a matter of time before AT&T brought the all-you-can-eat wireless calling plan craze to the iPhone users' doorsteps.  That's right, AT&T is now offering the an unlimited calling [...]

Ever since the Nokia N82 was announced everyone has been thinking: How awesome it would look like in black? When WOM World sent a few bloggers, including myself, to Nokia World we echoed our hope and dreams to the Nokia N82 product manager. Then, as luck would have it, it appeared on Nokia's USA website [...]

Following hot on the heels of Apple's iPhone SDK announcements, Sun has jumped into the fray and announced that they'll be making sure that Java plays nice with Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch. The company famous for championing the standardized Java Runtime made the announcement after taking a look at the iPhone SDK. Upon investigating [...]

Ewan Spece from All About Symbian is in the states for MIX 08 and he had an opportunity to sit down for 10 minutes with Brad Becker, Group Product Manager for the User Experience Platform and Tools Marketing Group at Microsoft to discuss Silverlight for Nokia's S40, S60 and Maemo platforms. Questions asked include: What makes Silverlight [...]