The Indian mobile market is gaining maturity fast. What is necessary is to consolidate this fast growing user base to provide better services at a cheaper cost.

Complex Magazine will be auctioning off Courvoisier branded iPhones, BlackBerry 8800 and iPods. We're not sure just how many of these will be sold through auction but somehow we don't doubt they'll sell well. Next time a guy enters a bar with one of these gadgets, he'll certainly know what to drink, I guess. Anyway, Courvoisier [...]

A company called ICO Global Communications launched a new $500m telecoms satellite to bring DVB-SH mobile TV to the U.S. Apparently, the new satellite will be able to deal with between ten and fifteen simultaneous streams and is powerful enough to require no dish in order to broadcast. The advantage over terrestrial mobile TV standards is [...]

First of all I don't think renting a car is a pain. It may be if you're renting it offline — renting via web is as seamless as it can be. However, that doesn't mean car renting companies should stop there and it's even a great news seeing them further enhancing the user experience. That being [...]

In its new study "The Mobile Browser Market," ABI Research predicts that mobile browsers which can handle advanced client-side coding (JavaScript) will keep growing over the next five years, as the open-Internet browser (OIB) segment for mobile grows from 76 million in 2007 to nearly 700 million browsers delivered in 2013. Still, ABI argues it's important [...]

The concept is simple, point your phone at the horizon and look at your screen to get more information about your surroundings. Rafael Spring and Max Braun wrote a program Enkin for Google's Android that does just that as their submission to the Android Developer Challenge. With the recent announcement that KML is now an [...]

Pantech is one interesting company. They may not have a significant market share, but from time to time they surprise us with some neat phones like the dual-sliding Pantech Duo or Helio Ocean. Just like any modern enterprise, they are looking everywhere for an inspiration, hence they've been organizing a contest to see how people think [...]

Here's one more reason why not to trust press releases. Brookstone is saying they are the first clock radio designed for iPhone. What about Sony's ICF-ClipMK2, which we covered three weeks ago? Do you guys follow the industry you're in at all? Anyway, iHome iP99 will dock, charge and play music from an iPhone without sacrificing [...]

MWg is gearing toward introducing its Windows Mobile smartphones in Europe. The company was previously known as O2 Asia, but after it was acquired by the electronics retailer Expansys, it was renamed to MWg. And now they'll be introducing two devices, MWg Atom V and MWg Zinc II, to select European markets. To be honest, we've [...]

If you've been looking for a total iPhone protection that doesn't stand in the way of using the device, here's something to consider. Ivyskin's iPhone Xylo T2 Reflect Chrome case wows to do just that — not to interfere with the regular use while at the same time, keeping your beloved device safe under a [...]

Nokia like most of today's modern companies cares about the environment, but says green phones are still a few years away. According to the company's director of Environmental affairs unit Markus Terho, being an eco-friendly will become "a competitive factor." As an example he said that by introducing smaller packages in early 2006, Nokia saved [...]

Now if handset makers could inform us through a press release that some of their existing phones is available in new color, that would be awesome. I ranted about this in the past and I'll stop here… Nokia 6500 Classic is going to be released in new color - silver. Nokia's official website proves so, and [...]

LG had a strong first quarter this year with a 35.7% increase in handset sales totaling $3.346 billion for the number 5 handset maker. A new personal record for the company has also been reached with 24.4 million devices shipped, of that the emerging countries in the Asian and Middle East regions accounted for a [...]

Today the Verizon Wireless version of the HTC Touch goes on sale. The device, known as the XV6900, has an auto-focus camera in it according to the press release. AF is something that the previous Touch versions have lacked. Update: The Verizon press release was wrong, there is no AF. Read the full story here.

Today the Verizon Wireless version of the HTC Touch goes on sale. The device, known as the XV6900, has an auto-focus camera in it according to the press release. AF is something that the previous Touch versions have lacked. Update: The Verizon press release was wrong, there is no AF. Read the full story here.

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Samsung Electro-Mechanics has developed a micro-fuel cell and hydrogen generator that runs on water. When the handset is turned on, metal and water in the phone react to produce hydrogen gas. The gas is then supplied to the fuel cell where it reacts with oxygen in the air to generate power. Other fuel cells need methanol to produce hydrogen, while Samsung's needs only water. Since micro-fuel cells can generate up to three watts of electricity, they could be used in mobile devices. The new fuel c...

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