Leader in electronic paper display technologies, E Ink Corporation, announced that Japan’s Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications has selected E Ink Vizplex Imaging Film based displays for its newest family of mobile phones. These are the world’s first clamshells to use E Ink’s electronic paper technology on the outside. The Hitachi W61H phone was the first of [...]

It seems Asus and O2 are onto something. Apparently, Global Certification Forum (GCF) has just approved the Asus GM5, codenamed “Christal,” which seems developed for the Telefonica-owned O2 mobile operator. The so called O2 Xda Zest will almost certainly run Windows Mobile (like all other Xda phones do), and will sport a tri-band GSM radio [...]

Motorola's ROKR E8 has one of the most interesting designs that we have seen on a phone recently. While it has a simple thin bar shape, it sports some unique technology in its keypad that is sure to impress. Russ tests it out for us in this in-depth review. Read the full story here.

Yes it’s been some years since we saw the infamous Ghettoblaster being carried about - apart from the occasional group of disenfranchised youths sat on steps listening to one, it’s very rare we see them. Much more common is the generic “boy-racer” who has pimped his Fiesta to have a “sound system” (I believe youngsters [...]

Here’s something for both Superman and Batman fans. DC Comics is partnering up with Glu to release the Superman/Batman joint game this December. We’re not sure how the end result will look like, but according to Glu’s Jill Braff, all elements that make a great game are there - “superhuman powers, adventure and exciting characters [...]

China Mobile has now started it’s marketing push for a public beta of 3G telephony services, hinting that full deployment may be available soon after that little sporting event called the Olympics! As we’ve reported on before, the dominant tecnology for 3G in China is not going to be the otherwise globally-accepted WCDMA, but in fact [...]

CellPhoneSoft has released a new version of their UIQ3 system utility, Tweak Peaks. Those not familiar with the application should know that it provides various enhancements to operating the phone, like display acceleration, instant menus and fast list scrolling. Tweak Peaks 1.30 brings several improvements, including: Setting the start page for Opera browser Support for the latest UIQ3 [...]

3 has announced sales of over 1m USB mobile broadband dongles to customers across the UK, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Austria. This has been due, in no small part, to the very attractive cost vs data propositions they have come up with: Also, a new dongle is now available - the Huawei E160G is [...]

ALK Technologies has announced a special edition of its mobile navigation system, CoPilot Live 7, for the HTC Touch Diamond. CoPilot Live HTC Touch Diamond edition is supplied on a DVD that installs navigation software and maps onto the phone from a desktop computer. Once installed, users can “enjoy full satellite navigation on their phone, with [...]

Today Samsung unveiled the financial results for its Q2 2008 period. While its handset sales were down slightly from Q1, it posted a growth of 22% from the prior year that puts its market share at roughly 15%. Read the full story here.

Tag Heuer's previously announced Meridiist luxury cell phone has flashed its way through the FCC. This metal and leather-clad handset offers a small OLED display on its top edge that is paired with the 1.9" QVGA primary display. Read the full story here.

Research in Motion has quietly released its BlackBerry Media Sync application, offering enhanced multimedia convenience and iTunes synchronization for its BlackBerry smartphones. Read the full story here.

Casio and Hitachi have announced two new clamshell handsets for Japan that will be using electronic ink displays to provide users with readable, and low power consuming, information. Read the full story here.

Apple's MobileMe cloud-based synchronization service is experiencing major issues, causing some to recommend you stay away. Server hiccups are not the only thing causing negative reviews, it seems. Read the full story here.

Sprint Nextel has agreed to sell nearly all its cell phone towers to a private-equity-backed firm called TowerCo in a deal that will generate about $670 million in cash for the struggling wireless carrier. The nation's third-largest wireless provider said Wednesday it plans to lease space on the towers for its wireless phone and broadband operations, which it said was cheaper than owning the towers outright. In recent years, wireless carriers have moved away from owning their own cellphone tower...

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While the iPhone enthusiasts throughout the blogosphere were busy lamenting Apple’s failure to deliver a working, system-wide copy-and-paste feature in the iPhone 2.0 OS, it seems Apple was busy building their copy/paste framework in to new iPhone 2.1 OS and iPhone 2.1 SDK. Apple just last night released their newest iPhone OS revision, iPhone 2.1 OS, [...]

It’s better than nothing. While customizable Sidekick fans are squirming in their seats for T-Mobile to go live with their Sidekick 2008 (previously codenamed Sidekick Gekko/Gecco), or saving up their dough for a Craigslisted Sidekick 2008, Cellphonesignal has gotten their hands on photos of the Sidekick 2008 dummy-phones in the wild. Sure, these aren’t pics of [...]

The recently released iPhone 2.1 firmware beta has, like many beta firmwares before it, been a rewarding source of potentially upcoming iPhone features and functionality. Previous iPhone firmware betas have led to the speculation, and eventual implementation, of iPhone features like the iPhone iTunes remote, geo-tagging photos, and character-recognition, just to name a few. With the [...]

Just in case you haven’t had your fill of ridiculously expensive designer handsets passing through the FCC on their way to nouveau riche purses and pockets everywhere, the FCC has unveiled the Christian Dior phone. The Dior Mini, as it’s called, boasts (we’re using this term loosely) the barest of feature sets that would have [...]