T-Mobile is now offering its HotSpot@Home compatible RIM BlackBerry Curve 8320 in a new color: sunset. Read the full story here.

Sri Lanka’s government has some weird ideas. Back in February, we saw them blocking SMS on independence day and now they want to ban mobile phone lending. The idea behind the move is to fight terrorism, “to avert irregularities and illegal activities while minimizing threats to national security created by the irresponsible use of telephones.” The [...]

Here’s the theme for all the Mac fans out there using a BlackBerry smartphone. If your company can’t or don’t want to buy you an iPhone, you can still enjoy the “Apple experience” on your CrackBerry, while extending your push-email addiction at the same time. The theme is called Flowberry and it features a pseudo Cover [...]

W3C has unveiled a new document titled “Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0″ to improve the user experience of the Web when accessed from mobile devices. The recommendations refer to delivered content and not to the processes by which it is created, nor to the devices or user agents to which it is delivered. In that [...]

Our readers from India will be glad to know that now they can purchase Nokia’s latest navigation-dedicated phone, 6210 Navigator. The device, which was unveiled during this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, is designed to be used by both drivers and pedestrians, thanks to the compass application. In addition, the 6210 Navigator runs [...]

Sony Ericsson has just announced that James Bond’s latest phone will be the limited edition Titanium silver C902 Cyber-shot. The famous secret agent will rely on the C902’s 5 megapixel camera in the upcoming blockbuster Quantum of Solace, which will be released in November of this year. Unfortunately, we couldn’t find the official image of the [...]

Sony Ericsson today announced the latest James Bond phone, the C902i Titanium Silver edition. Used in the upcoming Bond film, Quantum of Solace, the C902i Titanium Silver will include a memory card loaded with 007 content - a spy-style game, full-color trailer, behind-the-scenes interviews, and wallpapers and screen savers. The C902i Cyber-Shot offers a built-in 5.0-megapixel camera with slide-out lens cover, illuminated touch icons, face detection, photo flash and auto-focus. The phone also off...

Motorola today named Sanjay Jha, Qualcomm's former chief operating officer, to head its mobile devices business. Jha will also be co-chief executive of the parent company, sharing the responsibility with incumbent Greg Brown. Brown will take responsibility for Motorola's other two divisions. Schaumburg, Ill.-based Motorola's handset division has been posting heavy losses for the last few years. The handset unit had a smash hit with the RAZR phone in 2004 and 2005, but has been unable to produce ...

Sony Ericsson has announced a special James Bond Edition C902 Cyber-shot handset, in titanium silver. This is the handset that Bond uses in the upcoming Quantum of Solace movie. Read the full story here.

Ikea, known for its massive home furnishing stores with products that you assemble yourself, has joined with T-Mobile in the UK to offer pay-as-you-go mobile service. Read the full story here. <

Sony Ericsson has announced that it will be offering a free Zeemote Bluetooth gaming controller to customers in the Netherlands that purchase a W760i. Read the full story here.

Today Motorola announced that its long running search to find a new leader for its mobile phone division has finally come to an end. Sanjay Jha, formerly Qualcomm's COO, has been named co-CEO of the company and CEO of mobile phones division. Read the full story here.

The LiMo Foundation, which seeks to bolster the use of Linux in mobile devices, has announced that 11 companies have joined as members, bringing the total to over 50. Read the full story here.

Cameraphones. They’re everywhere these days. From James Bond to your grandmother, cameras in cellphones are a fact of life. And, cameraphones are good for more than just taking badly-framed self-portraits or the occasional candid photo on the street, they can also be used to fight crime. At least that’s the way the New York Police [...]

With the Apple AppStore essentially open to anyone, anywhere with a desire to code applications and games for the iPhone 3G and iPhone, there’s been a deluge of new software popping up every day. But, there’s a problem to the open invitation to develop software for the iPhone - nonsensical software summaries and descriptions. Doc Macenstein [...]

Above you can see the ‘word cloud’ generated by a neat little web app called Wordle. Using this app, you can paste a selection of words, or an RSS/URL in to the interface, and generate your very own customisable word cloud - I think this warrants the classification ‘uber-neat’ You can make your very [...]

There’s no doubt that AT&T has been milking its iPhone cash-cow for the past year or so. The iPhone has single-handedly broadened many consumers’ perspectives on what kind of user experience to expect from a smartphone, not to mention sparking a world-wide touchscreen revolution that no touchy-feely handset before it has managed to inspire. In that [...]

Recently I posted on a growing menace in our society - namely that of anti-social ‘people’, who think it’s acceptable to blast out their ‘fave choonz’ from the speaker on their mobile handset, whilst walking/riding/sloping/grunting along in public. I was surprised to find out that this isn’t just a UK phenomenon, oh no… my post attracted [...]

ZTE is far from being known as a high-end handset maker. Usually, the phones made by the Chinese company are positioned at the very low-end of the spectrum. Recently unveiled by the FCC, ZTE A139+, is everything but an exception. The dual-band (850/1900 MHz) GSM device doesn’t impresses with its specs, at all. There’s a 1.3 [...]

According to ABI Reseach, the emergence of location-based mobile social networking services such as GyPSii, Pelago and Loopt is revolutionizing social networking and is set to generate $3.3 billion by 2013. However, at the moment it’s not the advertising that generates the revenue for the service providers. Rather it’s licensing and revenue-sharing deals that location-based [...]