Mobiles reviews - mobile phone

Air controller “talks” down airplane with SMS text messages

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:34:36 +0000

Talk about flying blind. The Irish Times is reporting that an air-traffic controller used SMS text messages to help an instrument-less pilot land safely. When a twin-engined Piper aircraft lost power to all its avionics systems (electrical power, communications and weather radar) in a “serious incident,” the pilot used his mobile phone to call a nearby airport’s [...]

Keep tabs on the 2008 Olympics with your mobile phone

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:10:39 +0000

If you’re keeping track of the 2008 Olympics in the comfort of your own home, then you’ll likely already know that the Olympic Games are being covered by all major media outlets on the planet - on all major media formats available. But, it can get a little hectic trying to keep track of all [...]

FCC breaks Christian Dior phone - Dior Mini on FCC

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:26:30 +0000

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 [...]

Christian Dior debuts $5,000 mobile phone - Dior cellphone aims at luxury market

Wed, 21 May 2008 17:17:57 +0000

When is a cellphone worth $5,000? Hint: never. Christian Dior has been rumored to be working on a mobile phone for some time, and following on recent speculation that the Christian Dior-branded handset could make its debut soon, the Dior phone has gone live. With a $5,000 price tag, we can't imagine anyone outside the comfortable [...]

New York State court upholds ban on cellphones in school

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:58:13 +0000

When it comes to the classroom, there are just some things that should be checked at the door. Some say that religion doesn't have a place in the public school environment. Others say that sex-education is best left out of the classroom. And, New York education officials feel that cellphones should be left out of [...]

This is what happens when you love your mobile phone too much - cellphone users' wedding cake

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:36:21 +0000

Just what does a cellphone-addicted couple's wedding cake look like? Well, chances are, if they really, really love their mobile phone, the cake will sport a cake-topper (those figurines that adorn the tops of wedding cakes) like this. The cellphone-toting cake toppers are actually satirically funny. What better way to make light of the high-tech times [...]

Blind Japanese man creates vibrating Braille handset

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:17:44 +0000

Raised Braille-bumps on handset keypads are good for dialing a phone number and other simple tasks, but it can be a little more demanding to tap out text messages or do anything more complex by feel alone. To help the blind get more out of their mobile phones, Nobuyuki Sasaki, a former Tsukuba University [...]

European Commission gives go-ahead for in-flight mobile phone calls in Europe

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:40:23 +0000

European jetsetters just got another step closer to getting their cellphone-calling fix while strapped into that airplane seat at cruising altitude. The European Commission has just approved the use of mobile phones in airplanes over European airspace. Following on the UK's OfCom announcement that in-flight calling is good to go in Great Britain, the executive [...]

Cellphone as ear warmer

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:05:43 +0000

In which we discuss how to get yourself out of a traffic citation for driving while using a mobile phone. In many parts of the world, it's now illegal to drive with a cellphone pasted to the side of your face - it's distracting for the driver and just isn't a good look. Even drivers in [...]

Half of all Japanese use their mobile phone in the bath

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:35:34 +0000

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 [...]