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  • Google to unveil 'Android' phone software

    Google is ready to unveil a suite of software for mobile phones based on open-source technology, backed by some of the largest wireless industry companies in the world.

  • WiMax firm gets major cash injection

    Clearwire, which hopes to install WiMax networks that will cover continents, announced on Wednesday that it has received US$900 million in financing from Intel and Motorola and will work with the two giants to popularise the wireless broadband technology.

  • Mobile cap plans heat up with new offering

    With competition for third-generation mobile services poised to heat up, 3G network operator, 3 Mobile, has launched new 3G handsets and pricing packages in a bid to grab a bigger slice of the customer pie.

  • Vodafone Australia to launch 3G in October

    Vodafone today announced its third-generation (3G) network would be commercially launched in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra this October with other capital cities to follow in 2006.

  • 3's a company...finally

    Hutchison launched its '3' mobile service in Australia today, unveiling an aggressive pricing scheme which could possibly lead to a price war.

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  • Photos: 10 tech flops -- with cool names

    Have you ever thought that some tech companies occasionally invest more brainpower in naming their products than in making them successful? You're not the only one who thinks so.

  • Why you should care about WiMAX

    The next-generation wireless technology could take us one step closer to the mobile nirvana of one bill for mobile, Wi-Fi and broadband connectivity.

  • Negroponte's laptop plan moves closer to reality

    Nicholas Negroponte is a man on a mission. As Chairman of the One Laptop per Child program (OLPC), he has big plans ahead of him: to help eliminate poverty through education, via US$100 laptops distributed to the world's poorest children.

  • Celebrating three decades of Apple

    In the 1970s, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were going door-to-door at the UC Berkeley dorms selling "blue boxes" -- electronic devices that tricked the telephone network into allowing free long-distance phone calls.

  • What Telstra, others can learn from South Africa

    A mobile telecommunications revolution in Africa is bringing new economic opportunities to the world's most impoverished continent, while providing lessons that can help carriers around the world push into other low-value markets. Brad Howarth reports.

Reviews (48)

  • Roam if you want to: around-the-world mobile phones

    If you're a globe-trotter, you'll need a world phone to keep in touch from almost anywhere.

  • Motorola A1000

    For business users needing to keep in touch with the office on the road, the A1000 is a viable option. Others may find that life is too short to wait for applications to load.

  • Motorola E1000

    Motorola has applied its rediscovered sense of style in spades to the latest addition to the local 3G phone stable, the E1000.

  • The dazzling dozen: 12 mobiles tested

    We take a look at 12 of the latest and greatest mobiles, from high-tech 3G wonders to cheap and cheerful budget phones in our Australian review.

  • Motorola A920

    The Motorola A920 is a chunky mobile phone with PDA capabilities.

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