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  • Will iPhone discombobulate the mobile market?

    The launch of the iPhone is more highly anticipated than the Second Coming hopefully it will bring redemption from the ongoing scourge of terrible mobile phones.

  • How the iPhone changed the world

    When Apple unveiled the iPhone, it set the whole mobile industry talking -- not just about the device but about the unusual agreement between Apple and mobile operator Cingular. Jo Best says it's the pact between these two tech heavyweights that really makes the iPhone stand out.

  • Motorola pitches wind-up phone batteries

    The handset maker says that by year's end it will start selling a mobile phone battery that can be recharged by hand, using an attached hand crank.

  • Mobile madness: From spandex superheroes to dating games

    The dot-eating snake is giving way to superheroes clad in ridiculous skin-tight costumes as the market for mobile phone gaming gets ready to explode.

  • Motorola opens mobile phone store in Tibet

    Motorola has opend a mobile phone store in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet and is the first store "on the roof of the world" at 3700 meters above sea level.

Blogs (2)

  • Read the blog post - Jo Best

    Odd patents and the patently odd

    Today I'm taking a dip into the most interesting patents -- and patently silly ideas -- and what manner of messed-up services may be coming to your handset before too long, including the fertility phone, smellophone and Feng Shui phone.

  • Read the blog post - Ella Morton

    I wish I was a punk rocker with MySpace friends to spare

    Lately there has been a bunch of musicians who have risen to rapid fame via the Internet. Are they self-styled artists, or a PR-created crock?

Features and Case Studies (21)

  • Palm leads way in smartphones' mass market attack

    Smartphones, or phones that enable Web access and e-mail, are heading for the mass market.

  • Is there life in Google's Android?

    Given the hype around anything with a single-letter prefix m-commerce, e-learning, iPhone last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android mobile phone platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.

  • Linux calling: Are mobile phones ready?

    The Open Source Development Labs, an industry consortium devoted to improving Linux, plans to launch an initiative Monday to bring the open-source operating system to mobile phones.

  • Mobile phones to spy on workers?

    Mobile phones are giving employers new ways to check up on employees in the field -- and raising fresh workplace privacy concerns as a result.

  • Enterprise OS wars: Symbian v Windows Mobile

    Symbian is the mobile world's dominant operating system, but can it walk the walk in the business world or will it always be the poor cousin to Windows Mobile in the enterprise? David Braue finds out.

Reviews (149)

  • Motorola Q 9h

    If you're looking for an attractive 3.5G PDA-phone with push email, Windows Mobile 6 and a QWERTY keyboard, the Motorola Q 9h is worthy of consideration, so long as you don't need a touchscreen or Wi-Fi.

  • Motorola ROKR E6

    The E6 tries valiantly to be a smartphone and a sexy consumer gadget. It's a pity then, that it didn't try that little bit harder.

  • Telstra's unveils six Next G mobile phones

    Coinciding with Telstra's launch of Next G, an HSPDA-enabled 3G network in Australia that operates in the 850MHz space, is the release of six new mobile handsets

  • Motorola pitches wind-up phone batteries

    The handset maker says that by year's end it will start selling a mobile phone battery that can be recharged by hand, using an attached hand crank.

  • Motorola V.70: Object of desire?

    Probably one of the hippest phones around, the swivel-flip Motorola V.70 appeals in terms of design but lacks the features to back it up.

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