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  • Motorola steps on the gas for mobile phones

    Motorola researchers have successfully demonstrated a methane gas-powered fuel cell, which can provide enough juice between chargings for a month of mobile phone calls.

  • Motorola mobiles get 3D games engine

    Motorola will be using Japan's most popular 3D graphics technologies in its new mobile phones in an effort to claw back sales from market leader Nokia and rising star Samsung.

  • Wireless mobile phone under development

    Motorola and NEC America are co-developing an Internet Protocol office telephone that roams from Wi-Fi onto cell phone networks, the companies announced Tuesday.

  • Motorola COO sees strong demand for 3G phones

    The market for high-speed cellular data handsets is beginning to take off, according to Motorola's president and chief operating officer.

  • Mobile phones: The cheaper the better

    To attract mobile users in Asia Pacific, vendors should introduce low-price, entry-level handset models, as over 80 percent of handsets sold in 2005 would be to price-sensitive developing markets, according to a recent report.

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  • 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?

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  • 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 (139)

  • Motorola mobiles get 3D games engine

    Motorola will be using Japan's most popular 3D graphics technologies in its new mobile phones in an effort to claw back sales from market leader Nokia and rising star Samsung.

  • Motorola A920

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

  • Free phones favored: survey

    The majority of Australians are not prepared to pay for a new mobile phone handset, according to a ZDNet Australia user survey.

  • Wireless mobile phone under development

    Motorola and NEC America are co-developing an Internet Protocol office telephone that roams from Wi-Fi onto cell phone networks, the companies announced Tuesday.

  • Motorola COO sees strong demand for 3G phones

    The market for high-speed cellular data handsets is beginning to take off, according to Motorola's president and chief operating officer.

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