Archive for February, 2008

Over 1.1 billion Mobile Phones Sold

Worldwide sales of mobile phones surpassed 1.15 billion units in 2007, according to market research firm Gartner. The company also said that three new companies entered the top ten in sales for the first time including Apple with its iPhone.
Apple was joined in the top ten by ZTE and Research in Motion with its popular […]

BlackBerry Pearl 8110

T-Mobile UK and Research In Motion (RIM) has announced the launch of the new BlackBerry Pearl 8110 smartphone in a Blue Slate colour along with a new price plan to entice consumers to the messaging phone.
The new consumer-focused model, which is identical to the model launched on Vodafone last month, will feature a 2 megapixel […]

Mobile Phones Custom Made For You

This is one made-to-order device that everyone will love to have: the cellphone. If you are a music lover, why not have a phone which can hold more songs rather than heavy graphics.
Alternatively, if you want a better camera on a handset, why settle for just a 2-megapixel one? Soon, you will be able to […]

Sony Ericsson G700 and G900 phones

The new G700 and G900 phones are designed to give back time. They place personal organiser features and easy finger-touch control within familiar form factors.
Sony Ericsson today launched a new generation of phone: Touchscreen organisers with a broad appeal. The G700 and G900 phones are essential tools designed to organise the lives of all […]

New Nokia N96

Mobile World Congress The eagerly-awaited successor to the the popular N95 was at last unveiled in Barcelona this morning. Details of the Nokia N96 - the latest addition to Nokia’s smartphone range - were leaked before the weekend, and they weren’t far wrong.
The dual-slide handset sports a 2.8in display, 16GB of internal memory that can […]

Nokia N78

Nokia announced the N78 handset, designed to take advantage of the new Ovi suite of Nokia services. It features A-GPS, with free Nokia Maps, Wi-Fi and 3G HSPDA connectivity, a 3.2-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, and support for Micro SD memory card, currently available up to 8GB in capacity.

According to Nokia, the “novelty” features […]

5.0 Megapixel Camera on all Mobile Phones

Kodak has defied all present expectations of mobile phone cameras by proposing their idea of a 5.0 megapixel camera onto a mobile phone.
The Eastman Kodak Company is certain that their new 1.4 micron sensor will have the ability to be put into some of the cheapest phones and plans to flaunt this fact at the […]

Mobiles donse cause brain cancer

Mobile phone use does not raise the risk of brain tumours, a Japanese study suggests. The research is the first to look at the effects of hand set radiation levels on different parts of the brain.
Tokyo Women’s Medical University found no increased risk of the three main types of brain cancer among regular mobile phone […]