Archive for the 'Mobile Phones' Category

Strong business demand for iPhone

Business customers have been waiting for the iPhone to come to Vodafone before signing up for the popular Apple handset, according to the operator, which cited the phone’s ease of use combined with Vodafone’s technical support and 3G network reliability.
Vodafone made the iPhone available on its network on 14 January, joining Orange, Tesco Mobile and [...]

Top 10 Mobile Phones of 2009

 I like gadgets, loads! I like talking about them, writing about them, using them, watching other people use them though binoculars… Some would say it was an unhealthy fascination, but then I'd be all like, “Shh…,” and go back to doing gadget-related things. Hit me up on Xbox Live or PSN, I'm EJStyleS. I promise [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mobile Phone Station in Mount Everest

A Mount Everest mobile phone base has had a successful test run, meaning climbers will stay in range of calls and text messages on top of the world’s highest peak, Chinese media reported Wednesday.The station at 6,500 metres (21,450 feet) was also built to help communications for the bearers of the Olympic torch, which Beijing [...]

Mobile Phones on Plane

Ofcom the regulatory body of Telecommunication in UK will be considering allowing Mobile Telephone calls in British Planes.The move is being considered by telecoms and air safety agencies throughout the European Union after the Electronic Communications Committee, a European agency, recently gave the go-ahead in principle. Ofcom is the first telecom regulator to support the [...]

Universal Flash Storage

Industry-wide collaboration supports next-generation removable flash memory card and embedded memory solution at JEDEC
Nokia, Samsung Electronics, Sony Ericsson, Spansion Inc., STMicroelectronics, and Texas Instruments announced today that they support the creation of a far-ranging industry specification for removable memory cards and embedded memory solutions being standardized by the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association (JEDEC), a [...]

Microsoft Mulling a Zune Phone

Rumor has it that Microsoft may soon start developing a device billed to be a potential Apple iPhone killer.
The software major has reportedly stated sans confirmation that a mobile phone based on it’s Zune digital media player ‘is not an unreasonable move’.

The phone will likely be called the ‘Zune Phone’ and will be a competitor [...]

MOBILE phone with a built-in credit card

A MOBILE phone with a built-in credit card will be tested in Melbourne next year in an Australian-first.
Telstra, NAB and Visa are developing the trial, which will let customers pay for goods and services with a wave of their mobile phone.
About 250 Telstra and NAB customers will be supplied with a mobile phone embedded with [...]

Hearing Loss By use of Mobile Phones

A study carried out by India’s Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) has reported that people who use mobile phones in excess of half an hour per day are at higher risk of developing hearing loss, particularly at higher speech frequencies.
“This hearing loss was more in the dominant ear (ear of use). [...]