Mar 31 2003 - 09:38 PM ET | Review
MobileBurn has posted a review of phone that isn't quite like most--it's big enough to hold. It doesn't get bogged down with advanced features like SMS, internal antennas or IR either. It concentrates on what most people want to do--make...
Mar 31 2003 - 02:33 PM ET | Sony Ericsson
A few bits of news concerning Sony Ericsson today. First, there is a new version of "PC Suite" [direct download link] which is the application for Windows that syncs Sony Ericsson phones with the computer. Mac users should use Apple's...
Nokia made a big move today by merging its Chinese operations. The new company will begin to make CDMA phones for the world's most populated country....
Mar 31 2003 - 09:01 AM ET | Camera, Samsung
Samsung has released three new camera phones, one of which uses the OLED technology we mentioned early this month. * SGH-P400 - rotating color screen (not unlike some models of the Clié) * SGH-P410 - two color screens, an internal...
Mar 30 2003 - 09:48 PM ET | In The News
Starting on November 24th US wireless operators won't be able to keep onto your phone number after you decide to leave. Not sure why, but the companies say it will cost a billion dollars to get their networks ready for...
Mar 30 2003 - 12:43 AM ET | Samsung
A few days ago we mentioned the DoCoMo watch phone... Samsung recently announced plans for a similar device. It's a pretty feature rich watch/phone: * GSM * 8-Bit color screen * Polyphonic Rings The obvious fault we see in these...
According to 3G NewsRoom, the aforementioned Nokia 3650 is able to have RealOne installed. It's not yet clear if the mobile version has to be installed seemingly every two weeks or if the installation process is as annoying as it...
Clay Shirky is well known around the Internet for his tech essays. His latest is on why 3G (the mobile phone technology that's supposed to rule the world about a year) will fail. While we can't agree with everything said,...
Amazon.com is selling the Sony Ericsson T300 with a T-Mobile service contract for just a penny... Not bad, especially when there is a $50 rebate on any service plans over $34.95 a month. The deal is good until the...
Mar 28 2003 - 01:11 AM ET | Site News
We've built a new feature into MobileTracker... You can now send any article we publish to a friend via a form below the story on the permanent URL. If you're reading via RSS, click through to see what's up. Thanks...
Mar 28 2003 - 12:18 AM ET | DoCoMo
Another announcement from DoCoMo--a new GPS enabled phone dubbed the F661i. bq. "The easy-to-use GPS mobile phone enables users to determine their location at the mere touch of a button, and download maps and information about the area." It should...
Mar 27 2003 - 08:23 PM ET | Bargain
If you own a device running the Symbian OS, you can get 10% of software from My-Symbian.com by using the discount code: BFFC5F. From the looks of the site, there seems to be a lot of good software. Most of...
If that camera phone doesn't attract enough geeks, try out video messaging. T-Mobile has launched the service which works with the Nokia 3650 (very cool phone, check it out at right). You can exchange video clips with audio, but only...
According to InfoSync World, US readers won't have to be jealous of Europeans who can purchase the new offering from Siemens (at CeBIT). Look for Siemens to make a lot of ground in the US market over the next 18...
Mar 27 2003 - 12:20 AM ET | DoCoMo, Unique
NTT DoCoMo announced that it's going to start marketing a new wristwatch style phone dubbed "WRISTOMO". The concept is neat--it's a water proof watch that opens up into a phone. The only obvious downside is that you have to put...
Mar 26 2003 - 09:27 PM ET | In The News
Wireless News Factor has a story running today about a big move from the FCC to allow mobile satellite service company's to offer cellular like service in tandem with satellite communications. Why would they want to do this? So you...
Mar 26 2003 - 07:16 PM ET | Accessories
Gizmodo notes of a new joystick for mobile phones. Some phones include a built-in 5 way stick already--but it's not nearly this hardcore....
Mar 25 2003 - 01:56 PM ET | Motorola
Motorola has announced that it's introducing a radical new service to its customers. It's going to be providing "downloadable packaged themes featuring music from a variety of rock, pop, hip-hop and R&B artists". The whole idea centers around a "music...
Mar 25 2003 - 01:43 PM ET | Review, Samsung
Samsung's got an interesting idea going on with the T500--it's targeted at women. Some may wonder how you can target a phone to women... Add fake jewels, a fat counter and a tracker for pregnancy probibility (not kidding). This isn't...
Mar 25 2003 - 01:10 PM ET |
Pretty much everyone has heard that cell phones can start an explosion around gas. Some gas stations even have signs. It's nothing more than an urban legend according to a representatives from the oil and mobile industries. Wired's got the...
Mar 24 2003 - 08:20 PM ET | In The News
A big problem with text input on cell phones has been that it sucks. Atelab Research has announced that its built a better mouse trap. The phone looks normal with the usual numeric keypad, but when you want to start...
Mar 24 2003 - 08:16 PM ET | In The News
USA Today is running an article today about people who have dumped their land line in favor of their mobile. Look for this trend to continue until traditional phone co's realize how much they're losing and start not being evil....
Research In Motion, most well known for their popular BlackBerry devices, is in talks with two major players in the smartphone arena--Symbian and Microsoft. According to Wireless NewsFactor RIM wants makers of smartphones BlackBerry savvy. Obviously the best way to...
Mar 24 2003 - 03:50 PM ET | Unique
Celluar News notes that a ALVA has a phone coming out with Braille to cater to blind users. Most people don't know how to use 10% of their phone's features even when they have sight. Sounds like a cool idea...
Mar 24 2003 - 09:13 AM ET |
The Korean company Intercube has gotten FCC approval for its new 'Horizon' phone. It uses CDMA technology and has a nice big beautiful color screen. Howard Chui got his hands on one and has shared all the specs and some...
Mar 24 2003 - 09:09 AM ET | Unique
At CeBIT, Philips neglected to show off a phone with a reported standby time of a month--the longest ever for a GSM phone. Kind of odd that the talk time is a mere 7 hours, but for people that aren't...
Mar 24 2003 - 09:00 AM ET | Unique
Steve Ballmer is working on a Java application dubbed AudioMagic for Sony Ericsson's P800 that allows users to play audio encoded the popular music format Ogg Vorbis. It's not quite done yet, but he's got a demo posted as well...
Mar 24 2003 - 08:55 AM ET | Siemens
Siemens launched a new low[er] end phone today called the A55. Unlike most of the new phones coming out the A55 doesn't feature a color screen. However, not having a color screen has some benefits--battery time. Look for it immediately...
Mar 21 2003 - 09:03 PM ET |
In the past few days almost everyone has witnessed a technical marvel--mobile satellite communications. It's not just something for the big networks either. If you're wondering how much this would cost for you to do, here's what we've found....
Mar 21 2003 - 08:36 PM ET | Review
The PowerPage has a nice detailed review of the P800. Hello mobile phone envy....
Mar 21 2003 - 01:06 PM ET | Smartphone
Gizmodo notes that AT&T Wireless will be offering smartphones powered by Microsoft. No word yet if people like getting the "Blue Screen of Death" on their phones....
Mar 20 2003 - 10:21 AM ET | Motorola
Motorola has announced two more phones--the E390 and the C320. The E390 is a color screen phone with features aimed to suck in the youth while the C320 is just a stripped down (no color for instance) E390. Expect these...
Mar 19 2003 - 09:00 AM ET |
Sprint announced that it will carry the Samsung A600 (a signature phone for Spring which features a twisting screen design), and the Sanyo 8100, which supports 10-second voice notes sent with photos. This looks like a great partership for Sprint...
PhoneScoop notes that Audiovox has released two new phones: the 8900 and the 8400/8450. Both of the phones are aimed at the power user and boast color screens....
Mar 18 2003 - 09:04 PM ET | In The News
Howard Chui has posted a report from Day 1 at the CITA conference. It's an interesting read and has lots of pictures of the latest phones (most of which you have seen here). Update: Wired has a good story about...
Mar 18 2003 - 08:47 PM ET | Camera, Motorola
It's that time of year--more new phones. Motorola has announced two new clamshell style CDMA phones: the V810 and the E310. The V810 features a color screen, integrated camera with flash (something that's missing on quite a few camera phones...
Mar 18 2003 - 08:39 PM ET | Danger, T-Mobile
Danger states that their SDK is up at developer.danger.com--it's not. Hopefully it will be up soon. The Danger SDK will allow third party developers to develop applications for the popular Hiptop device. If you haven't heard of the Hiptop that's...
Mar 17 2003 - 08:00 PM ET | SMS
If you happen to live in Kuwait go buy a cell phone that can handle text messages. The goverment is going to update its citizens about the war via SMS. This is a cool use for the ubiquitous SMS....
Research In Motion has introduced the BlackBerry 6210 Wireless Handheld for North America. These little beauties are vital for members of Congress (not kidding, they really value them like children) and are a huge hit among most affluent sectors....
A really smart guy with way to much time on his hands wrote up a web server (in Java) for the Sony Ericsson P800 [previous mention]. You can serve pages via GSM or GPRS. It's even got built in real...
Kyocera has released a bunch of new goodies. Times are great in the Mobile Phone market: * SE47: Slider design (think Matrix), 65K color display, BREW, EMS, WAP 2.0, look for it in Q3. * Phantom/Blade/Rave: Mix-and-match features chosen by...
Due to an FCC filing pictures and details about an upcoming 3G phone from Motorola have been circulating. The A920 looks pretty hip--it's pretty much one big color screen. It's got a built in digital camera that can take stills...
Mar 17 2003 - 10:32 AM ET | Nokia
Nokia has released three new CDMA phones--the 6585, 3586i, and the 2200 Series. The 6585 is stocked with: a color display, MMS, FM radio, speakerphone, GPS (no, that is not a joke) and Java. This is the phone pictured at...
The geek chic Motorola V60i is available for free on Amazon.com after a $200 rebate (actually one for $50 and one for $150). Unlike a lot of current rebates, you don't have to go with T-Mobile--it's an ATT rebate. The...
Howard Chui has posted a review of the previoulsy mentioned Motorola T720. Remember, this phone is still free at Amazon.com after rebate with a T-Mobile service activation. "If you're bored of silver coloured flip phones (and there are a lot...
Mar 16 2003 - 07:50 PM ET | Camera, Samsung
Smartphones are all the rage these days. Samsung has announced the world's first Palm OS powered GSM smart phone--the Mobile Information Terminals SGH-i500. It's pretty nice, but like all Palm powered phones we have seen so far, it's clunky. Features...
Mar 16 2003 - 05:44 PM ET |
GSM Box has posted a nice article that details what exactly MMS really is. If you've ever wondered what MMS is all about, here's your chance....
LG Mobile Phones has announced 5 new models for North America at the CTIA Wireless conference in New Orleans. The phones vary widely in price/features but they all look decent: * 6000: On board camera, 262K color TFT screen on...
LetsTalk.com is giving away the Sony Ericsson T300 With Camera Attachment along with free shipping. To qualify you must open mid-level service plan with T-Mobile before the end of March 2003. As for features, the T300 is loaded. It's...
Mar 13 2003 - 04:11 PM ET | In The News
C|Net has an article about mobile phones dropping in price during 2003. As usual, that's good news for us and bad news for the manufactures. Prices should drop an average of 5% this year while still gaining more features (just...
Mar 13 2003 - 04:07 PM ET | Nokia
Just because Apple is geek chic doesn't mean that everything has to try to be sexy. Try being the key word. Nokia released some new gadgets at CeBIT and well--they aren't the coolest things around. The good news is...
Mar 13 2003 - 03:52 PM ET | Samsung
Samsung made a huge bet on the CeBIT conference by unveiling it's 2003 lineup (they don't make cars, so the 2003 phones actually come out in *gasp* 2003). The lucky patrons of the conference got to see a lot of...
Mar 13 2003 - 03:46 PM ET | Motorola
PhoneScoop is reporting that Motorola has brought out two new GSM phones at the CeBIT conference in Germany. One of the phones (the one seen at right with a color screen) boasts high-end features like a built in VGA...
Mar 13 2003 - 03:22 PM ET | Site News
To all of our readers--we're sorry. The downtime was not our fault, and was completely out of our control. We're up now, and intend to be up for a long time :). Update: Any email sent to MobileTracker.net while the...
Mar 10 2003 - 06:15 PM ET | PDA Phone, Palm
Palm's Tungsten W PDA now works on the ATT network. We're not sure how long this deal has been around, but it doesn't look like long. The Tungsten W PDA features a high resolution screen with over 65K colors,...
Mar 10 2003 - 04:04 PM ET | Site News
Our RSS feed now includes everything--full posts, HTML, and best of all images. If you are not an RSS reader yet, the address is: http://www.mobiletracker.net/index.rdf...
Mar 10 2003 - 04:01 PM ET | In The News
C|Net has an article running today about cell carriers bringing out geo-location services in the near future. Sounds like an interesting idea, but it will catch some flack from the privacy activists....
Mar 10 2003 - 02:41 PM ET | In The News
"One college student I spoke to described leaving one's phone at home or letting the battery die as "the new taboo." Teens and twentysomethings usually do not bother to set a time and place for their meetings. They exchange as...
Mar 10 2003 - 12:06 PM ET | Siemens
Another stylish phone debuts today--the Siemens SL55. This phone is tiny, just 81.6 x 44.5 x 22 mm and weighs just 79 g. The keypad is slide-behind like it looks in the picture, almost Matrix style. There is no...
Mar 10 2003 - 11:55 AM ET | Unique
ThreeGMobile is running a story about the world's thinnest phone. It's dubbed the Pen Phone, and is made by Haier. Very intersting phone....
Mar 10 2003 - 11:40 AM ET | Camera, Nokia
Nokia proves again that weird buttons can make buzz. The new 7250 has a lot of high end features (camera, polyphonic ringtones, FM radio), but the design is the standout feature. Even though it looks kind of goofy, it's...
Mar 10 2003 - 11:17 AM ET | Site News
Welcome to the new digs. Any linkage would be appreciated as we have to build up a good Google Page Rank again. If you have any scoops on mobile phones, please email news@mobiletracker.net....
Mar 07 2003 - 03:36 PM ET | Sony Ericsson
Cellular-News notes that Ericsson has been granted a patent for a mechansim to make cell phones float. Now, tie a GPS into the floating phone and you got yourself a winning product for sea captains 'round the world....
Mar 07 2003 - 03:33 PM ET | Samsung
OLED's are a promise of the future. The very thing screens use very little power, but are brighter than the power hog LCD's of today. Kodak has partnered with Samsung to bring these screens to mobile phones. Here comes the...
MiTAC has announced the first clam-shell style smart phone, the MiTAC 8380. We're not quite sure what's so smart about it--but it's got good specs: * Runs Microsoft's Windows Powered Smartphone platform * Powered by Intel's new XScale processor...
Mar 07 2003 - 03:18 PM ET | Samsung
We've got a little more info on the phone to be used in the next two Matrix movies. First off it's a Samsung. The first Matrix used Nokia 8110's, so there is at least a brand change. It still isn't...
Mar 07 2003 - 02:20 PM ET |
If you're an owner of the Sony Ericsson T68i here's how to record conersations. While talking, press the menu button and choose record. You can record until your memory is full. To retrieve these recordings, go to Fun & Games...
The Chatboard (seen at right) seems to be a nifty gadget that can attach itself to most any Sony Ericsson phone. The best part? It can be had for as little as $11 directly from Sony Ericsson....
Sony Ericsson is now taking orders for its new P800. It's probably one of the most anticipated phones of the year and will surely become a hit. The downside is the price--$649.99. For that money you could buy a...
The highly acclaimed Sony Ericsson T68i is still free over at Amazon.com. The rebate has been extended 3-4 times right as it was supposed to expire. Before the announcement by Sony Ericsson a few days ago, this was the hot...
Mar 06 2003 - 04:15 PM ET | Sony Ericsson
MacMinute links to a piece by C|Net that does a great job at wrapping up the latest offerings from Sony Ericsson. These look like some seriously cool phone--watch out for them soon....
Mar 05 2003 - 01:14 PM ET | Site News
In case you haven't heard the news--this site is going mainstream soon. We'll be at our new domain name, MobileTracker.net, within a few days (hopefully will a beautiful new template). When that happens, all of the cell station pages here...
Mar 04 2003 - 01:17 PM ET | Sony Ericsson
Sony Ericsson has released 5 new color phones: T310 - small joystick for gaming, will be sold as the T316 in the US. Warning, the link is to a bloated probably still in development Flash movie. The link came by...
Mar 03 2003 - 11:55 PM ET | Site News
Why buy your cell phone online? First, consider why you would want to buy it in the store: 1) Get it today 2) Wonderful service, and staff. When you get your phone online you benefit from: 1) Everyone else's punditry...
C|Net notes that T-Mobile and Handspring have teamed up with the Treo 270. We could have sworn this was old news, but it's fresh on C|Net today. The PDA Phone is $499, and is available now....
Mar 03 2003 - 01:37 PM ET | Bluetooth
If you've snagged a cool Bluetooth phone, it's time to get a nifty wireless headset. The downside of being on the bleeding edge is the cost. For some reason Bluetooth headsets are expensive. Here's the playing field: Jabra FreeSpeak Bluetooth...
The stylish Motorla V70 is still free after rebate at Amazon.com with a new service activation from T-Mobile. The phone has a cool swivel design (yes, that's what the cool transparent stuff is in the picture). The screen is...
If you buy the Motorola C332 from Letstalk.com, you'll profit $50 after rebate....
Amazon has a great rebate offer going for the Motorola T720i with camera attachment. After the $250 in rebates (this is a T-Mobile service contract dependant rebate), the phone is free. The downside? The rebate is good until tomorrow...
The Kyocera 7135 hasn't gotten much press, but it should have. It's a phone that runs the Palm OS. If it were only a little smaller, it would be a hit....
