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...
