Nov 27 2003 - 12:20 AM ET | Site News
Put the cell phone down this weekend and spend a little time with family. The news will resume in full force Monday. - MobileTracker staff...
Nov 26 2003 - 05:37 PM ET | Smartphone
There is a lot more information available on the much-talked-about Sendo X smartphone thanks to a press conference held by Send. MobileBurn has posted extensive coverage of the event, including some hi-res photos of the phone. Some of the highlights...
MPx200.org has a scoop on the rumored camera attachment for the popular Motorola MPx200 smartphone. The device has an impressive feature set, but surprisingly lacks a camera. The yet-to-be-announced device fits into the phone's SD slot and is rumored to...
Nov 26 2003 - 04:58 PM ET | SMS
Text message fever is still gripping the UK according to a new report out of the Mobile Data Association. The figures, released yesterday, show that UK mobile phone users sent a record 1.8 billion text messages last month....
Nov 26 2003 - 04:46 PM ET | Camera
SENT will be America's first art gallery dedicated to images taken with camera phones. The exhibition will open to the public during February in LA at the SixSpace gallery. MobileTracker friend (and reviewer) Sean Bonner owns the gallery with Caryn...
Nov 26 2003 - 01:41 PM ET | Camera, Motorola
Motorola has announced that the V295 won't make it to market. The phone, targeted at the Chinese market, was cancelled due to lack of demand according to Motorola. The company already sells two other camera equipped phones in China, the...
Research In Motion announced its newest BlackBerry handheld--the 7730. It is a tri-band GSM device, and sports a color screen (making it only the second BlackBerry to come with a color screen). You can purchase the unit starting today in...
MobileBurn notes that Sony Ericsson is putting the final touches on its first 3G phone--the Z1010. According to the report, the Z1010 could be here as early as January....
Nov 25 2003 - 08:52 PM ET | In The News
Yet another study has found that more and more US consumers are opting for cell phones over home phones. bq. "Nationwide, nearly one in thirty (3.5%) households with Home PCs have no phone line, up from 2.4% only one year...
Amazon.com is selling the Handspring Treo 600 for $249.99 after rebates--more than 50% of the sticker price. To get the rebates, you must sign a contract through Sprint PCS. According to the website, your order will ship within 24 hours....
Nov 24 2003 - 10:25 PM ET | AT&T Wireless
AT&T Wireless announced that is in the process of giving credits to its customers affected by the GSM activation glitch we reported on earlier this month. There are still a few customers that haven't been activated, but the company said...
Nov 24 2003 - 04:09 PM ET | Camera
While wireless carrier stocks are down, investors are loving mobile phone manufacturers. Thanks mostly to the brisk sales of camera phones, shares of some phone makers are way up. Investors are betting that 2004 will be the year of the...
Nov 24 2003 - 02:39 PM ET | In The News
Cellular News notes that a recent study found there are more mobile phones than land lines in China. The country has nearly 260 million mobile phones while only 255 million landlines. Along the same lines, by 2007 China is expected...
Nov 24 2003 - 02:36 PM ET | Siemens
Siemen's hi-fashion Xelibri line that we reported on last month have been put in discount retailers. Originally the line was selling only in upscale boutiques. bq. " After launching a second collection in October, Siemens is now selling the remaining...
The red-hot Handspring Treo 600 is now shipping to AT&T customers. There was a slight delay, but according to the company, customers are now getting their units. You can snag the Treo 600 for $499 with a contract, or for...
We're finally at November 24th--the most highly anticipated day in years for the cellular industry. If you live in one of the top 100 wireless markets, you can now switch to another carrier without losing your number. Check our quick...
Cingular Wireless sent out a press release stating that it has ported its first customer--boxing champion Felix "Tito" Trinidad. Trinidad lives in Puerto Rico, so he was able to transfer at 11PM ET on November 23rd, an hour before anyone...
Tonight is the eve of Local Number Portability, and we thought it was a good time to post the info we've been getting: * Remember that only the top 100 markets are going to have portability active tomorrow. Phone scoop...
While the rest of the world is still getting ready to hop on the 3G bandwagon, Japan and China are working together on 4G. The three-year project is going to start in December, and will use the upcoming IPv6 standardl....
As local number portability moved closer, stocks in wireless carriers dropped. CBS Marketwatch says this is due to the increased costs of both following the rules and staying competitive. Wireless plans are expected to drop, and the perks are expected...
Nov 21 2003 - 03:51 PM ET | Review
The power-packed business user aimed Nokia 6600 has hit store shelves and the reviews have started to come in. MobileBurn and InfoSync have both posted their thoughts on the Series 60 Symbian powered device. bq. "What's small, chubby and the...
NEC's new 525 HDM is its first camera phone for the US market. It's a quad-band GSM/GPRS handset with an impressive feature set. According to the company, it's already shipping through AT&T Wireless. * 162x216 pixel 65K color main screen...
Nov 21 2003 - 02:57 PM ET | Cingular, Rumor
Cingular Wireless is reportedly looking to aquire a major GSM competitor in the US. The other nationwide GSM wireless carriers are AT&T Wireless and T-Mobile USA. Either one of these would be huge deals. The deal is supposed to go...
Nov 21 2003 - 02:38 PM ET | AT&T Wireless
AT&T Wireless re-launched its mMode service yesterday. Included in the update is new content from RealNetworks and MSN. What's this mean for you? bq. MSN: If you have an MSN powered email address (hotmail for example), or use MSN Messenger,...
T-Mobile has announced that it will begin shipping the Motorola V300 next week. The phone is pretty well stocked, but its best feature is price--under $100. Other phones that have similar features sets cost 2 to 3 times that, and...
Nov 19 2003 - 01:38 PM ET | Sprint Nextel
According to RCR Wireless News, Sprint PCS is in the final stages of bringing native SMS to its customers. This falls inline with other reports we have heard. The carrier has long been criticized for its WAP-based text messaging service....
The FCC is not backing down from its longstanding ban of telemarketing to cellphones. Telemarketing companies claim that with local number portability, it will be impossible to tell what numbers are cell phones (we reported earlier this month that you'll...
Nov 18 2003 - 09:57 PM ET | Danger
HipTop maker Danger has signed up a new wireless carrier. Edge Wireless will promote a device based off the HipTop model, making the company one of only a few carriers to do so. T-Mobile is Danger's major licensee. However, this...
AT&T Wireless has announced nationwide coverage for EDGE high-speed data. The new technology pushes data over its GSM network 2 times faster than before. Average speeds hover around 100-130 kbps. Nokia recently announced several new EDGE compatible phones, and made...
Nov 18 2003 - 03:50 PM ET | Camera, Motorola
Motorola today announced a new camera phone for the European and Asian markets. The C550 sports an integrated VGA resolution digital camera, multimedia messaging and Java support. It should hit store shelves this year. One of the more interesting aspects...
Nov 18 2003 - 03:39 PM ET | Miscellaneous
A massive study that will try to identify the potential risks of cell phone usage has been funded by the US government. For the past 10 years, there have been concerns that cell phones can foster the development of brain...
Sprint PCS today announced its long rumored push-to-talk serviced dubbed PCS ReadyLink. It's a nation wide walkie-talkie like service akin to Nextel DirectConnect. Currently the service is only available on two phones, the Sanya RL2000 and the Sanyo RL2500. Both...
T-Mobile Germany is in talks to sell its 50% stake in Virgin Mobile, Britain's fifth-largest mobile phone company. The other half is owned by Virgin Group. Both companies have announced they are talking, but the terms of the possible deal...
Nov 15 2003 - 04:20 PM ET | Motorola
In September of this year, we reported that the Motorola A920 is locked from 3rd party applications. According to 3, the company who applied the lock, the move was to secure the phone from possible malicious applications. The public didn't...
Last week we noted Amazon.com was selling the red-hot Motorola MPx200 smartphone for $129.99. That promotion was so successful that rebates were not only extended, they were increased! You can now snag the phone for $79.99 with an AT&T Wireless...
Nov 15 2003 - 04:04 PM ET | DoCoMo
NTT DoCoMo has contracted with Intel to build chips for its next-generation phones. the chips will, "Allow users to enjoy audio and data communications and image processing at once." As phones have gotten more complex, the chips that power them...
Nov 15 2003 - 03:47 PM ET | Unique
A new cell phone jammer dubbed the SH066P has hit the market. It's trick is that it comes disguised as a circa 1998 mobile phone. The device has a range of 10-15 yards, which doesn't seem quite far enough to...
Nov 14 2003 - 03:37 PM ET | Sprint Nextel
Sprint PCS has added a tier to its "free nights" promotion. For $5 more a months, all calls made after 7PM are free. With basic free nights, calls must be placed after 9PM to qualify. T-Mobile recently updated their "free...
Nov 12 2003 - 01:52 PM ET | Cingular
Cingular Wireless has teamed up with photo mega-co Eastman Kodak to provide printing services for its customers with camera phones. "Under the pact, Cingular Wireless customers will be able to transfer pictures taken with a camera phone onto Kodak's new...
Nokia has announced the Nokia 5140. It's the first GSM phone with push-to-talk (PTT). Besides the VoIP GPRS powered PTT, it comes loaded with all the things you'd expect from a high-end Nokia handset: * Tri-band GSM * VGA camera...
Nov 11 2003 - 01:23 PM ET | Nokia
A hacker group says they have cracked the Nokia N-Gage and are able to play its games on other mobile phones. Nokia is investigating the claim, but it seems accurate to us. Our friends at Club-Siemens have screenshots of an...
Nov 11 2003 - 11:58 AM ET | Cingular
Cingular Wireless has announced a re-buffed partnership with AOL. Customers can now have full access to their AIM/ICQ buddy lists and have real time conversations from their phones. Starting this month the service will be available for IM ready phones,...
The FCC has issued a clarification of the local number portability (LNP) at the request of major wireless carriers. The statement said consumers should be able to move their landline numbers to wireless companies even if the two companies do...
Nov 10 2003 - 03:55 PM ET | AT&T Wireless
Late last week we reported that AT&T Wireless was unable to activate new GSM users due to a software glitch. Reportedly, the company is still backlogged. We've got to believe that a lot of customers have made use of the...
Nov 10 2003 - 03:45 PM ET | Rumor
The latest rumor to hit the fan is that Nokia is trying to edge out Psion to gain more control over the Symbian mobile operating system. Currently Nokia owns 32% of Symbian, and Psion 31%. The take over would cause...
Verizon Wireless has launched the new Samsung SCH-i600 Smartphone, making it the first CDMA Microsoft powered smartphone. The move was widely rumored and is a big step for Verizon Wireless, especially with number portability looming in a few weeks. Feature...
Motorola's popular MPx200 smartphone now costs just $129.99 after rebates over at Amazon.com. The phone runs Microsoft's Windows Mobile 2002 OS and comes with familiar applications like Word and Internet Explorer. The only thing that the handset lacks is a...
Cingular Wireless has announced that it has launched 2 new LG phones that use the GSM standard. Most of the phones from the manufacturer use the CDMA standard which is used by Verizon Wireless. The G4010 is designed with cost...
Two large US cellular networks are having major problems according to separate reports. C|Net says that a software glitch has some AT&T Wireless customers high and dry. If you purchased a GSM phone from AT&T Wireless in the last 6...
Nov 06 2003 - 03:54 PM ET | Danger
Danger has released an OTA (Over the Air) update for its HipTop devices that adds free ringtones and a few new apps. Since the introduction of the developer program in March of this year, Danger has still not allowed developers...
Nov 06 2003 - 08:35 AM ET | Nokia
Nokia either has no feel for consumers, or all the news on the web is wrong. According to The Register, the company is, "pretty pleased with the viral uptake from consumers and the feedback that we are getting". The company...
Nov 05 2003 - 08:17 AM ET | In The News
According to a recent IDC release, worldwide mobile phone shipments were up 21.2% for the 3rd quarter vs. the same quarter a year ago. The total number of phones shipped was an impressive 130 million. Here are the standings: *...
Nov 03 2003 - 04:15 PM ET | Virgin Mobile
Virgin Mobile USA has surpassed the 1 million customer mark according to a release by the company. Although it's a far shy from the numbers that the top US carriers are pulling, Virgin Mobile USA is new--only 5 quarters of...
The Treo 600 is now shipping from Cingular. There was some talk about a delay with the GSM model of the Treo 600, but those rumors seem to have flamed out. The smartphone costs $499 and is available today. Note:...
Nov 03 2003 - 07:56 AM ET | SMS
It's no secret that SMS is popular in Asia, but this story really highlights it. A teen racked up $2300 in charges for 15 days of texting. How? Chat rooms mostly. Because of other similar cases, SIM cards that limit...
