The head of the UN’s agency for information and communication technologies has gazed deep into his crystal ball and predicted that there will be 4 billion mobile phone users by the end of this year – which equals more than half of the planet’s estimated 6.7 billion inhabitants.
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Mobile Phones: Than Half The World’s Population Are Now Connected
MBW-200: Sony Bluetooth Watches For Women
Sony have introduced Bluetooth watches for women that have control over mobile phones.
We all know that lots of women keep their mobile phones in the handbags rather than stuff them in the back pockets like men do and most of them don’t clutch them in their mits a-la Paris Hilton.
“The Truth About Mobile Phones” Revealed
Decide What To Buy have an interesting piece about “The truth about mobile phones.”
They’ve gone out and asked 31,000 people about their mobile phones and collated the info.
It reveals what we all knew really, that people primarily buy phone for what the look like.
Google Maps For Mobile Gets Street View And Public Transit Features
We’re been feeling big time love for Google’s freebie Mobile Maps application for some time, and the experience has just got a little bit better thanks to the efforts of their team of ever-industrious boffins.
HTC Touch HD (Video) World First
Some clever French chaps calling themselves Generation Phone House seem to have got their hands on a pre-release HTC Touch HD – and luckily enough for all of us, they’ve shot a video showing the device.
HTC Touch 3G And Touch HD Handsets Unveiled
Slipping out of HTC’s ever-industrious product factory in rather a half cocked manner is two new high-end HTC Touch handsets; the Touch 3G and Touch HD.
Both seemed to have suffered leaked releases, with product pages going up and down all over t’shop, but here’s what we’ve found out so far.
Microsoft Skymarket Online App Store Arrives Late To The Party
After casting envious looks at the hugely successful AppStore for the iPhone and hearing about Google’s proposed Android Market for the Android smartphone platform, Microsoft looks set to belatedly join the online mobile apps store party.
Sleek HTC S740 Handset Packs QWERTY, Wi-Fi, GPS
If you’ve been digging those oh-so-silky-smooth lines of the HTC Touch Pro but were expelling harumphs at the lack of a full keyboard, then let your undercarriage moisten rapidly at the sight of the all-new HTC S740 featuring not one, but two keyboards.
Nokia N85, N79 GPS Handsets Announced For UK
Nokia has officially announced two new handsets for the UK market, the N85 and the N79, with both expected to be diving headlong into the pockets and handbags of Brits sometime next month.
Palm Pro WM Smartphone Looks A Good ‘Un
After a Flash demo was apparently ‘accidentally’ posted on Palm’s website, bloggers have been busy digging up more information about the forthcoming Palm Pro handset – and by all accounts it’s a bit of a beauty. Much to our joy.