It doesn’t seem that long ago that mobile phones were the sole province of braying city slickers bellowing, “Buy! Sell!” into their handsets, but new research shows that two thirds of the world’s cell phone subscriptions are now in developing nations.
A study by the United Nations agency, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), found that the highest growth rate of mobile subscriptions was in Africa where over a quarter (28 per cent) of the population own mobile phones – a huge leap up from 2000 where just 2 per cent Africans were connected.
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The second phone based on Google’s operating system Android has been pulled out of the bag by Vodafone as the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona continues to pepper the landscape with new handsets galore.
Mobile manufacturing maestros HTC have announced updates to their Touch Diamond and Touch Pro 3G phones, imaginatively called the Touch Diamond2 and Touch Pro2.
Shiny new handsets continue to be lobbed out of the
The Mobile Data Association (MDA) has been running wild over towering mountains of raw data, skipping gaily through meadows of mobile traffic reports and splashing in streams of SMS statistics to being you their latest quarterly report on mobile phone usage in the UK.
With a deft tug on the velvet rope, Sony Ericsson’s curtains have swished to one side to reveal their new Walkman W995 smartphone, promising punters nothing less than a “complete on-the-move entertainment experience”.
The new phones just keep on coming as the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona looms ever-closer, and the latest update to hit t’Internet is a fact’n’stat assault by Nokia’s new Nokia’s 5630 XpressMusic candybar-style handset.
In yet another leak ahead of next week’s