The cell phone used to be mainly about making calls but those days are long gone. The past decade has seen the device into the swiss army knife of consumer electronics. Not only can you take pictures and video with your phone, you can use it to send e-mails, chat on yahoo and aim, listen to your favorite tunes, get directions and surf the internet.
The technology has come a long way since the days of brick shaped analog phones that barely fit in a purse, let alone a pocket. Two years ago, experts predicted that there would be 3 billion cell phone subscribers worldwide by 2010. Now it looks as if we’ll pass the 3 billion mark by the end of this year. Read More Here
T-Mobile customers across the United States are experiencing network outages that are preventing them from making calls. The outage, according to T-Mobile representatives, is nationwide and could last for several hours. Join Sprint Noobs
There’s nothing typical about Sony Ericsson’s Pureness handset so why should details about its launch differ? Brand Republic, a magazine focused on advertising, quotes Sony Ericsson’s director of marketing, Cathy Davies, saying that the low-spec’d (said to lack GPS, camera, WiFi, and gasp, a touchscreen) candybar with translucent display will go on sale in November for £530 at Selfridges and “design museum shops.” And if it wasn’t already clear (get it?), SE says that it’s positioning the device as “an iconic niche product, not mass-market.” In other words, Harrods shoppers need not apply.
Not that there was any doubt, but Nokia’s gone official with its Verizon-bound 7705 Twist, just shy of one month after its KIRF counterpart hit the market. Espoo’s released a handful of glamor shots to celebrate, and although the hardware is still crazy enough to thoroughly pique our interests, all the airbrushing in the world won’t break that UI from its “mid-nineties dumbphone” shackles. Price is less than what we previously heard, $99.99 with two-year contract thanks to a $50 mail-in rebate.
