Ultra-Thin Cell Phones Getting Thinner

Motorola has found the perfect "diet" - for cell phones. It just announced the next four-letter-series phone to be known as SCPL, pronounced Scalpel. The word is that SCPL will be thinner than RAZR or SLVR. How thin can they go? For starters take a look at how skinny the latest ultra-thin cell phones have become, then stay tuned.>>>MORE ...

LG FUSIC Phone Ready To Rock

How do you combine fun and music all in one device? It's called FUSIC, and that's the name of the latest trendsetting cell phone from LG. The new LG FUSIC phone is the first in the U.S. with an FM radio transmitter.>>>MORE ...

Mobile Phones Poised To Overtake PCs

Mobile phones could soon rival the PC as the dominant Internet platform in some markets, according to a new study by global market research firm Ipsos Insight. See why it's thumbs up for mobile browsing.>>>MORE ...

Kyocera's New Cell Phone For Teens

Text-happy teens should have something new to smile about when Kyocera's latest camera phone with QWERTY keyboard hits the market in late April. It looks like a pretty complete package.>>>MORE ...

Jitterbug Swings Simpler Mobiles For Seniors

If Samsung has its way, baby boomers will soon be making great calls on simpler cell phones. Jointly developed by Samsung and GreatCall, the Jitterbug cell phone for seniors promises an unprecedented level of wireless simplicity for boomers and their parents.>>>MORE ...

Satellite Radio Coming To Cell Phones?

It's only a matter of time before satellite radio hooks up with cell phones. But that's not soon enough for some. While the business plans for mobile are reportedly still being conceived at XM and Sirius, some techies are already pushing the envelope to bring satellite radio to cell phones. Here's the low down on what's cooking.>>>MORE ...

Are Your Text Messages Short Enough?

Text messages should be short and quick. But do coded cell phone text messages like "CU L8R M8!" or "IUKWIM" leave you puzzled? It's NBD (No Big Deal). Here's a tip - there's an online collection of text message shorthand and acronyms just for you. Even mobile phone texting experts will likely learn a thing or two.>>>MORE ...

Navigating By Cell Phone Gets Trendy

Will the cell phone become the navigational device of the future? With turn-by-turn driving directions now being delivered as a new class of cell phone services, we are well on the road to the future. The new VZ Navigator fits this trend.>>>MORE ...

Cell Phone - The New Fitness Coach

There's a new coach in town. Thanks to a suite of applications just released by Sprint-Nextel, your cell phone could provide the "push" for that extra mile of triathlon training or for that long walk around the neighborhood. Add physical fitness to the benefits of cell phones.>>>MORE ...

New Music Phone - SLVR Plays iTunes

For those who think Motorola's ROKR hit the rocks, there's a silver lining in the clouds. The just-released ultra-thin Motorola SLVR L7 with iTunes comes rocking with expandable memory and lots of multimedia gizmos.>>>MORE ...

Bratz Mobile Phone - One For The Girls

MGA Entertainment, maker of Bratz fashion dolls and accessories, has teamed up with Ztar Mobile to launch the Bratz Mobile phone, providing young girls with a new gadget for staying in touch with parents and friends.

The handset for this mobile phone comes from Sony-Ericsson. The word is that Walmart will carry the new gadget. Add one more to the growing list of cell phones for children.>>>MORE ...

Mobile Box Office For Cell Phones

So much for ticket lines. Your cell phone is packing a lot more punch than you ever imagined. Now it can even buy your way to entertainment events - thanks to Mobile Box Office, which sends bar-coded messages to mobile phones.>>>MORE ...

Life's Good - Migo Phone For Little Kids

The only thing more popular than the "cell phones for children" trend is the ongoing debate about cell phones for children. Add one more to the latest phones for kids - LG's VX1000, also known as the LG Migo.

It's in good company with the growing list of kid phones such as Firefly Mobile, Wherifone, iCare and Hasbro's toyish CHATNOW.>>>MORE ...

Most Wanted: Two-Day Battery Life

What do consumers want most from future all-in-one cell phones? According to research by TNS, over 75 percent of mobile phone and PDA users in the U.S. rate "two-days of battery life during active use" as the most important feature.>>>MORE ...

Mobile Ticketing On Cell Phones

Forget the cereal boxes. And look for redeemable two-dimensional tickets and coupons delivered through your mobile phone. Tickets and coupons by cell phone is becoming a likely scenario in your future.>>>MORE ...

TV Show Features "Talk" Ringtone

What happens when CSI: NY investigator Danny Messer's cell phone rings to the tune of "Talk" by Grammy Award-winning band Coldplay?

Find out Wednesday, November 30, as television, music and cell phones link up in an upcoming episode of CSI: NY - the CBS TV drama series.

Then right after the show, you may want to download a ringtone from "Talk" in realtone format onto your cell phone.>>>MORE ...

Cell Phone Solution - Look 'Ma, No Clicks

A new solution from Motorola now puts the mobile phone home screen zero clicks away from wireless Web content and cell phone services, including news, sports and entertainment. Motorola dubs it SCREEN3. With no buttons to push or browsers to launch, hello SCREEN3.>>>MORE ...

Jay Leno Goes Mobile

You can now get your laughs on demand, with access to video segments from "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on your mobile phone, as part of Sprint TV service. TV on mobile phones is closer than you think. It's coming to a cell phone near you.>>>MORE ...

Have iPod Will Text-Message

What do iPods and cell phones have in common? Well get this - iPod users are 2.5 times as likely (as non-users) to exchange text messages on cell phones, and three times as likely to take photos with a camera phone. That's according to a new Intelliseek study of 660 online consumers.>>>MORE ...

Samsung Phone Breaks Storage Barrier

Samsung has taken cell phones to the next level with its release of the SPH-V7900 mobile phone. The new model packs a whopping three gigabytes of embedded storage. What does this mean for mobile infotainment?

You can cram three full-length digital movies into a cell phone or about 700 songs. Cell phones currently have a limit of about 300 songs or one gigabyte.

Coming at a time when storage capacity has become a key metric for the latest music phones, Samsung's direction is great news. The storage barrier has been broken. And it won't be the last time. You can count on it. >>>MORE ...