06-05-2009
The mobile phone music industry is predicted to grow, according to a study by Juniper Research , which forecasts an annual revenue increase to $5.5 billion worldwide by 2014 from the current $2.5 billion....
06-03-2009
Cell phone maker INQ Mobile plans to introduce a Twitter phone in time for the Christmas sales season, hoping to benefi...
05-11-2009
In an age when anyone with a video-capable cell phone can have their own TV channel on the Web, it is still the celebrities and rock stars who are getting all the views (just as on Twitter they get the most followers). Kyte CEO Daniel Graf knows this fact all too well. Of the 215,000 video channels on Kyte, nearly all are created by consumers, but...
04-26-2009
HELSINKI, FINLAND: Design firm Pilotfish unveiled on Monday plans to make an advanced music phone , hoping to tap untested demand for music editing on the go....
03-10-2009
Samsung has announced its slick new S5600 touch cell phone. This new touch phone offers a large 2.8-inch QVGA (240 x 320 pixel) resolution touchscreen display and Samsung's own TouchWiz user interface for intuitive web browsing and navigation....
02-16-2009
How many megapixels can you squeeze into a cell phone? On the eve of the big Mobile World Congress wireless telecom trade show here in Barcelona, Spain, the race is on. At pre-show press conferences, Samsung and Sony Ericsson between them unveiled three handsets, each with cameras boasting at least as many megapixels as my current Canon point-and...
01-27-2009
Mobile video service Kyte is trying hard these days to please its biggest (paying) customers: music labels and their artists, primarily. Performers such as 50 Cent and John Legend use Kyte to record behind-the-scenes moments on their cell phones and then share them over the web immediately with their fans. To help its customers manage their mobi...
01-11-2009
Today Sony Ericsson debuted its new W715 Walkman cell phone, with a planned initial release on Vodafone's network. This slick slider sports quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900MHz) and dual-band UMTS (900/2100MHz), with HSPA and WiFi for high-speed data connections....
12-31-2008
LAS VEGAS, Dec. 30, 2008 -- Ringtones, a feature of cell phones, can be a custom and personalized way for people to express themselves when their cell phone rings. The new cell phones have improved in sound quality so that anyone can project the ringing of their incoming calls with the quality of real music....
12-29-2008
Many consumers take it for granted that the next generation of iPod, cell phone or flash drive will contain ever more memory to store music, photos and videos. That's because scientists and engineers have continually devised ways to shrink the components on flash memory chips to cram more data into small devices....
12-24-2008
In the U.K., the Nokia N96 is now being offered as a Comes With Music device. Nokia's Comes With Music initiative includes select cell phones, and includes a voucher for 1 year of unlimited downloads from the Nokia Music Store. The Nokia Music Store uses Microsoft's PlaysForSure DRM protection....
12-22-2008
The Motorola Motozine ZN5 is part cell phone, part digital camera. It's the brainchild of a partnership between Motorola and Kodak, boasting a 5-megapixel camera with a bevy of impressive settings and features. And at $99 (after a $100 mail-in rebate) it comes at an unbeatable price--it's much less... ...
12-08-2008
My cell phone rang in the newsroom four times Friday afternoon. Normally having my cell phone ring in the newsroom is no big deal. I mean, my cell phone often rings in the newsroom....
12-01-2008
Stephanie Myers of Allston is the best around, and nothing's going to ever keep her down. How does she know? The 26-year-old's cell phone tells her so every time... ...