Month: February 2004
Moto's 3G duo
Motorola added a bit of spice to another wise fairly dull 3GSM show with the unveiling of a pair of 3G handsets. Scheduled for a launch in autumn are the A1000 and E1000. Probably the more interesting of the…
3 launches Pay As You Go
Struggling 3G outfit 3 has announced it is to enter the pay as you go arena with its own extremely competitively priced PAYG service. With pay as you go now accounting for around 70 per cent of the mobile…
Freeview in 3 million homes
Some good news for Digital Terrestrial TV at last. Figures from Ofcom – the new catch-all communications watchdog – show that the number of Freeview customers rose by over 40 per cent in the last quarter of 2003. According to…
LG 3G phone for Orange
A quick postscript to the Orange 3G announcement. The network confirmed that for its 3G trials it will use Motorola and LG handsets. The Motorola deal is no surprise, but as for LG it is a huge shot in…
Strip poker for your mobile
Here's one new game for your mobile phone that we are looking forward to see others playing in public. Finnish games provider Wes has teamed up with Playboy to deliver a strip poker game for your handset. Details are a…
Alphacell debuts M5
More news from Cannes. Mobile phone maker Alphacell has unveiled a handset aimed at the youth market. The M5 is a mid-range camera phone with a 65K colour display, audio and video playback and Internet browsing. The device can…
Orange 3G launch
Orange has announced details of the roll-out of its 3G services across Europe at the 3GSM exhibition in Cannes, France today. Here's the full story – Fully commercial 3G launch in second half of 2004 – Commercial trials to be…
Nokia's Wi-Fi brick
Nokia made the first big announcement of this year's 3GSM exhibition in Cannes, France when it unveiled a new version of its Communicator handset. The 9500, the first fruits of its collaboration with IBM, is smaller and lighter than…
Surf and Sniff
First there was Smell-O-Vision cinema, then scratch 'n' sniff TV. Now it's the turn of the internet to tickle our nasal passages, claims The Mirror US technology company Trisenx (www.trisenx.com) has developed a 'scent dome' which will enable companies…
Xelibri fashion phones review
Our guest reviewer Charlotte Ricca-Smith has been busily pulling part the four fashion phones launched recently by Siemens under its Xelebri banner – here's her verdict….