Category: Mobile phones
3G LG comes to 3
3's been doing a good job recently of getting some decent sized (by which we mean small) 3G phones onto its network. The LG U8120 is its latest addition, an upgraded version of LG's U8110 video mobile that comes with…
Nokia 7610 V Sharp GX-30
The Guardian has a short-ish feature on the future of the camera phones. It looks at the pair of one mega pixel models currently on sale (Nokia 7610 and Sharp GX30) and gauges whether they can give digital cameras a…
Review: Motorola V3 RAZR
We've managed to get our hands on Motorola's V3 RAZR. Here's our review of the super sleek handset. If it's true you can never be too thin or too rich, then perhaps you should be spending all that money on…
Motorola E398 on sale now
Motorola's E398 music phone is available now for £199.99 on T-Mobile pay as you go. The mobile's major selling point is its built-in MP3 and MPEG4 player and the stereo speakers that's supposed to endow the handset with superior music…
Vodafone launches 3G trial in UK
It's all very well selling 3G PC cards to laptop owners, but selling 3G handsets is sure to be something of a nightmare for Vodafone. Especially as the 3G handsets the company has got just can't compete with the slimmer,…
Budget phone company from easyGroup
Master of no-frills (or should that be thrills?) airline easyJet, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, has confirmed that he is launching a budget mobile phone company to compete with the likes of Virgin and T-Mobile. The company, which is almost certainly to be…
BT converts txts into speech :)
Some of the newer landline phones have texting capabilities, but if you're still using the old faithful plastic phone from the pre-privatisation days that was already in the house when you moved in, you'll have had to actually speak to…
Pay using your mobile
This story will come as welcome news for the pickpockets on Oxford Street. Over in Japan, 3G mobile phone owners can now pay for things using their mobile phones, saving thieves the trouble of stealing both your phone and your…
Nokia to offer music downloads service
Nokia may be lagging behind in the multimedia stakes, but the company seems intent on doing something about its slipping popularity. After Motorola's recent deal with Apple to get iTunes onto its handsets, Nokia has struck a similar deal with…
Samsung outstripping Nokia
Samsung is apparently the "clear market leader" in terms of the number of its handsets that come with an integrated camera and MMS capabilities, according to EMC's latest edition of World Cellular Handset Tracker. Research based on 17 handset markets…