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The Snapdragon So Far: Big Phones

The Qualcomm Snapdragon seems to be on its way to becoming the Atom of the smartphone world. With a clock speed of 1GHz and a low-power ARM design, this chip is fast […]

Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA X10: Review

Finally, Sony Ericsson’s Rachael has become official. The amount of speculation and expectation that this phone had behind it, I was almost apprehensive about the entire thing. It might’ve been a huge […]

iPhone Update: Marvel Comics, Easy Time Lapse Video, Real Time Translation And more

Good news iPhone lovers and users in general, we finally have apps in the App Store that do things we have always wanted to do with the iPhone. First up, we finally […]

New Samsung Android Phone, T-Mobile Project Dark Plans Leaked, NASDAQ And Amazon Release iPhone Apps

Alright, it is barely past the start of the week and it looks like we have quite a few phone related tings to talk about. There’s a new Android phone that is […]

Spring Design's Alex And B&N's Nook

The eBook reader market has been growing a lot lately. Don’t take my word for it, just count how many new eBook readers we have seen recently and how many new companies […]

Sync your Android phone with Banshee

Recently I finally managed to get rid of my iPhone for a much more Linux-geek friendly mobile - the HTC Hero. One of my issues with the iPhone was that, in order […]

Motorola Sholes/Droid Rumor Round Up: Is there no end to the wait?

Before I even start, looks like it’s time to start using the new and official name for this phone as suggested by this spy shot. But we have all gotten so used […]

Japan: Mandatory DRM Software In All Mobile Phones To Fight Music Piracy

Japanese mobile phone developers, companies and the recording industry of Japan are in talks currently to agree on new anti-piracy measures to fight music piracy in Japan according to the Financial Times. […]

How To Make Free Calls From Your Computer With Google Voice

About three weeks ago, I finally got an invite for Google Voice, the new phone-managing service from Google that I’d been itching to try out since before it was even called Google […]

Computer Software

Have you ever wondered how and why your computer operates as it does? Why does it turn on and load the operating system? It is working because of the computer software that […]

Palm Mojo SDK Released

Its not everyday that you have a phone that lives up to its hype, a few that have in recent years has been the iPhone, Razr, Omnia, Touch HD and more recently […]

Android vs. webOS

So far we’ve heard quite a bit of comparisons between the webOS platform and OSX (for the iPhone), as well as Android vs. OSX. But so far, comparisons between both Android and […]

Why Blackberry and Windows Mobile isn’t going anywhere

iPhone sells 1,000,000 devices in its opening weekend, Palm sells 300,000 Pre’s in 3 weeks, T-Mobile has 1,000,000 G1’s in circulation. You’d think with these numbers Microsoft and RIM would be pacing […]

Europe To Get Standard Phone Chargers

Non-standard phone chargers are one of the most annoying things of cell phones. The life-cycle of a cell phone is usually two years. That's when the contract ends and a new cell […]

5 Things we’re still missing from our Smartphones

With the iPhone, Pre, and a whole host of Android devices out the door, the race for the control of the cell phone market is heating up. As things usually go in […]

The Windows Marketplace Advantage

It has been known for some time that hardly any innovation goes into the technology world these days. While many will debate as to whether this is true or not, a quick […]

T-Mobile myTouch

Although the first Google Android phone was a success (albeit moderate) it was eclipsed by more prominent players in the industry such as Apple, Blackberry (Storm) and most recently Palm with their […]

Apple iPhone 3GS

The iPhone 3GS! By now you’re probably familiar with the device and the name, (S stands for SPEED!). But in case you had a few questions regarding OS 3.0 or the new […]

Remote PC Access, Android PC Remote Access Program

Google's Android operating system is still only available in one commercial device, the T-Mobile G1 cell phone. Cell phone manufacturers and Google are however planning to release at least 18 Android based […]

Review: System76 Pangolin Performance laptop

System 76 is a company, founded in 2005, dedicated to the spreading of Linux and open source. They are so dedicated to this cause they sell Linux-only hardware. You might be saying […]

iPhones: they aren't as bad as you think

A couple of months ago, I did something I thought I never would do: I bought an iPhone. Technology enthusiasts generally seem pretty torn about these devices: some see them as fantastic […]

Nokia Map Loader

Nokia Map Loader is a software program for the Windows and Macintosh operating system that has been designed by Nokia. The application can download maps for the Nokia Maps service directly to […]

Use your computer as a phone for free

I recently discovered a really cool feature in Vista (I think it isn't available quite so readily in XP), which allows you to transform your computer into a phone really easily. Of […]

Fon lets you download without your computer

I don't know if you guys know about the Fon router, I have personally used one for ages. It is a community based project, the thinking is that a lot of people […]

Play Videos on your Mobile Phone with Vuclip

Almost everyone has at least one mobile phone in these days and phones have become more than devices which you can use to talk to people or chat with them. Today's phones […]

Annoying Blinking LED Lights

Hardware devices that I buy seem to come quite frequently with annoying blinking LED lights that cannot be turned off. The first device that made use of a bright blue LED was […]

Nokia Cell Phone Unbranding

The same Nokia cell phone model can come with different firmware versions depending on the cell phone provider that sold the cell phone. It is not uncommon that Nokia cell phones provided […]

Connect Bot SSH Client For Android Phone

I bought the T-Mobile G1 phone just a few days ago and have been browsing around Android Market, the phone's application market, quite a bit. One of the applications that I discovered […]

Google Android Application Store Browser

If you are considering getting a Google Android phone in the future - be it the only one available, the T-Mobile G1, or cell phones running the Android OS from other companies […]

Windows Mobile Wallpaper Packs

Windows Mobile Wallpaper Pack 1 and 2 are collections of wallpapers in the formats 480x640 and 240x320 that have been specifically designed for Windows Mobile devices. Both Windows Mobile Wallpaper Packs are […]

Nokia N97 news

My current cell phone contract runs out in six months and I'm currently looking for options. One of the options is the new Nokia N97 cell phone which was announced at Nokia […]

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Download Free Apps for Your Phone at Phoload

For mobile phone owners, finding good applications to use can be tiresome. Firstly, you have to ensure that the software is compatible with your particular phone model. In addition, if the application […]

BlackBerry Wallpapers

If you want new wallpapers for your Blackberry cell phone you could try and find sites that are offering them, you could try and create them yourself locally with an image editor, […]

Baresite Makes Mobile Browsing Affordable

Only a minority of cell phone owners have access to a data flatrate. Most have to cope with utterly insane pricing schemes and pay per Megabyte transferred. If you are old enough […]

Free Cell Phone Ringtone

A search on the Internet for free cell phone ringtones usually leads to websites that claim to offer free ringtones but normally require the visitor to signup and pay for the ringtones […]

Autostart Mobile Phone Applications

If you are (manually) starting the same application on your mobile phone over and over again after powering it on you might be inclined to autostart the application instead to speed up […]

Turn Your Mobile Phone Into A PC Remote Control

MobileWitch Remote Control turns your mobile phone into a remote control that can control various applications on your PC. The software does have a few limitations and requirements though. Both the PC […]

Nokia Ovi Suite

2009 should be an interesting year for mobile phones, with the iPhone growing rapidly in popularity, the much talked about Windows Mobile, Google Android making it’s way onto more devices and the […]

Opera 9.5 Mobile Beta 2

The Opera development team seems to be doing their thing opposed to other browser developers who are more focused on the competition. The team released the second beta of the upcoming Opera […]

First Firefox Mobile Alpha Released

Mozilla released the first public alpha version of the upcoming Firefox Mobile version which is currently only available for OS2008 ("Maemo") software platforms that run on Nokia N810 Internet Tablets and desktop […]