The Symbian operating system that the Nokia 5228 runs has been around for a while but has understandably been overshadowed by the greatness of Android and the immense popularity of the iPhone. However, like Android based mobiles and Apple’s iPhone, the Nokia 5228 can install and use 3rd party apps as well. With online phone [...]
Opera Software on Wednesday released its Opera Mini 5.1 browser for the Android mobile platform, concluding a beta period that began in March.
Opera Mini 5.1 offers improved page layout on high-end Android handsets with large screens, its Norwegian maker says. Among the software’s features are tabbed browsing, a password manager, bookmarks and speed [...]
Google CEO Eric Schmidt made a guest appearance at a press conference here Wednesday where Google, Motorola, and Verizon Wireless unveiled the new version of the popular Android Droid smartphone.
Schmidt took the stage first and touted the importance of the smartphone category.
“This is not a toy or app engine,” he said. “It is a [...]
The mobile web in China has loopholes where content could go under the radar of government censors, analysts say.
“It could be anything else the government normally frowns upon or does not consider healthy, which could be political content to pornographic content,” said Mark Natkin, managing director of Beijing-based Marbridge Consulting, a market research and strategy [...]
Editor’s Note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a Bay-Area writer and media consultant whose blog, Contentious.com, explores how people communicate in the online age.
(CNN) — World Cup time is almost here — but can your cell carrier handle it?
Beginning Friday, millions of sports fans in the United States and around [...]
The HTC Desire is one of the hottest phones currently on the market and its popularity has led to shortages in stock levels. If you are planning to pick up a Desire with the intention of taking it abroad, then its roaming abilities should not disappoint. The Desire is compatible with the majority of international [...]
Most of the major United Kingdom home phone line providers have proven themselves both price competitive and reliable. In fact when comparing one to the next based on just home phone service, the differences in price and dependability are extremely small. What does not represent a small difference however is quality and availability of bundled [...]
For the first time, the number of U.S. households opting for only cellphones outnumber those that just have traditional landlines in a high-tech shift accelerated by the recession.
In the freshest evidence of the growing appeal of cellphones, 20% of households had only cells during the last half of 2008, according to a Centers for Disease [...]
Buying a Cell Phone: An Overview
In the last decade the cell phone industry has grown thousand fold all around the world. A cell phone is somewhat necessary for an individual to keep up with the busy life of the current era. A few years back, a cell phone was not considered a necessity; it was [...]