Many of you know that I've had a large number of (annoyingly expensive) smart phones over the years. In general, I've been pretty loyal to Sony Ericsson, especially the Pxxx series (P800, P900, P910, P990) because of their large screen, pretty good web browser, email support, and, in the case …

Cellular telephone maker Nokia has announced that their Series 60 mobile telephone platform will incorporate a browser based on Apple's WebCore and JavaScriptCore (developed from the venerable Konquerer open source browser).

It's been a while since I posted anything to the HAM section of this site, so I'm happy to pass on this story from Make:Blog about a contest held on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno putting CW (Morse code) against SMS (cell-phone short-message service). Not surprising to people …

An article from InfoSync World describes the new Nokia 770 Internet tablet device, a linux-based touch- sensitive WiFi web access terminal. This thing is rumored to be coming out this fall at a price point near $350, making it much more compelling than the larger and more expensive Windows- based …

According to an article on The Register, Siemens is preparing to exit the cellular phone business. The original article from the Sunday Telegraph (registration required), indicates that an announcement will be made at the January 27, 2005 meeting of the Siemens' board of directors. The mobile division is losing money …

Well, the younger Powell and his crew were busy yesterday. Rulings were made about cell phone spam and digital broadcast reproduction. On cell phone spam: you can't send it via email... which isn't surprising, but the CAN-SPAM act will now have a registry of domains for wireless providers that can't …

Apple, creator of the iPod and iTunes has announced with Motorola that they will be supporting iTunes on Motorola's next generation of phones. With this, users will be able to play iTunes tunes (including those purchased from the iTunes Music Store) on their handsets.

In comments made at the PalmSource conference last week, representatives of the company said that they will no longer be supporting Macintosh synchronization in the OS. Instead, they indicated that third party products (such as Missing Sync from Mark/Space) will have to be used in the future. Marc/Space …

While reading an article from Wired today, it dawned on me that not only do cell phone ring tones bring in $3.5B of the $32B in music sales every year, but that portion dwarfs the sales of online music through all avenues. So much for people being interested in …

Apple released new versions of iCal and iSync yesterday that add a number of useful new features. The updates are both available from the Software Update panel in Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2), although iCal must be updated first and then iSync since there is a dependence on the …

A recent review of Bluetooth headsets is available from HowardChui.com. The review compares the HBH-60 from Sony Ericsson, Bluetake BT400, Jabra BT200, Nextlink Bluespoon, and Nokia HDW-2. In the end, the HBH-60 was the winner.

Garmin, makers of fine GPS products, has announced the shipment of a new combination GPS and PDA named the iQue3600. The device is PalmOS-based and thus will run some software from other vendors, but it seems a bit crippled with only 32MB of RAM and no built-in wireless of any …

Due to "security concerns" the FSB has requested that the Communications Ministry demand that all cellular telephone encryption be deactivated for 24-hours, according an article in The Moscow Times. Thankfully, the phones (GSM mostly) will display icons that indicate the encryption is disabled and many customers will receive SMS messages …

Mobile Burn has an article with pictures of the Sony Ericsson P810, the upcoming successor to the popular P800. Features rumored to be in this version: Much thinner, metal case 1.3 mega-pixel camera

I wouldn't have thought of this, but apparently in Japan (where picture phones have been available for years), people are walking in to book stores and kiosks and sending photographs of pages or entire magazines to themselves or their friends, all from their cell phones. This article from IOL (a …

CBS Markecensoredch is reporting that Palm is purchasing Handspring for $169M. Press release from Handspring is here.

It appears from this article off of CNET, that T-Mobile is not going to support the Microsoft Smart Phone initiative after all. Not surprisingly, they are concerned about stability, but there are also the relationships with Nokia and Sony Ericsson to consider.

Taking advantage of the expectation that you are less likely to forget your cell phone than your credit cards, MasterCard and Nokia are teaming up for a pilot program that uses the PayPass system (similar to Mobil's SpeedPass) to pay for goods and services.

Forbes has an article that describes some of the new PalmOS devices that are coming our way. Among the devices to use PalmOS are: Tapwave - a handheld gaming device Meazura - a handheld measurement device platform Palm and Sony seem the only folks to be continuing the development of PalmOS PDAs …

Users of AT&T Wireless mobile telephone services have a new way to get information on their cell phones. The new TXT-411 service provides "411" information services via SMS messages (text messaging) for $0.40 per request, which is about a third of the cost of using the voice 411 …