Samsung INNOV8

Samsung INNOV8 also known as the i8510 is the company’s latest smartphone sporting Symbian S60 OS. The Innov8 takes the form of a slider handset having a 2.8-inch QVGA LCD capable of displaying 16 million colors. The Samsung Innov8 is a photographer’s dream phone; featuring a massive 8-megapixel autofocus camera that offers image stabilization and [...]

AT&T announces the Nokia 6650’s release date November 14th

AT&T and Nokia have announced that the Nokia 6650 will be available on November 14th. This stylish phone features the Symbian-based S60 platform, running on the nations fastest 3G network, the 6650 offers a broad range of mobile services including. AT&T Video ShareSM and AT&T Mobile Music.   The Nokia 6650 will be available in [...]

How GPS Phones Work

by Tracy V. Wilson Imagine driving to a job interview and realizing that you’re lost. Your first impulse would probably be to call the business that’s interviewing you and ask for directions. But if you’re not sure where you are, getting directions can be tricky. But suppose you use your phone for another purpose — [...]

Nokia Mobile Millennium GPS traffic monitoring project seeking volunteers

Nokia is preparing to begin a large-scale traffic monitoring project called Mobile Millennium, for which it will invite up to 10,000 members of the public to provide anonymous GPS tracking data through their cellphones.  The first stage of a plan to provide real-time traffic information throughout cities rather than just on main routes, Mobile Millennium is being [...]

The BlackBerry® Storm™ 9530

The BlackBerry® Storm™ 9530 smartphone has the power and performance to drive your desires. Find out how you can connect to your world.Easy Touch Screen Navigation The BlackBerry Storm 9530 smartphone features a SurePress™ touch screen—an innovative, pressable touch screen that allows fast-navigating and accurate typing. With a SurePress touch screen, typing is easy—simply touch [...]

iPhone

The iPhone is an internet-connected multimedia smartphone designed and marketed by Apple Inc. with a flush multi-touch screen and a minimal hardware interface. The device lacks a physical keyboard, so a virtual keyboard is rendered on the touch screen. The iPhone’s functions include those of a camera phone and portable media player (equivalent to the [...]

Handset detection (Mobile Browser Sniffing)

A huge challenge when developing web sites for mobile phones, either as a separate entity, or as a gracefully degraded version of the “desktop” version, is sniffing just what features the device has. This might include support for XHTML, JavaScript 1.5, Flash Lite (standalone or embedded in a page) and so on. I just caught [...]