Nokia bails out of Japan, leaving only luxury behind

Nokia has given Japan the old school try but despite the company’s best efforts the Japanese market has proven a tough nut to crack. As such, the Finns are bailing out, although the luxury phone brand Vertu will remain to mop up spare Yen from gullible rich people.
“In the current global economic climate, we have [...]

Taiwanese researchers unveil new folding screen tech

Foldable displays have been mooted for several years and ridiculous concept phones are ten a penny but seldom are the two combined with such a pleasing result.
State-fund Taiwanese research body the Industrial Technology Research Institute has come up with a full colour foldable screen concept that has a screen expandable to more than twice its [...]

Google admits to violating iPhone terms of use

Google’s new voice-activated search app has been rasing a few eyebrows – and not just because it can’t understand a word us Brits are saying.
The app uses a combination of the iPhone’s motion sensor and the proximity sensor to tell when you have lifted the phone to your ear ready to speak your search terms.  [...]

Nokia to finish Symbian buy out by end of year

Nokia has announced that its buyout of shares in Symbian will be completed by the end of this year.
The buyout began in June this year, with Nokia acquiring a majority stake in the UK-based company. Nokia then announced its intention to fully purchase the company and al its intellectual property and then release Symbian as [...]

Mobsters using mobile phone guns

..no, not guns that fire mobile phones – although that might be effective, as any Fallout 3 fans would attest – but rather a gun disguised as a moble phone.
Italian police recently raided a safe house used by the Camorra and found this .22 caliber pistol disguised as a (rubbish) mobile phone. The fake antenna [...]

Scottish prisons to jam mobile signals

The Scottish Government is to make it a criminal offence to possess a mobile phone while in prison, or to supply a phone to a prisoner, in an attempt to stop criminals from conducting their illegal business from within their cells.
Soon, though, ownership of a contraband mobile may become moot – the regional government is [...]

Skyfire S60 Beta in the UK

So Skyfire has finally – FINALLY – let people in the UK have a go of its new web browser & I eagerly downloaded a copy and popped it on my trusty N95..
First up – this is a beta, so I wasn’t expecting blinding speed and reliability. This is just as well. The browser crashed [...]

Numberkey – turns your iPhone into a Macbook keypad

If you have an Apple laptop, chances are that you not only don’t mind spending mad cash on peripherals.. you actually enjoy it. Good for you! It is thanks to your spend-happy frivolity that the economy will be turned around.
All the same a £199 numeric keypad seems a bit steep even by MacBook standards. Lucky, [...]

Nokia E75 images leaked

The QWERTY slider is a pretty under represented physiology in Nokia’s gene pool, so these leaked pics from Daily Mobile of the forthcoming E75 have us drooling like the gadget equivalent of Charles Darwin.
The device sports a decent 2.4″ screen and a roomy looking alphanumeric keypad. The QWERTY slides out from the side which suggests [...]

And the most recycled phones of all time are…

In this carbon counting age of keener environmental awareness, the disposability factor of mobile phones is an increasingly important issue. In fact, there are now plenty of ways in which you can recycle mobile phones and it seems that many of you are already firmly locked in to the good habit.
So which handsets have mobile [...]