If you’re a happening mobile user about town, your handset stuffed with contacts, music and vaguely incriminating photos of Michelle from accounts, you’d natually be gutted if your phone got nicked and you lost it all. Mobyko is a new online service that promises to store your address book as well as all your images, texts, tunes, etc - and all for free.
You only pay for the premium service, which provides extra storage space, personalised daily news ticker and downloadable art and videos. What’s more you can share your photos with mates via email. The only problem is you have to MMS images individually to the service which sounds like a bit of a faff. Can’t you just put all this stuff on a memory card and keep it safe somewhere?
Remember the old Game Boy camera and printer combo that let you take low-res snaps of your pals then customise them (usually with hilarious facial hair) before printing them out in tiny dot matrix-o-vision? Those heady days could be back. A company named 
According to research out today, an astonishing 80 per cent of British mobile phone users are ashamed of their mobile’s ringtone. Okay, so it isn’t really that surprising – some of the ringtones we hear on the way into the office are truly appalling. Those people who are embarrassed about their ringtone may have good reason to be, with the report suggesting that as many as 97 per cent of people judge others purely on the basis of their ringtone.
Yahoo! Australia has launched an interesting application for my fellow countrymen and women who aren’t lucky enough to have a service such as 3’s X-Series or T-Mobile’s Web’n'Walk. The basic idea behind the application is that you bookmark the websites via your Yahoo user account and then Yahoo will send those web pages via WAP. In theory, the application should help to reduce the cost of surfing the web for those who don’t have access to flat-rate mobile internet.
OK, so maybe not but this really is the first phone Apple filed a patent for and while it is unclear whether it was designed to be a mobile or a landline, we can’t deny how funny it would have been to see people talking into something so ridiculous as the Apple phone would have been.
Mobile TV may be on the way for the Irish after Enterprise Ireland announced its intention to fund a test into the viability of the service. Mobile TV Pilot Network is a project being ran in conjunction with several other companies who have an interest in the sector. The test is specifically being designed to test the viability of transmission, delivery of content and handset compatibility.
T-Mobile users will soon be able to read their favourite magazines via the company’s T-Zones service if reports from MediaBuyerPlanner are to believed. According to the news story, T-Mobile will be using MoMac’s GoMedia publishing platform.
James Scalpello, THQ Wireless’s marketing director, has gone on record with 
While Japanese keitai (mobile) owners have been able to watch digital terrestrial TV via One-Seg since last April, only now are Japan’s phone makers and service providers really at ease with the service.
Panasonic’s W51P is the first phone in five years that it has made for Japanese provider au KDDI. The W51P is “aimed at women in their 20s” and therefore features a “flowery motif” next to its sub-display and camera lens.
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