LG enV2 from Verizon
The Gadget: LG’s enV2 for Verizon Wireless, a sequel to their fat but fun text message machine, the enV, with a flip-up QWERTY keyboard.
...Elektrobit Introduces Jack-Of-All-Trades Satellite Phone
Elektrobit is bringing satellite phones to the masses with its new Satellite/Terrestrial Reference PDA Phone. Gone is the bulky antenna sported by satellite phones of yore, replaced with a sleek, qwerty-keyboard PDA look that’s just a touch thic...
Roll Out Of Air France’s In-Flight Cellphone Service Experiences Turbulence
Air France’s in-flight cellphone trial has finally taken off, but with bumpy results. The New York Times hitched a ride on the French carrier recently and found several bugs in the system:
...New Motorola Actually Making Cellphone Software and Hardware People Work Together
One (sorta) promising tidbit about Motorola’s handset division being cut loose to fend for itself: It’s being restructured so that the software and hardware people actually work together. What a radical idea! New phones will come out faste...
Sprint Hooks the Pope Up with Phones; Holiest Celebrity Endorsement Ever
Sprint is providing 600 phones to the Archdiocese of New York for the Pope’s visit. In addition, “the Pope’s caravan will be tracked through Actsoft’s Comet Tracker GPS solution loaded on Sprint phones, transmitting data over a...
Hulu Video Service Going Mobile?
Talking at the National Association of Broadcasters convention, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar implied that NBC and News Corp.’s (mostly) slick video service could be moving to mobile phones, saying that they’re “ripe for the Hulu experience.&...
Should Congress Ban Cellphone Calls on US Flights?
Europe may be ok with passengers making in-flight calls on their cellphones, but at least a few members of Congress have the foresight to see how this situation could become problematic in the US. A new bill has been introduced that promises to ban ce...