With most new products, a list of “the best 40 fakes of [insert overhyped-product here]” would merit a single post at most, but with Apple’s iPhone, you get a whole blog devoted to such fakes. So much hype surrounds Apple’s forthcoming iPhone that Okan Vardarova decided to create a blog showcasing the best photoshopped ‘concept iPhones’ (aka fakes) that have been created by Apple FanBoys worldwide. He’s already compiled 40 fake pics!

Rumours have filtered out that Sony may be working on a new Playstation mobile phone. The rumours seem to suggest that the device, should it exist, might come in the form either of mobile-phone functionality added to the PSP, or adding Playstation-branded content to a beefed up game-playing Sony Ericsson phone.

Apple iPhone hype continues unabated, but this time it’s the fanboys doing the hyping. Christopher and Gregory DeSantis have made their very own Apple iPhone promo video (beats a be-Photoshopped mock-up I guess!), showing what they believe the new phone could look like.

Nokia have announced their N-Gage mobile gaming phone will shortly cease to be.  They’ve decided the N-Gage was not the success they wanted, so have discontinued it, and aim to include the main gaming features of the N-Gage within their…

 
Nokia have seen the future of mobile phones, and it’s smart – very smart. According to VNUNet, Bob Ianucci, head of Nokia’s research centre, foresees a fundamental shift in mobile phone technology, as handsets develop from relying exclusively on embedded…

As if to highlight the difference between Asian and US mobile phone markets, TelecomAsia are reporting that mobile phones with DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) will make up more than 70% of the South Korean market in the next three years.
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Pictured above is a neat montage of all mobile phones that are available in the US for Christmas 2005.  The picture is a montage made by Russell Beattie, who also gives a neat run down of the state of the…

Samsung have started a round of mud slinging.   According to Harry Choi, head of Samsung’s mobile phone design, Nokia’s phone design has clearly declined from what it was a couple of years ago. He claims Samsung has managed to shake…

Rumour has been rife for sometime that Apple deliberately spiked the Motorola PLOPR ROKR, ensuring that it was a poor product. Now a new rumour has surfaced, suggesting that the reason for this was not so that Apple could produce…

According to a report by In-Stat, mobile music services—either in the form of downloadable music files or broadcast digital radio—have greater interest among US mobile customers than gaming, an application that is now providing some of the greatest mobile data…

Why is it that when a new product carries a fabulous brand, chances are the product itself will be poor, or the run up to the big launch will be farcically fumbled? Take Sony’s new Walkman phone, the W800i. Slated…