I wrote a few days ago how Google would be Nokia’s next competitor. Having trounced the opposition in the mobile handset marketplace, the Finnish mobile phone giant is looking to expand into the GPS market in order to grab a…

Camera phones are notorious for taking extremely poor pictures in low light conditions due to the weak nature of the LED flashes that they use. Recently, however, new technologies have emerged that produce superior low light performance without compromising the…

Fanboys and Photoshop are a really bad combination. Whenever news is slow, or someone just wants to show off their love for their favourite mobile phone manufacturer, up pops a new “concept phone” or “leaked picture” – except it’s not,…

The worlds of mobile phones and computing are converging rapidly, as both Nokia and Intel announced separately that they’re developing new technologies involving WiMax for 2008. Nokia announced they will be releasing WiMax phones in 2008 (LG and Samsung already…

The Apple iPhone has finally been announced, and it emphatically marks a watershed in mobile phone design. In his keynote speech, Steve Jobs claimed the iPhone was 5 years ahead of all other mobile phones, and poured scorn on existing state of the art smartphones, such as the Motorola Q, RIM’s Blackberry and the Nokia E65.

Happy New Year all! Yes, MobileMentalism is back after a glorious Christmas and New Year break. And back in style, too, with news that no other mobile phone site can give you. The latest CES2007 scoops? More new Sony Ericsson leaked phones? No, news on my Dad’s Christmas pressie!

If you thought 2006 gave us some terrific new phones, from 6.9mm super-thin devices to 10 megapixel mobile TV leviathans, just wait until you see what 2007 will bring! Using a combination of my trusty sources, technological intuition, and even a bit of speculating, I’ve rounded up an in-depth list of the ten hottest technologies that will be coming to mobile phones in 2007.

Camera phones have come on in leaps and bounds this year, evolving from the poor quality VGA resolution of two years ago to the 10 megapixel monsters of today. But how good are Nokia’s camera phones at producing good results?

Nokia have taken to calling their latest N-Series mobile phones “multimedia computers”, and have reportedly forbidden their employees from using the word ‘phone’ at all. Rather than just being a marketing gimmick though, it underlines how Nokia sees the future of its mobile phones (sorry, multimedia computers) developing.

The UK’s home broadband market is being shaken up at the moment, with Carphone Warehouse (our leading mobile phone retailer) offering free broadband bundled with its TalkTalk landline phone service. Now, T-Mobile has waded in by threatening to replace the landline altogether – both for voice calls and broadband data services.

Choosing the best mobile TV technology may be more tricky than you’d think.  With the mobile phone industry betting its collective cash on Mobile TV for 2006, there are a bewildering variety of competing standards that can be used to receive your favourite TV programmes.  Which standard you choose will depend on the mobile phone handset you buy, as well as the mobile network operator you subscribe to, as different handsets and operators support different standards.

Want to see the impact CES 2006 has on gadget buzz? Check out this graph from BlogPulse, which reveals how the number of posts about specific keywords change over time. The one pictured here shows how posts with the terms ‘mobile phones’ and ‘cell phones’ increase hugely over the CES 2006 period (January 5th – 8th 2006). Using the same tool, we can see which mobile phone company was the most blogged over the CES 2006 period….