One trend that’s set to increase this year is communication between your smartphone and other gadgets. The Vizio phone is perhaps leading the field with this new trend with its built-in IR blaster that turns it into a Universal remote,…

The noughties was a decade of tremendous innovation for mobile phones that saw the total number of phones worldwide reach a staggering 3,973,453,793 (and counting).
Megapixels rose, gizmo upon gizmo was shoe-horned into phones that got ever thinner.
Today, as…

Nokia has released a video showing what it sees the mobile phone of 2015 will be like. It won’t be like this pic – that’s just a concept phone from last year – but it will be shiny, sleek and…

In an intriguing article, long-time technology pundit Bob Cringely has made a compelling case for the death of Windows Mobile. He is, as he admits, no expert on mobile phones, but this counts in his favour as he has no…

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.

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.

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.