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.

This is the RX-78 Mobile Suit Gundam, piloted by ace pilot Amuro Ray - and they’ll both help you sort out your calendars and contacts on a mobile phone! Yes, after news of Korea’s transformer-phones, Japan has gone one better by launching software that enables mobile phone users to handle data using heroes from the popular anime “Mobile Suit Gundam.”

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…

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…

More pictures have been released of the new Pantech & Curitel PT-S170 mobile phone. Engadget aren’t a fan of the new phone, but imagine your friends’ faces when you pop the thing open to reveal its full transformer-esque glory :) Speaking…

SK Telecom have also released pictures of the new LG SD 910 mobile phone, another device with a curious form factor.  Not quite as curious as the previously posted Curitel PT S170, the new LG mobile phone nonetheless has its…

Another new mobile phone with a strange new form factor debuts in South Korea. SK Telecom, the largest mobile carrier in Korea, has released photos of an in-house designed handset, the Pantech & Curitel PT-S170. Details are limited, but the PT-S170…

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…

After Nokia’s recent flurry of announcements, it seems it’s Sony Ericsson’s turn today, announcing the fourth member of their increasingly impressive Walkman family of mobile phones.
This one, I’m pleased to say, looks like the best yet.
The W900 offers…

Hot on the heels of our recent report of Nokia’s somewhat potty prototype mobile phones, comes news of Japanese mobile operator DoCoMo’s latest concept – the finger-ring. Known even more amusingly as the ‘Ubi-Wa’ in Japanese, the device is a ring…