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Search for better phone powerThe more functions cell phone manufacturers add, the greater the amount of power the phones use and the less practical running them on lithium batteries becomes -- so the race to find a viable alternative is o Kyocera phone blows up in South CarolinaAnother incident of an exploding cell phone battery, this time in the U Clamshell handsets growing in popularityClamshells will account for 37% of handset sales worldwide in 2004, rising steadily to account for the majority of sales by the end of 2007 according to a new report from Strategy Analytics, reports Cellular New AT&T's text-only device debutsAiming to please "texting-crazed" young Americans, AT&T Wireless Services In Cell Phones Pick Up LanguageCell phones and wireless PDAs have one perennial problem: either no keyboard or a very small on Free phones aid tourists lost in translationThe Kyoto prefectural government will launch a project in December to lend 500 mobile phones with language-translation and road-navigation functions to foreign visitors, reports The Daily Yomiur UrballoonUrballoon is an urban media space: a balloon equipped with a projector and wireless connection to the web that enables people to submit content online and broadcast it in public space Wireless Balloon CloudsMia over at Popgadget, reports on a one night event called Sky Ear in which a glowing "cloud" of mobile phones and helium balloons is released into the air so that people can dial into the cloud and listen to the sounds of the sk SMS banned after death toll competitionAn SMS contest in terrible taste is stoppe |
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