In U.S. Market, Cellphone Users Are Often All Talk
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Users in the United States continue to think of a cellphone as a device for talking, not text messaging. Marketers, however, hope to change that as soon as possible.
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NEW YORK, June 6 (Reuters Life!) - The majority of young U.S. drivers admit they chat on their cell phones and text message while driving -- and almost a half of them see no reason to stop.
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WASHINGTON -- Many cell-phone companies plan in the coming months to begin asking customers whether they want their numbers listed in a 4-1-1 database.
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A growing number of experts say cellphone use may be making us less autonomous and less capable of solving problems on our own.
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Not since the introduction of the cell phone has the plain old home phone been in for such upheaval. The device long used for landline calling, recording voice mails, and storing phone lists may find itself replaced.
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Most U.S. carriers profit from consumer ignorance about the locking issue. But the iPhone controversy is changing all that. It's time consumers demand unlocked cell phones from their carriers.
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SAN FRANCISCO  -   Computerlike "smart" cellphones are starting to go mainstream, creating opportunities for the wireless industry. Holiday shoppers are expected to drive the number of smartphones sold this year to 81 million, says wireless analyst Todd Kort at researcher Gartner.
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E-mail, text message or cellphone call? Making contact can be an adventure.
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Spurred by low prices and unique features, voice-over-IP services are joining cell phones as alternatives to traditional, century-old telephone technology.
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Until federal regulators issued a landmark ruling in 1968, Americans could not own the telephones in their homes, nor attach answering machines or other devices to them. Now, a growing number of academics and consumer activists say it's time to deliver a similar ground-breaking jolt to the cellphone industry, possibly triggering a new round of customer options and technical innovations to rival the one that produced faxes, modems and the Internet....
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The fat phone book, a fixture of the urban American household in the last century, is losing some of its girth as more people give up their land lines for cellphones.
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Consumers are giving PDAs the hand as they move toward smart phones.
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The airwaves that carry billions of calls, text messages and e-mails have become one of the hottest corporate properties. Not only are they in demand  by a nation of 240 million mobile-phone users, they are also in short supply.
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Cell phone can respond to motion by dialing numbers or ending a call.
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Cellphones are rapidly becoming ubiquitous and the Nielsen Company, the longtime monitor of television consumption, wants in.
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Experts wonder if enough people are willing to make the switch from traditional phones to talking through their computers.
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PhoneBites' cellular service inserts sound clips into conversations. Ridiculous? The same was said of the multibillion ring tone market.