HP Looks to Add Color to Cell Phones
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Hewlett-Packard Co. could soon turn mobile phones into shopping advisors with a color-matching prototype technology it demonstrated on Wednesday.
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Firm brings tech already used in phones and laptops to desktops. Screen creates different pixel images for each eye.
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If you thought developers were running out of new applications to squeeze into mobile phones, think again. Nokia Corp. hopes someday to add a new feature to its phones that could warn users of imminent lighting strikes.
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Handset design is evolving as more features are added to phones, but one crucial element seems to be left behind -- the user. By Elizabeth Biddlecombe.
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We&#39;ll show you how to spruce up your handset so that it rivals an iPhone.
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Research In Motion on Thursday introduced its latest BlackBerry phone called "Pearl," which takes a more stylish approach to handset design in attempt to appeal to both business users and consumers alike. Photos: View images of the BlackBerry Pearl
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Media-rich N-Series phones are set to order photo prints directly through Hewlett-Packard's service. Photos: Nokia N80 Internet Edition
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Optical sensors and touch screens are  the leading technologies that cell phone makers are likely to  use as improvements to the tiny keypads on many of today&#39;s  handsets.
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And shoots out more lasers HP has announced it will launch a super-fast inkjet colour printer for the business market in spring. The company also extended and upgraded its current product lines with six new printers.â¦
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Friday, HP introduced their branded iPod, along with customizable skins called HP Printable Tattoos for iPod. Originally announced in January, HP's version, labeled Apple iPod from HP, has identical specs and design as the Apple version, unlike the blue-colored version shown in January.
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Hand-held entertainment gizmos don&#39;t just play music anymore. They have morphed into general-purpose devices that display photos on full-color screens and, in some cases, even play video.
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Internet search giant Google unveils software it hopes will power a variety of future mobile phone handsets.
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A new way to avoid telemarketers: a caller ID system that allows you to assign colors to specific phone numbers.
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Some recent products are designed to improve cellular reception, and, in some cases, even extend coverage.
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(InfoWorld) - Enterprise desktop phones face growing competition from wireless handsets, but they aren't going the way of the typewriter just yet. Cell phones, already ubiquitous, are now being joined by Wi-Fi handsets and dual-mode devices as popular tools for workers to stay connected. Features that consumers take for granted on their mobile phones, such as call history, text messaging, and a wide variety of ringtones, frequently are missing or harder to find on a desktop set. Softphone clients on PCs, another alternative to desk phones, are gaining more capabilities and generally can work more easily with applications than a desk phone. But as enterprises embrace a new generation of telephony based on IP, they're still buying desktop phones, users and analysts say. The new wave of IP wired sets comes as wireless options proliferate. Cisco, Avaya, and other major telephony vendors showed off numerous Wi-Fi business phones at the Interop trade show this week in Las Vegas. For employees on the road, there are dual-mode phones that can work with IP PBXsÂ for featuresÂ like extension dialing and can get better coverage in the office by switching to Wi-Fi. New software also can bring cell-only phones into the PBX fold. In this light, increasingly elaborate desktop IP phones that often are more expensive than wireless devices are coming under fire. "Why does my $200 cell phone have 10 times the functionality of my thousand-dollar IP phone?" remarked Yankee Group networking analyst Zeus Kerravala. "Desk phones are 50-year-old dinosaurs. They shouldn't be there anymore," said Gartner mobility analyst Ken Dulaney. "All the desk phone does is forward calls to cell phones." Yet Dell'Oro Group estimates the market for IP desk phones will boom in the coming years. The market research company said that 11.3 million were sold last year and that the number will rise to 34 million in 2010. The growth will come even as PC softphone sales grow from 2.6 million to 8.6 million, said analyst Alan Weckel. While strictly Wi-Fi phones will settle into vertical marketsÂ like hospitals, which restrict cell-phone use, dual-mode phones will also be popular, he said. Hanging on to the desk set is partly a matter of tradition. "People still relate to their physical phone. It's like their office space. It's very near and dear to their hearts," said a network administrator for a large Canadian engineering company, who attended Interop and asked not to be named. The company recently bought about 2,000 desk phones from Nortel NetworksÂ as part of a migration to IP telephony. Because it was buying in volume, the company got each set for about $200. It was one easy choice for an IT department that has plenty of more complicated issues to figure out, he said. Wired phones still tend to have better sound quality than wireless, vendors and analysts said. In some cases, they include more phone-system features than their wireless counterparts. And for softphones, the PC's reliability and startup time are issues, Weckel said. The right choice may depend on the user and the setting: Dual-mode phones plus laptop softphones for employees who travel frequently, and dedicated phones for workplaces without PCs. For example, Zeus Nestora, a Subway sandwich-shop franchisee in Tucson, Arizona, uses Cisco IP phones in its stores for a variety of functions, including employees clocking in and out. But while they continue to sell desk phones, major vendors are pushing alternatives. Cisco provides software for Nokia E-Series dual-mode phones that extend office phone system functions to the handsets. The phones are already available in Europe through mobile operators Orange and TeliaSonera and in Japan through NTT DoCoMo, said Chris Kozup, mobility solutions marketing manager at Cisco. U.S. mobile operators are still unsure about the business model for such phones, which could make enterprises more loyal but also cut down on call revenue, he said. Avaya also is working with cell phone vendors on making dual-mode handsets work with its software and will reach more phones through its acquisition of Traverse Networks last year, said product manager Jamie Lawson. "The future is going to be a future of choices," said analyst Elizabeth Herrell of Forrester Research. However, no one wants to have four phones, she said. One solution may be base stations that turn wireless phones into desk phones while an employee is at the desk. Neither of the two biggest IP phone makers has quite embraced this idea, however. Cisco has a cradle that charges its 7921G Wi-Fi phone and acts as a speakerphone, but the calls still go wireless. Avaya lets users treat a mobile and a fixed phone as one so when one is off the hook the other is, too. Desk phones can't go away overnight, if only because of an installed base estimated by IDC at about 500 million. Even Gartner's Dulaney thinks it will take five to seven years for wireless office phones to replace wired. In the end, users will have to push vendors to change course, Forrester's Herrell said. "No one's going to walk away from that revenue stream of business phones until the users decide they don't want it," she said.
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Customers are able to download full songs with their phone and put them on a computer. Also: Hewlett-Packard has major malfunctions with its software & hellip;. Microsoft and PalmOne, together at last & hellip;. and more.
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New display technologies are emerging for laptops and other mobile devices that are thinner, lighter and use less energy than LCDs.