The Afterlife of Cellphones
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A growing international trade in discarded mobile phones is helping the worldâs poor. But will it poison the earth?
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Every year at CES time, we revisit the topic of when or whether the US will finally catch up with the rest of the world in mobile wireless broadband. Why do we keep butting up against the same roadblocks year after year?
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Also: When iPods die. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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In a blink of mere months, the mobile "smart" phone has been transformed from pricey corporate gadget to an affordable alternative for ordinary folk.
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Living with ads that contact your cell phone and ask if they can be shown to you.
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Elements from more than a dozen different countries go into that magical comm unit in your pocket. Discover the origins of your orphaned mobile. By Se&#225;n Captain from Wired Test.
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Ups and downs with a music and messaging phone
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Convenient and beguiling, the cell phone nevertheless is devil's handiwork. Don't think so? Read on. Commentary by Momus.
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Where is the world are the million missing iPhones? Our readers think they know.
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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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Consumers demand the best on their phones. Here's what they can expect.
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Those who don't mind carrying a paperweight already have plenty of options for "smart" phones that do more than just make calls. The rest of us are stuck with a sad compromise between size and function.
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Dark days are coming for analog cellular phones.
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As I was looking back over my folder of this yearâs columns, e-mail newsletters and blog posts, I was struck by one thing: how much I wrote about cellphones. Cellphones and cellphone services made news with amazing frequency, making it clear that this service-we-love-to-hate is still in its crude Neanderthal age. In particular, 2007 was the [...].
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New communications technology could spawn future products. Could your purse tell you to bring an umbrella?
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Someday soon, many cell phones might store as many as 2,000 songs -- or enough map data for a built-in GPS to steer you any place on the planet.
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Who needs postcards? With a mobile blog, cellphone auteurs can take everyone along.