State Of the Art: A Cellphone Without Borders
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Early next month, a small company called Cubic Telecom will release what itâs calling the first global mobile phone.
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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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âThe phone is so sleek and thin,â reports David Pogue (New York Times) in his review of iPhone, that âit makes Treos and Blackberrys look obese.â And the software transcends. âItâs fast, beautiful, menu-free, and dead simple to operate.â If you need âto answer a call, you can tap Answer on the screen, or pinch the microscopic microphone bulge on the white earbud cord. Either way, music or video playback pauses until you hang up.â As for email, itâs âfantastic. Incoming messages are fully formatted, complete with graphics; you can even open (but not edit) Word, Excel and PDF documents.â And âthe Web browser,â he points out, âis the real dazzler.â No âstripped down, claustrophobic My First Cellphone Browser; you get full Web layouts, fonts and all, shrunk to fit the screen. You scroll with a fingertip â much faster than scroll bars. You can double-tap to enlarge a block of text for reading, or rotate the screen 90 degrees, which rotates and magnifies the image to fill the wider view.â In short, Pogue calls the iPhone, âthe most sophisticated, outlook-changing piece of electronics to come along in years.â
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âApple has succeeded in crafting a unique phone that is superior [to] everything else on the market,â remarks Stuff.tv. âIn one great leap Apple has rewritten the rules for mobile web browsing, invented a completely new touch-sensitive interface, and evolved the iPod. In the hand, the iPhone oozes sexiness; its wide, high-resolution screen is encircled by a halo of chrome and wrapped on its back side by cool brushed metal. When you hold it, itâs thinner and lighter than pictures would suggest: it feels like you are holding the future.â And Stuff.tv awarded iPhone a five star rating.
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An Israeli startup has made a modular mobile phone that can work on its own or slip into other electronic devices. Will it catch on?
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Upcoming cell phone will offer integrated VoIP features and tools for wireless Web access.
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Mobile e-mail device for business travelers extending its reach.
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New communications technology could spawn future products. Could your purse tell you to bring an umbrella?
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Newly released Skype devices that connect to Wi-Fi networks aren't portable like cellphones, but they can be handy at home
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Mozilla developer Doug Turner outlines two prototypes for better cell phone-browsing.
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A startup is giving enterprises a way to roll out one phone for use inside and outside the office without a mobile operator's help.
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The use of mobile phones in emerging markets is growing but people are using their phones for more than just talking.
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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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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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Consumers demand the best on their phones. Here's what they can expect.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- In a perfect world, there'd be no wires. They clutter the view, get tangled behind desks and limit how far networks can reach. That's why the telegraph gave way to the radio. Cell phones unstrung telecommunications. Wi-Fi liberated computer data.
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US researchers demonstrate a system to transfer energy to devices without the need for wires.