After January’s CES, Las Vegas this year has once more become the focal point of the computer and telecommunications industry.  From April 1st through 3rd, international trade association of mobile telecommunication CTIA (abbreviating “Cellular Telephone Industries Association” originally) held the CTIA Wireless — one of the biggest and most significant international trade shows and congresses [...]

According to the press, this year’s CeBIT in Hannover somewhat resembled its own “alternative” version: less colorful, less noisy, less visited. Everywhere there was talk of the “crisis as a chance”, mixed moods of doom and optimism. Furthermore, the organizers came up with a new concept for the event labeled “Webciety” — standardized exhibition honeycombs [...]

For a long time, cell phones eked out the existence of a proverbial ugly duckling: small, gray and emitting some nerve-wracking blare from time to time. While they had managed to fulfill the compelling promise of mobile communication, they had been trying hard to catch up with what the great and the graceful of the [...]

“By pressing down a special key it plays a little melody” was electronica pioneers Kraftwerk’s vision for pocket calculators back in 1981, facing the proceeding foray of digital technology into our everyday lives. Although our daily routine, almost 30 years later, is downright soaked with digital technology, making music on the pocket calculator has hardly [...]

This year, the annual Consumer Electronics Show, known as the world’s biggest trade show on electronic entertainment devices, was held in Las Vegas from January 8th through January 10th and revolved all around new display technologies.
For one, the usual stuff: Screen resolutions and refresh rates are higher than ever, colors are more vibrant, and everybody [...]

The prospects for the cell phone games market are looking fine. At least that’s what the majority of a group of telecommunication business experts and leaders assumes, predicting a redoubling of turnover till 2012 for the sector. However, more than a quarter of the experts asked don’t expect quite such a positive development. After countless [...]

 
 
Now that the last New Year’s hangover has subsided, it’s high time for a little outlook as to what the colorful world of cell phones is going to bless us with this new year. Right on top of the agenda, there’s the long-awaited release of the G1 by T-Mobile in Germany — we reported earlier. [...]

 
An old medium meets a new one: Theater has been acknowledging the mere existence of the cell phone for a while now — if sometimes just as an unwelcome aural sign of life coming from the auditorium. However, it’s with his play Mòbil — Comèdia telefònica digital that renowned Spanish dramatist Sergi Belbel, probably as [...]

After the successful introduction of the G1 to the US-American and British markets this fall, T-Mobile has finally announced its release in Germany — for the first quarter of the new year, 2009. Last Thursday in Berlin, T-Mobile showed the German version of the device. Apart from necessary localizations, there’s hardly any difference to the [...]

Strength lies in tranquillity
Anyone who’s older than 20 today and thinks of the ringing of cell phones will likely recall rather painful moments of nuisance. Mobile ring tones are annoying, loud, glaring, banal and expensive at that. Even among middle schoolers, sales are said to be declining.
That needn’t be, found iRing Pro (“iRing” had already been [...]