Archive for September, 2006

Cell Phones Outnumber Landlines in Ohio

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

The march of the cell phone goes on. The Ohio Telecom Association has reported that the number of traditional style landline has been outnumbered by cell phone users. The report also said that there has been a 20% decrease in Landline phones due to internet phones services and cell phone subscribers. I'm ...

Brazil going towards 100 Million Cell Phones

Monday, September 18th, 2006

100 million cell phone users- that is an elite club and right now the members of this club are: China US Russia India Brazil is going to join this club soon- may be with the next 4 months. In August 2006, this figure was 94.9 million in August. I am quoting from a report ...

Cell Phone Saves Kidnapped Girl’s Life

Sunday, September 17th, 2006

I'm glad to hear there was a happy ending for 14 year old Elizabeth Shoaf, who was kidnapped and kept in captivity in a hand built, booby trapped bunker in South Carolina. Entrance to the bunker Elizabeth Shoaf was held captive in. Ms. Shoaf was able to send a ...

Mac iPhone Hype

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

I wouldn't be much of a Mac guy if I didn't have an opinion on the putative iPhone or the hype surrounding it. Personally, I think it's a tad bit short-sighted of most of the analysts covering this to think that Apple and Jobs are just going to go for a ...

Be careful of Mobile Phone Addiction

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

Dr David Sheffield, of the University of Staffordshire, has warned mobile phone users against getting addicted to mobile phone. Stress and irritation- these are the two big problems that may happen to you if you get addicted to mobile phone (if you use it too much). Of course, mobile ...

California Bans Handheld Cell Phone Use While Driving

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

Back in May I reported that California was one step closer to banning handheld cell phone use while driving. Yesterday California's Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, signed the bill into law. Beginning July 1, 2008 motorists in Cali can look forward to getting citations if they are caught talking on a hand held ...

10 Reasons to Hate and 10 Reasons to love Mobile Phone

Friday, September 15th, 2006

For most people, mobile phone is a constant companion. Now, we cannot think of a day without mobile phone. It has given us a lot of facilities that we cannot think of life without it. However, it has some bad sides too. Here I am listing 10 such good aspects ...

Nokia Introduces Quadband 6085 Folding Camera Phone

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

Nokia recently unveiled their latest folding phone, the 6085. This distinctive phone comes in many colors, including sand gold, royal pink and seagull silver. It has a large color display that has 262,000 colors. It also has a built in camera and video recorder with expandable memory. If this isn't enough ...

Samsung SGH-P310 - The Credit Card Slim Phone Is Here

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

Samsung has released the new SGH-P310 CardPhone today. The phone is good looking, and loaded with features: Samsung’s P310 offers superior portability with its slim and wide form factor. Designers and engineers managed to trim the Card Phone II to a mere 8.5mm in thickness. The P310 shed the ...

The Great Skype Experiment

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

Are cellphones as we know them finished? Will Netgear's release of the Skype Wi-Fi phone rise up to destroy the traditional cellphone paradigm? Am I going to tire of writing blog posts like this? Probably not on all three counts. But it is interesting to see someone challenging the status quo in the cellphone ...