phones

HTC S740: Good smart phones can come in small packages

Crave When HTC first ventured into the realm of smart phones that looked like normal phones, we scoffed, because they simply weren't up to the company's usual high standards. We thought that if you wanted a real smart phone experience, you needed...

Tags: htc, keypad, smart phone, compact

26 August 2008, 10:07

Five phones that changed the world

Crave With all the hype surrounding the incoming iPhone, it's easy to forget that mobile phones haven't been around that long. Now we live in a world where even small children blabber away on their phones while sipping caffeine-free caramel macchiatos...

20 June 2007, 11:56

Nokia 6151, 1110i, 6275, 6080, 2875: Five wallet-friendly phones

Crave It's a good thing we love mobile phones because manufacturers can't seem to make enough of them. If you collected all the mobile phones in the world and dismantled them, you could use the components to convert London into a Blade Runner-style...

Tags: nokia, connectivity, bluetooth, megapixel

19 June 2006, 11:50

Sennheiser CX 300: 'Phones for your phone

Crave Sennheiser's CX 300s were particularly good value at £30 -- they're not the best quality in-ear 'phones on the market, but they're a damn sight better than the bundled rubbish. We're always banging on about how you really need to buy a pair of...

Tags: sennheiser, value, market, headphones

15 August 2007, 14:18

Adobe bringing fully fledged Flash 10 to phones

Crave We're actually going to get 1 billion Flash-enabled phones by 2009. The company has worked for years on a lightweight incarnation of its Flash technology for mobile phones, but now it's working to bring the fully fledged Flash Player 10 to higher...

Tags: lite, enabled, operating system, air

18 November 2008, 10:15

Crave Podcast 43: Do camera phones deliver?

Crave Camera phones have come a long way since the 2000 launch of the Sharp J-SH04 -- the first mobile to feature a built-in camera, complete with 0.11-megapixel CMOS sensor. Find out what our experts think as we put camera phones on trial in this week's...

Tags: compact, megapixel, crave, podcast

27 July 2007, 10:00

Toshiba Portege G900 and G500: Finger-friendly smart phones

Crave Toshiba isn't well-known for making high-end smart phones and the truth is that while its laptops aren't bad at all, its mobiles are far from inspiring -- until now, that is. Tucked away in a corner of one of the many giant halls at the 3GSM trade...

14 February 2007, 13:31

Sneak peek: LG's new Chocolate phones

Crave Today Crave had a chat with John Barton, UK sales and marketing director for LG mobile phones. Apparently LG has sold over two million Chocolate phones outside of Korea this year alone, which makes it obvious why it's launching another one.

Tags: lg electronics, silver, lg, john

9 August 2006, 13:29

Mobile phones for children: Do we want them?

Crave Eight-year-old kids with mobile phones might sound like a crazy idea, but according to a report carried out last year, that is the average age of a child owning their first mobile phone. The age is expected to drop to five years old this year...

Tags: age, mobile phones, children, child

15 August 2006, 11:07

Retro phones: Thick as a brick

Crave Fashionable mobile phones fall out of favour in a fortnight: style abides. While today's 3G Web-enabled video phones will be out of date the second the HSDPA hard-disk ultrawideband ones appear, there's nothing time can do to harm the classics from...

Tags: motorola, age, monsters, analogue

28 June 2006, 9:45

Photos: Latest mobile phones from Japan

Crave If you think the mobile phones we have here in the UK are cutting edge, think again. Japan's mobile phones are so advanced that the entire country yawned sarcastically when the iPhone was announced. From phones that can tell who their owner is...

29 January 2007, 11:06

Crave Podcast 11: Kids with phones

Crave It's a funny old world where children who can barely cross the road expect to have their own mobile phones. Rory Reid, Chris Stevens, Andrew Lim and Rupert Goodwins debate the merits of mobile youth in the latest Crave podcast.

Tags: crave, podcast, crave podcast, paris hilton

29 August 2006, 13:26

Photos: Samsung's latest phones, straight from Korea

Crave While Crave was out in South Korea with Samsung last week, we saw a presentation of some of their latest mobile phones. In 2005, Samsung launched around 140 phones and over the next year it looks like it's going to make a whole bunch more.

3 October 2006, 12:35

Round-up: mobile phones at CES

Crave Although many of the mobile phones at CES are designed for use on US networks, there are some that should also be released on this side of the pond. It's a container of liquid fuel that can be used, via an appropriate adaptor, to recharge portable...

Tags: motorola, bluetooth, german, megapixel

6 January 2006, 16:25

Photos: Doro's simple, easy-to-use mobile phones

Crave Aimed at technophobes and the short-sighted, this handset is ideal for anyone fed up with over-featured mobile phones that deliver too many bells and whistles but fail to deliver in the calling department.

22 November 2007, 9:00