mobile phones

Tip: Mobile phones for sport

Crave Mobile phone reviewer Andrew Lim tells her about some of the phones due for release in the next few months, including the Nokia 5500 Sport (pictured), which has a stainless steel and rubber casing, as well as other useful features for sport such...

Tags: mobile phone, phones, editors, sport

7 July 2006, 10:46

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

Crave Talk: Mobile phones aren't rocket science

Crave Pictures from my 3G phone in Oxford to 3G phones in London -- forget it. No, the single most startling thing was that T-Mobile had let it happen. I'd borrowed a T-Mobile MDA Vario II from CNET.co.uk's mobile phone supremo Andrew Lim, so I could...

Tags: t-mobile, mobile phone, measure, rates

12 September 2006, 17:26

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, 12:07

On the run with HP's iPAQ hw6515 Mobile Messenger

Crave We faced down a security guard who thought two laptops, a handheld, five phones and a digital camera was a suspiciously excessive load of tech for five sightseers on the London Eye. The most recent proponent of this never-ending, Arial-fonted...

Tags: hewlett-packard, handheld, eye, tech

30 September 2005, 17:30

LG T80: Mobile Freeview for Nordic neighbours

Crave We find its mobile phones to be as titillating as Kate Nash, and its MP3 players, while not ground-breaking, are at least stylish and touch-sensitive, also like Ms Nash. We've seen it implemented in a mobile phone and it was awful.

Tags: lg electronics, battery, battery life, lg

14 April 2008, 12:17

O2 to offer entire Napster catalogue for mobile download

Crave UK phone network O2 has announced today that it has partnered exclusively with online music vendor Napster to provide a la carte, over-the-air music downloads to O2 customers, direct to their mobile phones.

Tags: o2, customers, tracks, song

13 March 2008, 23:01

phling: Stream your music library to your mobile phone

Crave So it's something of a surprise to see a company produce a different result to this equation: phling, a 'free' music streaming service for mobile phones, with social-networking elements built in.Silly name aside, phling's service is simple: an...

Tags: air, networking, unlimited, streaming

6 August 2007, 12:00

Crave Talk: A format war of mobile music downloads?

Crave In contrast to these all-you-can-eat services, O2 and Napster recently teamed up to offer Napster's massive catalogue in its entirety for a la carte download, at 99p per track -- bringing the model consumers are already familiar with to mobile...

Tags: industry, model, unlimited, consumers

3 April 2008, 14:32

Photos: Audi A1 Sportback can be controlled via mobile phone

Crave Currently, there's no word on what specific mobiles the system is compatible with, but word is, it'll work perfectly well with plenty of phones that are commercially available today. More news from the Paris Motor Show: Audi's just unveiled its...

2 October 2008, 17:07

Opera Mobile 9.5 beta hands-on

Crave Availability and priceStarting Thursday, the touch screen version of Opera Mobile 9.5 beta will be available for free for Windows Pocket PC phones running Windows Mobile 5 or 6. Long overshadowed by Opera Mini -- the light, server-fed browser for...

Tags: opera, symbian, beta, browsing

17 July 2008, 10:10

MusicStation Max: Unlimited free music downloads from all major labels

Crave London-based company Omnifone today announced the launch of MusicStation Max -- a worldwide mobile music download service that offers 'free' unlimited downloads of music from the four major labels (Sony BMG, Universal, EMI and Warner), directly to...

Tags: omnifone, unlimited, labels, mobile phone

11 February 2008, 22:01

Google Android: Beyond the mobile phone

Crave It's not clear yet whether Google shares this broader Android ambition -- the emphasis today is for mobile phones -- but extending into new areas could increase both the prominence and competitive threat of the project.

Tags: computing, embedded, river, operating system

23 September 2008, 10:59

Crave 14: Reading with an E

Crave You'll thrill to talk of budget software from Tesco; you'll chill to hear about screaming mobile phones; and you'll scratch your chin when you hear about virtual offices in an online world. All this and decapitated rats strapped to mobile phones.

Tags: mobile phones, phones, crave, podcast

13 October 2006, 10:27

MPH: Surprisingly, LG wants you to watch more TV

Crave The technology, called MPH -- which stands for Mobile Pedestrian Handheld -- allows TV to be transmitted digitally to mobile devices such as mobile phones and sat-navs. There are mobile phones with the MPH technology built-in, USB sticks for PCs...

Tags: lg electronics, lg, mobile tv, mph

6 January 2008, 22:10