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Handset theft: BT and Vodafone finally make their move

News Their system is based on the international mobile equipment identity (IMEI) number assigned to each handset. In theory, every phone sold has its own IMEI number and if a user reports the details to their operator after it's stolen, the operator...

8 February 2002, 13:50

News.blog: ARM demos Google Android handset

News Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 34 handset manufacturers, carriers and chipmakers that have said they plan to support Android products and services. The mocked-up handset resembled a full Qwerty keyboard smart phone, like Research in Motion...

Tags: mobile phone, handset, linux, platform

12 February 2008, 9:24

BT launches "watershed" fixed and mobile handset

News Fusion, previously known as Project Bluephone, is aimed initially at the consumer market and is based around a cordless Motorola handset that acts as a normal mobile phone outside of the home, but inside routes calls through a hub onto a BT...

16 June 2005, 10:42

Virgin's mobile TV handset launch in sight

News The first handset in the UK to support mobile broadcast TV has appeared in a Carphone Warehouse brochure, which quotes a September release date. The catalogue has Virgin Mobile's Lobster 700 TV device -- designed by HTC and running on Windows...

4 August 2006, 11:06

Mobile handset to substitute Oyster cards

News Underground use a mobile handset as a substitute for their travel cards, reports suggest. The report in The Guardian claims that a specific handset is being developed which can be swiped across the Oyster card readers used at the ticket gates of...

Tags: cards, payment, travel, card

27 November 2007, 8:54

Mobile handset makers set for 2008 battle

News The handset market as a whole comprises more than 1.1 billion devices. With the glamorous promise of Google's Android and the glitz of Apple's iPhone, 2007 may seem like a hard year to beat in mobile terms -- but 2008 looks set to be a battleground...

Tags: multimedia, battle, models, platforms

4 January 2008, 10:00

News.blog: Dell and Google to make Android handset?

News Dell has long been rumoured to be working on a handset, and the latest speculation is that Google will be part of those plans. Marketing Week reported on Wednesday that the two companies are teaming up on a handset based on Google's

Tags: google, handheld, dell, pcs

31 January 2008, 9:12

Operators unite for low-cost 3G handset

News Mobile network operators from around the world have endorsed a plan to develop a low-cost 3G handset, in the hope of extending the technology's reach. The GSM Association (GSMA) announced on Monday that it was inviting handset manufacturers to...

17 October 2006, 10:10

News.blog: Nokia handset goes green

News And yesterday was the first time the thin, silver handset had been shown publicly.The device, which has an outer case made of renewable materials rather than petroleum-based plastic, doesn't yet make phone calls.

Tags: mobile phone, nokia, materials, environment

14 February 2008, 7:59

3.5G to suffer same handset shortages

News Just like GSM, just like the widely adopted flavours of 3G, handset shortages are likely to dog the rollout of the even faster, so-called 3.5G network standard. The term 3.5G -- sometimes referred to as Super 3G -- encompasses HSxPA and EV-DO Rev A...

19 July 2006, 10:27

One chip to bind all mobile phone functions

News On Wednesday Qualcomm unveiled several chips designed to underpin inexpensive mobile phones with MP3 players and cameras, pitched at emerging handset markets in Latin America, India and China. Single-chip mobile phones, in theory, reduce handset...

5 May 2005, 9:57

LG to launch YouTube-friendly phones

News Google has thrown in its lot with a major handset maker to bring YouTube to the mobile platform. The handset manufacturer said it expects to launch the YouTube phones worldwide before the end of the year.

4 July 2007, 10:22

Mobile operators lock VoIP features

News O2 has strongly criticised rival operators Orange and Vodafone over their decision to remove VoIP functionality from Nokia's N95 handset, claiming that such a move causes a "bad customer experience". He also suggested that handset subsidies were...

20 April 2007, 11:09

Motorola to split into two businesses

News Motorola is to split into two companies, following months of speculation about the future of its handset division. Certainly, for me, the thing that sealed it was in the fourth-quarter results where they said that not only is the handset division...

Tags: businesses, split, broadband, motorola

27 March 2008, 8:46

Vodafone admits video-calling is a flop

News Vodafone has denied it's giving 3G the cold shoulder, after weekend reports claimed that the operator was slashing handset subsidies and abandoning its hopes of making the technology a commercial success.

1 August 2006, 11:09