Looking for something a little different and exciting in the Android space? Acer’s Liquid A1 probably fits the bill. Sure, it’s another in a long line of slate-style phones with Android, but the quirky (if chunky) design and zippy Snapdragon processor are certainly worth paying attention to. The best part? It’s shipping now in [...]

Looks like Google’s been busy on the camera tip lately — not only is it launching a new QR code-based Favorite Places mobile search product today, it’s also demoing Google Goggles, a visual search app that generates local results from analyzing mobile phone images. Favorite Places isn’t super-complicated, but it sounds like it’ll be [...]

Dell Inc. plans to reorganize its business groups to launch a bigger push into mobile devices.
Dell will create a new communications division to develop products such as mobile phones and other portable devices, a spokesman said Friday. The new mobile-device division will be headed by Ron Garriques, who is currently president of Dell’s …

Half a month after the Nokia E72 became available across various countries around the globe, it finally made its way to the USA. And as you might guess, the price is considerably lower than elsewhere.
Nokia E72 started shipping in the middle of November and only a few days afterwards we took it for a [...]

It looks like we weren’t the first to think that the DigiCube MIDPhone-50 looked awfully familiar. The Psion Series 5 PDA, you may recall, featured the same sliding-clamshell design back in 1995 — and its still a beloved gadget among many folks overseas (though it never really caught on here). One man who wishes [...]

The International Imaging Industry Association — colloquially known as I3A — announced today that Google’s signed on as a member of the non-profit organization. They’ve also simultaneously announced that pre-existing member Microsoft has joined forces with Google on the Camera Phone Image Quality Initiative. What’s that all about? The initiative, which also calls Motorola, [...]

One of the natural side effects of being the largest maker of cellphones in the world is that you produce a lot of different models — a lot — which makes it way too easy for product planning, engineering, and marketing to all have corners cut for even the most important devices in the [...]

KDDI had been in co-development with Toshiba and Hitachi since July, 2004 on next-generation fuel cells for use in mobile devices such as cell-phones and the latest prototype cell phone based on a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) made its debut on Tuesday at the KDDI booth at CEATEC show in Japan.
The modified Toshiba [...]