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Ewan and his crew over at Mobile Industry Review are trying to raise 1500 squid for charity. They’re giving away some nice handsets and accessories — every 5 pounds/$10 (come on, haven’t you guys checked the exchange rates lately ) you donate to the causes (Childline and the UN Foundation) gets you one entry. The [...]

BT to Allow Local Authorities to “Adopt” a Payphone: The UK’s dominant land-line operator, BT is to allow local authorities to “adopt” a payphone box in situations where the company would normally want to remove it due to lack of use. The iconic red payphone boxes have fallen out of favour thanks to the growth [...]

Time has a great photo essay on the history of the mobile phone, which is worth checking out. This one shows Martin Cooper, widely regarded as the Father of the Mobile. The photo was taken back in 1983, although the mobile looks much smaller and sleeker than I remember them being in those days. It’s [...]

A part of Russell’s ongoing separatista vs. convergionist battle is cameraphones vs. standalone digital cameras. You’re familiar with this angle: though most cameraphones aren’t of the same quality as standalone SLRs (or whatever), the best camera at any given time is the camera a person has with them. Indeed, it’s true. I never would have [...]

A Chinese man has invented the world’s largest mobile phone. Someone tell him, will you? —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo

As you might imagine, I subscribe to plenty of RSS feeds and news searches and whatnot about the mobile industry, and sometimes they pull up some, uh, interesting stuff. Like this one: http://www.cellular-news.com/story/29766.php?source=rss – cellular-news The local government which manages the main roads leading to Vodafone’s international headquarters campus in Newbury, UK has been criticized [...]

Indulge me in a little Friday rant. I like predictive text on my handsets, I really do. Makes things a lot easier — most of the time. But I never cease to be amazed at some of the words in the dictionary. It’s something of a rite of passage for a new handset when I [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Apple Secretly Tracking iPhone IMEI and Usage (with proof): As I sit here applying a new layer of Reynolds tin foil to my international hat of conspiracy, its been proven that Apple tracks iPhone usage and tracks IEMI numbers of all their iPhones worldwide. Hidden in the code of the “Stocks” and “Weather” widgets [...]

Next Thursday, November 15, the Under the Radar Mobility event will be held out in Silicon Valley. 42 startups will present their products and services, and they’ll be judged by a panel of judges including MH pal Rudy de Waele. UTR describes the event as such: “You’ll see a collection of companies in areas such [...]