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Practically everybody in this country has a cellular phone. A huge percentage just use them for text messaging. A huge percentage of that huge percentage use it to find casual sex on TV text chats. I’m not guilty of that but I’m guilty of this.
A new study commissioned by the indoor cellphone booster firm Wi-Ex, [...]

Well, that’s what the third GSM Congress in Barcelona have in mind. Even though the plan is to enable health workers in Africa use their mobile phones to ”upload critical information on the disease into a centralized database“, the idea of combating the dreaded disease is somewhat inutile, if not weak. Or vague, even. 
This $10-million-project may be able to keep track of the [...]

The stuff of some of Nokia’s nightmares has just come out: some smartass actually producing a mobile phone that not only almost mirrors the advanced features of Nokia’s sleek phones, but also comes with a name that seems to send the heartwarming message, “Up yours!”
It’s Nokir (model E828G pictured here), and given its features, it’s [...]

A Chinese teacher got her cellphone back from the motorcycle-riding thief who had snatched it, apparently because the thief was so touched by the 21 “pleading” text messages she had sent him.
“I’m Pan Aiying, a teacher from Wutou Middle School. You must be going through a difficult time. If so, I will not blame you,” [...]

This is indeed some shocking news:
Mobile phone retailer Dial-a-Phone conducted the study taking swabs from everyday objects and analyzing the bacteria found on them. The shocking results found that there’s more muck on our mobiles than the average door handle, keyboard, and bottom of a shoe or even a toilet seat.
The study found that without [...]

It’s fairly easy to imagine what mobile phones will look like in a couple of years, but what about 10 or 15 years in the future?
The Economist asked many people in the know, and they came up with seemingly fantastic but very possible outcomes. We’re outlining for you some of the intriguing predictions.

Stuart Wolf, a [...]

How else do you expect the Prime Minister of a country that’s home to Nokia would conduct even his most private affairs? Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen, Finland’s so-called sexiest man, broke up by text message with the girlfriend he had met on the Internet.
“Matti dumped me in a text message, where he said ‘that’s it’,” [...]

This pay cellphone in the middle of Uganda’s Lake Victoria was supposedly staged by South Africa’s Remkor Technologies to demonstrate the possibilities with solar power and GSM technology, which of course, are two things the rest of the world are already so savvy with. The point seems best explained in the context of Ugandan fishermen’s [...]

NTT DoCoMo’s solar phone looks like a miniature Gameboy SP and packs enough features that make it worthy to slug out with 4G phones. It’s also solar powered, which makes power chargers obsolete. You can also easily swallow it, if that’s your thing.
via T3

Google Inc.’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, believes mobile phones should be given free to consumers, as long as they agree to accept targeted forms of advertisements on the phones.
Schmidt said Saturday that as mobile phones become more like handheld computers and consumers spend as much as eight to 10 hours a day talking, texting and [...]