AT&T has announced a new approach to early termination fees (ETFs) which the company says will provide greater flexibility for wireless customers who want to close their account early. Starting from late May, the company’s new and renewing wireless customers who enter into one- or two-year service agreements will no longer be required to pay […]

Jott, the voice-to-text service keeps getting better. They have gone beyond being satisfied with just letting you make an entry to your Google Calendar or Amazon wish list by voice. Jott will now allow certain BlackBerry users to use only their voice to reply to emails.
The free Jott application for BlackBery, which is still in beta […]

A free web-based (WAP) mobile games service is being launched by AOL. It will be launched through AOL’s mobile portal at wap.aol.com/games. Cellufun is providing a lot of the content for the new site. All of its WAP based titles including the award winning Call of the Pharoah, Space Wars, Chess, Ice Fishing and more […]

Sanitation Commissioner John J. Doherty is reminding Bronx residents that the New York City Department of Sanitation’s Bureau of Waste Prevention, Reuse and Recycling is teaming up with Verizon Wireless to collect old cell phones at its annual Electronics Recycling and Clothing Donation events this spring. Bronx residents are asked to bring their old phones […]

The battle between the hardware manufacturers and operator in the mobile industry is similar to the one in the music industry. Artists want to interact with their fans using today’s new social mediums but also want more control over the distribution of their music. Artists are beginning to see the redundancy of the concept of […]

Glu Mobile are bringing the classic Virtua Fighter gaming series on to mobile phones in Europe. According to a roadmap published in the industry magazine, Mobile Entertainment, the game should be hitting cellphones in June. The game maybe a Java application although that is not confirmed yet.
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KDDI, the Japanese CDMA operator, have decided to implement LTE for their next generation network. KDDI’s competitors NTT DoCoMo and Softbank have also chosen LTE. The new network ought to be complete and in use at some point in 2010.
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CTIA 2008 is still one day ahread of us but the news is already starting to trickle in. We started with Verizon and now Alltel and US Cellular. Alltel and U.S. Cellular with Motorola announced the addition of the Motorola Q9c to the carriers’ lineups, including a new lime-green version. Both providers will also offer […]

Sony Ericsson has launched its first 3G/HSDPA phone for the U.S. market - the Z750a clamshell handset. The Z750a features mobile broadband for a high-speed Internet connection and access to multimedia content that complements its multimedia player, 2.0 megapixel camera, Internet browser and e-mail capability using AT&T’s Mobile Email application. The Z750a supports data download […]

Three strikes in one day. Wahhoo for verizon customers. Once again Verizon Wireless today announced the XV6900 will be available in April through Verizon Wireless business sales channels, at Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online at www.verizonwireless.com. The Verizon Wireless XV6900 is a stylish, compact and versatile touch-screen phone, optimized for easy navigation with the […]

One more is kocked out my Verizon Wireless keeping the CTIA WIRELESS 2008 ahead. Today Verizon Wireless today announced that the LG enV2 will be available in April, online at http://www.verizonwireless.com and at more than 2,400 Verizon Wireless Communications Stores across the nation, including those at Circuit City. The enV2 by LG also offers the […]

Ahead of CTIA WIRELESS 2008, Verizon Wireless announced the Alias by Samsung will be available in mid-April. The successor to the popular Samsung SCH-u740, the Alias will be available online at www.verizonwireless.com or in any of the 2,400 Verizon Wireless Communications Stores, including those in Circuit City. The Alias sports the familiar dual-hinge design of the […]

Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry has secured an exclusive contract to assemble a more advanced version of Apple’s popular iPhone, a person familiar with the situation told Dow Jones Newswires Friday. The person, who declined to be named, said Hon Hai would be producing next- generation iPhones for Apple and is the exclusive contract manufacturer […]

The FCC recently approved the unannounced Motorola V950, the company’s first phone to support Sprint’s forthcoming CDMA Direct Connect push-to-talk technology. The high-end clamshell phone sports EVDO Rev. A data, camera with flash, Bluetooth, microSD memory card slot, and large external display with music controls.
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LG Electronics announced its smartphone line-up for the CTIA 2008 show in Las Vegas. LG will show this week at the CTIA 2008 the following models.

LG-CU920
LG-VX9100
LG-VX9900
LG-AX830
LG-KF700
 LG-KF510

Of course LG will also still show their well selling Voyager LG-VX10000 and ‘Venus LG-VX8800. Just to inform you, AT&T will release the LG-CU920 (LG Vu) touchscreen phone in May featuring […]

Motorola Ming A1800 is one of Moto’s unannounced and unreleased mobile phones gets official today. Although there are no official details about the new handset, but thanks to Boy Genius Report, we also have several pics with the Ming A1800, showing  it to look pretty good.
Following the line of A1200 and A1600 (available only in China […]

Early on Monday Verizon became the first North American carrier to launch the BlackBerry Curve 8330. This BlackBerry Curve 8330 is the first Curve capable of 3G by using the carrier’s EVDO network and adds all the improvements of the 8310 used on GSM phone networks, highlighted by the native GPS receiver: the device can […]

Sony Pictures Television is looking to launch the first movie network on mobile phones in the United States. The studio has signed a deal with AT&T and MediaFLO USA to launch the linear channel as one of two exclusive channels coming to the newly announced AT&T Mobile TV with FLO service in May.
The channel, to be […]

Following on from their gold plated iPhone shown off last October, UK based Goldstriker says that it is now launching a limited edition version covered in red leather and gold. Pricing for the leather iPhone will be approx £900 (US$1800) and will be limited to only 250 units - available from the end of April […]

Before we start, we want you guys to know that no one here at hotcellularphone encourages smoking. However after looking at a shot of the handset clothed in a Marlboro packet, we felt we had to post it simply because it looks like something that has been nicked from Solid Snake or James Bond. The […]