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Special Operation Group (SOG) nabbed three mobile snatchers and seized 10 cell-phones from their possession on Saturday. The group also learnt that two of the arrested are college-going students. SOG officials received a tip-off regarding three mobile-snatchers roaming near Polytechnic on their motorbike and were headed towards CN Vidyalaya. The officials kept a watch near [...]

Could a higher-end addition to the existing Lumia lineup be in the works? (Credit:Nicole Lee/CNET) The Lumia 800 isn’t even out yet, and there’s already talk of the next big Nokia smartphone on the way. The head of Nokia France, speaking to France’s LesEchos newspaper, said the company plans to have a full range of [...]

By Christopher Lawton What’s the difference between a smartphone and a feature phone? According to Mary McDowell, who is leading Nokia’s feature phone charge in emerging markets, it’s the fact that software applications can be written to run natively on the operating system. It’s a definition that average consumers likely don’t care about. Ms. McDowell [...]

Billed as the world’s smallest touchscreen smartphone, the Nokia 700 packs stunning looks, a great screen and unbeatable Symbian Belle usability into its slim and light chassis. It has had no trouble capturing the imagination of the British technology press since it was launched last month, so we’ve been taking a look at what reviewer’s [...]

Old devices and usage patterns Recalling the E72 Before reviewing the E6, we should remind ourselves about the E72, from which many of you might be upgrading. The E72 was my main smartphone for a very long time, after I reviewed it last year. Despite running S60 3rd Edition, which even last year was quite [...]

The PSFK consulting team has noticed that in an effort to capture and analyze data from a wider variety of activities, developers are embedding an array of intelligent sensors into their products. when this information is uploaded to mobile and online platforms, individuals can track their progress and view their improvements over time. One company operating [...]

Ah, the future! Once the province of sci-fi on our tellies and authors like Jules Verne, but now also frequently the subject of videos from top tech companies. Recently, Intel gave The Register a glimpse of our near future with their super-snoop smartphones which will know all about you all the time and thereby send [...]

by Edwin – on November 2nd, 2011 With the advent of touchscreen phones, the entire notion of a user interface has greatly changed from the nested menus that we were so enamoured with back in the heady days of Nokia’s reign in the world of cellphones. Well, Apple’s foray into the smartphone market certainly changed [...]

Motorola will soon launch a feature phone called the MOTOKEY SOCIAL. We’ll assume that the person who came up with the product name has an IQ comparable to that that of an abused chimp who inhabits an office where every caps lock key on every keyboard is glued down. Anyway, here’s what we know about [...]

Samsung grabbed the No. 1 worldwide smartphone position from Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), selling over 23 million units in the third quarter for the first time ever, fueled by the phone maker’s new Galaxy S II line and handsets powered by its own bada platform. The company, which commanded 20 percent market share for Q3, sold over [...]