Looks like someone let the plasma cat out of the proverbial bag too soon, and is now desperately backtracking to try to salvage a business relationship: the press release issued yesterday for Panasonic and AbleComm's venture putting tiny plasma screens into cellphones has been thoroughly denounced as "completely false".  The release, which described the compact plasma screens as a "pre-emptive" strike ... continued »

I know we sometimes criticise cellphones for having crappy digital zooms rather than nice, quality-preserving optical ones, but this is perhaps bordering on the ridiculous.  Green-House has announced their 8x optical zoom cellphone accessory, which consists of a universal handset holder, a little tripod and a whopping great lens.  continued »

While we don't advocate smoking here at PHONE Mag (of course, the title of this post is facetious - the jury is still, as ever, out on whether cellphones cause brain tumours), we do have a soft spot for cellphones that masquerade as something else; I guess it's the wannabe-secret-agent in us all.  So I get a brief shiver of glee at the ... continued »