American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu has once again named Apple stock as potential hot property, citing the well-rumored upcoming Exchange and other corporate email support for the iPhone as boosting demand for the company.  "Even before the iPhone was launched, our concern was its mediocre corporate email support even though it had strong consumer email capability (Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, .Mac, AOL ... continued »

It hardly seems like a day goes by without a BlackBerry of some sort being launched on yet another network; today it's the turn of T-Mobile UK and they're gleefully announcing the BlackBerry Pearl 8110 in - wait for it - an exclusive new "Blue Slate" colour.  So that's gritty blue, then, eh?  Casing differences aside, the model is exactly ... continued »

Masochistic, loyal or just plain lazy?  RIM has announced preliminary trend expectations for subscriber numbers over this latest quarter (which doesn't officially end until March 1st) and it turns out that despite a couple of outages, they're estimating the eventual growth figure total to hit around 2.1 million - that's up from original predictions of 1.8 million.  However the company ... continued »

Korean kids will soon be able to practice screaming down the phone at their parents in preparation for the difficult teenage years, using the Zeki from YoungToys.  While it may look like a normal cellphone, in actual fact the Zeki is more like a walkie-talkie; it relies on Near Field Communication (NFC) to connect with another Zeki handset up to 80m away, and ... continued »

Acecad have added Bluetooth to their DigiMemo electronic notepad so that you can now send messages written on paper as email or MMS directly through your cellphone.  The DigiMemo, a digital clipboard which uses a special pen to record anything a user writes and stores it in flash memory, previously required a USB connection to a computer to transfer, analyse and perform ... continued »

BlackBerry held a webcast today regarding the upcoming launch of their Enterprise Server v4.1 SP5 software, which is due to hit the metaphorical shelves on February 29th.  As well as the predictable stability and 64-bit Windows compatibility updates, the system will introduce [TBG] rich-text and HTML email, embedded images and active hyperlinks, message search for email no longer stored on the ... continued »

Launched today, AT&T are describing their white Palm Centro as ideal for an entire spectrum of users, from the "plain mobile phoner" and on up from there. More specifically, I think that this is totally the ideal device for the user who is just now moving up from the standard mobile phone into the smartphone realm. The Centro ... continued »

PhoneScoop have received some preview information about a new LG clamshell headed for Verizon Wireless at some point in the next coming months.  The VX9100, which they predict will replace the VX9900 enV, is more streamlined than its predecessor and yet still has the full QWERTY keyboard and internal QVGA display. continued »

While we knew it was coming, the exact release date and price of LG's Scoop (aka Rumor) on the Alltel network was a mystery until today.  Priced at $59.99 thanks to a $40 mail-in rebate, the QWERTY-equipped slider is available today in three colours - orange, blue and slate - and comes with AOL Instant Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger preinstalled.  continued »

RIM have announced a new software app intended to allow home users the same push-email as business subscribers have; called "Unite Server", the program installs on an always-on PC at the user's home and is accessed by the BlackBerry handset rather than RIM's own servers.  Unite Server acts both as the push-email gateway and as a local storage point for ... continued »