It turns out all those concerns about everyone texting while they're driving might be a bit skewed. A whopping 82% of Americans have never even created a text message. continued »

Given Android's development, LiMo's continued releases (and existing broad user-base) and Nokia's takeover of Trolltech, Linux-based platforms look to be standing ground against Symbian, Windows Mobile and other mobile software.  Analysts ABI Research have today released a report suggesting that almost 20-percent of mid to high-end mobile devices will be Linux-based by 2013.  According to their research, the Linux distro's ... continued »

According to market researchers M:Metrics, it's taken just six months for the iPhone to become the most popular mobile device for accessing news and information on the mobile web. Lured no doubt by the prevalence of unlimited browsing contracts in most areas the iPhone is officially sold, January saw 85-percent of users of the Apple handset access news and ... continued »

Researchers in the EU have been developing a self-organising ad-hoc wireless standard, which could create point-to-point and mesh networks and adapt not only to new or out-of-range devices but without intervention from a human operator or from specific interoperability in running applications.  Called Reconfigurable Ubiquitous Networked Embedded Systems (RUNES), the project would use anything from GSM, WiFi and Bluetooth to ... continued »

Reminiscent of Mitsumi's rear-mounted touchpad concept from back in February, Microsoft Research have been tackling the problem of a users fingers blocking onscreen touch-sensitive controls by virtue of, well, needing to touch them.  Their solution, LucidTouch, uses either a touch-sensitive panel or a webcam to monitor finger positioning on the rear of the device, while the shadow of fingers are overlaid ... continued »

Core Security, who research exploits and loopholes in software releases, have identified eight different security issues in Google's Android beta, including some that are blamed on the developer's use of outdated and vulnerable open-source image libraries.  The flaws could see a hacker take "complete control" of an Android-powered handset, including exploiting heap overflows and integer overflows, and Core Security demonstrated ... continued »

According to research by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), navigation, email and internet access are top of the feature must-haves for new cellphone purchases today.  In fact, they believe that the demand for advanced functionality will drive more buyers to choose smartphones over more traditional handsets; CEA estimates that sales of smartphones accounted for 15-percent of total units shipped in 2007, ... continued »

According to a report by analysts The Nielsen Co, around 23-percent of US cellphone users have seen advertising on their handset in the past month, and - more surprisingly perhaps - about half of them responded to those adverts.  Surveying 22,000 individuals who actively use mobile data services, Nielsen's researchers found a 38-percent increase in mobile ad recall between Q4 ... continued »

Scandinavian "usability and interaction design company" inUse have taken it upon themselves to examine whether the iPhone lives up to its hype [pdf link], aiming five users of differing skill-sets at Apple's cellphone as well as the Nokia N95, Sony Ericsson W910i and HTC TyTN I and testing how they get on with a number of basic tasks (including dialing ... continued »

Researchers at Stanford University have developed an innovative camera lens that captures depth perception in each shot.  The system, called multi-aperture, uses a 3-megapixel sensor to capture 16x16 pixel squares called subarrays, each slightly overlapping; image processing then analyses the pixel location differences between subarrays to work out the relative distance between objects in the photo.  At present the 3D information ... continued »