Category: Mobile Phones

The seemingly inevitable has finally become reality: Rockstar is bringing the 'Grand Theft Auto' franchise to the iPhone. It's happening sooner than you would think (this fall), but it's unclear whether it will be a top-down style game -- much like the recently released 'GTA: Chinatown Wars,' and hearkening back to the series' roots on PC and PlayStation -- or a third-person situation, like the ...

Texting while driving is a really bad idea, no matter where you are. But texting while driving through Utah is an even worse idea, and can actually result in up to 15 years in prison if you hit someone while doing so. The state's new law, which took effect at the beginning of the summer, enforces the same penalities on those texting behind the wheel and causing a fatality as those who drink ...

What it is: The myTouch 3G, the second Android smartphone (aka "Googlephone") to be introduced by T-Mobile, after the G1, is essentially a re-branded HTC Magic. What's different about it? Unlike the G1 (the first "Googlephone"), the myTouch opts for a touchscreen-based interface, dropping the physical keyboard. The Android 1.5 ("Cupcake") operating system and marketplace have come a ...

If you're a movie nut and love cutesy accessories, the Netsuke cell-phone strap is incredibly fitting. Now, everyone will know about your obsession with 'Rocky' or 'Edward Scissorhands.' (Because your phone certainly won't fit in a pocket once one of these miniature dolls is attached.) The charms (which come from Japan, of course) stand about 3.3-centimeters tall and cost less than $9, according ...

Made from 40-percent corn-derived bio-plastic and 80-percent biodegradable material in general, Samsung, along with service partner Sprint, just announced the 'Reclaim,' touted as the world's first green phone (an iffy claim, considering that earlier this year Motorola came out with its W233 Renew phone, made out of recycled plastic water bottles). The two corporations jointly debuted the ...

Believe it or not, there are a number of data-equipped cell phones that lack integrated Wi-Fi (like the new BlackBerry Tour). If you own one of these phones and it has a microSD slot, you may now be able to retroactively add Wi-Fi to it, thanks to a new card developed by KDDI Corp. Similar to wireless network-accessing camera memory cards, these cards can instantly (and hopefully cheaply) add ...

BlackBerry Curve 8900 What it is: The 8900 is the next-generation version of the popular, easy-to-use, and versatile Curve line. What's different about it? The original Curve 8300 was our favorite BlackBerry when it first came out because it was as full-featured as the more business-oriented BlackBerrys (like the 8800 series), but still had everything you needed to have fun with your ...

BlackBerry Tour What it is: The latest and greatest CDMA BlackBerry device -- in other words, it runs on Sprint and Verizon Wireless's networks -- and quite possibly the best BlackBerry ever. Why it's different: It seems as though it's been an eternity since a new QWERTY-keyboard-equipped BlackBerry has hit the market for CDMA customers. While our BlackBerry-toting GSM brethren with T-Mobile ...

BlackBerry Bold What it is: A full-scale, sleek BlackBerry with a to-die for QWERTY keyboard and a one-of-a-kind vintage camera look -- textured faux-leather back, chunky silver accents -- that's drawn celebrity (think John Mayer) and power users alike. Why it's different: The Bold is a chunkier affair than its newer sibling, the Tour (a CDMA phone for the Sprint and Verizon networks), ...

Another sure sign that our capitalism system is broken: While PhD-educated physicists take jobs at Wal-Mart and single mothers hold down four jobs just to put factory-farmed food on the table, the creators of the iPhone game Beer Pong Challenge are making more than $7,000 a month in money from in-game advertising. Business Insider broke it down, and figured out that for every 1,000 impressions, ...

We are the world's worst about dropping our cell phones. Whether it's into a toilet or off a balcony, sometimes it seems like our phones leap out of our hands. This problem has cost us both money and grief from our friends. Short of applying super glue to our hands, though, we have not been able to find a solution. Then we came across the Mobigrip ($9.95). This nifty phone accessory functions ...

The whole Internet, it seems, is currently fawning over the new iPhone 3GS. That's partially because the device seems to be a worthy upgrade to the iPhone 3G. (We're not sure we'd call it a successor, since it will be sold alongside the existing handset; it's more like choosing between the basic MacBook and the souped-up MacBook Pro.) We also lay responsibility for the hype, though, on the ...

Mozilla Labs' Firefox wasn't the first browser ever to use tabbed browsing (that award went to the Opera browser back in 2000), but it did beat Internet Explorer to the punch. In fact, tabbed browsing was one of the features that set Firefox apart from its Microsoft-developed competitor. Now, ironically enough, Mozilla is holding a design competition with the goal of making tabbed browsing a ...

In gadget news sure to excite long-distance lovers and virginal nerds, inventor Georges Koussouros has developed a 'KissPhone' mobile device capable of transmitting electronic smooches from one set of virtual lips to another. According to the Daily Mail, the phone features brightly colored, heart-shaped buttons and a pair of lips that measures "pressure, percussion speed, temperature and the ...

In the ever-expanding iPhone app store, there are some helpful, fun and downright awesome sources of information and entertainment. That said, every so often an app shows up that makes us wonder what the hell the people at Apple were thinking (if they were, in fact, thinking when they approved it). We are speaking, of course, about the now infamous 'Baby Shaker' app that went on sale Monday, ...