3-Mobile continue their trend of launching innovative, feature rich own-brand mobile phones targeted at the consumer market with very competitive price points. The INQ1 is the latest product touted as a social networking phone.

I was pretty impressed with how easy integration with Facebook worked - simply enter your user name and password and up pops your home page where you can see the current status of all your friends or can make posts onto your wall. Facebook applets aren't...

Neither of which is via a PC however both require an Ethernet connection, the first the Belkin Ethernet Skype Phone is wired and the second the Philips VOIP 841 has a wireless link to its base station that connects to the router.

This looks exactly like a standard office phone. Looks are deceiving as it is a Skype phone and unlike most other Skype phones needs just one thing an Ethernet port. It is not wireless but wired and probably because of that sound to the caller and receive...

This is the second of the phones from the Swedish company I met recently. This is two handsets the "base" one has a built in answerphone and the "remote" one can be placed anywhere within range where there is a power supply.

My unit was supplied with a single extension handset but reading the manual I see it can support up to six. The manual explains about the procedure for registering extra handsets with the base station

Joining Nokia's extensive portfolio of mobile devices is a model with a strong emphasis on music and games.

This 3G Quad-band phone comes with up to 140MB of internal memory.  The memory card slot supports up to 8GB of storage capacity.  There is support for Bluetooth.  The battery should give up to 4 hours talk time or 300 hours on standby. ...

Recently I heard about a Swedish Phone company, I went along to their presentation and was given several of their phones to try. This was the first offering a rather nice slim DECT phone called the TH80.

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One example of SOD's law is that the phone will ring when you are busy in another room. One solution to this problem could be to have an extension unit.

Making the various selections does require that you need to work your way through the various levels of a menu system that is not the most intuitive that I have come across.  When the batteries are fully charged you should get ten hours of talk time...

Here we have two neat little phones for first timers. Easy to use and tiny enough to fit small pockets, Alcatel offers good value Pay as You Go phones which would make ideal first mobiles for your kids.

Two new little phones for little ones from Alcatel this Christmas. The Alcatel OT-V212 Zebra is a neat little starter phone with funky design for younger kids. This phone has the usual calling and messaging functions. It's additional features include alar...

While 3G handsets, such as the iPhone and Blackberry, tend to have high price tags, there is a company that believes it is possible to offer a range of internet-based features via 3G on a more economic basis.

For entertainment purposes there is a 3.2 megapixel camera with picture blogging and the facility to upload photos direct to Facebook; MP3 music playing capability; and Java compatible games pre-loaded.  Connectivity is handled by Bluetooth and USB 2...

What's in a number- It all depends on what the number is related to in the current circumstances.

According to popular legend, when the number belongs to a bus, you will have just missed it with several more only due to appear after a lengthy interval.  If the number concerns your salary then it is never large enough to satisfy your hoped for sta...

Following my meeting in July with Aaron Powers where the main focus was on FreeTxT I was sent a Nokia phone this is required for one of their current services I have extended this look to cover two other services from Vyke Mobile VoIP also requiring a Nok...

I have praised Skype in the past and still use it but of course if the other party is not logged in then your only choice is to either send an email and hope they read it or make a standard phone call. Here the Wi-Fi angle and VoIP gives you more choices