The Samsung SGH-A887 Solstice from AT&T features Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface and a 2 megapixel camera for a multimedia-centric touch experience. The phone also features a built-in GPS receiver and full HTML web browser. Ricky gets touchy-feely with the Solstice to see if it can really hide the moon with its features.

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Google has released version 3.2 of Google Maps for Mobile for BlackBerry devices, which includes the search company’s new Layers feature, according to Google.

Maps for Mobile version 3.2 was released for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 devices in July, as we reported, and the new version for BlackBerry includes many of the same new features. [...]

The Nokia N900, being billed as the Finns’ hottest phone, has been delayed until mid November (a month later than originally scheduled). The delay is apparently due to a wait for the feedback of software developers who received 300 pre-production units for testing at the recent Maemo Summit.

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This festive season Motorola has brought three new phones to India. The new phones are MOTO ZN300, MOTOYUVA WX160 and MOTOYUVA WX180. The MOTO ZN300 is a slider phone with 3.1 megapixel camera with LED flash and 8x digital zoom. Controls light up on the MOTO ZN300 screen as the camera moves between ‘Capture’ and [...]

When Verizon and Nokia unveiled the 7705 Twist feature phone, with its funky swivel design, we weren’t quite sure what to think. Now that we’ve had a chance to spend some time with this QWERTY-equipped phone, though, we’re quite impressed. Find out why in this review of the Nokia 7705 Twist for Verizon.

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The Call Manager service allows customers to respond to incoming calls with pre-recorded voice messages; and also features SMS based chatting and voice mail on mobile.

Reliance Mobile has introduced the call manager service on its GSM network on supporting handsets. Offered through a server-less client protocol, the Call Manager service allows customers to respond to [...]

Case-control studies have reported inconsistent findings regarding the association between mobile phone use and tumour risk. To elucidate the findings, some Korean and American researchers investigated these associations using a meta-analysis. The study found that there is “possible evidence linking mobile phone use to an increased risk of tumours.”

The researchers examined 465 articles published [...]

Samsung Mobile, in partnership with Reliance Mobile GSM, has announced an attractive consumer offer on its recently launched smart phone – Samsung Omnia Pro 7320. The exciting consumer offer allows users to download free data of 5GB per month for a period of six months (a total of 30GB) from Reliance Mobile GSM service on [...]

The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced Wi-Fi Direct, a new specification that will enable WiFi devices to discover and connect to one another without a router, a move that could potentially threaten Bluetooth technology.

Wi-Fi Direct will allow WiFi enabled devices such as phones, cameras, printers, computers, keyboards, and headphones to connect on a one-to-one basis or [...]

Nokia is providing technology that allows mobile phones to track the spread of infection in real-time in remote locations with an application called HealthRadar, the company said in a blog post yesterday.

HealthRadar, an application for Symbian devices, improves data collection by automatically distributing information from a number of phones to a central server, where it [...]