Cell Phone News: Archive 2005
- See below for 2005 consumer news and information about buying and
using cell phones and mobile devices. Updated from sources around the
world.
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- Dialed In: Best Cell Phones of 2005
- Dec 29, 2005
- Mobileplay Advertises Outside the Box
to Offer Free Content - Dec 27, 2005
- Mobile Phones to Announce 'You've been
indicted' - Dec 26, 2005
- Alltel's Camcorder Cell Phone Tunes into
FM Radio - Dec 23, 2005
- E-Carols For Cell Phones In The Works
- Dec 22, 2005
- MobileLime Appeals to Last-Minute Shoppers
- Dec 22, 2005
- Samsung Debuts Site for Mobile Films
- Dec 22, 2005
- Google Brings Gmail to Mobile Phones
- Dec 19, 2005
- MobileSphere Touts Wireless Long Distance
Rates - Dec 14, 2005
- SMS Service Supports Self-Destructing
Text Messages - Dec 12, 2005
- Dwango Becomes Dijji - Dec 13, 2005
- Cellphone Rulings Could Mean Billions
in Tax Refunds - Dec 13, 2005
- Sprint to Offer Full-length Movie Downloads
- Dec 9, 2005
- BET Promotes Ringtone Sales With Video
Pop-ups - Dec 9, 2005
- Bon Jovi D.C. Show Goes Wireless
- Dec 8, 2005
- Leap Offers Kyocera Music Phone -
Dec 7, 2005
- Verizon Wireless Inks V CAST Deal with
CBS - Dec 7, 2005
- Vodafone Unveils Global Mobile TV
- Dec 6, 2005
- Cingular Goes High Speed - Dec 6,
2005
- Cingular Launches PTT with Kodiak
- Dec 5, 2005
- Verizon to Offer TV Service for Cellphones
- Dec 2, 2005
- Acts, Audience Connect Via Text Messaging
- Dec 2, 2005
- Cingular Walkie-talkie Service to Rival
Nextel - Dec 2, 2005
- AOL Launches New Search Services
- Dec 1, 2005
- Nokia Makes Enterprise Play with 9300i
Smartphone - Nov 29, 2005
- The Latest and Greatest Smartphones
- Nov 18, 2005
- Mobile 'Lost' Stories Will Dial In Verizon
- Nov. 21, 2005
- Consumers Down On Carriers For Cellular
Phone Buys - Nov. 18, 2005
- ABBA Member Composes Ring Tone for Charity
- Nov. 19, 2005
- Cingular Offers Firefly Phone with Parental
Control - Nov. 18, 2005
- MobiTV, MSpot Offer Mobile Radio Service
- Nov. 14, 2005
- Cingular Hears the Music - Nov. 14,
2005
- Remembrance Poppy Goes High-tech
- Nov. 11, 2005
- Cingular Slashes ROKR iTunes Phone Price
- Nov. 9, 2005
- Cell Phones Adopt Ratings for Content
- Nov. 9, 2005
- ESPN, NHL Agree on Deal for Cell Phones
- Nov. 7, 2005
- Google Brings Maps to Phones - Nov.
7, 2005
- Handango Supports Series 60 Handsets
- Nov. 3, 2005
- Nokia Offers TV, Wi-Fi on Phones
- Nov. 3, 2005
- Melodeo Extends Mobile Podcast Offering
- Nov. 2, 2005
- AskMeNow Launches Mobile Lifestyle Network
- Nov. 1, 2005
- Cingular Takes BlackBerry to the EDGE
- Nov. 1, 2005
- Snowboarders Stay Connected with Wireless
Winter Wear - Oct. 28, 2005
- Cingular Introduces E-Mail Access on
Cells - Oct. 24, 2005
- Blackberry Users Learning Painful Lesson
- Oct. 20, 2005
- Samsung's 7-Megapixel Camera Phone Hits
Road - Oct. 19, 2005
- RSS Goes Mobile - Oct. 18, 2005
- Turner Launches Gametap Online Game Network
- Oct. 17, 2005
- Yahoo Japan Steps Up Mobile Content Distribution
- Oct. 13, 2005
- Nokia Launches New Corporate Phone Line-Up
- Oct. 12, 2005
- Samsung Shows Skinny 'Slider' Phone
- Oct. 12, 2005
- LG's Cell Phone Can Pause Live TV
- Oct. 11, 2005
- Boost Mobile Aims to Please Students
- Oct. 11, 2005
- E-Mail Encryption Comes to the BlackBerry
- Oct. 10, 2005
- Bible Primed for Text Message Delivery
- Oct. 7, 2005
- T-Mobile Extends Mobile Internet Service
- Oct. 6, 2005
- Nextel Partners Unveils International
PTT Smartphone - Oct. 6, 2005
- Phone Reminds Muslims of Prayer Time
- Oct. 5, 2005
- PriceGrabber.com Launches Mobile-Phone
Comparison Service - Oct. 4, 2005
- New Multiplayer Sports Game for Cellphones
- Sep. 30, 2005
- Electronic Arts Announces Mobile Game
Line-up - Sep. 27, 2005
- Sprint TV Unveils Live Content -
Sep. 26, 2005
- Cingular Launches Billboard Mobile
- Sep. 26, 2005
- Japanese Carriers to Start Group Chat
for Cellphones - Sep. 25, 2005
- Virgin Mobile USA Browses the Mobile
Web - Sep. 20, 2005
- Destinator Technologies Unveils Live
Navigation-Based Mobile Services Technology - Sep. 19, 2005
- Sprint Strikes Note with RealNetworks'
Rhapsody - Sep. 19, 2005
- Verizon, Dell Deliver EV-DO to Laptops
- Sep. 19, 2005
- Use Your Cell Phone Instead of Your Credit
Card - Sep. 19, 2005
- Sprint Launches Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket
PC Phone - Sep. 16, 2005
- Verizon Playing Games - Sep. 15,
2005
- "Download and Go" Arrives at f.y.e Stores
- Sep. 14, 2005
- Nokia Introduces Mobile Email Solution
with Nokia Business Center - Sep. 13, 2005
- Bango Brings PayPal to Wireless -
Sep. 12, 2005
- Survey: Cell Phone Customers Can't Get
No Satisfaction - Sep. 8, 2005
- Critics Slam New iTunes Phone - Sep.
8, 2005
- New Apple iTunes ROKR Phone a Snazzy
Device - Sep. 8, 2005
- Apple Unveils iTunes Phone - Sep.
7, 2005
- Good Technology Links Voice to Wireless
E-mail - Sep. 6, 2005
- Text Messages to Keep Tabs on Croatian
School Children - Sep. 2, 2005
- Sprint Nextel Unwraps New Rate Plans,
Ad Blitz - Sep. 1, 2005
- Microsoft Exchange Updated for Mobile
Push - Sep. 1, 2005
- Toshiba Unveils Pay-for-Use Mobile Internet
Service - Aug. 31, 2005
- Cell Phones Don't Cause Tumors, Study
Finds - Aug. 31, 2005
- RIM Adds "Presence" to BlackBerry Devices
- Aug. 29, 2005
- Cingular Makes Smartphones "Good"
- August 23, 2005
- Indonesia Launches Text Message Hotline
to Keep Tabs on Disease - Aug. 22, 2005
- BBC's 'Doctor Who', 'Red Dwarf' Arrive
on Mobiles - Aug. 22, 2005
- Companies Offer Cell-Phone Comics in
Japan - August 22, 2005
- Melodeo Brings Podcasts to Handsets
- August 19, 2005
- Alltel, Verizon Wireless Tout MMS Interoperability
- August 19, 2005
- AOL Launches Mobile Portal - Aug.
16, 2005
- Movida to Beef up Hispanic Offering
- Aug. 11, 2005
- In an Emergency, ICE Is Designed To Save
Lives - Aug. 8, 2005
- CallWave Mobile Prepaid Goes National
- Aug. 4, 2005
- Cell Phones for the Sandlot - Aug.
4, 2005
- RadioShack Gets Wireless Game - Aug.
2, 2005
- Palm Launches Wireless Traffic App for
Treo - Jul. 27, 2005
- Mozilla Releases Preview Of Mobile-Phone
Browser - Jul. 27, 2005
- Mobile Teen Channel Hits Phones -
July 27, 2005
- AOL Launches Mobile Search - July
27, 2005
- Motorola Debuts the Q Smartphone
- Jul. 26, 2005
- Alltel Offers Mobile Postcards -
July 25, 2005
- Carriers Forge More MMS Deals - July
25, 2005
- New Mobile Adventure Game: Jenny Jet
- Jul. 19, 2005
- New Mobile Tween Game: everGems -
Jul. 19, 2005
- BlingTones Leaps into BREW - July
19, 2005
- Wireless Carriers Ramp Up Data Services
- Jul. 18, 2005
- Verizon, Sprint to Sell Electronic Arts
Games - Jul. 18, 2005
- Verizon, Sprint Team on MMS Interoperability
- July 15, 2005
- Virgin Mobile USA Offers More Ways to
Pay As You Go - July 11, 2005
- Sprint Adding GoodLink E-Mail Service
- Jul. 11, 2005
- Yahoo Enhances Text Message Mobile Web
Search - Jul. 8, 2005
- Verizon Wireless Introduces Mobile Blogging
- July 7, 2005
- T-Mobile USA Signs Interoperability MMS
Agreements - July 7, 2005
- Sprint Makes EV-DO a Reality - July
7, 2005
- Yahoo Launches Cell Phone Shopping in
Japan - Jul. 5, 2005
- MSN, Vodafone Partner on PC-Cellphone
Instant Messaging - June 30, 2005
- Leap Takes Travel Time National -
June 30, 2005
- T-Mobile Teams Up With Google for Mobile
Internet - Jun. 29, 2005
- Verizon Offers Samsung Smartphone for
High-Speed Wireless Network - Jun. 24, 2005
- Smartphones Technologies Targets Teens
- June 20, 2005
- Warner Bros. Goes Wireless in China
- June 20, 2005
- Nokia Embraces Location-Based Services
- June 20, 2005
- Fox Sports, HipCricket Team on Texting
- Jun. 17, 2005
- Phones Use GPS to Show You the Way
- Jun. 17, 2005
- Google Expands Mobile Search - Jun.
17, 2005
- Google Takes Search Mobile - Jun.
17, 2005
- Review: Phone-Based Time Clock Works
- Jun. 16, 2005
- BT Unveils Mobile Phone-Landline Handset
- Jun. 15, 2005
- Florida City Tests Parking Meter Technology
- Jun. 15, 2005
- Bell Launches Wireless Tracking System
- Jun. 8, 2005
- Symbian Trojan Disguised as Anti-Virus
- June 14, 2005
- Nextel Extends LBS Reach - June 14,
2005
- Sprint Phones Get Sirius - June 14,
2005
- T-Mobile Tops Customer-Care Ranking:
Sprint Is At The Bottom - Jun. 8, 2005
- New Yahoo and Sprint Mobile E-mail Targets
Masses - Jun. 8, 2005
- Microsoft Takes Aim at Blackberry With
Mobile Email - Jun. 6, 2005
- Mobile Phones Ring Silent but True in
Thai school for the Deaf - Jun. 5, 2005
- Ring Factory Introduces Service to Personalize
Cell Phones - Jun. 3, 2005
- Cingular Partners with Good Technology
on Synchronization Software - May 31, 2005
- Spain to Text Message Summer Heatwave
Warnings - May 30, 2005
- Nextel Launches Push E-Mail for Java
Phones - May 24, 2005
- Orange To Stream Live TV Over 3G Phones
- May 20, 2005
- T-Mobile's Good, Bad On Its Map -
May 20, 2005
- Cingular Continues to Urge Teens to "Be
Sensible" - May 19, 2005
- Proteus, Granada America Team for Mobile
Content - May 19, 2005
- Denmark's TDC Mobile Launches BlackBerry
- May 18, 2005
- Cingular Adds to Star Wars Content
- May 18, 2005
- PalmOne Unveils LifeDrive - May 18,
2005
- Alltel Releases 3D Mobile Games -
May 17, 2005
- Wireless AMBER Alerts Up and Running
- May 17, 2005
- Verizon Doles Out New Data, Push E-Mail
Services - May 16, 2005
- Sprint Rolls Out New Location-Based Services
Tools - May 16, 2005
- Vocel Taps Harlequin to Romance the Phone
- May 13, 2005
- Ojom (VeriSign), Sony Collaborate on
Mobile Games - May 12, 2005
- Rogers Wireless Debuts MusicStore
- May 10, 2005
- G-Unit in Game With Zingy Pact -
May 9, 2005
- Napster, Dwango Offer 'Napstertones'
Song Ringtones for Mobile Phones - May 9, 2005
- World's First Cell Phone TV Service Launched
In Korea - May 2, 2005
- Dwango Wireless Gets Spiritual with Ringtones
- April 28, 2005
- Verizon Wireless Takes "My Account" to
Text - April 28, 2005
- Sprint Unveils Location-Based Services
- April 27, 2005
- Nokia Launches New Multimedia Device
Line - April 27, 2005
- BBC Launches Real-Life 'Hitchhiker's
Guide' - Apr. 25, 2005
- Panasonic Confirms Exit From U.S. Cell
Phone Market - Apr. 22, 2005
- 'Let us go forth,' New Pope Says in First
Text Message - Apr. 21, 2005
- India Uses SMS to Get Water, Issue Parliament
Whips - Apr. 21, 2005
- Sprint Phones Now Carry Fox News
- Apr. 19, 2005
- Kenyans Text Messaging Their Way to Jobs
- Apr. 19, 2005
- Microsoft Expands Messaging, Partners
with RIM - Apr. 19, 2005
- RIM, Microsoft in BlackBerry Deal
- Apr. 19, 2005
- HP, Infinity to Offer Radio on Cell Phones
– Broadcasters Get Weapon to Fight Satellite Radio - Apr. 19,
2005
- Microsoft to Make Business IM Mobile
- Apr. 19, 2005
- Cellphone Parking Enjoying Spot Duty
– Using a mobile phone to pay on the lot starting to catch on,
albeit slowly - Apr. 15, 2005
- New Wireless Platform Links Handhelds
to CRM Apps - Apr. 14, 2005
- Cingular Lets Cellphone Users Hear It
First Source - Apr. 12, 2005
- Google Unveils Mobile Local Search
- Apr. 12, 2005
- Rogers to Challenge RIM – Wireless
company to launch own branded mobile e-mail service this week, competing
with BlackBerry - Apr. 11, 2005
- Motorola Set to Unveil iRadio for Cell
Phones - Apr. 8, 2005
- Nokia Unveils Designer 8800 Mobile Phone
- Apr. 8, 2005
- Trojan Destroys Mobile Phone Data, Forces
Owners To Reformat - Apr. 6, 2005
- New Smartphone Worm Spreads Via MMS,
Bluetooth - Apr. 4, 2005
- Time Warner Cable Launches Wireless Phone
Service - Apr. 4, 2005
- Microsoft Launches Mobile Video Downloads
- Mar. 30, 2005
- Cell-phone complaints: A Sorry Picture
for Cingular/AT&T - Mar. 2005
- Rapper's New Single Features Ringtone
Innovation - Mar. 28, 2005
- Amber Alerts Now Available on Cell Phones
Nationwide – Largest Broadcaster of Amber Alerts Offers Free
Service to Mobile Communication Devices - Mar. 22, 2005
- Blackberry to Expand Instant Messaging
- Mar. 14, 2005
- Antivirus Companies Report First Mobile
Messaging Worm – Users with Symbian Series 60 phones affected
- Mar. 7, 2005
- Just Mobile Launches 'Mobile Match' Mobile
Dating Service in Malaysia - Mar 1, 2005
- Yahoo Sends Driving Directions To Cell
Phones - Feb. 16, 2005
- Xdrive Launches New Music Service That
Transforms Cell Phones Into "Virtual iPods" - February 7, 2005
- Rand McNally Offers Traffic Info For
Mobile Phones - Feb. 2, 2005
- Verizon Rolls Out V CAST 3G Multimedia
Service - Feb. 1, 2005
- Yahoo Delivers SMS Search to Phones
- Jan. 28, 2005
- Yahoo Ties Search To Mobile Text Messaging
- Jan. 28, 2005
- T-Mobile USA Tops Customer Care Survey
- Jan. 26, 2005
- MTV Networks Rings in 2005 with New Wireless
Initiatives – MTV Networks is launching a store through VH1.com
that will showcase ringtones and original wallpaper images connected
to VH1 properties - Jan. 7, 2005
- T-Mobile USA Launches CallerTunes
- Dec. 8, 2004
- Ringback Tones Available at Verizon Wireless
- Nov. 16, 2004
- G-Unit Stars Offer 'First Dibs' via Virgin
Mobile - August 30, 2004
- With Taxes, Fees and Extra Charges, Consumers
May Be Paying Five Times the Advertised Contracted Rate per Minute
- Aug. 5, 2004
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