At some point this year mobile phone subscriptions will reach the five billion mark, meaning just (yes, just) 1.8 billion people in the world will be without a mobile handset.
Reaching 4.6 billion at the end of 2009, the number of cell phone subscriptions across the globe will hit 5 billion sometime in 2010, according [...]

James Barber’s proposal for a mobile phone designed to last for at least five years, which aims to reduce the numbers of handsets that are currently manufactured:
When you think about the entire energy cost of phones, it’s the manufacturing process that’s the most harmful aspect by far. So reducing the number of phones we [...]

Some not especially gallant attempts to make mobile phone towers look like trees or other natural features.
They are meant to blend in with their natural surroundings, yet, as Voit’s eyecatching photos prove, they rarely do. On the other hand, would you want the world’s landscapes pockmarked with mobile phone masts?

The cactus one isn’t too [...]

Sydney based futurist Mark Pesce previews technology trends for 2010… which include a shake up in book publishing (and reading), Google Wave, and augmented reality.
For example: point your mobile’s camera at the Opera House and watch as the screen fills up with interesting facts and figures about that landmark. Point it at a book [...]

Martin Cooper, lead developer of the Motorola team that built the first mobile phone in 1973, says today’s models are far too complicated.
“Whenever you create a universal device that does all things for all people, it does not do any things well,” former Motorola researcher Martin Cooper said at a privacy conference in Madrid.

While I [...]

In terms of telephone usage Australia is well on the way to becoming a “wireless economy” with the number of mobile phones in use now outstripping land, or fixed, line phones.
For the first time this year, the communications giant Telstra has had more mobile phone subscribers than fixed-line subscribers. Mobile phones now outnumber fixed [...]

I’m not wholly convinced of the merits of naked ADSL, and would much rather go wireless… if only local wireless providers had a stable network hereabouts (which they do, it’s just my particular locational logistics are a tad unusual), meaning the knackered old landline phone stays for now…
I’ve been looking at my knackered old landline [...]

Meeting an accomplice or partner-in-crime in a park, or shopping mall, as per many a stereotypical movie scene, to discuss a heist probably remains a sound strategy, provided you’ve switched off your mobile phone, travelled on public transport (having paid cash) to the meeting point, and worn a disguise.
Being visible, or “on the grid”, in [...]

Talking on a mobile phone while driving, even if using a hands-free kit, has proved to be more distracting than having a chatty passenger in the car .
Lee Strayer of the University of Utah and colleagues have found in a series of experiments using driving simulators that hands-free mobile phones are just as distracting as [...]

Of the ways to spot that you may be dating someone who is already married, I think it’s time to take the “he/she only gives me his/her mobile number, not their home number” line off the tell-tale list of possible giveaways.
“A bad sign is that he only gives you a cell phone number, not a [...]