LG today sent word that the KU990 had begun shipping to Europe, giving subscribers on the continent access to the touchscreen phone for the first time. The handset emphasizes both the Flash-based interface that shares roots with the Prada phone as w...

  Take a look at this baby! Samsung has announced a new slider phone in Europe 5-megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom. Called the G800, it’s a competition of the Nokia N95’s Read CrunchGear has the first hands-on, “It may be launching in Europe, but that doesnt mean were going to let it pass on by and not [...]

The newest versions of Opera's Web browsers will allow both mobile devices and PCs to share a common set of bookmarks. The Norwegian browser company is set to release beta versions of Opera 9.5 and Opera Mini 4 later Thursday at a rock show, of all things, in San Francisco on the last day of the CTIA conference. The company is most excited about a new feature called Opera Link, Jon von Tetzchner, co-founder and CEO of Opera, said in an interview just a block away from the Moscone Center and the  read more »

Google Analyst Day could have been big news for Google. Executives at the event on Wednesday trumpeted their enterprise Apps business, explained why they would bid on wireless spectrum, and said they were optimistic about getting approval to acquire DoubleClick, while trying as hard as they could to ignore the elephant in the room--Microsoft snagging a big Facebook deal. All the positive spin on Google's future with advertising and social networks couldn't change the fact that Microsoft had sto  read more »

Microsoft invests on Facebook, leaves Google behind The battle of giants between Microsoft and Google, to invest on the popular social website Facebook , has been won by M$. The website that was created in 2004 is valued at $15 billion and Microsoft is going to pay $240 million in order to get some goodies on Facebook. What goodies are those? On top of owning 1,6% of the social si  read more »

Ahead of the FPD International 2007 show held in Yokohama, Japan, this week, both Sharp and AU Optronics are readying prototype new mobile phone displays that are super thin. Current mobile phone screens are between 1.5 mm and 2.5 mm thick. Sharp has developed a new display that is 2.2″ across diagonally and only 0.68mm thick. [...]

Japanese experts have announced the launch of a phone that uses bone conducting technology to amplify sound. The background noise eliminating technology is nothing new but the Pantech A1407PT has just been unveiled as the first ever mobile phone utilizing bone conduction technology to cut down on ambient noise. Bone conduction transmits sound through the skull and then on into the inner ear by vibration and has already been used in headsets, hea

Everyone is all a-buzz about Google buying YouTube and what that means for television, but I am currently more interested in accessing Google with my telephone--an old fashioned land-line at that! Call 1 877 466 4411 (1 877 GOOG 411) And try your luck with two voices that I've come to think of as Mr. Google Smooth and Mr. Google Hawking. They won't tell you who they are, but they seem to be the voices of Google Local Search. It's worth calling just to hear Google Hawking try to pronounce "cuisin  read more »