HP iPaq Phone Takes On Apple iPhone
They use to own the old PDA market with their Compaq iPaq now Hewlett-Packard wants to take a stab at the Smart Phone market up against the likes of Nokia, Apple and Sony Ericcsson.

Telstra Explores Moving Into MID Market With BenQ Device
Telstra is exploring a move into the MID (Mobile Internet Device) market with a brand new BenQ device currently being reviewed by the carrier. In Europe one major carrier has already purchased 200,000 of the BenQ MID devices.

Blackberry Partners With Microsoft, MySpace & TiVo
Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has announced partnerships with Microsoft, MySpace and TiVo, saying it is working with these new partners to put their software on Blackberry smartphones.

Samsung Releases Super Fast Smartphone
The Samsung i200 is equipped with Windows Mobile 6.1 edition for Smart Phone, an advanced version of the Windows Mobile operating system, with the handset being designed for those users that require an optimal, multifunctional smartphone.

Internode Adds Free Access For iPhone Junkies
Broadband provider Internode has added free access to advanced services such as push email and Google Maps for any iPhone using an Internode Wireless hotspot.

HP Rolls Out 3G Smartphone With GPS
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has released the HP iPAQ 912 Series Business Messenger, a 3G smartphone designed for maximum mobile productivity.

Apple To Sell 5 Million iPhones By Xmas
So, OK there have been connection issues, battery hiccups and complaints about not enough of the right type of apps, but regardless, it seems the world is slowing falling in love with Apples new little gadget.

Apple Gets Sued Over Slow iPhone
In a case of not so sweet home Alabama, a woman in that US state has filed a lawsuit against Apple claiming that the company's iPhone 3G drops calls, has trouble connecting to her network and is slower than was advertised, according to a story in Computerworld.

Palm Unveils Slick New Smartphone
Palm has officially launched its new smartphone aimed at business people and casual users who want to stay organized and connected 24/7.

LG Continues Its Fashion Stakes With Prada II
When LG released the touchscreen Prada phone over a year ago, many local fashionistas finally took notice of the Korean company, a fact that LG itself has been exploiting by marketing its phones on the back of the success of shows such as Sex in The City.

Apple Releases iPhone Fix, But Problems Persist
Apple has updated the iPhone's software but according to a number of reports coming from overseas, the new 2.0.2 firmware has not fixed some users' reception issues.

Telstra Makes Bold Move With BlackBerry
Telstra today became the first Australian carrier to begin distributing the BlackBerry Bold smartphone to business customers on its Next G network.

Apple Smells Fishy Chips As Cause Of iPhone Woes
According to reports, the iPhones Infineon chip could be at the root of complaints from around the world claiming that Apple's new iPhone drops calls and has dodgy Internet links.

iPhone Home A/V Controller Now Available
SpeakerCraft has released a new interface for its MODE multi-room A/V control system. The MODE/iPhone Interface allows the Apple iPhone or iPod Touch to be used as a wireless remote with control of all sources and routing accessed on the touch screen through an intuitive GUI.

Motorola & Apple Do The Litigation Shuffle
Apart from being financial reporting season, it seems it also suing season as not only is Nokia and Qualcomm along with a bevy of many other tech firms lining the pockets of their lawyers, but now it seems Motorola has decided Apple has stolen IP from it used in the iPhone and taking court action.

Apples iPhone Bares Its Business Teeth
Watch out Blackberry-maker RIM as Apple has now given the iPhone the ability to log in securely to enterprise networks, boosting its credentials as a business device. The latest software also supports new third party applications including VoIP, according to techworld.com.

New iPhone Packed With Business Apps & Not Just For Geeks
As hundreds of iPhone tragics packed Optus and Vodafone stores in Sydney this morning to get their hands on the new iPhone 3G, Apple announced that more than 500 native applications will be available through the App Store, some squarely positioned in the business PDA environment.

Telstra To Get iPhone As Of July 11
The worst kept secret in the telco space has finally been confirmed: the Apple iPhone 3G will be available to Telstra's 9 million Australian customers as of July 11.

3 Network Slams Press iPhone Reports
After a number of media outlets claimed last night that the online petition for the 3 Network to sell the iPhone was all a marketing push by 3 and not originally driven by their customers requests, the network came out swinging this morning.

3 Network Pissed At Missing Out On iPhone
Following a flood of requests from customers looking to get the 3G iPhone on 3, the company has unveiled a new website going live tomorrow, which is encouraging people to post their request for the powers that be at Apple to see.

RIM Profits Surge But Shares Fall
Blackberry maker Research In Motion shares fell by 8 per cent, even as the company posted quarterly earnings that have more than doubled.

Samsung Launches Finnish Invasion
According to Reuters, the world's No. 2 mobile phone maker, South Koreas Samsung is looking to grow in Finland, the home of rival and No. 1 player Nokia, with its new range of touchscreen phones.

Nokia Turns Up Too Late For iPhone Party
They say its better to be late than never, but really, you would think those long Scandinavian winters would have given the Nokia R & D team time to come up with an iPhone alternative much earlier instead of a prototype that will be released sometime next year.

Apple iPhone To Cost $1000?
According to an intrepid reporter from APC magazine who went snooping behind the counter at his local Domayne store and took a picture of an inventory price list which revealed that a 16Gb iPhone will leave you a shekel short of a cool $1000.

iPhone To Earn Apple $50 Billion As Smartphones Boom
According to Gartner, the global smartphone rankings have Nokia first with a share of more than 45 per cent, and Blackberry-makers RIM come in a distant second with a share of 13.4 per cent.

Affordable Smartphones From I-mate
I-mate has released the Jama 101 and 201, two affordable smartphones which the company claims, will ?appeal to the savvy consumer, as well as enterprise and small business customers.?

Telstra And Palm Hand Customers Choice
According to M2Newswire and Comtex, Palm has announced that its Palm Centro smartphone is available to Telstra Pre-Paid customers in Australia.

BlackBerry May Be Sexy But iPhone Will Be Hot
According to Vodafone, Australia?s love affair with BlackBerry smartphones grew 74 per cent last year and the company predicts the Australian mobile email market will more than double over the next 12 months.

BlackBerry Gets All Touchy Feely As iPhone Approaches
Like the script from a bad B-grade sitcom, it seems some things in the smartphone space are just as easy to predict.

Sharp Invents Methanol Powered Batteries
According to mobiletechnews.com, Sharp Corporation has reported it has achieved the world's highest power density, or 0.3W/cc, for direct methanol fuel cells (DMFC) for mobile communications equipment.

Apples Rumour Mill Grows - iPhone To Have Atom Chip
Those crazy Germans, if its not drowning in oceans of beer during Octoberfest or driving at supersonic speeds down autobahns, now an Intel Germany executive has claimed that Apple plans to use Intel's Atom processor in any future iPhones.

HTC Challenges Apple With 2 Million Phones Prediction
According to a number of reports, a buoyant and some would say feisty HTC says that it expects sales of its Touch Diamond smartphone to top two million units in 2008, and bringing a war with Apple just that one step closer.

Apple To Unveil New iPhone Apps At WWDC
Apple has announced that CEO Steve Jobs will kick off the company?s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco with some interesting news and with a new warm and fuzzy attitude towards third-party developers.

RIM & Microsoft Sign BlackBerry Agreement
Microsoft and Research In Motion (RIM) have signed an agreement to provide Microsoft Windows Live services on the BlackBerry platform.

Optus Gets The iPhone Crumbs
As we reported two weeks ago, Optus indeed will be launching the iPhone in Australia, although after Vodafone already announced first that it will be the carrier, it seems Optus will be playing second fiddle with Apples device.

RIM & Thomson Reuters Throw Money At Themselves
In what could only be seen as a direct investment into your own market share, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) and information seller, Thomson Reuters have announced plans to launch the BlackBerry Partners Fund, a US$150 million venture capital fund, to invest in mobile applications and services for the BlackBerry platform and other mobile platforms.

New BlackBery Smartphone For Crack Addicts
Just in time to take Apple on in the iPhone market BlackBerry has launched a smartphone of its own, which should please addicted BlackBerry owners.

Philips Invents Sexy iPhone Killer
According to overseas reports, rumours of the latest handset hoping to steal some of the iPhone?s thunder have surfaced, and this time the latest contender for the crown is Philips.

You Say iPhone, I Say Touchphone
Even though we all knew that smartphones were going to be winners, not many envisaged that as consumers, we would be literally bombarded with so many different variants of these increasingly ubiqitous devices.

Is Apple Set To Squash The Blackberry?
According to a report in toptechnews.com, Apple's iPhone has ?dramatically shaken up the smartphone market ? especially for the leader, Research in Motion?, maker of the Blackberry.

Yes Optus Gets The iPhone
According to the well respected and often spot on web site, appleinsider.com, Apple may use Australia as a test-bed and sell the iPhone in a non-exclusive deal, although under a very different agreement than has been done before with other carriers.

HTC Launches PDA With GPS
The HTC P3470 PDA phone provides users with not only mobile communication but also a fully-functional satellite navigation system.

Motorola Unleashes WiMAX Potential
At the WiMAX Forum Congress Asia 2008 in Singapore yesterday, Motorola unveiled its first public WiMAX device and showed off its ability to use various mobile applications including video conferencing, web browsing and mobile streaming while driving past access point sites along a road.

Is Nokia About To Go Head To Head With Apple?
According to reports from the US, it seems Finnish phone giant Nokia has been working on a touch-centric device to compete with Apples iPhone and that the device has been codenamed the "Tube."

Nokia To Launch Web Browsing Tablet This Year
Nokia says it is going to launch a web-browsing tablet for the WiMAX network as it goes live this summer in the US.

Microsoft Looking To Grab Chinese 3G Market
Microsoft says shipments to China of handsets with its software will more than double in the next year amid an expected boom in demand for Web access once the country launches 3G wireless services.

Microsoft Releases Mobile OS Version 6.1
This new version shows that far from being just an upgrade, version 6.1 has had a significant overhaul of the Internet Explorer Mobile browser, together with many other enhancements, including threaded text messaging.

Mobile Phones Take New Direction
In-car navigation systems from established brands like Navman and Mio are set to come under pressure as major phone companies move to incorporate navigation into mobile phones and smart phones with large screens.

PDA Market Bullies Newbie HTC
Three months after High Tech Computer Corp (HTC) held a press event with PR company, MaxPR, to celebrate its entrance into the Australian market with a new line of smartphones, the Asian-based phone manufacturer has dumped its former PR agent in favour of Upstream Australia, suggesting HTC is struggling in the highly-competitive local phone market.