Cell Phones

Google's $10 million Android cellphone prize
How will Google make sure its phone software wins hearts and minds? By writing a lot of checks, naturally.
My wife is terrible on the cellphone!
She shouts, she claims she can't hear, she asks, Are you there? It's madness! Sheer madness!
eMusic comes to AT&T phones (but not the iPhone)
AT&T subscribers can now get indie music wirelessly, provided they're willing to shell out some cash.
The anti-iPhone
The Jitterbug takes calls and makes calls, and that's it. Now that's thinking different.
Hummer makes a cell phone
No word yet on how long the rugged new mobile's battery will last.
Kiddie cellphones
What parent can resist an invisible umbilical cord that can stretch across mountains and through buildings?
Life, liberty and the pursuit of wireless connectivity
We hold these rights to be inalienable: Cheap cellphones...
The new infidelity
The technologies that make affairs possible also contain the seeds of their exposure.
When two gadgets become one
Handspring's VisorPhone is the first cool combination of cellphone and personal digital assistant.
Hey, chinbeard! Hang up and ride
Fed up with cellphone users on public transit, a lone stranger fights back.
First you dial, then you crash
With cellphone use among drivers skyrocketing, can accidents be far behind?
Germans and their "Handys"
A recent poll taken by a German magazine shows more people turn off cellphones in theaters than during sex.
Dial-up service
Police arrest two people in Japan for selling porn via cellphones.
Dear businessman at the grocery store
By Maureen F. McHugh
Sunspots
Excerpts from a diary of a networked future.
Musician publishes book of eavesdropped cell phone calls
A small press lends an ear to the airwaves.

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