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$310,000 cellphone? Yep, that what I need!

Ok,  so I was wondering what is the MOST expensive cellphone you can buy, and, I found it.  A Vertu Cobra.  The phone has one pear-cut diamond, one round white diamond, two emerald eyes and 439 rubies.  Vertu, a luxury cell phone manufacturer which is a subsidiary of Nokia, has limited production of the Signature [...]

Google “Android” cell phone may be here soon

Google Phone? There have been on and off rumors about a Google cellphone, or GPhone,  for the last year or more.  The rumored phone would be run on the Android platform, which is sponsored by The Open Handset Alliance, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies which is working on developing “Android: [...]

How the cellphone started

In summer 1984 Motorola introduced the DynaTAC 8000X which was the world’s first commercial handheld cellphone, If you had one you were beyond cool. Here is a picture of the device from Motorola’s archives.  With 30 minutes of talk time, 10 hours to recharge, eight hours of standby time, LED display, memory to store 30 numbers, it [...]