Saturday, December 04, 2004
New Motorola Phones
New Motorola phones in the Motorola Phones section at the Mobile Phone Directory
Motorola A1000
Motorola C385
Motorola E550
Motorola C651
Motorola RAZR V3
Motorola V180
Motorola V220
Friday, July 09, 2004
Sagem myX-7 review
SAGEM myX-7 review
The myX-7 from SAGEM is the intended high-end replacement for their earlier myX-6 handset. It is the leader of SAGEM's range of inexpensive mobile phones very popular with the pay as you go market, and a good mid-range camera phone, with a CCD-VGA camera built in as well as MMS messaging.
The phone also has an integrated aerial, support for Java, and can be linked to PDAs; WAP capability is also present for surfing over GPRS. From this category, only the Nokia 6600 beats the SAGEM myX-7 on raw specification.
The keypad is a bit smaller than average but is still easy to use. The SAGEM myX-7 has a good responsive interface, and although not as comfortable to use as the T630 is a good improvement on the myX-6.
You can buy the myX-7 from SAGEM now.
Links:
SAGEM
SAGEM myX-7
Alternative review:
SAGEM myX-6
Sony Ericsson T630
Alcatel 735
Nokia 6600
Friday, July 02, 2004
China monitors SMS
It has emerged that Chinese authorities have extended their clampdown on communications to encompass not only the Internet and e-mail but also SMS text messages.
Technology companies in the country are already beginning to aggressively market their sniffing systems in an attempt to grab their share of the monetary pie created by this new policy, with system features including watching for "false political rumours" and "reactionary remarks". Up to 2,800 listening centres are already in place with future expansions plans already in place; these existing centres were used during the 2003 SARS outbreak (see sarswatch.org), generating prosecutions for the propagation of false alarmist rumours.
Beijing already feels threatened by the possibilty that insurgent or terrorist communications could be thriving right under their noses, an attitude which has echos of Washington's anti-terror stance. There was talk of a clamp down on SMS during the deluge of messages sent during the SARS outbreak and this policy change is seen as a natural extension of information control laws that are often seen as draconian in comparison to Western states.
China has made moves to help encourage the cooperation of ISPs with offers to sign a compliance pact. This will include a requirement that the authorities be notified when certain trigger words are detected from within any of the 220 billion strong mass of messages sent each year.
Forthcoming Series 60 mobile phones such as the Nokia 6600 could possibly be reprogrammed - by either network operators or Chinese authorities - to allow the snooping of messages before they even leave the sender's hand.
