The Carphone Warehouse offers own-branded navigation app for BlackBerry Curve 8130 handsets

The Carphone Warehouse stocks mobile phones other than the iPhone, remember? I know it’s hard, but cast your minds back to when they were none for stocking all manner of handsets, and not just the Apple mobile. Remember the BlackBerry Curve 8310? You better, as The Carphone Warehouse has some exciting news for potential buyers of this smartphone.

They’ve just selected Telmap…

Stay on the bleeding edge of fashion with Nike and KDDi Communications' blood-red shoes

nike-shoes-2.jpgA product is never just a single product these days, with convergence being more popular than this year than touch-screens, believe it or not. Just look at how many applications and features the most popular touch-screen product of all time is…

Nike is making leaps and bounds in the tech-convergence field, with their Nike + iPod shoes, and now their collaboration with Japan’s…

AOL attempts to claw back UK market with new mobile portal home

aol-logo.jpgMost of our readers can remember the day when AOL ruled the search engine kingdom, long before the days of Google. They’re attempting to claw back some of their UK readers, by launching AOL mobile, a mobile internet portal which visually optimises content for handsets.

The new portal shows content using ‘dynamic mobile transcoding technology’, giving you access to ‘web surf’…

Hulger channels the 1920s with their Sophia VoIP handsets

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The Hulger phones we’ve featured in the past have all been decidedly retro, but this Sophia model? Gorgeous, and so much more classic than their previous styles.

Unfortunately the ’20s-era phone is being sold in a limited edition number of ten, and cost a whopping $215 each. But if you can hunt one down (try eBay if they’re all sold out), you’ll experience full Bluetooth…

Top 5 Gadget Sparklers for Bonfire Night

Remember, remember the 5th of the November – that's how the saying goes. Now Guy Fawkes, there was a man who knew a thing or too about making a statement. If only he'd have done it with his gadgets though and shown off his status with some bling, rather than trying to blow up the Houses of Parliament.

So, as it's Firework Night today, what better way to mark it than with five top sparklers from the techno-world. Unfortunately, not all of them can be waved around in the air and they don't make pretty colours in the smoke, but with gold and crystals on them, each one definitely costs more than a penny for the guy…