News (149)

  • 3 Australia doubles down on data

    Without the iPhone's gravitational pull, 3 Mobile is gambling on huge data increases to drive customers to its network.

  • Australia's midnight iPhone launch

    At midnight 11 July Optus became Australia's first mobile carrier to sell the iPhone 3G. We were on hand to witness the festivities and to finally play with Apple's much hyped handset.

  • Optus claims iPhone sales win

    Australia's second biggest telco Optus today claimed to have captured the bulk of new sales for Apple's 3G iPhone by offering better value deals than its competitors.

  • Vodafone customers left stranded without credit

    Vodafone pre-paid customers are reporting being unable to top-up their phone credit due to a problem with Vodafone's credit card processing system.

  • Motorola pitches wind-up phone batteries

    The handset maker says that by year's end it will start selling a mobile phone battery that can be recharged by hand, using an attached hand crank.

More News >

Blogs (11)

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Telstra finishes 2006 with a ring

    Telstra's antics have certainly kept the readers of Full Duplex amused this year. And as 2006 draws to an end, the laughs just keep on coming.

  • Read the blog post - Munir Kotadia

    iPhone suckers test our patience

    So how many of you have bought a 3G iPhone? Do you feel like a sucker? If you don't, maybe you will once your first bill arrives.

  • How Seven blew the internet Olympics

    If there ever was an opportunity for a broadcaster to showcase the potential of internet video, this was it, and Seven has blown it. Perhaps its executives should have rung their mates at NBC in the US and gotten some pointers on online coverage.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Why sex scandals are good for data management

    Convincing people of the importance of regular backups and a proper data management plan is a bit like persuading them of the necessity of regular visits to the dentist no-one bothers until they wake up in the morning screaming with pain. But if you can't persuade them with pain, sex often works a treat.

  • Read the blog post - Jo Best

    O, for a PSP phone and some cheap data

    If you hang around mobile rumour sites then you may have heard the latest Chinese whisper doing the rounds -- Sony is making a PSP mobile phone all of its own.

More Blogs >

Features and Case Studies (39)

  • Australia's midnight iPhone launch

    At midnight 11 July Optus became Australia's first mobile carrier to sell the iPhone 3G. We were on hand to witness the festivities and to finally play with Apple's much hyped handset.

  • Mobile: Skype hungry for next frontier

    Skype sees the mobile market as the next frontier for its service, but economic realities in the voice market -- coupled with mobile operators who feel threatened by Skype -- could put the kibosh on large-scale adoption for some time to come.

  • The Achilles' heel in Google's phone plan

    Can Google be a partner to mobile phone makers? Only if the company can force itself to beg, beguile, and bluff, says CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos.

  • The war against VoIP: How long can the telcos fight?

    Voice over IP has reached some major milestones in 2008 in both the enterprise and consumer ends of the market but how long can traditional telcos continue to fight against this disruptive technology?

  • Mobile comms: can you predict the future?

    Industry analysts are always predicting what will happen in the future. David Braue went back in time five years to see how analysts expected the mobile comms market to evolve, and then compared it to what actually happened.

More Features and Case Studies >

Reviews (150)

  • Nokia 6220 Classic

    Playing on the brunette-stereotype, the Nokia 6220 Classic is a 3G smartphone that transcends its demure looks with pragmatic appeal, a stand-out 5MP camera and assisted-GPS.

  • HTC P3600i

    Decent performance, GPS and good connectivity are a plus for a handset with yesterday's heavy-set PDA aesthetics.

  • Nokia E51

    Nokia's E51 combines business functionality with a well appreciated serving of style, making it a highly desirable phone.

  • Motorola pitches wind-up phone batteries

    The handset maker says that by year's end it will start selling a mobile phone battery that can be recharged by hand, using an attached hand crank.

  • Nokia N76

    Nokia's latest N series clamshell is a shiny 3G multimedia phone with dual displays, a standard 3.5mm headphone jack for music, and support for Windows DRM.

More Reviews >

Create an e-mail alert for "minute"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
minute


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 19 3g
  2. Popularity: 7 apple
  3. Popularity: 9 australia
  4. Popularity: 8 bluetooth
  5. Popularity: 6 broadband
  6. Popularity: 5 camera
  7. Popularity: 9 cdma
  8. Popularity: 6 communications
  9. Popularity: 6 data
  10. Popularity: 5 e-mail
  11. Popularity: 8 ericsson
  12. Popularity: 5 google
  13. Popularity: 10 gprs
  14. Popularity: 7 gps
  15. Popularity: 5 handheld
  16. Popularity: 9 internet
  17. Popularity: 7 iphone
  18. Popularity: 5 jeremy roche
  19. Popularity: 5 laptop
  20. Popularity: 5 management
  21. Popularity: 8 mms
  22. Popularity: 62 mobile
  23. Popularity: 23 mobile phones
  24. Popularity: 18 mobiles
  25. Popularity: 8 motorola
  26. Popularity: 23 nokia
  27. Popularity: 6 notebook
  28. Popularity: 9 optus
  29. Popularity: 7 palm
  30. Popularity: 16 pda
  31. Popularity: 34 phone
  32. Popularity: 9 phones
  33. Popularity: 6 printer
  34. Popularity: 10 review
  35. Popularity: 5 samsung
  36. Popularity: 5 security
  37. Popularity: 9 skype
  38. Popularity: 17 sms
  39. Popularity: 6 software
  40. Popularity: 9 sony
  41. Popularity: 12 t&b
  42. Popularity: 5 telecommunications
  43. Popularity: 26 telstra
  44. Popularity: 10 vodafone
  45. Popularity: 6 voice
  46. Popularity: 13 voip
  47. Popularity: 6 wap
  48. Popularity: 11 wi-fi
  49. Popularity: 5 windows
  50. Popularity: 28 wireless

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • David Braue NBN needs workers on board
    Without consensus on labour issues, the eventual winner of the NBN may end up as little more than a lame duck and a cashed-up symbol of the conflict between the desire for progress and the lack of mechanisms to deliver it.
  • Array D'Ascenzo: Read p23 of security review
    Following yesterday's admission by the Australian Taxation Office that its courier had lost a CD containing the details of 3,000 self-managed super funds, it wants to review how it handles information. My suggestion: go back to the review completed in April.
  • Array Opening the floodgates on missing drives
    News headlines about portable storage devices going missing are as common as muck, but the problem could be even more widespread than you suspect.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured