Cell Phones News Archive

03-Apr-2009

 

On new cell phones, QWERTY eases out 1-2-3 (AP via Yahoo! News)

Goodbye, numeric cell phone keypads. You're going the way of the rotary dial. Touch screens and QWERTY keyboards will take over from here, thank you.

On new cell phones, QWERTY eases out 1-2-3 (The Washington Times)

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Goodbye, numeric cell phone keypads. You're going the way of the rotary dial. Touch screens and QWERTY keyboards will take over from here, thank you. At North America's largest cell phone trade show, running this week in Las Vegas, there were few new phones for the U.S. market that had a numerical keypad instead of an alphabetic keyboard. Touch screens also were out in force. ...

Verizon to collect old cell phones and related items for recycling (Daily Journal)

Consumers in Cumberland County can give back to their communities and help the environment by donating old cell phones, batteries and accessories to Verizon Wireless' HopeLine program during the Environmental Protection Agency's National Cell Phone Recycling Week, April 6 to 12.

Senate defeats limit on state workers? cell phones, PDAs (The Des Moines Register)

State spending for cell phones and personal digital assistants would have been limited under a proposal by a Republican senator.

Cell Phones Relatively Safe from Viruses... For Now (Scientific American)

[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.] We can get viruses from the Internet. But can we catch viruses on our cell phones? A new study in the journal Science says yes, but the spread of such malicious mobile software won?t reach epidemic proportions until more cell phones are on the same operating system. [More]

Cell Phones Ditch Numeric Keypads (Fox News)

At North America's largest cell phone trade show, running this week in Las Vegas, there were few new phones for the U.S. market that had a numerical keypad instead of an alphabetic keyboard.

QWERTY is pushing out 1-2-3 on cell phones (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

LAS VEGAS Goodbye, numeric cell-phone keypads. You?re going the way of the rotary dial. Touch screens and QWERTY keyboards will take over. At North America?s largest cell-phone trade show, running this week in Las Vegas, there were few new phones for the U.S. market that had a numerical keypad instead of an alphabetic keyboard. Touch screens also were big.

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