Mobile Phones

Everybody loves the iPhone. Even though few in India have seen, touched, or used the device, the buzz for the product is palpable; its praise almost universal. While we agree that the iPhone is a great device that gets a lot right, there are several faults that need to be highlighted. The most glaring of these faults have come crawling out of the woodwork in the past few weeks.

Sexy, fast and dangerously desirable. All that we love about the racy stallion Ferrari has been translated into a mobile phone–the Moto RAZR2 V9 Ferrari Special Edition. Switch this baby on and you’ll hear the classic roar of the Ferrari F1 eight-cylinder engine and once you’re done you can slip it into the slick exclusively-branded leather case.

Samsung has announced a new mobile phone named innov8, which is scheduled to be available worldwide from August 2008. The phone is also known as Samsung i8510. The most important feature of the innov8 phone is its 8 Megapixel camera. The phones sporting up to 5 Megapixel cameras are common these days, however a phone with 8-MP camera is still quite rare.

Despite boffo quarterly earnings and record Mac sales, Apple's announcement that margins will soon shrink had investors reeling

Samsung launches its new M150 candy bar phone. The M150 phone will be launched first in Germany during mid August followed by the European countries.

Despite a few hiccups and stores running out of inventory, Apple was able to sell one million 3G iPhones worldwide across 21 countries its first three days on sale. During that same time, owners of both the new and old iPhone were able to download 10 million apps from the newly launched App Store on iTunes, despite major problems with the iPhone 2.0 software update disabling many people’s phones temporarily on Friday.

MIAMI - For less than $15, you can buy a cell phone loaded with minutes. You can buy more as you go whenever those minutes run out. Best of all, you aren't locked into a long-term contract.

It's great that the new iPhone has faster data service and GPS. And you could get lost for days in the new iPhone App Store looking at all the cool new toys and productivity tools. But quite a few Achilles' heels--in the form of missing features--still remain in Apple's 3G iPhone. What's most surprising is that these features come standard in some of even the most basic models of rival phones. With these features added, the 3G iPhone could come pretty close to perfect. (This isn't the first time we've complained about what's missing from the iPhone, and many of the gripes on this list are repeat offenders.)