Samsung recently announced a range of eco-friendly phones, including models which use up to 50 percent bioplastic for their outer cases. Bioplastics are derived from renewable material like corn oil rather than petroleum. Samsung’s new phones — the F268, bound for China, the W510 for Korea and the E200 Eco for European markets — are [...]

I’ve been handing out my new business cards over the past week or so. People are initially bemused by the mobile barcode on the back. Once I show them how it can be read with a camera phone and turned into an e-mail address, telephone number or Web address, they’re usually impressed. As I wrote [...]

As the performance and specification of camera phones improves I’m finding it increasingly difficult to judge image quality. Ultimately its in the eye of the beholder which is just so subjective.
As highlighted in an earlier post, more pixels do not automatically mean better quality. In some cases devices with less pixels can take better pictures [...]