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POPSCool video: 20 years of cellphones in 3 minutes A fun morphing video that covers the history of cellphones and touches on the industry's future. Trivia includes the first cellphone to have a "vibrate" function (Motorola's StarTAC) and the first phone to feature a camera (a Sharp model for the Japanese market). Click through for the video--for some reason, it wouldn't embed in the clip.
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POPSAnti-Nokia Anger Grows in Germany News that Nokia will close a factory in western Germany has many Germans -- including the finance and agriculture ministers -- up in arms. German economists, however, call the decision "completely understandable." And chancellor Angela Merkel reportedly has no plans to give up her Nokia phone.
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POPSiPhone Doomed, Windows Mobile a Winner? Here's a contrarian point of view, coming one day after Wired's much-discussed paean to the iPhone: the iPhone will "fade into history," because Microsoft's plans for Windows Mobile are so cool. (First clip has leaked details on WinMobile 7, second has the argument, third is the Wired story.)
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POPSCES: Watch Phone Dream Will Never Die Gearlog says it best: we will keep seeing watch phones, like LG's prototype, at events like CES, and pretty much nowhere else. Actually, gadget site ThinkGeek recently started selling a watch phone and a watch video player (scroll down).
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POPSThe Slow Phone Movement In South Korea, home to particularly zippy mobile networks, the number of people ditching their 3G mobile phones for 2G handsets keeps increasing. The Korea Herald says price and quality are two major reasons.
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POPSWi-Fi in Mecca A free Wi-Fi hotspot is live, this week only, in the area surrounding Saudi Arabia's holy sites.
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POPSNokia's New "Green" Phone In a bid to further boost its green credentials, Nokia is launching the 3110 "Evolve," an energy-efficient phone made partly of recycled plastic. Europe will get the phone first.
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