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Mobiles & Handhelds

The scroll is back

Get ready for the world's first mobile phone with a rollable screen.

Is that a computer in your pocket?

It may look like a mobile phone but that swanky high-tech gadget in the shop window no longer answers to that name.

Latest mobile & handheld reviews

Bluetrek Bluetooth car kit

Advanced features include call waiting, last-number redial and dial missed call.

Get smartphones

Here are four devices that put a mobile inbox in your pocket.

Review: Nokia 5310 XpressMusic

It makes sense for your phone to double up as a pseudo-iPod.

Review: Podfrey

People visiting Sydney can rent a Podfrey to find their way around.

Review: Nokia E51

Nokia E51 mobile phone The E51 does everything you would want from a conventional "candy bar" phone.

Review: Portable GPS systems

Properly designed, a GPS device is a wonderfully useful machine. Badly designed, they are useless.

Fast Forward

Time to rename the mobile?

Fast Forward Some phone manufacturers don't want us to use the label "mobile phone" anymore. They think that phrases like portable mobile device, wireless handset and multimedia computer better portray their latest battery of sleek and expensive product launches. But do these labels dance off the tongue - or so...

Screen Play

The stolen generation

Screen Play There's a games platform with a billion players, a free online network, virtually unlimited power and offering games for every possible demographic. Of course, it's the PC, once the undisputed vanguard of gaming, but now routinely dismissed despite the ever-growing household penetration of home co...

Gadgets on the Go

Instant traffic updates let you dodge traffic jams

Gadgets on the Go Sat-nav might get you from A to B, but the SUNA traffic channel lets you avoid the traffic along the way. Sydney's F3 traffic chaos provided the perfect opportunity this week for Intelematics Australia to spruik the merits of its SUNA Traffic Channel, an implementation of the TMC (Traffic Message C...

Latest mobile & handheld articles

Musical mobiles take aim at iPod

This year the convergence of phones and MP3 players will be complete, mobile makers say.

iPhone upgraded as sales hit 4 million

Steve Jobs said the company had sold 4 million iPhones as he announced updated services.