Nokia is canceling all of their external cellphone production. That equates to them cutting 17% of their manufacturing output. Ouch. [iSuppli]
Nokia Pulls More Than $5 Billion in Business From Contract Manufacturers
El Segundo, Calif., Mar. 27, 2009-In another blow to the beleaguered electronics contract manufacturing business, Nokia-the world’s largest mobile handset brand-announced that it has […]

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I’m still a fan of Sony Ericsson hardware, even on mid-range dumbphones like this T707. No one can say they’re not shiny.

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It has gesture control for ignoring calls, activated by a motion sensor, I believe, not any sort of accelerometer-triggered death shake you might put down on it. It also has […]

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Special forces may use throat mics to coordinate near-silent attacks on enemy bases, but Sanwa wants to bring all that convenience to your next supermarket run.
Sanwa’s hands-free throat mic looks like a military headset, but it’s made for use with your cellphone (which we’re assuming isn’t part of your black ops kit, but we’re not […]

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The U750 is your standard free-on-contract feature phone—except for one thing: when the dual-flip-action display is rotated and folded into landscape mode, the keypad buttons switch assignments (and looks!) to create a QWERTY layout. Witchcraft!
Rather than just stamping two decals on each button like it did with the same-shaped U740, Samsung opted to put some […]

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