There are so many complex things that we can do on our smartphones right? Sometimes we forget that the original purpose of the phone was to make and receive voice calls. In fact, some phones are really easy to navigate when it comes to SMS messaging or the mobile web or the phone’s geo-location features but not nearly as simple when it comes to just making calls. That’s why you need a ...

BigBen by Cellphonesoft protects your smartphone from accidental use by locking keys, while displaying a large digital or analog clock. By selectable background images and hourly chimes you can even make your phone look and sound like the famous tower clock in London! The program can also display visible and audible reminders for unattended events, like call or SMS.

TrueCaller is an app for Windows Mobile and Android that'll do quite a few interesting things. It can display the name and address of an unknown caller when possible, although it appears that the UK isn't supported yet. The app will also update Twitter with your call status like this too. Other features SMS pop-ups, blocking incoming calls from unwanted callers, reporting spam callers, d...

Samsungs latest Star TV phone, the S5233T, has just been released at South East Asia. This Star allows the user to channel surf on the cellphone, one-click screen capture and record, an on-screen keypad channel entry as well as reception of incoming SMS messages. There is no word on pricing so far, but

While global revenues from mobile messaging services including SMS and mobile e-mail from mobile business customers are forecast to reach $48 billion by 2014, data access services revenues for handsets and computing devices will not be far behind, reaching $43 billion by 2014. In fact, in most regional markets (with two notable exceptions) data access spending will exceed mobile messaging... [

We've talked about the use of SMS to send money to one another and various places before. But, what about using your mobile device in a physical manner? Given that many churches use the option of electronic payments from their websites, would it be a stretch to take that to a mobile device? So, instead of there just being a bucket in front of the church, there would be someone holding an iPhone/iP...

Paragon Software Group has released Handy SMS, an advanced text manager that makes the access and exchange of messages on a Windows Mobile phone easier and more convenient. The app offers full integration with Outlook. Incoming messages can be viewed...

Notes is a simple and straight-forward notes app for Android. With it you can: * Write plain text notes or checklists and switch seamlessy between them * Cross off items on your lists and delete them when your done * Send your lists to anyone via e-mail or SMS And soon, in our Pro version*: * Sync your notes to

A news release from machine-to-machine (M2M) company Numerex and mobile messaging experts Tekelec really caught my attention today. The companies are working together to use good old mobile texts as the best way for machines to communicate with each other rapidly, reliably and cheaply. And their working example is bananas.

The data access services revenues from mobile business customers are expected to reach $43 billion by 2014, a recent report from ABI Research shows. Moreover, the study also underlines the fact that the revenues will keep up pace with those from mobile messaging services including SMS and mobile e-mail in the enterprise market, which...