Eight consumer and public-interest groups have filed a complaint with the FCC. What has them up in arms? They claim that cell phone providers should not be able to block text messages “from political groups and advertisers.”

Why would they want uninvited messages coming through?

All of this came about after Verizon Wireless blocked text messages on its network that were sent by the abortion rights group Naral Pro-Choice America. Again, why would anyone want these messages coming through? You’re either for it or against it - what does the group think they’ll accomplish by sending out spammy messages?

Maybe the sort of attention they’ve gotten because of the complaint?

“Mobile carriers currently can and do arbitrarily decide what customers to serve and which speech to allow on text messages, refusing to serve those that they find controversial or that compete with the mobile carriers’ services,” the petition said. “This type of discrimination would be unthinkable and illegal in the world of voice communications, and it should be so in the world of text messaging as well.”

If the FCC grants the petition, mobile phone networks would be opened to large quantities of mobile spam messages. Verizon blocks between 100 million and 200 million mobile spam messages per month.

Uhhhh, way to go consumer and public-interest groups? Way to uncork that can of spam!

by Korbin Newlyn

There has been quite a bit of public debate that a cellular phone antenna can be hazardous to your health. We will take a look into the particulars and determine whether these rumors are grounded on any kind of truth.

Are Any Harmful Effects Present? If Yes, How To Avoid Them?

When automobiles were first created (despite the fact that the greatest potential speed was approximately 20-30 Km/hr) individuals were of the belief that anybody who would utilize them on a regular basis would develop terrible diseases and will result in death. Nowadays, the speed of an automobile passes 200 Km/hr and individuals who drive them (or travel around in them) are all right.

Likewise, it is true that a cellular phone antenna gives off a particular amount of electromagnetic waves; additionally they utilize radio signals to broadcast sound. Although it is reliable information that excessive exposure to either (or both) are certainly hurtful, the amount given off by a cellular phone antenna throughout short regular voice communications is not truly enough to create a long lasting harmful impact.

The alert of the health hazard had begun when the Stewart Report had showed that radio waves (from cellular phone antennas) do in truth go through the human body. The report especially cautioned about exposure to small children and suggested that they would be better off not using this device or, at any rate, very minimally because the radiation can damage and limit the formation of brain cells.

One can definitely not do without a cellular phone or the cellular phone antenna. Nevertheless, we can certainly take some steps to cut down the radiation effects to as minimal as possible. Here are a 5 different suggestions:

1. Children should truthfully not use cell phones unless in desperate emergencies. Whenever they have a need to talk over the phone, they had better from normal landlines.

2. Whenever you purchase a cell phone pay particular attention to the SAR (specific absorption rate) element - the smaller the SAR factor is the more beneficial it is for you because the radio emission is to the lowest degree possible.

3. When carrying around a mobile phone, keep the device as distant from your body as possible can. Transport it in pouches, handbags or the like so they can come in contact with the body solely during use.

4. Keep your voice communications as short as you can. This is a beneficial recommendation for the pocket also. Short conversations are not capable of emitting enough radiation to injure the body. If the conversation needs to be long, switch often between one ear and the other one so there is no continual exposure.

5. Cut short the use of the cell phone to a minimum as possible when the reception is bad, as the cellular phone antenna will attempt to boost its power and therefore the radiation to acquire the signals will increase as well.

About the Author:
Listen to Korbin Newlyn as he shares his insights as an expert author and an avid writer in the field of home electronics. To learn more go to Cingular Cellular Phone advice and at Cell Phone tips.

According to company spokesman Noriaki Tobita, a prototype Wellness mobile phone from Japan’s NTT DoCoMo Inc. gives people a hassle-free way of keeping track of their health. It can take your pulse, check your body fat, time your jogs, assess your stress levels, tell you if you have bad breath, and even give you a pep talk. (After being told to exercise, that I’m stressed, and that I have bad breath, I’m going to need more than a pep talk, but thanks anyway.)

Kidding aside, this sounds sweet. The phone was unveiled this week at the CEATEC electronics show outside Tokyo. It has an inbuilt motion sensor that detects body movement, so it can calculate how many calories you’re burning.

The sensor can tell whether you’re walking, running, climbing stairs, or resting, and counts the calories accordingly to tally daily totals, Tobita said.

“It’s with you wherever you go, like a portable personal trainer,” he said.

From the AP (HIROKO TABUCHI, Japan):

Like Nike Inc.’s +Nike technology, the handset also keeps track of jogs, letting users set targets and keeping track of time, distance, and calories burnt — all while listening to music through headphones.

Hold the phone with outstretched arms, and it turns into a mini body fat calculator. A sensor at the top of the phone takes your pulse from your fingertip.

Worried about bad breath? Use the phone’s breathalyzer. After Tobita blew on a tiny hole on the side of the handset for about three seconds, the screen flashed, “Not too bad.”

The Wellness phone, developed by NTT DoCoMo and Mitsubishi Electric Corp., also asks questions to assesses stress levels and offers advice.

When the busy spokesman answered “Yes” to a series of questions — including “Do you feel lethargic?” and “Do you go to bed after midnight?” — a message appeared on the screen warning he was under a lot of stress.

“Don’t worry, tomorrow’s a fresh new day,” the phone then flashed. “Keep your chin up!”

NTT DoCoMo is still testing some of the phone’s other technology, including a function to keep track of meals and calculate calorific intake, as well as a networking capacity to let users share data, Tobita said.

Japan has some of the world’s most advanced cell phones, enabling users to surf the Web, check in at airports and play motion games.

DoCoMo has not set a release date or price for the Wellness phone. The Tokyo-based company’s phones are not sold overseas.

All Handhelds

I haven’t totally made up my mind yet about this one. It’s the Portable Rotary Phone from SparkFun Electronics. It’s a cellphone…I promise…come on, I wouldn’t lie to you.

It’d make a pretty cool conversation piece, I guess, and an utterly original Christmas gift for someone worth the $500 - but, ummm, can you say clunky?

The Portable Rotary Phone supports tri-band GSM, has a SIM card slot and boasts a rechargeable battery. It would be good for a few laughs and, if you’re into getting lots of attention, I can pretty much guarantee this little guy will get it for you.

See SparkFun Electronics for more info.

by Bryan Gian

Nokia is familiar for blending style with substance. Right from advanced technology, exciting multimedia options to fashionable design, Nokia phones spell elegance. Talk about Nokia 8800, and you are assured of high quality performance.

The high-end features of the handset include a built in digital music player with audio and video playback capabilities. The quality of the audio sound is simply superb. It supports different music formats including MP3 and AAC. Tune in to various music channels through its in-built FM radio. Nokia 8800 provides you with wonderful music anywhere anytime. What’s more, you can play a wide variety of interesting ringtones on your device including polyphonic, MIDI, MP3 and AAC ringtones. The handset also features signature ringtones created by renowned composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. The memory capacity of the Nokia 8800 is 64MB which easily accommodates your music. So download all your favourite songs, make your own music library.

Get in touch with your friends in an instant through Instant messaging service. Share your media files through its easy-to-use messaging options including MMS and email features. The Nokia 8800 handset also features a 0.5 mega pixel SVGA camera which comes with video capture and 3D enhanced graphics. So take good quality pictures and video shots wherever you go. The high resolution TFT display is wide and clear enough to view your video clips. With high speed wireless connectivity provided by the handset, sharing your files has become much easier. You can transfer your songs and videos to other compatible devices using Bluetooth, EDGE, EGPRS and GPRS.

The Web browsing options in the Nokia 8800 including XHTML, TCP/IP and Mobile Wallet have made Internet easily accessible to you. So you can get connected to your dear ones from anywhere in the world. Enjoy interesting Java games, music videos, MP3 ringtones - download whatever you want from the net.Go for Nokia 8800 to get nonstop entertainment. For more information of Nokia Mobile PhonesPlease visit our site.

About the Author:
Gian Bryan is a webmaster of the site .Mobile Phone Reviews, Sim Free Mobile Phones articles .

Up to 46 million batteries used in some of the Nokia’s cell phones could be faulty and pose a risk of overheating. Read the complete story hot off of the AP……

by Charenelle Williams

A SIM card (Subscriber Identity Module) is a rectangular memory chip used in some cellular telephones. It holds personal identity information such as: cell phone number, phone book, text messages, and other data. The SIM card makes it easy to hold this data and activates the phone. Most cell phones come with built-in memory and the SIM card which can be thought of a memory card; stores limited information.

A SIM card is very helpful. If for some reason your phone is not working, you can slide it out of your phone and into another. You cell phone carrier will bill you for the call even though you used another phone. The same is possible if you upgrade your cell phone.

To use a phone that accepts your SIM card, the other phone must be from the same carrier or unlocked. Some phones are locked by carriers so that SIM cards only used by that carrier can be used in the phones they make. If you’re traveling across the country or over seas, (if your headset is not locked) you can buy a SIM card that will allow you to talk at minimal cost to. For example you can purchase a prepaid SIM card or SIM cards made by overseas carriers.

By: Charenelle Williams

About the Author:
Charenelle Williams is a freelance writer for Indocquent.com. Indocquent.com is an online resource that allows businesses and individuals to promote their products and services in 20,000 cities in over 200 countries around the world.

by You Teck

i.Tech Clip Radio is an elegant Bluetooth headset that combines entertainment and communication all-in-one. It plays music in stereo from your phone’s music player* or built-in FM radio (That’s right, you can listen to your favorite FM station!), and switches freely between music and phone calls.

Features At A Glance

It is equipped with auto-searching radio station function and 4 stations could be pre-set. The clip style with standard 3.5mm audio socket allows the users to use their own favorite earpieces.

Here’s the thing about i.Tech Clip Radio

It’s a stereo bluetooth headset and unlike the conventional mono headset, you can actually enjoy greater sound quality while listening to your favorite MP3 or radio station.

The beautiful thing of i.Tech Clip Radio is that you can switch from listening A2DP stereo music to FM Stereo seamlessly by pressing and holding the volume up button a short while.

Style

i.Tech Clip Radio is not short on style wise as it’s sleek looking and can be clip on to anywhere you want it to be. There’s 3 choices for colors for i.Tech Clip Radio and they are , black, grey and white.

Conclusion

It’s a great bluetooth headset if you get it at the right price and it’s DDSquare recommendation for all bluetooth headset users.

About the Author:
You Teck is the owner of an E-Commerce store [Digital Device Square or DDSquare.com]. If you like what you’ve read about i.Tech Clip Radio, you can visit DDSquare.com to find out more about the bluetooth headset or get it at a super attractive price.

by adam caitlin

Exuding sophistication and incredible charm, the Nokia 8800 is an attractive slider phone, that has been designed for the fashion aficionados. Garbed in a stainless steel casing, the Nokia 8800 comes with an eye-catching silver chassis and complementary black and carbon gray accents. The gadget is compact enough to be slipped into the pockets. It measures 107 x 45 x 16.5 mm.

As with all the slider phones, the Nokia 8800 also gets dominated by a screen. The screen is of high resolution and quite bright, colourful and clear. Another praiseworthy feature about Nokia 8800’s screen is that it has a scratch resistant screen. Which means no more irritation when it comes to hand marks etc. The particulars of the screen being, 208 x 208 pixel resolution on a 1.65″ display.

When the Nokia 8800 is opened, then an impressive keypad is revealed at the front, while a camera pops out at the bottom. The keypad is a little narrow and it poses a little problem for the ones with fat fingers. In the same way, the integrated camera is also not really good enough. It is mere 0.5 MP of camera. In the era where the cameras are enabled with as much as 5 MP, 0.5MP seems like a favour. The Nokia 8800 has the ability to record videos. For more entertainment, the Nokia 8800 includes FM radio with digital music player. There are also provisions for games.

Apart from good looks, the Nokia 8800 is also enabled with many serious features. The phone comes with tri-band network for seamless connectivity. It also features voice connectivity. Further, the versatility of Bluetooth, XHTML browser, GPRS and EDGE makes the phone more usable. But here the Nokia 8800 is devoid of Wi-Fi.

Nokia 8800 offers 64 MB of internal memory. It has a talk time of 3 hours, with standby time of 8 days.

Mobile Phone pay as you go mobile phones Nokia 8800

About the Author:
Adam Caitlin is expert author of Telecommunication industry.

by Lawrence Cheney

Because it meets the basic needs of connectivity in close range, Bluetooth has a very bright future ahead of it. Bluetooth is actually the result of initiatives from nine leading communications and computer industry giants, including 3-COM, Sony,Lucent, IBM, Nokia, Microsoft, etc.

Since the forming of the original group, more than 1,800 manufacturers around the world have joined the initiative. According to reports, the Bluetooth technology is expected to be built into more than 100 million devices, with over 670 million enabled Bluetooth devices.

Resulting from the amazing success of WAP (Wireless Application Protocol), the adoption of smart phones and hand held devices, Bluetooth can easily have an amazing impact on your day to day life. Bluetooth is one of the key technologies that can help to make the mobile information society happen, by blurring the possibilities between home, the office,and the outside world.

The seamless integration and connectivity that Bluetooth promises will make it possible to explore a wide range of interactive and highly transparent personalized services which were actually quite difficult to dream of simply because of the complexity involved with making such devices communicate with each other.

Many Bluetooth pilot products have already been rolled into the market and backed by big vendors,which is a healthy sign for the overall acceptance of the technology. The support for Bluetooth isn’t limited to companies that develop only Bluetooth enabled products.

The applications for Bluetooth can have great impacts on other industries as well. The adoption of Bluetooth technology is expected to spread throughout the industry of computers.

Lawrence Cheney reviews high tech products. His Treo sites are at Treo 680 and at Treo 700. Unblock MySpace

Unlike infrared technology, Bluetooth is used by many different wireless devices. Bluetooth offers exceptional quality for short range wireless, even going through walls and obstructions. While infrared is the biggest competitor at this time,Bluetooth far surpasses it, proving to millions that it is the wireless communication technology of the present day and age.

In the beginning, Bluetooth started with version 1.0, then gradually moved from there. The current version is 2.0+EDR, with another version currently in development. The technology behind the Bluetooth specification always getting better and better, which is why it’s so popular.

In the future, you can expect the technology behind Bluetooth to get better. Bluetooth has proven to be the wireless standard of the future, offering you wireless connectability for hundreds of different devices. For cell phones or other forms of wireless connections, Bluetooth is the one technology that you don’t want to find yourself without.

About the Author:
Lawrence Cheney reviews high tech products. His Treo sites are at Treo 680 and at Treo 700. Unblock MySpace.