Saturday, July 4th, 2009

Carphone Warehouse, in a partnership with Samsung, is about to launch four new anti-bullying handsets. The mobile phones are supposed to block bullying texts sent to children and will also send a SOS message to parents. They are a reaction to the surging wave of so-called cyber-bullying where victims are harassed via text messages.
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At Nokia’s Go Play event in London, two new handsets have been introduced – the N81 and the N81 8GB. The devices have been designed to complement both the music store on Nokia’s new Ovi online portal and the N-Gage gaming platform - all wrapped up in a sleek slider design and peppered with rich [...]

According to predictions by Yankee Group, over 10 million US tweens (children aged 8 to 12) will own a mobile phone by 2010. In 2005, only around 5 million US tweens carried a mobile device.
While many children will turn to conventional devices and use minutes contained in family plans, there is also the option [...]