Huawei has unveiled what it says is the world’s thinnest smartphone.

The Android-based Ascend P6 is 6.18mm (0.24in) thick and is also unusual in that it has a 5 megapixel front camera for “high quality” self-portraits.

The Chinese firm has said it expects the handset to do “miracles” for its brand.

One analyst praised its design, comparing it to a “steamrollered iPhone”, but said its lack of support for 4G networks might limit sales.

“It’s undoubtedly the most impressive phone that Huawei have launched to date in terms of the design, the materials used and its quality,” said Ben Wood, director of research at consultancy CCS Insight, who was at the London launch.
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Ever heard of the black hats? And, no, we’re not talking top-hatted City bankers, but unscrupulous computer hackers. The data on your laptop and desktop might be nailed up tighter than Sing Sing prison, but what about your smartphone?
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The US National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting the telephone records of tens of millions of Americans, according to the Guardian newspaper.

The newspaper published what it said was a secret court order directing the Verizon company to hand over data on its customers on an “ongoing” basis.
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Apple has lost a ruling by a US trade panel in a patent dispute with its rival Samsung.

The International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled that Apple infringed a Samsung patent, which could mean some older models of the iPad and iPhone are banned from sale in the US.
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Touch-free, or gesture recognition, technology is something that has been lacking from mobile devices for years, and is made more apparent in the latest smartphones and tablets. It is something all mobile phone manufacturers have been scrambling to develop and implement for years.
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18 year old student Eesha Khare has invented a cellphone charger that is capable of charging a mobile phone in around 30 seconds, the student won a Young Scientist Award and also $50,000 in prize money which she will use when she goes to Harvard in the fall.

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Retired IT manager Nigel Clarke, from Kent in the UK, has launched a website listing the call centre menu sequences for accessing thousands of services.

He started the project after growing frustrated about the number of options and amount of recorded information on call centre menus.
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There was a time when communication used to be a very tedious task. But thanks to the inventions that were done at the later stages, today we have been blessed to have mobile phones and all other latest devices which help a lot in communication and so in one way we can say that life can become easier because of it. Having a mobile phone has been so common that almost everyone, be it a people from a lower class or from middle class or from higher class, can been seen with a mobile phone in their hand. According to data collected by various agencies we have listed counties having the largest number of people having mobile phone and so have prepared a top ten list for them. Here follows the list. [Read the rest of this entry...]

SAN FRANCISCO — On a cloudy afternoon in the Tenderloin district, a man in a hooded sweatshirt walks slowly along Market Street, stopping to engage people he encounters along the way. He offers a peek at the wares inside the backpack slung over his shoulder: Three new iPhones, each still sealed in a white box affixed with Apple’s logo. He stole these phones, he tells potential customers, before asking them to make an offer.
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NEW YORK — Research firm IDC said more smartphones than “dumb” phones are being made this year, a milestone in a shift that’s putting computing power and Internet access in millions of hands worldwide.
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