Meet Cox Wireless, an expansion of their broadband offerings. The company believes customers are underserved by the big wireless carriers and live in fear of surprise bills. Cox Wireless is being rolled out to Orange County, CA; Hampton Roads, Va.; and Omaha, Neb. One of the most innovative concepts of Cox’s “Unbelievably Fair” wireless plans more »

Toshiba is finally putting a Cell processor in a television and will show it off on October 5, 2009. Announced back in CES 2009, Japan gets this super-TV first. What purpose could having a Cell processor have in a television? Toshiba says they will use the processor to upscale standard definition video to higher quality. more »

By now, we’re all pretty much aware of SMS and MMS messages. We’re also probably aware of the drawbacks, such as the fact that you can never be sure that the person is going to actually respond to the text message. A new system is on its way that will solve the eternal question of “will they ever return my text, or are they too busy playing WoW to care?” as well as a few others.

The new system is called Mobile Enhanced Messaging is the next logical step in phone messaging from the text/picture/video messaging side. The most important feature is that you can have a conversation with more than two people, so there’s no more asking a bunch of people what they want in a single message, and relating each person’s response. The conversations can be through text, images, video, audio, and “other future content” which I assume must mean holograms.

PhoneFusion announced yesterday that their Fusion Voicemail + is coming to the Android platform that will allow users to view their voicemails and listen to them in any order they choose. This was a big selling point of the original iPhone and now it is coming to the Android platform.

Currently, PhoneFusion offers this software for free to Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Linux, Palm and Symbian phones via their downloaded application. PhoneFusion announced the addition of the Android to their compatible platforms at the Under the Radar: Mobility event. The company says the application will be available before the end of this year.

Find out more about this app. Click more to follow.

Fun stats, right? According to XLINK, it is accurate and 20% of US households are doing just that by the end of this year, jumping off the landline bandwagon. But is going all cell going to work for your family? XLINK happens to make a product that it believes will make the transition super-easy. Stop more »

Today we’ve got a guest post by Scott McGrath. Scott has worked in the IT industry as a consultant and Sysadmin for 12 years, and has enjoyed communications gadgets since he got his Fisher Price telephone at 2 years of age. Like what he said? Hate what he said? Go over to Scott’s blog at www.scamwagon.com and let him know.

Believe it or not, I’m in the market for a cordless phone. Before you laugh, there’s actually plenty of reasons I maintain a land line, not the least of which is the fact that I have poor cell coverage at my home, and not the most of which is the fact that cellular usually can not hold a candle to the real deal PSTN or good VoIP line, in terms of quality. Cordless phones still have life since some can pair to your cell phone so you don’t have to rush to find that tiny handheld when it rings. If you’re a Skype user, you can be untethered with some cordless phones.

Continued after the break.

A decently known cell phone manufacturer, Hop-on, has recently decided to create a phone running Google’s Android platform. In case you are not familiar with Hop-on, it is basically a company that creates cell phones as well as accessories for diverse and new markets. They are probably most known for creating the world’s first disposable phone. One of the special things about Google’s Android that makes it so appealing is the fact that anyone can create apps for it, as it is open source. Plenty more after the break.

A new service focused around the use of cell phones has been announced, it’s called “My Mobile Witness.” Upon first seeing the name, I immediately felt like I wanted to bash it for being some sort of invasion of privacy-enabling service. Turns out that isn’t the case. My Mobile Witness is actually what it calls “a personal security device.” It actually sounds a bit useful if not hard to anticipate when to use it.

The service works by the user taking a picture of the area they are in, a license plate, a suspicious person, or something similar. The picture (or text message) is uploaded to a server that is apparently only viewable by police. The situations the press release describe would prove the service to be useful: taking a picture of a street sign in an unfamiliar area, taking a picture of a marker on an unfamiliar hiking path during a storm, among others. The information, if used for a crime, can apparently be used in court as well.

I’m not kidding. Yes, I realize you are still waiting for the originals, and now you hear news of new and upgraded versions. Apparently, there is going to be an announcement of a Storm-like device at WES 2009. Granted, RIM doesn’t exactly have the best track record when it comes to launch dates, so you may want to take that one with a grain of salt. So much more after the break.

Nokia’s first touchscreen phone, Nokia 5800 was a blast for Nokia fanatics. Nokia has recently made another statement pertaining to the production of Nokia touchscreen phones in the future. In a recent event in India, Devinder Kishore, Marketing Director of Nokia revealed, “We will have lot of touchscreen phones coming up, including an N-series device more »