Do you want your pals to know where you are at all times? If you are a young adult who networks all the time this could be what you are looking for and now you can have this facility.

Helio and EarthLink, have made recent announcements about the new release of phones with built-in GPS tracking devices. The devices are designed for use as social mapping tools which will let others in your social circle know exactly where you are at all times.

The technology is not new and privacy concerns have made people uneasy about it before. However, the new technology allows the user to turn off the tracking system when he or she doesn’t want to be located.

With the Drift, which costs $225 in your phone at the press of a button, you can see on a map the location of up to 25 friends provided each friend is also having the Drift.

Cameras with phones are probably the easiest way of having a digital camera. You can carry it anywhere and enjoy. But, few phones have a decent camera and most have no clarity. So you may ask what are the things to look for in camera in a phone?

The first would be the megapixels it has and this is probably more of a concern in a phone camera than a normal one. This is actually because there is no optical zoom in cell phone camera and only digital zoom.

So the higher megapixel ensures better quality and hence the better it is for you. Again not many available with decent megapixels in cell phones in the US. At least a 1.3 megapixel camera in your phone is what you can do to ensure the least! But now Hewlett-Packard and contract manufacturer Flextronics have struck a deal that’s likely to improve the quality of your cell phone photos.

Flextronics has licensed digital imaging technology from HP and will begin to incorporate the technology into cell phones that hit the market in 2007. HP currently includes the same technology in its own digital cameras. So, this could be the end of crappy cell phone pictures in the future!

VoIP is here to stay and improving by the day and not just the huge cost cutting advantage it gives to a business the whole technology is evolving fast and furiously. So, when I tell you that some users of Nokia’s combined Wi-Fi and cellular phones will soon be able to make voice calls that can roam between the two networks without dropping the call - You’re going to be happy!

Cicero Networks announced on Thursday that it would make its client available on the S60 platform, the phone software based on the Symbian operating system that was developed by Nokia. The CiceroPhone handset software, combined with back-end technology that a service provider installs, supports the handoff of voice calls between Wi-Fi and cellular networks. The Cicero software was available previously only on Windows Mobile phones.

The move to S60, which includes Nokia’s Eseries and some Nseries phones, was important, Cicero said. The devices from Nokia, the world’s number-one handset maker, are likely to reach a wide audience, offering more choice of phones for end users.

Now that’s a far cry from the times when I’ve had a shopping site up and running and the dance I had to do with my customers. All the back-and forth e-mails that took to covert a curious surfer into a customer the 3-4 days delay and the time difference hiitches that came along the way.

I’m glad that’s all in the past and I’m busy using IP telephony and all ready to lap up more of it. Though initially quality and call-dropping problems happened it’s now come a long way.

Almost 3 million households nationwide subscribed to Internet phone service in the second quarter of this year, according to a survey by Telephia, a San Francisco company that tracks subscribers for Internet phone and other communications services. Doesn’t that say something to you?

We have gotten used to seeing Google at the forefront of the technology revolution, always being one of the companies that is the first to adapt a new technology to their services, and hence it is a surprise that Google waited so long to make G-Mail accessible on cell phones. But alas, G-Mail Mobile is now here and cell phone users can now log into their G-Mail account using their cell phone browsers to stay in touch with friends, family, and other contacts.
G-Mail Mobile also allows you to view PDFs, images, and Word files that were sent in e-mails.

Synch, a relatively new electronics company, has created a dual charger that allows you to charge two cell phones at one time. This new, lightweight, charger is very versatile and cannot only charge your cell phone or PDA, but also charge your MP3 player and a wide variety of other electronic products to help you save space and time.

Travelodge, a popular hotel here in the United States, will begin to offer these chargers and if you want one for your own personal use, you can purchase the charger from the company’s official web site, http://www.the-synch.co.uk/home.php?m=home&ex=1&.

A Chinese manufacturer has designed a cell phone that looks very similar to the Sony PSP and it is clear that there are clearly some licensing issues. The phone is pretty nicely designed though leaves some to be desired with a measly 1.3 mega pixel camera, although it is rumored to have a good MP3 player. This is not as “Sony PSP Phone” (there has been no word on that), but rather a phone that has a striking resemblance in terms of design to the PSP. It is unclear whether or not Sony will sue this company for stealing their design, but they most likely will.

There ha been a lot of buzz this week about the new Samsung SGH-X830 MP3 Player cell phone that will most likely be sued by Apple for its use the of click wheel. From design alone, the SGH-X830 is one nice looking phone and although at first it seems like a thin MP3 player, the “top layer” can be swung around to reveal a cell phone keypad. As far as patent rights are concerned, Apple will most likely sue the company for its use of the click wheel, but this cell phone is currently only available in Korea, but it was rumored that Samsung was planning on bringing this phone stateside. We will have to wait and see what happens.