Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN) introduced today a family of battery charger front-end integrated circuits, which dramatically increases protection when charging a cell phone or other portable electronic device. The 2 mm x 2 mm safety circuits protect a system from input over-voltage, over-current and battery over-voltage conditions, which may result from a power spike during charging, or a defective or incorrect wall adapter.

Motorola, Inc.’s much-anticipated MOTORAZR2 is ready for its North American debut. Today, major U.S wireless carriers began announcing pricing and availability dates for the blade-thin device.

Palm, Inc. announced the Palm(R) Treo(TM) 750 smartphone in the Dominican Republic, the first Windows Mobile based Treo smartphone with GSM technology to take advantage of the Orange and Claro networks. The Treo 750 offers the world-class Palm experience on Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system.

Vodafone and Research In Motion (RIM) today introduced the new BlackBerry® Curve™ 8310 smartphone in Germany, with built-in GPS navigation and advanced multimedia functionality.

Nokia finally got off and revamped the Nokia USA website to look more like the Euro sites.

The Zenum OPUS pocket PC phone has a cool combination of mobile technology, high quality materials and sleek design in this extremely desirable QWERTY cellphone.

Screens that not only display images but also generate their own power are on the horizon.
One of the new display technologies will be suitable for cellphones, making their batteries last far longer than they do now. The other could lead to selfpowered electronic billboards.