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"If mobile phones were to cause brain tumors we would expect to see a sudden rise in the number of brain tumors at some point in time, and we don't see it," said lead researcher Isabelle Deltour, from the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology at the Danish Cancer Society in Copenhagen.

However, Deltour leaves the door open to the possibility that widespread cell phone use hasn't been around long enough to see an increase in brain tumors.

"Either it means that mobile phones don't cause brain tumors or it means that we don't see it yet or we don't see it because the increase is too small to be observed in this population, or it is a risk that is limited to a small subgroup of the population," she said.

Deltour's team will continue to look at the rates of brain tumors in the study group, she added.

For the study, Deltour's team collected data on 60,000 people diagnosed with glioma and meningioma in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden between 1974 and 2003.

The researchers found that the incidence of brain tumors over this 30-year period were stable, decreased or gradually increased, starting before cell phones became popular.

In addition, there was no change in the incidence of brain tumors between 1998 and 2003, during a period of rapid increase in cell phone usage, the researchers noted.

Dr. Paul Graham Fisher, an associate professor of neurology, pediatrics, and neurosurgery and human biology and the Beirne Family Director of Neuro-Oncology at Stanford University, said that "this topic won't go away."

Fisher thinks that like so many irrational fears, such as harm from radiation from electric wires, the connection between cell phones and brain tumors will persist even though there is no scientific evidence for such a connection.

"This is sort of the high-tension wires of our time," Fisher said. "This is an issue that is probably not going to go away, because people have this suspicion and it's fueled by some public paranoia and by people who make very provocative statements, and that is enough to make it not go away, despite very good science."

However, a review of existing research on the topic, published online Oct. 13 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, did find a slight, potentially harmful association between cell phone use and brain tumors.

Commenting on that study, Dr. Deepa Subramaniam, director of the Brain Tumor Center at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in Washington, D.C., said at the time that "we cannot make any definitive conclusions about this. But this study, in addition to all the previous studies, continues to leave lingering doubt as to the potential for increased risk. So, one more time, after all these years, we don't have a clear-cut answer."
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The research firm projects that the majority of mobile phones by 2011 in the U.S. will be smartphones, with the devices used by half of cell phone subscribers, or 150 million people, by mid-2011.

"This shift could happen much faster with the right conditions such as continued competitive price points on devices, lower 'all you can eat' data packages and the increasing consumers who need to be connected anytime, anywhere," according to a post Wednesday on the Nielsen blog by Jerry Rocha, senior director of the online division.

In just the third quarter of 2009, Nielsen estimates that smartphones accounted for 40% of new phones sold in the period, up from 25% in the prior quarter. And in the third quarter, for the first time, more people accessed the Internet from smartphones than regular phones. "If this trend continues, we'll see more than 80% of the devices accessing the Internet being these advanced phones," wrote Rocha.

Assuming that 150 million people will be using smartphones by mid-2011, that means 120 million will be on the mobile Internet and 90 million, or 60%, will be watching video, according to Nielsen projections based on current data trends.

As of the second quarter, Nielsen has previously reported that some 15 million U.S. mobile subscribers watch video on their phones for an average of three hours, 15 minutes each month.

With the launch of the Motorola Droid by Verizon Wireless last week, Nielsen also compared data and Web usage between the iPhone and Android devices. The results were roughly even, with 92% of Android users accessing the Internet compared to 88% of iPhone owners, and 76% of Android customers using applications versus 74% on the iPhone. Given Apple's 10-to-1 advantage over Android in the number of mobile apps offered, the parity in usage should be welcome news to Google.

When it comes to watching video, Android had a clearer edge over the iPhone, at 47% to 40%. But iPhone and Android users separately outstripped smartphone owners overall in Web browsing, video viewing and using apps.

While Nielsen didn't weigh in on whether the Droid was shaping up as an iPhone-killer, it argued that the new Android phone will help accelerate adoption of the mobile Web and content, especially of popular Google programs like Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Voice.

"The trend in the U.S. is more interaction, more consumption, and more connected devices," wrote Roche. "While not a competition killer, the Droid is the next logical step in a market with a wide array of rich media devices."

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Those are the first words people seem to utter when they heft a Droid smart phone. And the answer is, yeah, it is --maybe because so much is packed into it.

Start with the ambitions of Google Inc., whose Android 2.0 operating system powers it, and Verizon Wireless, which is backing it in the U.S. with a huge marketing campaign. And don’t forget the prayers of Motorola Inc., the humbled former wireless-phone king, which is betting its future on Android.

Well, they can relax. Weight notwithstanding, the Droid may be the best smart phone not made by Apple Inc. And if it doesn’t convert legions of iPhone addicts, it still provides a terrific alternative for Verizon customers, as well as for non-U.S. users when it appears later this month as the Motorola Milestone.

The Droid was the standout among three new phones I’ve been trying out. The others, both BlackBerrys from Research In Motion Ltd., will find devotees among RIM’s faithful customer base and those who must carry a BlackBerry for business reasons. But it’s hard to see them winning many new fans.

This is a golden era for smart phones, which are really pocket computers that can surf the Web, retrieve e-mail, run programs and play video and games. The iPhone, with its ease of use and 100,000 applications, sets the bar. But there are some things it doesn’t allow that Droid does: running programs simultaneously, replacing the battery, correctly displaying Web sites that use Adobe Systems Inc.’s Flash multimedia technology. And U.S. iPhone users are locked into AT&T Inc.’s network, which is inferior to Verizon’s in much of the country.

Chunkier Than iPhone

The Droid will cost $199.99, after a $100 rebate, on a two- year contract; it shouldn’t be confused with a cheaper phone made by HTC Corp. that Verizon confirmed today it is launching as the “Droid Eris.” Compared with the iPhone, the Droid is longer, thicker, narrower and, at 6 ounces, 25 percent heavier. (Six ounces may not seem like much, but you definitely feel the difference.) The touch screen, which provides the sensation of physically pushing a button, is particularly dazzling, offering noticeably sharper resolution.

Your first look at the Droid’s slide-out keyboard might not be encouraging: The keys are flat and undifferentiated. But typing proves surprisingly easy; they are large enough so you can use your fingertip, rather than the fingernail that I had to resort to on, say, Palm Inc.’s Pre.

Too Much Navigating

Less useful is the five-way navigation pad, which requires too much pressure and constant monitoring of the screen to see what it is highlighting. I found myself using my finger on the screen for scrolling, highlighting and selecting, even if I was using the physical keyboard for typing.

Also problematic is the camera. On paper, it looks great, boasting 5 megapixels and flash. But a lag between pressing the shutter and taking the picture meant that even slow-moving subjects yielded unsatisfying results.

The Droid features a Google Maps app that includes turn-by- turn navigation, and it is the first phone to make use of “Éclair,” Google’s name for version 2.0 of its open-source Android operating system. Previous encounters with Android on devices such as the myTouch 3G from Deutsche Telekom AG’s T- Mobile unit left me lukewarm. Éclair, though, has a more finished feel.

10,000 Apps

Its window-shade metaphor -- slide the top shade down for alerts, the bottom one up for apps -- works well with the Motorola hardware, and the number of available apps, now more than 10,000, is steadily climbing. Android seems well on its way toward establishing itself as an important platform for developers.

Multitouch -- the pinch and expand gestures that let you shrink or magnify what’s on the screen -- is missing from the Droid but apparently will be enabled for the non-U.S. Milestone version, which will be available from carriers including Vodafone Group Plc, Verizon Communications Inc.’s partner in Verizon Wireless, and Telefonica SA’s O2.

The iPhone’s margin in apps and its seamless user experience still make it the best smart phone out there. But the wireless world is big enough for more than one excellent phone; in the Droid, it has another.

Research in Motion’s new BlackBerry Storm2 isn’t excellent, but it’s a considerable improvement over its predecessor. The original Storm, released a year ago, was the first BlackBerry without a physical keyboard, and reviewers savaged it: The New York Times memorably labeled it the “BlackBerry Dud” for its sluggish performance, lack of WiFi and buggy software.

BlackBerry Contender

The Storm2 fixes a lot of things, adds some new features and generally allows BlackBerry to at least figure in any discussions about touch-screen smart phones.

The most interesting feature of the Storm2 is a screen whose entire surface serves as a button, providing a tactile click when you press it, much like the touchpad on the current- model MacBook. (The clickiness goes away when the phone’s off.)

If you’re like me, you’ll quickly banish the optional keyboard layouts that put more than one letter on a key. The touch-to-highlight, press-to-type system isn’t half-bad, though it would take a lot more practice before I could match my speed on either the iPhone or a traditional physical-keyboard BlackBerry.

Positives for the Storm2 include WiFi (hooray!). Negatives are a clunky Web browser and many fewer apps than are available for the iPhone and Android devices. The Storm2 is available in the U.S. from Verizon for $179.99 on a two-year contract, and in Europe and South Africa through Vodafone.

Finally, if you’re old-school BlackBerry -- as in, “I’ll give up my physical keyboard when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers” -- there’s the Bold 9700, the newest iteration of the classic e-mail machine. Smaller and lighter than the previous Bold, it replaces the familiar trackball with a trackpad that makes scrolling easier.

The new Bold goes on sale this month from AT&T and T-Mobile in the U.S. for $199 on a two-year contract, and from carriers including Vodafone and T-Mobile internationally. The T-Mobile version, for an extra fee, allows voice calls over WiFi networks.
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As we've explored, this is precisely the kind of threat that terrifies AT&T and Verizon. Once you've got a truly open network with open devices, voice simply becomes data, SMS becomes irrelevant, and the "phone company," at least as we know it today, dies. Companies like AT&T and Verizon's role in the ecosystem shifts from being content and service companies, to simply being less profitable dumb pipes.

In a dumb pipe world, AT&T or Verizon simply run the network and charge for bandwidth. Everything simply becomes data. With consumers picking the device, applications, IM platform, and calling mechanism of their choice over the network of their choice. The existing minutes and SMS bundle pricing structure gets obliterated.

What Google's doing is only the clunky beginning of a major shift. Once you've got more bandwidth, and truly open devices and networks, other content companies will follow suit in trying to take over the "service" portion of the equation. If my phone is like my PC with an open OS and applications I chose, why use AT&T and Verizon's dialing mechanisms? Eventually, the phone company's only option in such an open wireless ecosystem will be to constrict the pipe and charge more for bandwidth to balance billions in lost SMS, content and voice revenues.

What's an old phone company's recourse to preserve power in that kind of environment? Well, they can fight opening up their networks every step of the way (which they've done). They can engage in a game of cat and mouse to try and disable these kinds of workarounds (surely already underway). They can also attack Google for being mean to nuns and corn farmers, lobby to impose new restrictive regulations on these companies, and pass off this organic shift as the work of communists and ne'er do wells. This will work. For a while. Maybe for years.

Aside from a few public relations platitudes, carriers continue to fight against truly open networks. Phone company unions are crying out for more regulations on Google. Apple and AT&T balk at approving Google Voice for the iPhone. Why? Control. If you step back and really appreciate what's happening here, you can see that products like Google Voice could be to AT&T and Verizon what broadband was to the music industry: a business ecosystem atomic bomb.
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He continued on about the recent launch of a smartphone, the Mini3i, in China. “That’s a starting point for us. You’ll probably see products next year in the U.S. that are family members of the things we started in China.”
Will they all be built on Android? “There are some other open platforms that are emerging that are similar to other businesses we participate in.”
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