This is a review of the Verizon Glyde – the newest of Verizon Wireless cellphones – which some are calling the Verizon iPhone (and technically it’s the Samsung u940, and conflated by some as the “Samsung Glyde”). The Glyde is perhaps one of the most eagerly anticipated new Verizon phones ever, and definitely the sexiest of Verizon cell phone models (and one of the sexiest Samsung cell phones as well). As a bonus, this Verizon Glyde review also includes a comparison of the Glyde and the Verizon Voyager, and we talk about tethering your laptop with the Verizon Glyde.

Bottom line: You’ll want to do the Verizon glide on over to your local Verizon Wireless store to get the Verizon Wireless Glyde! (Or for our friends who can’t spell, that’d be the Verizon Wirless or the Verizon Wireles Glyde!)

Currently we are testing the Verizon Voyager (the LG VX10000), and specifically we have been testing the Mobile Email program. And that’s where the trouble started. Try as we might, we could not get the Mobile Email program to actually download email. It would always end up timing out, telling us “Communication error. Please try again later.” This even though every other email program we tried had no problem downloading the email. Here’s why.

Chinese cellular providers China Mobile and China Unicom together have over 500 million active cell phone accounts, and recently more than 200 million of these users received a stream of unwanted and unwelcome advertisements as text messages – cell phone spam. Both cell phone providers and the spammers received a stern talking to from the Deputy Head of China’s State Council Office for Rectifying Malpractice (yes, really).

Revealing a statistic sure to make J.C. Penney, Sears, and every major mallwalk children’s photographer shudder, a British survey has found that one out of every five families with children use their cell phone to take and send pictures of their just-born babies to family and friends within ten minutes of the child’s birth. And that’s not all! An equal number have created a social networking profile, such as on Facebook or MySpace, for their children!

Today was an eventful day for mobile handheld device owners. First, the RIM Blackberry network went down – again – leaving thousands of Blackberry users in the dark. Then, it was announced that Microsoft was buying Palo Alto-based Danger, the company behind the Danger Hiptop – more popularly known as the Tmobile Sidekick.

People across the country are reporting telephone calls coming from the numbers (623) 238-6228 and (408) 587-2116. These calls claim that your car warranty is expiring, but they are really scam artists trying to steal your personal information and identity. So if the number appearing on your cellphone screen is either (623) 238-6228 or (408) 587-2116, don’t answer it! Other numbers generating these spam identity theft calls include (202) 552-1332, (702) 520-1105, (609) 948-0971 and (562) 289-8136.

Cellular News is reporting that Apple have just launched a brand new iPhone, with double the memory capacity, at 16 gigabytes. The new iPhone is available through all outlets, including Apple stores and Apple online.

All analog US cellular phones will stop working in just a few weeks, as US cellular services begin shutting down the analog cellphone networks, leaving all analog US cellphones dead in the water, and only digital cellphone networks in place. If you are reading this after February 2008, and your analog AT&T cellphones, Verizon cellphones, or Alltel cellphone doesn’t work any more, this is the reason. Again, this will only affect analogue cell phones, so unless you have an analogue cell phone, you don’t need to worry about it.

Chalk up another to the growing number of Apple iPhone complaints. As if there weren’t enough iPhone problems already, a new study has revealed that even experienced users of the Apple iPhone have more than twice as many errors when typing as do those using regular hard mobile qwerty keyboards, such as on a Blackberry. What’s more, they don’t bother correcting them nearly as much, either.

A twenty-three year old Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for carrying child pornography on his cell phone. Kenneth Patrick Jeffries II will have spent more than 25% of his life in prison by the time he gets out.

In what may be some very good news for parents, a survey of more than 1200 people has revealed that teenagers and twenty-somethings below the age of twenty-five would rather give up caffeine, chocolate, and even sex, before giving up their cell phone.

The news that famed and beloved Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti had died this evening rocked the world. But what went almost unnoticed – in fact unknown for many – was that the news was broken not by a press conference or press release – not by telephone from his bedside – not by telegram – not even by email – but.. by SMS text message.

Steve Jobs has taken the unusal step of offering a formal apology, in the form of an open letter on the Apple website, for dropping the price of the iPhone by $200 just weeks after the iPhone was released. The apology also includes an offer of a $100 credit for use at any Apple store.

Get a full free month’s trial of the awesome PhoneTag (formerly Simulscribe) voice mail service that sends your voicemail as text to your email! It’s a voice mail to text service that works with almost any cellphone service! The Simulscribe voice mail to email service allows your callers to leave voicemail just as they always do when they call your cell phone, however the voicemail is transcribed and sent to your email inbox as text, plus a .wav file is included so that you can listen to the message if you want to. And now, thanks to a special arrangement by the Internet Patrol with Simulscribe, you can try it free for a full month!

Yahoo has just rolled out a brand new version of Yahoomail, which allows users to both send email to cell phones, and receive email from cell phones, through a text message like interface.