Wow, that was fast! It was barely a week ago that we predicted the convergence of GPS and Internet on cell phones and it leading to location-based push advertising to your cell phone, and now Nokia has announced (well, leaked, really) that they plan to have full navigation GPS on all Nokia cell phones.

Want to control your car over the Internet? It’s possible now, thanks to the Internet-controlled car control system called the “Keplar Security System” just introduced by Inilex! Lock and unlock your car doors, start your car up (great for those cold winter mornings!), disable the engine, and even track your car, all over the Internet!

Police are going to start checking the cell phone records of drivers who are involved in accidents. It’s already happening in the U.K., and is being discussed in the U.S. in the context of both hearings on the proposed “Hang Up and Drive” Federal law, and by advocacy groups who advocate that cell phone records should be checked after a crash to see whether cell phone use may have contributed to the crash, just as we now check for alcohol.

While complaints continue to roll in about cell phone spam from SMS text message spammers Mblox and their partners Dada Mobile, new complaints are starting to surface about new SMS spammers FunMobile, Freeze Mobile (a/k/a FreezeMob), Free Mobile and My Lifestyle. FunMobile may come through with the short code 99621, and Freezemob as short code 36726.

mBlox, the company that bills itself as “The World’s Largest Mobile Transaction Network”, has just issued a press release exclaiming “mBlox Publishes Record Off-Portal SMS Transactions in 2006.” Of course, as Internet Patrol readers know, countless people have received phone spam from mBlox and their partners DadaMobile and Nevis. In fact, there are more than 180 comments right here on the Internet Patrol complaining about mBlox, DadaMobile, and Nevis Mobile.

A fire that started in a California man’s pocket, putting him in the hospital with critical injuries, was at first blamed on the Nokia cell phone in his pocket. Both a Vallejo, California assistant fire chief and their fire investigator had declared publicly that the Nokia cell phone in the man’s pocket had “malfunctioned.” This is not the first fire blamed on a Nokia cell phone, yet Nokia staunchly claims “we didn’t start the fire.”

It should come as no surprise at all – at least to any regular readers of the Internet Patrol – that Cisco has filed a lawsuit against Apple over the iPhone (the Apple cell phone) trademark. As we told you earlier, Cisco aquired the Linksys iPhone, along with the trademark, when Cisco aquired Linksys several years ago. Was Apple relying on an expectation of neighborly cooperation from fellow Silicon Valley giant Cisco when they knowingly chose to use Cisco’s trademark for their own iPhone, announced this week? Or did they perhaps expect their now famous use of the letter “i” to help them carry the day on this one?

As expected, Apple announced their iPhone – combination Apple cell phone and iPod – this week at Macworld. What wasn’t expected was that they announced a product which won’t be available for at least six months, and which may not even exist yet other than as a handful of iPhone proto-types. Here’s what we think is going on.

Now here’s a big surprise – oh, wait, no it isn’t – a recent study found that SMS (text messaging) has made it easier for people to lie.

The long-awaited announcement by Apple of an iPhone – an Apple cell phone – is believed by many to be due in just a few short weeks. However news that Linksys, now a division of Cisco, has owned the iPhone brand for years has the market abuzz and agog. Does this mean a legal battle brewing between giants Cisco and Apple? Regardless, emotions run surprisingly high over such a seemingly small thing as a name and even the letter “i”.

RIM, the makers of the Blackberry phone, have sued Samsung, the makers of the Blackjack phone. How ironic.

Did you know that your innocent-looking little cell phone can be used to listen in on your regular conversations – conversations which aren’t even taking place on your cellphone but just in the room in which your cell phone is sitting – without you even knowing? Known as a “roving bug”, this technology can be used for eavesdropping even when your mobile phone is turned off!

Blackberry thumb is the name for a new malady afflicting thousands of Americans, and probably millions around the world, each day. Blackberry thumb is a repetitive stress injury to the thumb brought on by too much texting – typing on tiny keyboards on PDAs or cell phones. If you must do a lot of text entry on your handheld or cell phone, consider getting a folding bluetooth keyboard

This is a side-by-side review and comparison of the Sidekick 3, the Treo, and the Cingular 8125. I just came off strenuously testing a Treo 650 and a Cingular 8125. Why? Because I was so discouraged when they finally added Bluetooth to the new Sidekick 3 but crippled it so that all you could use it for was headsets and xfering a vcard. Here are the results.

Our article on Dada Mobile and Mblox, and how charges seem to mysteriously appear on peoples’ cellphone bills, remains one of our most widely visited article, as so many people are searching every day for information about charges on their cell phone bills from Dada and Mblox. Today Dada Mobile wrote to us, wanting to set the record straight.