Mobile Notes: Push email, Expensive phones, Emergency, Fake phones

So remember the other day when we were talking about getting push email on your non-smartphone? Looks like there’s another player in the game: BlueWhaleMail. It’s a lot like TeleFlip, though it’s only available on Nokia Series 60 and SonyEricsson feature phones at this time. Clearly, they’re looking to expand. This is a nice development for those who want email on their phones, but don’t want to pony up the $200+ for a smartphone.
In a move that would have landed them in jail in the U.S., researchers have tracked 100,000 people, and it appears that we humans are not a migrant species. Close to 75 percent of those tracked didn’t leave a 20-mile radius over six months. Forbes takes a look at the world’s most expensive cell phones. [via textually] Remember the emergency alert system proposed by the FCC a few months ago? (Gee, I’m asking you to remember a lot today.) Looks like FEMA, they of the botched Katrina handling, will be taking the reins on this one. Anyone else a bit nervous? If you have a Motorola, Samsung, LG, Nokia, or Sony Ericsson phone and didn’t buy it from the most reliable of sources, it might be a fake. Feds raided and operation in Jamaica, NY, where they recovered over 15,000 counterfeit phones. And this is different than a “genuine Rolex watch” how?

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Joe Pawlikowski is the Senior Editor at MobileMoo.com and has been covering the mobile industry full time since 2007. When he's not writing about the tech scene, he can be found discussing his personal love - baseball (and more specifically the New York Yankees) as well as writing on his personal blog.