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by tom on March 05, 2007
Perhaps not as odd as the headline sounds, KTF have release a new 3G handset that includes lip synching technology to replace the user's image with that of an avatar, either a generic male or...
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by tom on March 02, 2007
Grundig have announced a new smartphone that runs Linux as the primary OS. The B700 (pictured left) has some respectable statistics, such as a 2 megapixel camera, a 2.4 inch QVGA screen, a full...
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by tom on January 28, 2007
Japanese carrier Softbank has announced a range of new phones, and the one that stands out is the 812SH Pantone series by Sharp, if only because it comes in colours other than Black, Silver or Grey...
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OK, everyone has had a full night's sleep, put on clean underpants, and had several looks at the various iPhone porn posted online (for non-native English speakers, by this I mean the flood of...
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According to livebloggers on the scene, Steve Jobs has just announced the advent of the iPhone after all, at Macworld this morning in San Francisco. More details as they come in, but it looks like a...
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MacWorld starts in San Francisco Monday and was the case with every official Apple product intro event for the past year or more, the iPhone rumor kettle is about to boil off the stove. some days I...
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A few months ago I wrote about Nokia and a host of other organizations starting a green technology initiative, as a response to the growing issue of power usage by new technologies. Now a new report...
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by tom on December 18, 2006
This handset probably isn't new to a lot of people, but given it's only available in Japan it may not be familiar to people on the US or Europe. I'd never heard of it until today, but...
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by tom on November 24, 2006
The extremely popular Chocolate handset from LG has been given a makeover, at least for Verizon customers in the US, with three new colours being released. The new colours, named 'Cherry'...
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by tom on November 17, 2006
According to a post today on Digital Inspiration, next year's Apple iPhone will only have a 2megapixel camera.While consumers can expect to buy the iPhone handsets early next year, the latest...
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Darla Mack has news of another possible high-end Nokia multimedia computer, even as we await the release of the N95. The N97 looks a little like the N95 crossed with the E61, with a 5 MP camera, 20x...
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The Nokia N95, the first of its devices to truly be dubbed a multimedia computer, may be a link between the handset species and the tablet species, if new images surfacing of possible Nokia product...
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As I was walking through West LA the other day, an ad for the iconic Moto RAZR for $29.99 caught my eye. As I walked, I thought, "hang on, wasn't that a hugely expensive handset a year or two...
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by tom on October 12, 2006
Yes, the headline is correct. Samsung have announced a mobile handset that includes a 10 megapixel camera. The camera also features 2x optical zoom alongside 5x digital zoom and bluetooth for direct...
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by tom on October 05, 2006
Despite pulling out of Europe as a marketplace, BenQ-Siemens are still making handsets for the Asian market, leading me to seriously consider importing a handset to use, rather than settling for one...
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by tom on September 29, 2006
Nokia's N95 has been grabbing a lot of attention recently, with it's world-wide debut a couple of days ago, however we have been remiss in not reading Nokia's press site more regularly...
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by Scott on September 27, 2006
Just when it gets quiet, the Apple iPhone rumor machine cranks back up, rattling its overworked cylinders. In the latest installment, Apple has supposedly done an exclusive deal to distribute the...
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by Scott on September 16, 2006
Thomas Wiesenthal offered up an opinion at TechDirt this week that mobile operators might squelch the development of near-field communications (NFC) technology for mobiles due to their inability to...
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by Scott on September 14, 2006
It's not about mobiles per se, but about what the mobile operating environment will contend with in a few years -- wireless home media and entertainment. This week three big...
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by Scott on September 06, 2006
According to Unstrung, a research report by an analyst with Nomura theorizes that RIM may have to move the Blackberry to the Symbian OS in the next few years as it runs out of room for improvement in...
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I wrote just a few days ago about modding devices, and I've fumbled with the Nokia 770 to satisfy my urge to have a simple, portable info device that could be all things to me. Now, I'm not...
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I was recently fortunate enough to be interviewed for a piece that has now appeared in InformationWeek, Forbes and a few other places on mobile innovations of the future. The collective opinions in...
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by tom on August 21, 2006
One of my friends has just made me aware of this new concept handset from from Synaptics and Pilotfish. The device utilises touch-screen technology to do away with the traditional mobile keypad...
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by tom on August 15, 2006
Image from Engadget I saw this over on Engadget this evening, and it caught my eye, as it obviously did the bods over there. An enterprising hacker has written a java application (and associated...
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