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by leo on January 18, 2008
UK researchers are figuring out a way to exploit camera phones as a mouse. According to PCWorld, they have developed a mobile app enabling camera phones to mimic mouse capabilities like scrolling and...
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by leo on October 6, 2007
In the end, safety is more important than any cutting edge technology...
According to Telegraph, the public outcry over safety has prompted the US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) to continue to ban ...
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by leo on October 3, 2007
While the rest of the word is very busy developing personalized ringtones, cutting edge smartphones, and exciting mobile advertising tools, Cell-Life is too engaged saving HIV patients in South Africa...
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by leo on September 17, 2007
While medical experts remain vigilant on the adverse effects of mobile phones to the human race, the mobile industry is somewhat busy building the concept of Telemedicine 2.0 - the use of modern telec...
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by leo on July 26, 2007
For aspiring authors who do not have much time to sit down with their computers and compose the next best-selling novel, you can try using your mobile phone instead. This is what Italian author Robert...
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by leo on June 7, 2007
According to a new study, integrating portable devices into vehicles will eventually evolve from a luxury option to mainstream feature. It even lauds Ford's SYNC, a fully integrated entertainment ...
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by leo on May 5, 2007
Startup global VoIP company, JAJAH, has added a "talk n play" element for all PlayStation 3 fanatics. Now, they can simultaneously (trash) talk to other gamers while playing their favorite g...
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by leo on May 5, 2007
In the near future, saving the world might entirely and randomly fall in our hands! According to Home News Tribune, the Homeland Security Department is eyeing mobile devices to help detect nuclear/rad...
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by tom on April 26, 2007
According to a post on The Register, a UK company called Blue Sky Positioning has announced it has managed to cram a functioning GPS device onto a normal mobile phone SIM card.BlueSky Positioning CEO ...
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by tom on April 25, 2007
Although it's a good attempt, and no it's not a mockup image either, the "Anycall Dual Blonde" is a hybrid clone handset that is an odd mix of technologies - and, as Mobile Mentalism...
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by tom on April 24, 2007
I saw this over at Uberphones, and it looked pretty.The leaked picture you see is actually rumored to be sony ericsson's latest GSM handset and has been given the number W999. This slider cellphon...
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by Scott on April 19, 2007
New rumors are surfacing about a potential Google phone, with new details reported in taiwan's Digitimes, and passed on by Engadget and others. That country's HTC is supposedly building the de...
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by tom on April 18, 2007
I noticed a post over on Uberphones about the Haier Elegance handset. The main reason it caught my eye? I have one, and the picture just to the left there I took with my k800i a few minutes ago. I nev...
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by leo on April 17, 2007
M:Metrics has reported that the penetration rate of cameraphones in US is already 51% or 106 million mobile users, still low compared to European countries like Germany, France, Spain, UK, and Italy. ...
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by Scott on April 10, 2007
GPS navigation device makers TomTom and Garmin both reportedly are in advanced stages of developing mobile handsets with GPS features, according to reports today in DigiTimes Telecom. The two have bee...
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by leo on April 8, 2007
Given all the hype on mobile technology, Michal Lev-Ram of Business 2.0 Magazine has warned wireless industry players to slow down and keep things simple.But here is the rub: As they race to court fut...
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by Scott on March 31, 2007
Studious readers of this blog will know we have covered QR codes before. Most people with a modicum of awareness of mobile technology will have heard of them. The New York Times, however, has just dis...
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by Scott on March 22, 2007
Yomuiri Shimbun reports today that NTT DoCoMo will cease offering pagers this month after 40 years in the beeper business. Having launched the technology way back in 1968, NTT says there are only just...
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by tom on March 13, 2007
Also coming to us via Uberphones is the Bellperre range of handsets. The major difference with these handsets is the aim of the company to produce them entirely without plastic.These cellphones will b...
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by tom on March 13, 2007
I love concept handsets, as it shows that people are thinking about how we use communication devices rather than just continuing development along existing lines. This one comes by way of Uberphones, ...
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by tom on March 13, 2007
This comes via Textually, although I've seen mention elsewhere as well. According to a report on C|Net, mobile industry executives are complaining that there are too many operating systems availab...
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by tom on March 8, 2007
Think Techno have posted a video preview of LG's prada handset (the one they claim was the inspiration for Apple's iPhone) running on Vodafone UK.
The original video comes from UK tech magazi...
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by tom on March 7, 2007
An interesting story has popped up on Cellular News about customer apathy towards smartphones. A study by MarketStar is claiming that consumers are unconvinced by the need to upgrade their handsets to...
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by tom on March 5, 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 fema...
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by tom on March 2, 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 QWERTY...
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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 or...
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by Scott on January 10, 2007
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 pic...
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by Scott on January 9, 2007
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 s...
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by Scott on January 6, 2007
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 do...
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by Scott on December 23, 2006
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 h...
