08.27.06

Hello Kitty Handset

hello kitty is something of a phenomenon. I even have a Hello Kitty theme on my Nokia 6630. Now BenQ have announced an agreement with Sanrio (the owners of Hello Kitty) to produce a Hello Kitty-brande…

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08.22.06

Fosfor’s Top 10 Most Beautiful Handsets

Fosfor Gadgets have posted their list of the top 10 most Beautiful cellphones. As with all such lists, the entries are going to be pretty much subjective.

I do agree with some of the entries, such as…

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07.14.06

TechEBlog’s Top 5 Coolest Handsets

TechEBlog has posted a list of what they consider to be the top 5 coolest handsets they've come across recently. The list includes such gems as the NEC N908 credit-card sized phone and the safari …

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07.14.06

Ultrabling

Now it's getting beyond a joke. Moscow-based JSC Ancort Company has announced a smartphone designed by Peter Aloisson that features sections made of rose gold, along with 50 diamonds embedded in t…

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07.11.06

Pantech Concepts: Enough Time?

It's Korea week on Mobile Weblog. Well, at least there is a lot of news coming out of Korea at the moment. And I had Korean beef and noodles for dinner a few nights back, so it's just staying …

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05.29.06

Vertu Growing Quickly, Looking to Expand

Vertu, the luxury handset brand of Nokia, is growing at a triple-digit rate, according to comments from Vertu President Alberto Torres to a Finnish newspaper. In his comments, reported by Reuters, Tor…

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04.3.06

Better Camerphone Images through Innovation

Textually reports the smallest autofocus mechanism for cameraphones is on its way from Shicoh Engineering in Japan. A mere 10 x 10 x 4.2mm, the little engine that could get you in trouble with illicit…

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04.3.06

Fresh UI Designs

We are in the middle of Interface month at Mobile Weblog. Meaning I am ranting about interfaces with the hopes that it might stir a revolt against the current interfaces of the major mobile OSs and br…

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03.31.06

Three New Nokia Handsets for Emerging Markets

Nokia has shown it is serious about attacking growth markets in Asia and other parts of the developing world. Yesterday at a big event in Chonqing, China, the Finns introduced three new handset models…

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03.16.06

Better Interfaces: Coming Soon to a Handset Near You?

I wrote a couple weeks ago about how some new mobile interfaces were becoming more simplified in their design, particularly a new model from Motorola, which features an external interface of a few sim…

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