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In a piece of news that might or might not be Digg-worthy, the mobile version of the popular social networking website has gone through a reconditioning process and is now said to be better than ever. Which means that you can digg and/or bury articles from your handset more efficiently (if there's any efficiency... |
2 August 2008
08:32 GMT |
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Although various analysts have predicted that Motorola will fall to the fourth or fifth place in the global handset industry, the American company remains on the third place when it comes to the number of mobile phones shipped in the second quarter of this year. Moto has issued today its financial results for the tim... |
31 July 2008
09:18 GMT |
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LG Electronics announced today its financial results for the second quarter of 2008, unveiling an excellent period for its mobile division. In Q2 2008, LG has shipped a total of 27.7 million handsets worldwide, surpassing Sony Ericsson (which only sold 24.4 handsets and registered considerable profit drops). The 27.7... |
21 July 2008
09:17 GMT |
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According to a report recently published by the trading standards officers, in the United Kingdom there might be several hundreds of thousands of potentially dangerous devices used to re-charge an ever increasing number of portable electronics. Statistics indicate that most of them come from China and other countries... |
21 July 2008
02:56 GMT |
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Not long after unveiling the upcoming release of the new Walkman handsets (July 22 is the awaited date), Sony Ericsson has announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2008, which are far from being great. The Swedish-Japanese joint venture reports a net profit of only 6 million Euros for Q2 2008, with 9... |
19 July 2008
04:28 GMT |
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After carrying a study on a total of 558 web pages that specialize in providing mobile phone ringtones and wallpapers, the EU has found that a staggering 80% of them are suspicious. The study, which was conducted at the beginning of June on all 27 EU member states, has revealed that most of these sites fail to provid... |
18 July 2008
06:32 GMT |
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Nokia just announced that during the second quarter of 2008 (April, May and June) it has shipped 122 million mobile phones worldwide. This represents 40% of the total number of phones sold by all the handset manufacturers in the same period, a number estimated at 303 million units, and reaffirms the Finnish company&#... |
17 July 2008
07:03 GMT |
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OpenMoko will start selling its Linux-based touch phone, Neo FreeRunner, in the US tomorrow. The device comes with a limited number of applications for calling and text messages, but software can be created or installed for free without paying other taxes (and it has a large community behind it, so you will surely ge... |
3 July 2008
04:46 GMT |
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Your mobile phone, be it high-end or only basic-featured, can do more things than you might be aware of. We're presenting some of these "tricks" below, hoping that they will be of help, although some of you might already know one or more of them. The GSM emergency call is the same all over the world: 112. T... |
28 June 2008
07:33 GMT |
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Announced back in May, the first mobile phone to bear the Christian Dior name will be available in two versions that differ only in terms of price and the luxury materials used in the manufacturing process. Named "My Dior", the handset comes in a clamshell form factor and has features that include a 2.6 inch internal... |
9 June 2008
06:48 GMT |
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All the mobile kids out there who dream of having their very own mouse-like cell phone can now finally get one (provided they have the necessary amount of money), as a new handset, simply called the Mouse Phone, is available for sale. Despite its name, the device doesn't look like a normal mouse, but more ... |
28 May 2008
09:00 GMT |
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Because technology has come a long way over the past decade, people are now able to do lots of things that weren't previously possible. One of those things is to access their email accounts directly from their handheld portable device, namely mobile phones. And, if you are Gmail user and have tried to connect to... |
28 May 2008
05:34 GMT |
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The first ever Christian Dior luxury mobile phone is now ready for all those mobile users who don't mind spending several thousand dollars on a new handset. The famous French designer created the new phone together with ModeLabs, the company that stands behind other exclusive and expensive mobile devices, like t... |
21 May 2008
06:38 GMT |
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The UK will be getting official Hello Kitty mobile phones this summer, as Times Online reports that Comment Retail Service partnered with Sanrio, the company that created the famous (among little girls) Hello Kitty character, in order to distribute the new handsets. Although the pink kitty is worshiped mainly by ... |
20 May 2008
08:30 GMT |
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There aren't too many ways to charge a mobile phone, but in the future this might change radically. One of the new methods to bring a handset to life could be from your bra - in case you're a woman, of course. A bra-charger concept that was recently presented in Japan shows us this is (somehow) doable. Cr... |
19 May 2008
08:43 GMT |
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I'm sure all of you know Justin Timberlake, whether you want it or not, but what you probably don't know is that the American pop singer, dancer, producer, actor (plus all his other "titles") will soon have a new reality show on MTV, dubbed "The Phone". Inspired by a Dutch show created by Park Lane Produ... |
13 May 2008
11:16 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson announced today its financial results for the first quarter of 2008, as well as the total number of mobile phones shipped in this period. The Swedish-Japanese joint venture managed to sell, worldwide, 22.3 million handsets until the 19th of March 2008, which represents a 2% growth when compared to the ... |
23 April 2008
11:53 GMT |
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Nokia just made public its financial results for the first quarter of 2008, unveiling net sales of 12.66 billion Euro, a 28% increase when compared to the 9.85 billion from the first quarter of 2007. The Finnish giant also announced it has shipped 115.5 million mobile phones worldwide (in 2008's Q1, of course), ... |
17 April 2008
09:51 GMT |
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The city of Graz, the second largest Austrian city after the capital Vienna, banned the use of mobile phones on public transport, following a decision taken by Siegfried Nagl, the conservative Mayor of the town. The regulation does not mean people cannot travel with their mobile phones while using the city'... |
17 April 2008
04:35 GMT |
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Motherboard manufacturer DFI has just issued a consumer warning about some fake motherboard models that are touted as manufactured by the company. However, despite the fact that the counterfeit units are similar with DFI's models, the imitations are stamped as DFI MCP78V and MCP68PV, two models that are not pres... |
14 April 2008
05:35 GMT |
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Since Motorola came out with MotoRAZR Maxx V6 Ferrari Limited Edition, a Ferrari phone is not a new thing to see. But the Maxx V6 only looks like a phone, and not like a car. Assuming that the world might need a phone that actually resembles a Ferrari, an anonymous producer came up with such a handset. And I'm ... |
11 April 2008
10:33 GMT |
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Food and mobile phones are both important for our lives, so why not combine them together? Cell phone straps that represent various food items are not something new, but these recently unveiled ones seem to be. Ever thought of wearing a bowl of soup with your phone? I know I haven't, and I also know I don't... |
7 April 2008
20:06 GMT |
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Intel has unveiled yet another technological innovation during yesterday's Intel Developer Forum conference. Right after introducing the five new Atom processors, the chip manufacturer showed off the cornerstone for the upcoming mobile devices: a tiny motherboard, part of the Moorestown platform.Intel plans to r... |
3 April 2008
02:59 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless thought about all the automotive enthusiasts out there that are equally enthusiastic about cell phones, and today launched a new application called Car and Driver SlideShow. Developed by Viva Vision, a top provider of mobile entertainment content, the application is an interactive SlideShow one that ... |
11 March 2008
11:54 GMT |
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Crocs is a famous American company that designs and creates plastic shoes. As of May 2008, the European division of Crocs will introduce a new line of products. Not shoes, but mobile phone cases that look like shoes. Named Crocs o-dial, the cases are designed to bring the vivid colors and fashionable looks tha... |
7 March 2008
05:18 GMT |
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Mitsubishi is a brand not quite known in the mobile phone industry, at least not globally, and it's probably best associated with the automobiles made by Mitsubishi Motors. However, Mitsubishi Group has many subsidiaries, including Mitsubishi Electric, a company that produces electric equipment and mobile phones... |
3 March 2008
09:05 GMT |
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Sources on the web indicate that Microsoft will be promoting Andrew Lees to senior vice president of the mobile-communications business. The man will be tasked with improving Microsoft's image on the consumer market for mobile devices, which of course means to take Apple's iPhone head on!"Microsoft Corp. to... |
15 February 2008
03:31 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson filed lately several patent applications, showing clear intentions to innovate its future line-up of mobile phones with different technologies, from touchscreen to motion control. A new patent application surfaced recently, this time for a phone with a detachable display. Called "Detachable Housings fo... |
4 February 2008
08:47 GMT |
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Rumors that Dell and Google will launch the first Android-based mobile phone appeared last week, making mobile fans imagine how nice such a Dell-Google phone would be. There were even speculations saying the Android Dell phone is already built and it will be presented at the Mobile World Congress in February. In the ... |
4 February 2008
06:21 GMT |
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Luxury cell phones are not a new thing anymore, but they keep on appearing to satisfy the fashion needs of those who have larger bank accounts. SoftBank, a leading Japanese mobile carrier, partnered with Tiffany Japan to bring such a phone, that will be sold for 10 million Japanese Yens, meaning about $93,600. It can... |
1 February 2008
06:14 GMT |
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NXP Semiconductors, the Dutch independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, together with Purple Labs, a French leading supplier of embedded Linux solutions for cell phones, announced today the future release of a 3G Linux-based handset that can provide video telephony, video streaming, high-speed Internet br... |
31 January 2008
06:46 GMT |
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YouTube, world's largest video sharing website that holds together more than 60 million videos, announced its intention to extend its coverage to a larger range of mobile device, in order to allow more than 100 million users to browse the website via their mobile phones. The new Mobile YouTube will be accessible... |
28 January 2008
06:38 GMT |
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Mobile phones are getting more and more complex and have become far more than just communication tools for some years now. Therefore, researchers all over the world are trying to find extra functions that can be integrated into cell phones, mainly wishing to simplify and/or improve various everyday tasks and activiti... |
23 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Polymer Vision, the company that invented rollable displays, is ready to commercially release Readius, the first e-reader device with mobile phone functionality. Readius combines the reading-friendly abilities of e-readers with the mobility features of cell phones into a single device. Small, powerful and with a roll... |
22 January 2008
09:01 GMT |
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iRiver, brand division of the South Korean electronics and entertainment company ReignCom, presented at CES its first mobile phone, a GSM device that has lots in common with Apple's iPhone. The handset doesn't have a name yet, so it's referred as "the iRiver GSM phone" and its producer intends to bring... |
10 January 2008
04:15 GMT |
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3M, the US-based multinational corporation, recently developed a technology that is set to revolutionize mobile displays. Scientists from 3M created an ultra-compact and advanced LED-illuminated projection engine, conceived in such manner that it can be integrated into any personal electronic device that we can think... |
5 January 2008
05:27 GMT |
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Researchers from Stanford University have discovered a new way to use silicon nanowires in rechargeable batteries that power mobile phones, laptops, video cameras, iPods and other similar devices. The new batteries will be able to store up to ten times more electrical power than existing Li-Ion batteries. "It's ... |
23 December 2007
03:16 GMT |
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TeleFlip, a US-based Internet and telecoms company, announced that this year's holidays bring email and cell phones closer than ever with the advanced service called flipMail. The service enables mobile users to send and receive emails from cell phones, by converting the emails from and into text messages. With ... |
20 December 2007
08:49 GMT |
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A brand new version of Windows Live messenger is now live and compatible with "pretty much all phones", as Microsoft has put it. The new instant messaging client from the Redmond company comes to complement offerings, such as Windows Live for Windows Mobile and Windows Live for Nokia, at the same time extending suppo... |
12 December 2007
06:07 GMT |
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Nokia announced the availability of its new video streaming service - Medeo, the next episode of mobile entertainment. The service is especially designed for Nokia handsets and delivers video and media content directly from Hollywood, everyday. Wanna know what Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have been doing lately, or m... |
12 December 2007
02:51 GMT |
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Opera Software announced that the most popular mobile browser in the world, Opera Mini, is now compatible with mobile phones that use the BREW platform developed by Qualcomm. Providing an excellent mobile Internet browsing experience to millions of users, Opera Mini is now available for the feature-rich BREW mobile... |
10 December 2007
09:22 GMT |
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Hop-on Inc., the US affordable mobile phones manufacturer, revealed its latest creation, the HOP1900 handset, said to be a disposable cell phone for children, teens and seniors. Also called "The Graffiti", the handset comes for the price of $50.00, free of contract. As presented on the Hop-on website, HOP1900 is a... |
7 December 2007
04:57 GMT |
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Samsung, the South Korean electronics manufacturer, revealed its first mobile phone to incorporate AM-OLED technology, the W2400 Special Edition, equipped with an SDI 2.2 inch screen. According to Samsung officials, only 1,000 units of the W2400 Special Edition are made available as of November 30, so those who want ... |
6 December 2007
07:17 GMT |
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At the beginning of 2007 there have been rumors saying TAG Heuer, the Swiss luxury watches manufacturer, intends to produce mobile phones too, in collaboration with Modelabs Group. There have also been images of what the TAG Heuer phones may look like, but those image showed nothing but watches and were in fact mock ... |
4 December 2007
05:20 GMT |
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NEC, the Japanese multinational company, revealed it has created the world's first real-time language translator for mobile phones, which can convert Japanese words and phrases into English almost instantly. The new software has an integrated voice-recognition system, as well as advanced translation functions an... |
3 December 2007
07:08 GMT |
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A few days ago, a news about an explosion of a mobile phone was spread on the Internet - explosion that apparently killed a 33-year-old South Korean man while he was at work in Cheongwon, North Chungcheong province. A colleague of the worker reported that he found his fellow lying on the ground, with an exploded mobi... |
3 December 2007
03:37 GMT |
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Nintendo's connection to mobile phones goes a long way back in history, which grounds the possibility of an actual gaming handset soon coming from this company. If the company does look to reach this market, then it should better hurry, as strong competitors are already taking up ground.Having portable devices t... |
22 November 2007
06:31 GMT |
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Keira Knightley's friends and family have reportedly banned her from reading newspapers, because they make her so angry. Sure, that's what they told her... yes, I can imagine it, I'm sure they were very nice and supportive and made it look like they were doing it for her own sake, but at the back of th... |
7 November 2007
04:16 GMT |
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Although people don't necessarily see mobile phones as being very similar to PCs, technology has brought these devices to this great evolution level. Along with great performances also come great threats from malware applications, just as in the case of computers. The industry of mobile phone anti-maleware shoul... |
29 October 2007
10:58 GMT |
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Samsung will pass on the job of manufacturing mobile phones almost completely to contractors. 90 percent of all handsets coming from Samsung will be produced by other companies, leaving only slight touches to be added to the final product.Samsung Electronics' suppliers for the handset cases will provide 500,000 ... |
29 October 2007
07:45 GMT |
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