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Helpful Tricks That Your Mobile Phone Can Do

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

CSI Stick Plays Forensics with Your Cell Phone

Digital forensics specialist Paraben Corporation has just announced its newest Cell Seizure Investigator Stick, also known as the CSI Stick. The device is a thumb drive size appliance that can acquire all the data from a suspect's cell phone, including the deleted messages or instant messaging sessions.According...

14 May 2008
04:09 GMT

EP2502, Fancy and Waterproof Watch Cell Phone

Cell phones "trapped" inside a wristwatch-like body seem to become more and more popular, as new models continue to appear, bringing interesting looks and/or interesting features. EP2502 is the name of the latest watch mobile phone that comes with a pretty nice design, looking as stylish as any wristwatch produced by...

7 May 2008
04:41 GMT

Epoq EGP-WP98B, The First Watch Phone On Windows Mobile

If you ever thought a wrist-watch mobile phone is too small to run on Windows Mobile, you were wrong. Epoq EGP-WP98B, produced by Epoq Multimedia, seems to be the very first such device. Its WM version is 5.0, and although it can't possibly run on it like on a normal smartphone or Pocket PC, it does run someho...

18 April 2008
10:55 GMT

The First Cheap Ferrari Cell Phone

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

Cool G108, the Watch Phone in a Clamshell Body

Cool G108 is one of the latest devices to come from China, and while you probably expect it to be a copy of an already existing product, as many Chinese gadgets are, the G108 is a pretty original creation. The device combines a cell phone and a watch into a small case - which is not actually a new idea, but this is ...

10 April 2008
03:16 GMT

Delicious (Or Not) Mobile Phone Straps

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

Nomophobia, the Fear of Being Mobile-less

Your phone's alarm buzzes. You wake up. Grab the phone, stop the alarm, check email - nothing important. Call X, set up a meeting for later. Smile. Receive a call from the office - they need you earlier today. Frown. Wash, eat, dress, call Y, send email to W, send cute MMS to Z and decide to call her/him later t...

5 April 2008
10:21 GMT

Giant Cell Phone Weighs 22 Kilograms

Slim and lightweight are definitely nice qualities for mobile phones, but the new king of handsets is far from having these attributes, and has all the chances to be designated the biggest functional cell phone in the world. A Mr. Tan, resident of Songyuan, China, worked about half a year to create a huge handset...

3 April 2008
03:25 GMT

Dumped Chinese Woman Burns 400 Cell Phones

What reason(s) do you think would someone have to set on fire hundreds of mobile phones? There aren't many reasonable ones that you can think of, right? Well, a woman from China burned more than 400 handsets because she was dumped by her husband. The couple was living in Weifang, Shandong, somewhere south of ...

10 March 2008
06:00 GMT

CeBIT 2008: GM500, the Smallest GSM Mobile Phone Ever?

General Mobile, a new player in the mobile phone industry, is present at CeBIT 2008 (4 - 9 March 2008) with very interesting products. One of them is GM500, a weird mix of two different devices: a GSM mobile phone and a watch. Measuring only 58.1 x 44.2 x 16.4 mm and weighing 142 grams (battery and metal wristband in...

5 March 2008
06:16 GMT

Tattoo Cell Phone Concept - Fueled by Your Own Blood!

One of the weirdest cell phone concepts ever is the "Digital Tattoo Interface" imagined by Jim Mielke, and I'm not sure under what category should it be classified: funny, creepy or innovative? The concept entered the "Greener Gadgets Design Competition" initiated by Core77 and Greener Gadgets, and although it d...

1 March 2008
08:06 GMT

Nokia Starts Production at the New Cluj Factory

Nokia announced today it has started cell phone production on its new factory in Cluj, Romania, marking an important step in the company's future evolution in Eastern Europe. The Cluj plant is Nokia's 11th such production facility in the world and it was first announced back in March 2007. The constructi...

11 February 2008
07:32 GMT

Future Cellphone Will Be Able to Detect Nuclear Weapons

After 9/11, people finally realized what terrorism is capable of and that terrorists would do anything to accomplish their plans. Correlate that with large amounts of missing nuclear fuel from the ex-soviet countries and you get nuclear terrorism. Most of the radioactive detection systems being currently used are pre...

24 January 2008
05:43 GMT

New Cell Phone Batteries to Last for Months

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

GPS Navigation Services on Your Cell Phone, from U.S. Cellular

U.S. Cellular has launched Your Navigator, a new application that enables customers to use their cell phones as a GPS navigation system. Your Navigator comes at a much lower price than the traditional GPS in-car systems and features turn-by-turn, voice-prompted directions with auto-rerouting in case you take a wrong ...

30 July 2007
09:08 GMT

Games TM - 7 Pages of Details on GTA IV!

As the release of Rockstar's highly anticipated third-person shooter, Grand Theft Auto IV, approaches (don't get all excited, it's still on for an October 2007 release), the developer tries as much as it can to keep fans updated with what they know at a given time, that will be featured in the game. Th...

10 July 2007
04:40 GMT

Motorola and Kodak to Launch a 5 Megapixel Camera Phone

Motorola and Kodak announced more than a year ago a cross licensing and marketing alliance created in the attempt to boost the image capture experience of camera cell phones. This announcement was well received by everyone and great expectations followed. To show the customers that they really want to make camera ph...

23 May 2007
10:44 GMT




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