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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 Producti... |
13 May 2008
12:16 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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Nuance Communications hosted this week a competition revealing that voice commands decrease the risk of driver distractions which appear when using mobile phones in cars. The competition, named "The Amazing Race: Distracted Driving", was held in Boca Raton, Florida, at Conversations Mobile, an important speech event ... |
26 October 2007
04:57 GMT |
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UTStarcom launched a new mobile phone, the CDM8630 model, an entry-level handset with practical features targeted at older adults, making it one of the few mobile phones specially designed for old people. CDM8630 comes with a large keypad, an easy to use menu with large fonts and voice activating dialing and seems... |
25 October 2007
11:40 GMT |
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Pantech, the South Korean manufacturer, has unveiled its latest innovative mobile phone featuring bone conduction technology. The phone is named A1407PT and looks quite like its big brother, the A1406PT model, but with the bone conduction technology added. While bone conduction technology is not unusual when it comes... |
23 October 2007
02:30 GMT |
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Skype, the eBay owned company, plans to release its own mobile handset, following the Apple and Google examples. Of course, we all know that Google didn't launch any mobile phone, but this will happen pretty soon. Now Skype, known for providing cheap or even free Internet phone calls, will also enter the mobile ... |
18 October 2007
09:21 GMT |
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Women like to talk for hours on the phone and shopping for sex toys; therefore, it's only natural to combine the two of them in the most pleasurable way.Some fellows have thought about developing a brand new vibrator that every woman can use to give someone a buzz. And of course, she's surely going to give ... |
18 October 2007
07:51 GMT |
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Nokia has just started a recycling campaign that will be active until the America Recycles Day 2007, on November 15th. The company looks to diminish the "greenhouse gas" effect through mobile phone recycling.The US Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Benefits Calculator reached the conclusion that, b... |
8 October 2007
08:51 GMT |
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A new research revealed one surprising fact. More than half of all mobile phones that are sold worldwide are manufactured in China. Things don't stop here, as sales numbers are in a continuous growth that is very unlikely to stop in the future.The "Made in China" tag usually stands for cheap copies that usually ... |
5 October 2007
12:23 GMT |
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Some new world records are about to be broken in terms of mobile phones and their performances. Broadcom Corporation has just unveiled a processor that should be capable of supporting a large number of great features, including that of delivering a HD camcorder that also provides an up to 12-megapixel digital camera.... |
5 October 2007
05:29 GMT |
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Japanese mobile phones come in a diversity which is as great as people's personality, bringing solutions for all the issues they might have, even if not telecom related. A new handset will be introduced in NTT DoCoMo's lineup, along with its great talent of measuring the user's body fat or just how bad... |
4 October 2007
05:10 GMT |
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NTT DoCoMo just showed off another mobile phone that uses an interesting concept and surely manages to stand out. The handset uses an electronic ink keypad that triggers several advantages and a nice concept as well.CEATEC Japan 2007 has taken into consideration when developing this phone the user's need for inn... |
4 October 2007
04:46 GMT |
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Having two mobile phones is nothing out of the ordinary, but what about 4? A recent government report cited by The Korea Times showed that almost 50,000 people in South Korea have at least 4 mobile phones that they currently use.That's one phone for business, one for the family, one for the girlfriend, the fourt... |
3 October 2007
11:13 GMT |
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Less than a month ago, 3 became the first operator to offer Skype over mobile phones. The company now wants to take this initiative one step further, with the release of a cheap handset that will bring even cheaper conversations on the market.It looks like a pretty bold decision coming from 3 to bring Skype services ... |
2 October 2007
10:18 GMT |
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