Nokia 7610 Supernova cellphone
The new Nokia 7610 cellphone has a built in 3.2 megapixel camera with auto-focus,dual LED flash and 6M color QVGA screen making it the flagship phone of the Nokia Supernova series.
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Cool Concepts - The Roll Up Mobile Phone
Check out this clever concept mobile phone from designer Yun Liang.
It is based on a Chinese scroll, and when not in use it rolls up.
All the mobile phones functions are on the outside of the scroll, and you roll out the screen which is a thin paper like display.
via Yanko Design
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Google Announce the Google Phone
Google has announced the Google Phone, and instead of a phone that’s manufactured by just one company, it’s an open software platform that’s going to be loaded on phones made by HTC, LG, Motorola and Samsung. Those phones are going to be available in the US on Sprint and T-Mobile by the second half of 2008—plus, it’s going to be available in China, Japan, Germany, Italy, and Spain on their respective carriers.
No word on the UK as yet, as usual we will probably have to wait a lot longer than the US and the rest of Europe.
The 34-member Open Handset Alliance, as the group is called, also includes many of the leading makers of mobile phone chips, like Broadcom, Intel, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments, as well as SiRF Technology Holdings, Marvell Technology Group, Nvidia and Synaptics. EBay (which owns the Internet calling service Skype), Nuance Communications, NMS Communications and Wind River Systems are also members of the group.
The technology is expected to provide cellular handset manufacturers and wireless operators with capabilities that match and potentially surpass those using smartphone software made by Apple, Microsoft, Nokia, Palm, Research in Motion and others. In contrast to the existing competitors, Google’s software will be offered freely under “open source” licensing terms, meaning that handset manufacturers will be able to use it at no cost and be free to add new features to differentiate their products.
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Rumor - Google to announce the Google Phone on Monday
According to the Wall Street Journal Google plans to make an annoucement on Monday regarding the much rumored Google Phone.
The company looks set to make a splash in the mobile market on Monday, announcing an alliance with various handset makers and cellphone operators around the world that are willing to push its “open” platform for cellphone applications, sources say. It’s always possible the announcement’s timing could change, but Monday looks like the day at this point.
The U.S. carriers likely to be part of the announcement are T-Mobile and Sprint, according to our sources, but there could be others by the time Google says its piece. While Sprint appears to be agreeing to work with Google to put the Web giant’s new Linux-based open operating system into phones, T-Mobile will probably go even further: the company has worked with Google for months on plans to build Google-powered phones with a variety of Google software and applications. As far as handset partners for Google, Taiwan’s HTC is a likely bet, our sources say. Samsung, LG, and SonyEricsson are also possible, but we’ll wait and see the full roster. Equally interesting will be who isn’t on the list.
Don’t expect to see any devices soon – the middle of next year is the earliest Google-powered phones could come to market.
What will the impact be? Well, Google is trying to remake cellphones in the model of the Web, making them as open as possible to new applications in areas like social networking and map-based services. It’s too early to tell whether this will be a revolution in cellphones – or just an evolution that improves on the relatively open platforms already out there, like rival Microsoft’s Windows mobile. If the partnerships result in Google-branded devices hitting the market, we’ll get a chance to see how much pull the Google name really has in the wireless market. We’ve already seen the pull Apple has.
Source: WSJ
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Cool Gadgets - The USB Ferris Wheel Phone Stand
Check out the USB Ferris Wheel Phone Stand from USB Geek.
Plug it into your PC, hook up your phone and when a call comes in the Ferris wheel starts to spin and play a tune.
Check out this video of it in action.
Here’s the specs
- Incoming phone call alarm with rotation of the Ferris wheel
- Funny tune with On/Mute/Off switch
- Ferris wheel with 11cm diameter and 10 fun-seeking figures
- 2 LEDs in red and green colors
- Powered by USB or 2 AA batteries
- Dimensions: 22 x 9.2 x 18cm
- Weight: 305g
It is available to buy online from USB Geek for $27 (about £14)
via Gizmodo
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The Nokia 6555 - Another New Mobile From Nokia
Nokia has announced another new mobile, the 6555.
The 6555 features a QVGA 16 million color internal display with a resolution of 240×320. It features a camera with 6x zoom which also has a self portrait function.
“Mobile-savvy consumers expect superior quality and design. We understood that need, and so created the the Nokia 6555. The Nokia 6555 is a sophisticated accessory delivering the outstanding features that you expect from Nokia,” said Markku Suomi, Product Group Director, Mobile Phones, Nokia.
It comes with 30MB of built in memory and a micro SD slot, and Blue-tooth connectivity and will be available in three colours, black red and orange.
It will go on sale for around £140 (about $280).
Via Gadgetizer
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Recharge Your iPhone With The USB Mini Battery
Check out this USB Mini Battery from Brando.
Have you ever had experiences that devices are running out of battery while in use? It is disturbing when you are enjoying your MP3 or chatting happily with friends on the phone, etc. Now! USB Mini Battery won’t let these situation happen anymore! You can charge your devices in a flash before battery exhausts! You can charge your iPhone, Handheld PC, Digital Camera, Cellphone, DV, iPod, MP3, CD Player, PMP, PSP, NDS, NDS Lite and any other applicable devices.
Features:
- Recharge eletronic devices, such iPhone, PDA, Mobile phone…
- Portable and lightweight
- Easy to carry, easy to use
- On / OFF Switch
- 3-level LED indicator
- Dimensions: 70×35x21mm
- Weight: 69g
Specifications:
- Input (Mini USB): 5VDC, 500mA Min.
- Output (USB Type A Port): 5VDC, 1000mA
- Battery Chemistry: Li-ion
- Battery Capacity: 2200mA
The USB Mini Battery is available now from Brando for $36 (about £18)
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Apple iPhone Review
With the embargoe lifted on the iPhone, reviews are starting to circulate on the web.
David Pogue of the New York Times reviews the iPhone
‘Talk about hype. In the last six months, Apple’s iPhone has been the subject of 11,000 print articles, and it turns up about 69 million hits on Google. Cultists are camping out in front of Apple stores; bloggers call it the “Jesus phone.” All of this before a single consumer has even touched the thing.
So how is it?
As it turns out, much of the hype and some of the criticisms are justified. The iPhone is revolutionary; it’s flawed. It’s substance; it’s style. It does things no phone has ever done before; it lacks features found even on the most basic phones.
Unless you’ve been in a sensory-deprivation tank for six months, you already know what the iPhone is: a tiny, gorgeous hand-held computer whose screen is a slab of touch-sensitive glass.
The $500 and $600 models have 4 and 8 gigabytes of storage, respectively — room for about 825 or 1,825 songs. (In each case, 700 megabytes is occupied by the phone’s software.) That’s a lot of money; then again, the price includes a cellphone, video iPod, e-mail terminal, Web browser, camera, alarm clock, Palm-type organizer and one heck of a status symbol.
The phone is so sleek and thin, it makes Treos and BlackBerrys look obese. The glass gets smudgy—a sleeve wipes it clean—but it doesn’t scratch easily. I’ve walked around with an iPhone in my pocket for two weeks, naked and unprotected (the iPhone, that is, not me), and there’s not a mark on it.
But the bigger achievement is the software. It’s fast, beautiful, menu-free, and dead simple to operate. You can’t get lost, because the solitary physical button below the screen always opens the Home page, arrayed with icons for the iPhone’s 16 functions.
You’ve probably seen Apple’s ads, showing how things on the screen have a physics all their own. Lists scroll with a flick of your finger, CD covers flip over as you flick them, e-mail messages collapse down into a trash can. Sure, it’s eye candy. But it makes the phone fun to use, which is not something you can say about most cellphones.
Apple has chosen AT&T (formerly Cingular) to be the iPhone’s exclusive carrier for the next few years, in part because the company gave Apple carte blanche to revise everything people hate about cellphones.
For example, you don’t sign up for service in a phone store, under pressure from the sales staff. You peruse and choose a plan at your leisure, in the iTunes software on your computer.
Better yet, unlimited Internet service adds only $20 a month to AT&T’s voice-plan prices, about half what BlackBerry and Treo owners pay. For example, $60 gets you 450 talk minutes, 200 text messages and unlimited Internet; $80 doubles that talk time. The iPhone requires one of these voice-and-Internet plans and a two-year commitment.
On the iPhone, you don’t check your voice mail; it checks you. One button press reveals your waiting messages, listed like e-mail. There’s no dialing in, no password — and no sleepy robot intoning, “You…have…twenty…one…messages.”
To answer a call, you can tap Answer on the screen, or pinch the microscopic microphone bulge on the white earbud cord. Either way, music or video playback pauses until you hang up. (When you’re listening to music, that pinch pauses the song. A double-pinch advances to the next song.)
Making a call, though, can take as many as six steps: wake the phone, unlock its buttons, summon the Home screen, open the Phone program, view the Recent Calls or speed-dial list, and select a name. Call quality is only average, and depends on the strength of your AT&T signal.
E-mail is fantastic. Incoming messages are fully formatted, complete with graphics; you can even open (but not edit) Word, Excel and PDF documents.
The Web browser, though, is the real dazzler. This isn’t some stripped-down, claustrophobic My First Cellphone Browser; you get full Web layouts, fonts and all, shrunk to fit the screen. You scroll with a fingertip —much faster than scroll bars. You can double-tap to enlarge a block of text for reading, or rotate the screen 90 degrees, which rotates and magnifies the image to fill the wider view.
Finally, you can enlarge a Web page—or an e-mail message, or a photo—by spreading your thumb and forefinger on the glass. The image grows as though it’s on a sheet of latex. ‘
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