KTF have announced a new phone, which they're boldly claming is smaller than a lapstick. Granted, at just 82mm x 37mm x 16.9mm, and weighing only 73.5 grams it is extremely small, but as this pic shows from MobileKorea.tv, it's not exactly smaller than a lipstick.
Korean phones have always been about a generation or so ahead of the rest of the world's but their latest innovation takes them into the next century. Beginning in a few months' time, 1,000 robots will be cleaning up people's homes, taking care of pets and reading books to children - and half of them will be controlled by mobile phone.
Never one to jump off a rolling bandwagon, Motorola will shortly be releasing yet another Motorola V3. Not sure of the actual name, yet, as it hasn't been officially announced by Motorola, but with so many V3 variants now in circulation, Motorola might have to call it something other than 'V3', if only because they've run out of letters! Maybe we can expect the V4x, or W3x. Who knows, or, more importantly, who cares?!
More details of Motorola's latest V3-whatever after the jump.
Sony Ericsson have reportedly already shipped a tonne of its new Sony Ericsson K800i CyberShot camera phones to UK mobile phone stores in readiness for a full launch next week. The K800i has many people drooling with anticipation largely because of its use of Sony's CyberShot brand: so confident are Sony Ericsson of the K800i's picture-taking abilities, they've added the respected brand to the phone in the same way they did with the Walkman brand for its range of mobile phones.
After yesterday's news that 2 billion people now use GSM mobile phones, it seems timely to look back at the history of GSM and see what the first generation looked like.
Back in 1991, the Motorola 1000 'Autotelefon' was the digital phone of choice.
Called a 'transportable', because, well, you couldn't get away with calling it 'mobile', the Motorola 1000 is bigger than most of today's base stations!
More surprising, and a real testament to the success of the original GSM specification, the Motorola 1000 will still work, unchanged, on today's vastly-different GSM networks.
For those nostalgia nuts out there, check out RetroBrick's complete range of ageing retro mobile bricks. We've come a long way in 15 years!
The much-delayed Nokia N80 is finally coming close to being released, and Sogi.com have managed to get their hands on one for a full-featured review. The N80 is a stunning technological show-stopper from Nokia, cramming in an extraordinary array of features. WiFi, Bluetooth, UPnP, 3 megapixel camera, 3G, VGA video camera, MP3 player and support for up to 2GB of storage are just some of the features of this amazing phone.
Read more on the Nokia N80 review after the jump.
NEC have announced the NEC N908, a new mobile that's the same size as a credit card. Not the same width, mind - at 12.8mm thick, it's nearly twice the width of Samsung's record-breaking super-thin phone the Samsung X828. But as you can see from the pics, the N908 has the same length and height as a credit card - it'll just look a bit odd in your wallet!
To say that mobile phones are a global phenomenon is a massive understatement. According to the GSM Association, June 2006 saw the total number of GSM mobile phone connections across the world reach an astounding 2 billion. New users are now signing up at an astonishing rate of 1,000 per minute (18 per second), driven by huge demand in emerging markets.
Once a watch simply told the time. Then along came Casio and digital watches, and soon calculators, thermometers, altimeters and even compasses were added onto the growing feature-list of this humble device.
Today, it's the mobile phone that's become the rampaging wildebeest of technological innovation, forcing older-tech devices such as cameras, videos and even the humble watch to the edge of extinction, as it encompasses more and more of the features once the preserve of these old 20th century devices.
But now, a new beast stalks the battlefields of gadget-land (and actual battlefields, too); a strange new hybrid born from a mutation of the mobile phone, the PC and the humble digital watch. This new species is the Parvus Zypad WL 1000 wrist-wearable wireless computer.
These are leaked pictures of a new Dopod mobile TV phone, as yet unannounced by the company, that Taiwanese site Sogi calls simply the "Dopod TV Mobile". Not unsurprisingly, the Dopod TV Mobile is a phone designed around mobile TV (no, really!). More surprisingly, however, the design of the phone seems to be entirely novel.
Until now, Dopod have been primarily known for releasing phones that have been, er, 'influenced' by popular designs from other companies (such as Apple's iPod), but the Dopod TV Mobile seems to be a genuinely, and not half bad, attempt at an original design.
More details and pictures of the Dopod TV Mobile phone after the jump.
