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Coming Soon

Video: Nokia shows off iPhone-like S60 Touch user interface

Posted October 16, 2007 by Mike Evans

Nokia have been showing off the S60 Touch, a touch screen user interface for their N Series of mobile phones that will also become part of the S60 User Interface platform. As such, it’s not just Nokia who’ll benefit from…

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News

Mobile Projectors to arrive “by 2010″

Posted September 6, 2007 by Mike Evans

LG have been outlining what they see as the new technologies that will shape the screens we use on our mobile phones.
Speaking at the 7th International Meeting on Information Display (IMID 2007), President and Chief Technology Officer Hee-Gook Lee…

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Motorola Microvision projector phone
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Motorola to add projector displays to its mobile phones

Posted July 25, 2007 by Mike Evans

Motorola have announced an agreement with Microvision to develop pico projector display solutions for its future mobile phones.
Microvision’s PicoP technology is an ultra-miniature laser based display engine that can project a mobile phone’s display onto a wall or even…

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Korean Phones

Samsung WiMax phone supports 20Mbps downloads

Posted February 18, 2007 by Mike Evans

Samsung have been very busy this week, both at 3GSM and in general. At 3GSM, we saw them show their new Ultra II range of smartphones, while outside of 3GSM land, they’ve been showing off this, the new Samsung SPH-M8100.…

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DMB

Mobile TV Video glasses turn geeks into borgs

Posted May 11, 2006 by Mike Evans

When Motorola teamed with Oakley to produce its awkward-looking mobile-music-shades, which attempted to merge the mobile phone with sunglasses, it forgot one crucial component – the display. Now Korean start-up Kowon Technology aims to rectify that with its new product, the niftily-titled MSP-209 “Video Glasses”.

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3G

Which mobile TV technology should you choose?

Posted February 12, 2006 by Mike Evans

Choosing the best mobile TV technology may be more tricky than you’d think.  With the mobile phone industry betting its collective cash on Mobile TV for 2006, there are a bewildering variety of competing standards that can be used to receive your favourite TV programmes.  Which standard you choose will depend on the mobile phone handset you buy, as well as the mobile network operator you subscribe to, as different handsets and operators support different standards.

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Rumours

Nokia claims smartphones set to get smarter

Posted November 24, 2005 by Mike Evans

 
Nokia have seen the future of mobile phones, and it’s smart – very smart. According to VNUNet, Bob Ianucci, head of Nokia’s research centre, foresees a fundamental shift in mobile phone technology, as handsets develop from relying exclusively on embedded…

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News

More Pantech & Curitel Transforming goodness

Posted November 22, 2005 by Mike Evans

More pictures have been released of the new Pantech & Curitel PT-S170 mobile phone. Engadget aren’t a fan of the new phone, but imagine your friends’ faces when you pop the thing open to reveal its full transformer-esque glory :) Speaking…

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News

New LG SD 910 – another Transformer-phone debuts in Korea

Posted November 21, 2005 by Mike Evans

SK Telecom have also released pictures of the new LG SD 910 mobile phone, another device with a curious form factor.  Not quite as curious as the previously posted Curitel PT S170, the new LG mobile phone nonetheless has its…

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News

Curitel’s Curiously twisty new cellphone

Posted November 21, 2005 by Mike Evans

Another new mobile phone with a strange new form factor debuts in South Korea. SK Telecom, the largest mobile carrier in Korea, has released photos of an in-house designed handset, the Pantech & Curitel PT-S170. Details are limited, but the PT-S170…

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Articles

The WiFi Bedouin – 21st Century Pied Piping for MobSharers

Posted October 19, 2005 by Mike Evans

An intriguing new ‘art-technology’ project has hit my radar courtesy of Techkwondo.  The Wifi.Bedouin is a wearable mobile 802.11b node that enables nearby WiFi devices to connect to it, but which is, itself, disconnected from the global Internet.  You can…

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News

Sony Ericsson buzzword overload: New W900 3G Walkman mobile phone revealed

Posted October 17, 2005 by Mike Evans

After Nokia’s recent flurry of announcements, it seems it’s Sony Ericsson’s turn today, announcing the fourth member of their increasingly impressive Walkman family of mobile phones.
This one, I’m pleased to say, looks like the best yet.
The W900 offers…

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