Hot on the heels of our recent report of Nokia’s somewhat potty prototype mobile phones, comes news of Japanese mobile operator DoCoMo’s latest concept – the finger-ring. Known even more amusingly as the ‘Ubi-Wa’ in Japanese, the device is a ring…

LG Electronics have announced the launch of the CL400 mobile phone. Not content with the usual connectivity options (you know – bluetooth, GSM, 3G, email, SMS, IrDA, etc., etc.), LG have added on WiFi connectivity as well. Better still, it’s…

Here’s something we’ll all be hearing a lot more about real soon – mobile TV. I’ve always thought TV on your mobile made perfect sense. I mean, interactivity’s all very well and good, and cramming gadget-fest features like cameras and…

At last, after much feverish speculation, way too much coverage, and not a little hype, Motorola and Apple finally announce the Motorola ROKR E1 iTunes phone.
Here’s the spec:

o.3 megapixel camera
128MB memory (The New York Times puts this…

2004 was clearly the year of the mobile phone camera, with resolutions reaching the useable 1 megapixel limit, and SonyEricsson and Nokia releasing phones with cameras that actually took decent pictures. Now, though, fashion has moved on. The mobile phones…

OK, I could be accused of being cynical, but this amazing looking phone looks too good to be true. It’s a 2 megapixel camera plus video recording phone with ‘Carl Zeiss lens’ (oooh!) – so far so good, what we’d expect for the next gen phones, and a nice step up from the current crop of 1 megapixellers. Not quite as good as some of the camera resolutions available elsewhere, but good all the same, and Nokia are noted for decent quality images from their phones (link here). The real seller, of course, is the amazing looks of the thing!

I mean, look at it – see it twist, see it flip, imagine your mates’ faces when you get it out casually, and before their very eyes start making little origami shapes out of your phone! Forget the quality of the gadgets, look at the thing twist!

So, you’re a mobile phone company, everyone says this is the year of the music mobile phone. Sony Ericsson has its Walkman brand, Motorola’s eloped with Apple’s iTunes, and you…well you have no music brand. Damn it! Guess you’ll have to focus on features instead then.

And thank Nokia for that! Nokia’s latest handset, coming to Blighty October 2005, not only focuses on music features, it overdoses on them. 4GB hard disk gives serious space for all your tunes, which can be downloaded over the air, over bluetooth, via USB, or, best of all, over a WLAN connection!