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Prototypes

Projector phones and mobile HD displays on their way

Posted October 6, 2008 by Mike Evans

A number of prototype mobile phone display technologies have been demoed at this year’s CEATEC 2008 exhibition in Japan. In addition to KDDI’s 3D mobile phone displays, there were a number of mobile phone projectors as well, which project the…

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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

Apple Hobbled ROKR SHOKR

Posted November 9, 2005 by Mike Evans

Rumour has been rife for sometime that Apple deliberately spiked the Motorola PLOPR ROKR, ensuring that it was a poor product. Now a new rumour has surfaced, suggesting that the reason for this was not so that Apple could produce…

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Articles

Disposable Photos from your Mobile Camera Phone

Posted October 26, 2005 by Mike Evans

43 Folders have an interesting post on the creative uses that a mobile camera phone can be put to (other than slapping random people in the face to see what pain and disgust look like, as  practised by emotionally challenged…

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News

Nokia 770 Internet Tablet delayed

Posted October 8, 2005 by Mike Evans

The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet looks glorious, and is certainly extremely desirable.  How usable it will be, though, remains to be seen. It’s not actually meant to be a mobile phone – indeed, it has no mobile phone capabilities at all, relying completely on WLAN for its connectivity.  Rather, it’s designed as a platform to browse the web and read email over WLAN.  You can also use it to stream files, tune in to Internet radio, News Reader, or play videos and music.

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Articles

LG CL400 and UMA – amazing connectivity, huge MobSharing potential

Posted October 7, 2005 by Mike Evans

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…

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Articles

Mobsharing versus mobile music services

Posted October 2, 2005 by Mike Evans

According to a report by In-Stat, mobile music services—either in the form of downloadable music files or broadcast digital radio—have greater interest among US mobile customers than gaming, an application that is now providing some of the greatest mobile data…

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Articles

Mobile TV – next year’s mobile phone must-have

Posted September 20, 2005 by Mike Evans

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…

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Camera Phones

HowTo take decent photos on a camera phone

Posted September 11, 2005 by Mike Evans

Virtually all new mobile phones now have a camera within them of some description, from the basic VGA 0.3 megapixel variety, through the current generation of 2 megapixellers, to the top-of-the-line, only-in-Japan 7 megapixel behemoths. Despite a recent survey by…

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Articles

Motorola iTunes ROKR finally arrives!

Posted September 8, 2005 by admin

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…

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Articles

The Motorola iTunes Phone – the Perils of the Fabulous Brand

Posted September 3, 2005 by Mike Evans

Why is it that when a new product carries a fabulous brand, chances are the product itself will be poor, or the run up to the big launch will be farcically fumbled? Take Sony’s new Walkman phone, the W800i. Slated…

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Articles

MobSharing – Coming to a StarBucks near you

Posted September 2, 2005 by Mike Evans

2005 is clearly the year of the music mobile phone. SonyEricsson has branded its new W800i with the legendary Walkman brand; Motorola is teaming up with Apple to bring an iPod phone; and Nokia, musically brandless but with its finger…

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