Archive for July, 2007

tiny projectors in your phone

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Motorola has teamed up with Microvision to put laser-projector technology into mobile phone handsets.
The idea of putting a tiny projector into a mobile phone is nothing new – science fiction has been doing it for decades – but the practicalities of fitting an entire projector into the case of a phone and making it work [...]

3 Shows off its Mobile TV service

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

3 indulges in some trumpet blowing following reports of BT Movio’s closure.

The UK operator is keen to big up its own mobile TV and video services in the wake of BT’s announcement last week that its Movio DAB-IP based broadcast mobile TV service – which is live with Virgin Mobile – is to close.
3 isn’t [...]

MDA Touch available on T-Mobile UK

Monday, July 30th, 2007

T-Mobile has announced that the MDA Touch is now available through its network with web’n’walk. It becomes the first Windows Mobile 6 MDA device.

Otherwise known as the HTC Touch, it is also the first handset to have TouchFLO screen technology, enabling quick dialling, navigation and launching applications.
It also plays music tracks to be played and [...]

Japanese mobile social networking hits the UK

Monday, July 30th, 2007

A mobile social networking service from Japan has been launched in the UK.
Mobikade, popular among Japan’s urban youth, enables friends to provide each other with a constant stream of where-I-am and what-I’m-doing pseudo-news via a website accessible from their mobiles.
Every action earns participants points, which can be used to send text messages to friends, or [...]

BlackBerry 8820 available on Orange

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

Research In Motion (RIM) and Orange UK today introduced the BlackBerry 8820 smartphone to the UK market.
The new smartphone features RIM’s thinnest handset design with a full and highly tactile QWERTY keyboard, large ultra bright landscape display, user-friendly trackball navigation system and best-in-class voice and data functionality.

The BlackBerry 8820 also includes built-in GPS (Global Positioning [...]

Top 3 Concept Phones

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

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The looks of this concept phone from BenQ-Seimens are alluring enough to turn your head.I think this is much better than the Iphone.
2. Nokia Aeon

The Nokia Aeon concept was somehow inspired by Synaptics Onyx. The full surface touchscreen display phone concept is indeed cool and tempting but who knows? Nokia is tight-lipped to make any [...]

Orange brings mickey mouse to mobile tv

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

 
Orange has made a digital TV content deal with Disney-ABC International Television, which will allow Orange subscribers to watch Disney movies on Orange’s forthcoming digital TV service ipTV.
Under the multi-year video on-demand deal for digital TV and PC, Orange will be able to offer for rental video on demand movies from Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone [...]

Phone mast allergy ‘in our minds’

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Mobile phone masts are not responsible for the symptoms of ill health some blame them for, a major UK study says.  
Dozens of people who believed the masts triggered symptoms such as anxiety, nausea and tiredness could not detect if signals were on or off in trials.
However, the Environmental Health Perspectives study stressed people [...]

Virgin Mobile to dump mobile TV service

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

 
Virgin Mobile has decided to dump its broadcast mobile TV service after less than a year because of poor customer take-up.
The mobile phone operator’s partner on the project, BT, is ending its experiment with mobile TV and disbanding its BT Movio business that was supposed to take mobile TV into other countries. It has also [...]

Coming Soon: Sony Ericsson W960i

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

 
The sleek W960i Walkman® phone impresses with its touch display and 8GB memory. You can have all the music you want – literally at your fingertips.
 Two major improvements with the W960i [...]