Just when we’ve posted about finger massager selling in Japan, we got a news French Health Ministry has issued a warning against excessive mobile phone use, especially by children. According to the ministry, it is recommended to use a mobile phone in moderation, “with good judgment, avoid calling when reception is poor, or during high-speed…
Archives for January 2008
Finger massager helps Japanese relieve pain from too much texting
It doesn’t surprises that such developed market as Japan has its own gizmos. For instance, I still can’t envision the finger massager pictured above selling outside of the “Land of the rising Sun.” But if you rely on your shiny powerful mobile phone like Japanese do — like all the time — that makes perfect…
Stanford researchers develop super long-lasting Lithium-Ion battery
While wireless-charging solutions and hydrogen fuel cells are still on the horizon, Stanford researchers have just come across a breakthrough in battery technology that’s available today. We’d love to have our mobile phone charge while in our pocket, or have our fuel cells topped off at the nearest hydrogen charger, but alas, those technologies have…
Brief: Motorola settles patent disputes wiht Metrologic Instruments
Motorola’s had enough troubles last year – it’s time that they turn over a new leaf and get back to the business of making profits from mobile phone sales. Moto has just settled their outstanding patent disputes with Metrologic Instruments, giving them a clean slate to launch those 20-30 new handsets in 2008. Metrologic and…
Holiday mobile search: It’s the big retailers shoppers are looking
Even though big retail chains are investing a serious buck in their marketing efforts, American holiday shoppers still need assistance finding local Wal-Mart and Target stores. According to V-ENABLE, holiday shopping directory assistance searches for retail businesses tend to be mostly for big-named, large-numbered retail giants. Other popular retail searches were pharmacies, electronics stores, gaming…
Chinese CK800 phone – ready to compete with Sonim XP1?
Who says Chinese handset manufacturers can’t make a durable, high-quality phone? The latest CK800 handset from China proved the opposite. As a matter of fact, this indestructible and fairly ugly baby — I guess it’s quite hard to pair the looks with durability — seems created to compete head to head with Sonim XP1 which…
Pointui makes your touchscreen enabled Windows Mobile device look cooler than ever
Pointui is everything but a first homescreen application we’ve seen. As a matter of fact, following the iPhone launch, there were suddenly quite a few such applications on the market that want to add that iPhone look and feel to the Windows Mobile platform. That being said, I guess that’s the core strength of Microsoft’s…
Brief: Nokia breaks 173 MB/s during LTE test trial in Germany
Ok so the press release is from the 19th of December, but it is going to be at least 2 years until we’re going to be using LTE* anyways. Nokia Siemens Networks, on the 2.6 GHz spectrum, reached 173 MB/s in a field trial in Berlin, Germany. All the money shot quotes can be found…
The real white Nokia N82 appears
A few days ago Dusan posted a picture of a Nokia N82 that he thought was the white version, turns out it wasn’t, but I can’t blame him for thinking it was. You can barely tell the difference between the current N82 and the white variant. The front is still the same blinged out chrome…
Waterproof your mobile phone with P2i’s Ion-Mask coating
How many times have you unknowingly jumped in the pool (drunk, or not) with your cellphone in your pocket? We all know how well that works out. Oh, and toilets are notorious for claiming mobile phone lives, too (and, if you do dunk your phone, this might save it). Don’t ask us how we know.…