In case you didn’t see this first time round, here’s a hands-on with the Beewi Bluetooth Pocket Hands-free Car Kit, as distributed by Avenir Telecom in the UK:

And here is the link to the Avenir Telecom, should you want to go about getting one: http://www.avenir-telecom.co.uk/

It’s possible you might have missed these the first time round, but here are two hands-on videos for the Altec Lansing InMotion Classic and Altec Lansing Orbit-M – both portable speakers, and both very cool:

Altec Lansing InMotion Classic

Altec Lansing Orbit-M

For more information on the complete autumn 2009 audio collection from Altec Lansing, visit www.alteclansing.com

T-Mobile (NYSE: DT) has a neat new accessory showcased on its website. It’s called the 24/7 Xtreme Portable Power Solution, and it’s touted to bring the “instant, eco-friendly power for your phone.” The trick is in the fuel cells, using which the charger works similar to a chemical ice pack, requiring user to squeeze it and shake it. The Medis-made Xtreme then uses electrochemical processes to create electricity and do its recharge magic.

The device provides 20 watt-hours of electricity, which is enough to charge any smartphone several times over. And while we’re at “any smartphone,” this baby is compatible with standard USB, miniUSB, microUSB, Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Treo, and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) ports.

Finally, Medis says that their fuel cell product is not hazardous and gives off no emissions or measurable heat. The price is unknown at the moment, so we’re wondering whether they actually sell these. Go figure.

[Via: PhoneScoop]

Avenir Telecom has announced it will exclusively be rolling out distribution of innovative mobile accessories from French company Beewi.

The accessories consist of high-end audio and connectivity accessories, such as what is possibly the slimmest and lightest hands- free car-kit in the world (’credit card’-sized, it sticks on to your windscreen or dashboard), a BluetoothTM streamer for iPods and iPhones (which wirelessly streams music to one or more pairs of headphones), stylish headphones for enjoying you phone’s MP3 collection on the move, possibly the smallest USB WiFi adapter in the world, and a USB adapter which adds BluetoothTM connectivity to laptops and computers without the need for a breakable, protruding dongle.

Avenir Telecom’s Managing Director Andy Tow comments “Avenir’s new accessories division is exemplified by this exclusive Beewi range. It offers the buyer – whether they’re at customer, retailer or dealer level – confidence, clear features and benefits and technical excellence. The accessories market has been populated with an array of incompatible and inconsistent products and ranges for far too long. Avenir will bring the best products to the UK, market them in a clear and compelling way, and help drive this exciting area of mobile communications forward into the future. We aim to do for mobile hardware what the Apple iPhone apps store has done for mobile software!”

I certainly think the range of accessories is pretty reasonable, and I’m particularly liking the A2DP streaming module – now I just need a set of Bluetooth earphones to tune in! You should hopefully be able to find these accessories in UK shops soon enough!

I wrote a post the other day about two lots of marketing collateral that I saw, within days of each other, for competing solutions on wireless charging of mobile devices. One solution was called the Powermat, and the other, the PowerPad.

Well both companies responded to my article (!), and here’s what Powermat had to say (Powerpad in another post here):

• Don’t miss out on getting your hands on Powermat – the first truly wireless charger
• Powermat will change the way you charge as it enables up to four mobile phones, MP3 players and other devices to charge at the same time
• Using wireless energy transfer, Powermat pairs an ultra-thin mat with a receiver which connects to your device
• A sleek black design, Powermat will help de-clutter your home, creating one common charging area for all your devices
• Powermat also helps you travel light with a special portable version that folds up to less than 10cm by 10cm by 3.5cm
• Powermat receivers are currently available for the iPhone, iPods and BlackBerry devices. Consumers who purchase the Powermat Powercube can also connect via mini USB to many other devices to meet their charging needs.
• Powermat products will be available nationwide in October 2009 from all major retailers

The Jabra STONE has been officially announced as the Bluetooth headset maker’s latest bit of noise-canceling kit. Those of you following the STONE will be happy to hear that Jabra’s latest Bluetooth headset isn’t actually the stone/rock that Jabra sent out to the media as a publicity grab. It’s actually a new Bluetooth headset that literally hides from plain view by tucking itself behind your ear – a design Jabra calls “revolutionary” (we call it “cool”). And, in keeping with its namesake, the Jabra STONE comes with a compact portable charger that looks like a river stone.

At $130, the Jabra STONE Bluetooth headset isn’t cheap. But, with its hideaway design, wireless portable charger, Noise Blackout Extreme technology, A2DP support and touch-sensitive controls, the Jabra STONE might just be worth it. It’s the first headset to do away with the traditional microphone stub by hiding the dual-microphones in the headset’s body, so you can actually wear the Bluetooth headset in public without drawing too much attention to yourself.

Jabra says they’ll be launching the STONE exclusively through AT&T (NYSE: T) retail stores starting November 8th.

[Via: press release]

A couple of University of Waterloo students have put together a company called Allerta which will be making a cool little smartphone accessory that will keep you apprised of e-mail, SMS, and call alerts via Bluetooth while masquerading as a normal watch. I was a little dubious about these concept renderings of the product (they look like something even I could cook up in Pov-Ray), but after seeing this picture from a year ago posted in the comments, outlining some of the features and use cases, inPulse started to look a lot more real. Considering the university is right next door to RIM, it’s no surprise that the inPulse will work with BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM), but hopefully it will work other smartphones as advertised back in 2008; Android and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) (Symbian) phones were explicitly mentioned. After a quick call, I was told more information would be made available this week, so stay tuned.

P.S.: Shoutout to Ronen for spotting the Flickr link.

Following on from my last post (here), I got a mail from the Syndiant CTO (a nice chap called Karl, who really wanted the IntoMobile readers to get the full effect of their pico projector demo image, by seeing it at higher resolution) – so, for the benefit of those that would like to see my previous post image at hi res, check it out by clicking on the thumbnail image to the left.

Again, for more on Syndiant, click here.

Well spin me around and call me Santa – there appear to be two wireless charging solutions that have come to light within days of each other – what is that all about!

On my travels the other day, I noticed a swathe of posters for the POWERMAT solution at Heathrow Airport – it stuck in my mind because the posters literally were everywhere. Then, only a couple of days later I see a post on TechDigest about the POWERPAD (by Gear4), which apparently claims to be the worlds first dedicated wireless charger for the iPhone. Well, I don’t know which came first, but one thing I do know is that both solutions work in the same way (mat, plus a jacket for the iPhone), and have very similar marketing angles – that said, let’s check ‘em out:

POWERMAT

The Powermat requires you to buy yourself a mat, which costs £69.99, and then an appropriate case – which for the iPhone 3GS is £34.99. You can only pre-order it currently, and it looks kinda like this:

POWERPAD (Gear 4)

The Powerpad ensemble comes for a total of £79.99 apparently, and includes both the mat and the iPhone case. Likewise you can only only pre-order and it look like this:

In case you were wondering the wireless bit is defined as being between the phone and mat (thought I’d just clarify that!), and uses inductive loop charging to deliver the ‘charge’ wirelessly.

Anyway, back to the mobile tech bit – if you want to know more about the POWERMAT go here, whereas if it’s the POWERPAD you fancy, go here.

If either company’s PR wants to explain which product was first, or why it’s the unique one, please feel free to email me

yep, that's an 8-point font you can see being pointed too!

Our friends over at picoprojector-info.com have let us know about the new Syndiant pico projector modules – for anyone that doesn’t know, pico projectors (a miniature projector mounted in something like a mobile device) are apparently the next big thing!

The pic above shows one of the modules working, and you can see it’s managed to paint an area that is the size of a garage door – mainly because the background IS a garage door! The image was projected from an SYL2041 that supports both SVGA (800×600) and WVGA (854×480) resolutions – it managed a 120″ projected image!

The demo projector is about 14mm thick – about the same size of an iPhone. It has 17 lumens of light output. Syndiant say that there are over a dozen companies with plans for products based on this new module. Most of them are expected to include media players, have 20 to 50 (or more!) lumens output, and be smaller than the demo projector they show here. Some of these will be shown at CES (January 2010), with production in 2010. They hope that a few will be announced in 2009.

It’s impressive, isn’t it – apparently Syndiant have plans to go to HD-720 and HD-1080 resolution displays in the future – bring it on I say, everyone should have their own movie theatre in the lounge – especially if it’s being driven from your mobile!

You can check more about pico projectors at the Syndiant site here.

[Via: picoprojector-info.com]