Oh NTT, you’re always coming up with new mobile phone features to amaze us! This time, your subsidiary, NTT-Neomeit, has announced plans for their “U-consento” service. This inexpensive cheap service is just what we were looking for! How did you know to fill that empty space in our lives with a method to control home…
Archives for April 2007
Philips’ Hair-Raising Display – Literally!
Last we heard, Philips was working on that snazzy wireless power-transmission technology. Now, Philips is making more waves with a hair-raising display – literally. The company filed for a patent in which a “fabric display” is outlined for applications involving displays embedded in clothing. The hair-raising display works by running an electrostatic charge through pixels…
Apple say iPhone and AppleTV to get FREE applications and software features
Apple has announced their Q2 financial results, and they’re lookin’ good. Year-on-year growth of 34%, $885 million in profits and $12 billion in cash are nice numbers, by any measure. But, the numbers are not what interests us here. As almost an answer to our concerns over Apple’s iPhone (with that notoriously closed system) being…
Sidekick iD Now Available on T-mobile
Yeah, we’ve been expecting this for some time now, and T-mobile has just gone official with the release of the Sidekick iD. The low-end entry-level Sidekick is now available for $99 (after mail-in rebates and discounts on new contracts, of course) and comes in your choice of “fun” colors. That is, if you wanna trade…
Boeing 777 = sweet
Good bye Florida!
Sitting in a room with airport security
I don’t understand. Moving wine from Spain to Florida is no problem, but moving it from Florida to Texas is. I’m not a criminal and I hope I don’t miss my fight. This is madness.
New LG patents make full touchscreen phones easier to use
LG is at it again. The South Korean electronics powerhouse is intent on taking full screen mobile technology to the next level – spearheaded with that beautiful LG KE850 Prada Phone. The company’s recent patent filings give us a glimpse of what’s to come. One application outlines a dual-touchscreen-display flip phone that does away with…
Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer comments on Zune phone; Confuses people
Lately Steve Ballmer has been asked to comment the rumored Zune phone. His answer is somehow confusing and could be interpreted in a variety of ways: “We’re in the Windows Mobile business. We can put Zune into Windows Mobile,” and that they “have to think about the phone instead of as a fixed-function device”. What…
Nokia N76 start shipping; Comes bundled with music of Travis in select markets
Nokia has just started shipping its RAZR-like N76 model to key European, Asian and Middle Eastern markets. The N76 is a stylish “multimedia computer” made of premium materials that is set to bring the power of Symbian S60 to the regular, style-aware feature phone users. At the same time, Nokia announced a partnership deal with…