Following our last week’s post that the Sony Ericsson W910i is coming soon, we now spotted the latest Cyber-shot phone at the Swedish-Japanese handset maker’s homepage. By now, you probably know everything about the K850i — I’ll only recap it comes with a 5 MP camera with auto-focus and Xenon flash light, HSDPA, 2.2″ QVGA…
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Virgin Mobile announces Super Slice phone with Bluetooth support
Virgin Mobile USA just announced its new candybar-shaped phone Super Slice. The successor to the last year’s Slice model is the first phone offered by the MVNO which comes with the Bluetooth connectivity support. In addition to that, the UTStarcom-manufactured 10.2 mm thick Super Slice also comes with the VGA camera, speakerphone, new UI and…
All iPhone native applications
In case you haven’t noticed, the number of iPhone native applications is rising everyday. At the moment there are roughly 50 such apps for your beloved device. All of these are developed sans SDK or any other support from Apple — can you name some other company that have fans like this? Anyway, ModMyiPhone has…
Review of Gennum’s nx6000 Noise-Cancellation Bluetooth Headset
Bluetooth headsets are a dime a dozen these days. Some are big, some are small, some are in-ear and some are hook-based. But, no matter what form-factor best suits you, Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and noise-reduction technologies are pretty much a necessity these days. Have you ever tried to carry on a conversation in a…
Transforming Motorola E6 that can still make calls
It’s not often we see a transforming mobile phone that can literally transform – let alone still make phone calls. Here we have a Motorola E6 ROKR that some enterprising Moto-modder managed to turn into a transforming robot – a la Transformers. But, to our surprise, this thing does more than just transform into a…
Steve Jobs is the George Pullman of the 21st century
Little history lesson for all you boys and girls who were probably too busy flirting with each other in 7th grade history class. George Pullman owned a massive factory that made railroad cars. Times were rough so he made a town for his employees and built stores, schools, etc. Nice guy right? Wrong, he rigged…
Nokia: Sorry iPhone early adopters, at least you can use MOSH
So it looks like early iPhone adopters aren’t the only ones feeling the pain of having their uber-expensive devices price-slashed like last year’s fashions. Nokia feels our pain too. Not a day after Apple announced their early-adopter screwing policy, Nokia has launched a Google ad campaign to empathize with our $200 loss and offer a…
Sony Ericsson phones get camera picture-search
We take pictures with our camera phones all the time. Pictures of people, buildings, animals, cars – they’re all good. But, we haven’t really used our cameraphones to take pictures of books or other printed material. Sure, we’ve taken the odd picture of a good sale price on that laptop bag, but we never though…
AT&T announces International Calling for AT&T Unity customers
If you’re a subscriber of AT&T’s wireless and landline combining AT&T Unity plan, you’ll be glad to hear that AT&T has announced International Calling on both wireless and wireline devices for one low-price. The Unity Worldwide Calling program will cost $4.99 per month and will assure that Unity customer will get the lowest International rates…
FCC fines Sprint Nextel, Alltel, US Cellular for failing to meet E911 requirements in 2005
We live in a world where security and safety are at the top of everyone’s list. With all the technology that we have at our displosal, we shouldn’t have to settle for partial safety – at least that’s what the FCC believes. Kevin Martin, FCC Chairman, announced that three wireless carriers in the US will…