Most mobile phones today look very similar — basically, there are few form factors like clamshell, slider and candybar with some variations. That’s probably the reason why designers are pushing the limits with their concepts. After all, who knows how will our beloved devices look within ten years. Latest concept we’ve spotted is designed by…
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Konami serious about mobile; Set to bring key franchises
Now, here’s some good Saturday news. The famous game developer is working to bring its key titles to the mobile screens. And by key titles I mean the latest version of the best soccer (football in Europe) game ever – Pro Evolution Soccer 2008, GBA title – Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, and Silent Hill. Personally,…
Jabra BT8030 – the transforming speaker/headset
Well known manufacturer of Bluetooth accessories Jabra, recently announced its new transforming device, which can work both as a speaker and a headset. Using it, you can choose whether you want to listen your music loudly in a speaker mode, or just for yourself in a headset mode. The Jabra BT8030 is not a small…
Video: The Taco escapes its shell, N-Gage preview
5 minutes of marketing material that actually makes me think the new N-Gage will be impressive: Don’t forget to new logo, doesn’t it remind you of the Sega Dreamcast? Wait a minute, in 2003 Nokia purchased Sega.com Warning: Try not to cry after seeing this, the Dreamcast was hands down my favorite console system and…
Apple iPhone gets software unlocked – finally!
It’s finally happened. Not even a day after we brought you that hardware unlock solution for the iPhone (from geohot), the intrepid iPhone hackers over at iPhoneSIMfree.com announced their full software unlock solution for the Apple iPhone. Unlike geohot’s hardware unlock, there are no risky circuit solders to deal with – an unlock iPhone is…
Matsushita will cover the cost of Nokia’s battery recall
We love it when the big boys decide to play nice and actually do the right thing (cough, Qualcomm, cough). Matsushita is owning up to their fleet of faulty BL-5C batteries and covering the cost of Nokia’s entire battery recall. The 46 million Nokia phones that require battery replacement will run Matsushita anywhere between ¥10…
Mobile penetration to break 100% by 2013
While the European Union can already boast of having more mobile phones in their country than actual human beings (their mobile penetration was recently pegged at 103%), the US is lagging pretty far behind. Still, for the behind-the-times US wireless market, hitting 84% market penetration by year-end and 100% penetration by 2013 is quite a…
Picture: Nokia 6263, the first S40 phone with GPS and support for WCDMA 1700 MHz
What a beautiful backside. Nokia Port has the scoop on this baby, 320 x 240 resolution screen with 16 million colors, WCDMA 1700 MHz and GSM on only 850/1900 MHz for some strange reason. What is impressive however is GPS, a first for Series 40. Bring multitasking support to this feature phone platform and I’ll…
Chinese F8 is one stylish WQVGA screen equipped phone
And yet again, we have a Chinese phone with a wide QVGA screen. However, unlike the previous such devices we’ve seen, the F8 looks amazing! Beside the 2.6″ WQVGA 260K color touchscreen with a 500:1 contrast ratio, the whitey handset also packs a 1.3 MP camera, video accelerator chip and even the TV Out. While…
BerryBUDDY BlackBerry Pearl desktop cradle
We (gadget freaks) love our handsets, hence we want to place them in a safe and secure environment. That being said, nothing suits your working table like a good lookin’ cradle, which not only makes your device visible while you’re on a computer — so you can check the incoming messages and PIM stuff —…