Well, it doesn’t natively support video conferencing of any sort (let alone video recording), but hackers at Mac Daddy World have come up with a neat little hack to hold a video conference between two iPhones. With the help of a handy mirror-gizmo,this custom hack “captures video from the iPhone’s camera, compresses it, and sends…
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Qualcomm’s head legal counsel jumps ship
Qualcomm’s ongoing legal battles are starting to take a toll on the company. The most recent serious setback came in the form of President Bush’s refusal to step in and override the US ITC ban of 3G handset imports containing Qualcomm’s 3G chipsets. Combined with last week’s decision from a US judge to award litigation…
Nokia to release 7 mobile phones for emerging markets next month
Three months ago Nokia announced 7 products that were supposed to come out in Q2 of this year for the emerging markets. That never happened, but it looks like September is the new launch date according to an interview with Antti Kujala over at Business Week. It’s an interesting article that touches on how Nokia…
Sanyo’s mobile phone division might be for sale; no profit for the past 3 years
Burning money can be fun. If anything it shows people how wealthy you are. Keeping a company alive that hasn’t made any cash in 3 years however is down right foolish. Sanyo’s mobile phones division is struggling to stay afloat and with estimates to sell 11 million phones in the current fiscal year, down from…
LG SH150 is a 15.6 mm thin 7.2 Mbps HSDPA slider
Too bad it looks like every other slider on the market. This roughly $550 device weighs 110 grams has a 2 megapixel camera, 320 x 240 resoultion screen with 262k colors, DMB support for you day time soap opera addicts and a second camera for video calling. Only in Korea, the magic land of mobile…
Japanese man fabricates his own Apple iPhone dummy from scratch!
What do you do if you’re in Japan and you just have to have the new hotness that is the iPhone? Well, if you’re this Japanese guy, you make your very own iPhone dummy shell from scratch. And we thought we were iPhone fans. Apparently, this guy designed and fabricated his very own iPhone, complete…
Palm: Treo 700p/w/wx software update makes your data connection bug out – our bad
You know that little software update that Palm released for its Treo 700p, Treo 700w, and Treo 700wx? Well, Verizon customers definitely do. They’ve been experiencing buggy data connections after updating their precious Treo 700s with the presumably benign patch. In response, Palm has pulled the update from their website, citing users’ complaints that the…
Part 2 of Nokia’s N81 viral site hints at a socially driven music store
If you’re just tuning in, Nokia will be announcing the N81 on August 29th at the infamous Ministry of Sound dance club in the UK. OPK will be there himself to launch the phone and a music store attached to it. More information on the viral site is here and pictures of the N81 are…
Mobile phone controlled laser can take out security cameras – lasers blind cameras on demand
Security cameras are such a bother. Having Big Brother always watching your every move can get a little old. If you really want some privacy, you might consider this cool (if, likely illegal) use of a mobile phone and laser to put the blinders on those “all-seeing eyes.” Simply mount the laser on your window,…
Mobile-Review is down due to rabid Apple zealots
Mobile-Review is probably hands down one of my favorite websites for cellphone news and reviews. While some people may think several thousand words pieces are too long and that their English translations are a little bit crude, all I see is a group of Russian individuals who truly love mobile phones more than most of…