Well, we can’t go into exactly how to design a great phone, but hipstop over at Core77 found this great 5-minute documentary on the design of cell phones. The video features an interview with an industrial engineer, mechanical engineer, and “human factors” (whatever that means) expert from Motorola.
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Divx Officially Gives Samsung F500 Certified Status
In another “world’s first” claim from the Korean electronics manufacturer, Samsung’s F500 phone, dubbed the “Ultra Video,” is being touted as the “world’s first” Divx phone. That’s great and all, but the claim just doesn’t have the same bite without a certified backing from Divx themselves – you can already play Divx movies on a…
Prevalent Phraze-It – Effortless On-Screen Typing For Pocket PC’s
Bulk adding keyboards on smartphones are a thing of the past! Well, at least if Prevalent’s Phraze-It Keyboard 2.0 works as well as they claim. Prevalent’s mission to save your fingers from “repetitive thumb stress from their thumb boards with tiny keys” is spearheaded by the “2.0” version of their Phraze-It on-screen keyboard. With only…
Cornbread, Corn-oil, Corn-gasoline, Now Corn Phone
Corn really does have a lot of different uses. We can use it for food, cooking, and even gas for our cars (E-85 ethanol). Now, thanks to the R&D team at NEC, we can use corn to make plastics. We’ve seen this eco-friendly technology used to make disposable tableware, but now we can benefit from…
Video: PalmSolo shows off his Nokia N95
Thanks for demoing Gmail in landscape mode Matt. The "out of memory" errors were a nice surprise:
Palm Goes Linux For With Next Operating System
With the Windows Mobile and Symbian war going strong, Palm has decided to explore a less travelled path. Palm CEO Ed Colligan announced today that his company will be releasing a new OS by year’s end. The new OS will be based on the Linux kernel and will be merged with Palm’s current Garnet OS…
T-mobile Wing Flying In To Replace MDA?
T-mobile may be replacing the MDA with another new Windows Mobile smartphone featuring that familiar sliding qwerty keyboard. The T-mobile Wing could take the place of the older and bulkier MDA with some stylish Windows Mobile 6.0 action. The T-mobile Wing rocks that super-slick spring-loaded sliding-keyboard (had enoug hyphens yet?) that brought the HTC P4350…
Mobio Opens Public Beta Program With Mobile Lifestyle Applications
Mobio, the company that wants to redefine the way we use the web on our mobile phones, opens up its beta program today. With 50 mobile applications grouped into 8 “lifestyle” collections, Mobio’s got the mobile web covered. Instead of bringing the entire web, in it’s full page browsing glory, to your mobile phone, Mobio…
Toss Out Your Cell Phone’s Battery! – Nanowires Capture Vibration Energy For Power
Georgia Institute of Technology researcher Zhong Lin Wang has applied his remarkable research breakthrough – flexing zinc oxide nanowires produces current – to building a nanogenerator for ” a portable, adaptable and cost-effective technology for powering small electronic devices.” He has built an array of nanowires that can produce nanoamperes of power through flexing induced…
Dusan: Save your kidneys and get a Symbian smartphone!
Hmm, Will has pointed out some cool things. Well, sort of… Yes, we all love freebies. There are a number of Symbian free apps, you can check from here. But Ultimate thing is… nice… (again) sort of… Certainly not worth a kidney!