Mobile phone watches are a pretty cool idea. Who wouldn’t want to get all Dick Tracy on their wristwatches? Past cellphone watches have flopped on account of being too big with too few features – but, current mobile phone watch manufacturers seem to have gotten hang of it, they’re actually pretty slick. Apparently CECT didn’t…
Self-destruct button for your mobile phone – the irresistable cellphone charm
Don’t look down. Don’t lick the frozen flag pole. Don’t, under any circumstances, push that RED button. What is the very first thing you do when someone tells you not to do something? Well, you do it, of course. It’s okay, we do too. That’s why we love this little “Self-Destruct Button” cell phone charm.…
Amp’d Mobile assets snatched up by Prexar Mobile – offers Amp’d Mobile customers free text messages to switch
With Amp’d Mobile’s business circling the drain, and their wireless assets up on the chopping block, Prexar Mobile has made the move to acquire strategic assets from Amp’d. It seems the demise of the once-hopeful MVNO is a boost for Prexar Mobile. MocoNews is reporting that Amp’d Mobile customers are now getting SMS text messages…
SE-community puts together exhaustive database of all Sony Ericsson phones from T68i to present
Leave it to a group of enthusiastic Sony Ericsson fanatics to compile the most exhaustive database of SE phones to date. The excel file includes all the detailed specifications you could want to know about any phone from the T68i through the present. Download the database from SE-community. Or, you know, you could just hit…
New York: Hey Steve Jobs, make the iPhone more consumer friendly – we’re not liking that $80 battery replacement fee!
Well, someone had to officially say. Following on that retarded poor, misguided guy’s class-action lawsuit over the iPhone’s sealed battery, New York State’s Consumer Protection Board has officially put in their two-cents on the iPhone’s fleecing of America. The organization took issue with the additional costs associated with owning an iPhone, and sent Stevie a…
Apple prepping first iPhone software update for release
It’s been about a month and Apple is prepping the first release of iPhone updates. We’ve been looking for the first update to enable iChat features and possibly even MMS support, so imagine our excitement when we heard that the upcoming update might include new widgets, chat client, location-based services, MMS support, and maybe even…
Surgeons complete emergency appendix surgery by cellphone light
Remember that Ericsson commercial where soccer fans lit up a blacked-out stadium with their green cell phone backlights? Well, we do and this story just brought that memory back. Reuters is reporting that a July 21 blackout caused the lights to go out in Villa Mercedes in San Luis, Argentina. The town’s hospital was performing…
Samsung SGH-i570 Symbian smartphone pictures and details leaked!
Samsung sure does love them some sliders. It seems every other phone coming out of the South Korean manufacturer’s factories are in slider form-factor. The recently leaked pics and deets of the Samsung SGH-i570 show a slider-phone with a full QWERTY keyboard hidden under a svelte and sleek 96x90x16mm body. How does the handset manufacturing…
SouthWing launches SH440 Bluetooth Headset exclusively in AT&T Stores
It seems like just yesterday that we were contemplating the increasingly decreasing footprints of Bluetooth headsets. In the world of headsets, smaller is better – and size does count for a lot. Enter SouthWing’s SH400 Bluetooth Headset. This diminutive, 11g, in-ear headset leads the competition with features like voice-guided device pairing, audible caller ID, audible…
Microsoft Exchange email on your Apple iPhone with IceWEB’s IceMAIL
Synchronica is prepped to start free trial offers of their Mobile Gateway 3.0 solution for Microsoft Exchange on your iPhone. But, if you just can’t wait a couple more days to get your iPhone on the Enterprise tip, check out the hosted-Exchange service from Ice Web. The IceMAIL service is offered for free for the…