Phones
Window Phone
By Kristjan at 29 August, 2009, 12:08 pm
Perhaps in the future our mobile phones will look like this? Seunghan Song has made a concept art for Window Phone which changes it’s display according to the local weather. It’ll be clear on a sunny day, create virtual drops on a rainy day, get blurry on a foggy day and so on…
Read More >>Nokia Booklet 3G, Nokia’s Own Netbook
By Kristjan at 28 August, 2009, 11:43 pm
There are dozens of netbooks in the market, everybody wants their piece of cake, including Nokia. It’s called Nokia Booklet 3G and it’s said to have some remarkable features.
12 hours of battery life
Integrated 3,5G modem
HD monitor (10″) and a HDMI output
Integrated GPS
I’ve also recieved some information on the pricetag, which is probably going to be [...]
Read More >>Nokia To Sell Phones With Skype Software
By stormy at 18 February, 2009, 8:53 am
Skype and Nokia announced a partnership yesterday in Barcelona.
Some of Nokia’s higher end models, starting with their flagship, N97, will start shipping with an integrated Skype installation from the third quarter of this year.
Skype will be part of the address book on N97, displaying which contacts are online and providing instant-messaging with them.
Read More >>Bill Gates Donates $13.5 Million To Get The Third World Mobile Banking
By stormy at 17 February, 2009, 8:43 pm
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the GSMA have teamed up to help people in developing countries to carry out mobile banking from their non-smartphones.
The foundation has already donated $12.5 million with a goal to supply 20 milli0n unbanked people with mobile financial services by 2012.
The danger of being unbanked is that your home could get robbed anytime and all your family’s life savings lost forever.
Read More >>Nokia Unveils Ovi Store, Hopes To Repeat The Success Of Apple’s App Store
By stormy at 16 February, 2009, 9:37 pm
In a statement at the Mobile Word Congress in Barcelona, Nokia has unveiled its plan to create its own mobile application storefront, dubbed “Ovi Store”.
As it turns out, Nokia has set some very high excpectations for the project. They’re hoping to repeat the huge success of Apple’s App Store and reach over 300 million users by 2012.
Read More >>Leaked Images Show A Next Generation iPhone’s Back?
By stormy at 15 February, 2009, 5:18 pm
There are a few images circulating that appear to show the back of a future generation iPhone.
Instead of the smooth, glossy back of today’s iPhone, the one in the image appears to be an attractive black matte, possibly improving grip and even further minimizing scratches.
Read More >>MIT Students Develop Wearable Computer
By stormy at 10 February, 2009, 6:25 pm
Students of the MIT have invented something that we can surely take as a glimpse of the future of computing - a wearable computer that uses any nearby surface as an interactive display.
The device consists of a mobile phone, a webcam, a projector with an attached mirror and colored finger caps. All together, it costs less than $350.
Read More >>Google Hides Easter Egg Into Its iPhone App!
By stormy at 3 January, 2009, 9:21 pm
The Google Mobile App has a few hidden menus that allow you to access a couple of extra features, not very useful but still quite entertaining.
It was probably discovered by an iPhone user that had nothing better to do than go to the “About” pages of various applications and continuously swipe the screen, waiting for something to happen…
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