Mobile

It’s raining Samsung phones in Second Life

As if you are not sick of Samsung’s propaganda in real life yet, the company is opening an island on the online virtual space Second Life to promote their phones. And since Samsung was trying to tell us how thin those phones they developed with Softbank were, they got this phone-raining effect on. If you would like to use these ...

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Wii II: Portable Edition, if only concepts were true

This is just too damn cool to ever exist. This concept for the Wii II (assuming there will be one), offers a totally different take on console design, adding portability to the Wii. How is this done you might ask? Well for one, there is a built-in projector which doubles as the laser sensor for the Wiimote. All you would ...

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N95 trashed after a failed relationship and GPS attempt

This is perhaps the first trashed N95 we’ve seen. Some rich dude proudly claimed that he trashed his uber expensive Nokia N95 after breaking up with his girlfriend, other precipitating factors include: 1. the GPS failed to locate him 2. the GPRS got disconnected all the time 3. he’s too angry with Nokia for over-pricing the phone 4. he’s RICH, ...

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coo.boo: The spatula-shaped digital cookbook

We find so many great recipes for our woman to cook for us on the Internet, but there is no way to give them the recipe unless we want to print out the whole thing. What a waste of paper! The coo.boo is a spatula-shaped digital cookbook that automatically syncs through a wireless dock. The coo.boo is completely washable and ...

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Toshiba fans add HSDPA, DMB, 3.2MP camera, MS Office support to iPhone

We in Asia have to wait till 2007 for the iPhone to arrive, the recent report from FCC has shattered dreams of millions since the widgets were to be substituted by Cingular’s monopolistic services for the mean time, the sole support for 850 and 1900Mhz would make parallel import (or roaming) to most parts of the world impossible. The Japanese ...

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Nokia 5700 3G swivel music phone is for real

Two months ago we saw a design mock-up of a funny swivel phone from Nokia, the tension built up when a source showed us a leaked marketing picture. This was proven to be legit at the company’s announcement this morning, and as we were told, the funky device in the early pictures was indeed the Nokia 5700 XpressMusic phone. What ...

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Is it a HiFi? No it’s just a cellphone

You’ve got to give it to them, Chinese companies these days are just commercializing phones that we’ve all just dreamed of at some stage. We had the Nokia N73 clone — Nokir E828 that packed an even larger touch screen with a decent camera at an unbeatable price; we had a cigarette pack incorporated to a phone. Today we came ...

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Microsoft “Ringcam” Roundtable preparing for public trial

Uh oh, we all know how Microsoft loves to be in control of everything. And in VoIP and Internet telephony, Microsoft has lagged behind the likes of Skype. When it was rumored that Microsoft was working on a VoIP phone, it wasn’t a surprise, and seemed rather uneventful. Now that details are starting to appear of the Microsoft Roundtable phone, ...

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Parrot 3200 LS-COLOR PLUS car kit

The popular 3200 series from Parrot just got a new car kit added to its line-up. The Parrot LS-COLOR PLUS kit is a full-featured in-car sync for your gadgets. It can join hands with up to 5 different phones and can store up to 1,000 contacts. It can support 150 voice tags for true voice recognition control for easy and ...

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G-rated video of Motorola’s leaked “LAZR”

[ev type=”youtube” data=”Q4OC-sNpgXs”][/ev] Don’t know what’s the deal with the girl, but the phone is truly hot. Supposedly an updated RAZR (and KRZR) with extra large external screen, and a form factor thinner than KRZR. What’s more is that it supports reading out messages and emails in a computer voice. We don’t know how legit this is yet. More video ...

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