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Bracelet Phone design concept
Why fill up precious pocket space with a cell phone when you can just wear one on your wrist? The Bracelet Cellphone concept design by Tao Ma allows for that simple luxury. When receiving a call or message, the bracelet vibrates lightly. You answer by pressing one of the strategically placed diamonds. The big downfall? No screen display or typical number pad. We guess it also depends on whether you want to be seen talking into your bracelet as well.... Continue reading
Madrid’s no cellphone day
In response to rising cellphone charges, citizens in Madrid, Spain has gone on a no-cellphone campaign last week. It is really hard to imagine if you are from places where public phone booths are getting demolished to build new wireless towers. A lot of people in Madrid supported the campaign, but there were people spotted for using the phonebook off cellphones when dialing in a phonebooth. We simply can’t live without cellphones any more, which is something that we never... Continue reading
Pimp out ALL your cellphones in Taiwanese style
When we saw the BenQ-Siemens’ over-pimped EF-71 phone, we thought it was a joke. It wasn’t until Samsung announced collaboration with Swarovski then we realized there’s an actual market need. The Taiwanese just can’t seem to wait for those phones to come out, so they started Blinging up their own phones with fancy stickers, and they have to stick them -all-over- the phone. You can pretty much find them everywhere in Taiwan by now, the most expensive ones would be those made with Swarovski crystals. Jump... Continue reading
NEC Telecommunications to stop 2.5G phone development, close down largest overseas branch
Rumors have been going on that NEC would quit the overseas cellphone market, in fact, it has been a while since we last saw a new NEC 3G device. NEC might not be known to you, but the company has been the largest cellphone maker in Japan for years, with the highest domestic shipping volume. It was only until recently that Sharp has taken NEC’s place and become the number one in market. Anyway, according to the employees of NEC... Continue reading
First non-photoshopped unannounced SonyEricsson Walkman cellphone pictures
We’ve been hearing too much about what SonyEricsson has under its sleeves, rumor has been going on about the next announcement which could be as early as this week (if not up till CeBIT). This morning we spotted new non-photoshopped photos of an unannounced SonyEricsson Walkman-branded phone on a forum, so far no word on specification, but we are sure that the screen is QVGA and it takes up a large proportion of the width, which means that the specs... Continue reading
Citizen updates i:VIRT Bluetooth hands-free watch
 Citizen Japan today announced a face-lifted version of their i:VIRT Bluetooth handsfree watch. The difference between the i:VIRT and the SonyEricsson watch (MBW-100) accessible to most of us outside Japan would be that the i:VIRT supports call ID display (the name of the person not just the number), it will also flash and vibrate when there’s a new call coming in. What’s more is that it can actually warn you when the phone is being placed too far away (stolen?) or... Continue reading
World’s first cellphone supporting both DVB-T and DVB-H
Taiwanese cellphone company GIGABYTE has unveiled the world’s first cellphone that supports both DVB-T and DVB-H digital broadcasting standards. The t600 is also a smartphone that runs on Windows Mobile 6 Professional, the CPU is an Intel PXA270 520Mhz which is reasonably powerful. The t600 has 256MB ROM and 96MB RAM, external memory used here is microSD. In terms of connectivity, Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi WLAN 802.11b/g and USB2.0 are all supported. The antenna actually also works as a stylus, it... Continue reading
Speaker phone over FM radio
We’ve all seen Bluetooth headsets for cellphones, we’ve also seen in-car speaker phone, a lot of us may also own an iTrip, now imagine putting all 3 together; you’ll end up listening to your own voice over the FM radio. Princeton Japan has announced this new in-car hands-free that borrows your car’s HiFi system as speaker for speaker phone, it can also act as an iTrip to have the music in your music players transmitted via FM and be played... Continue reading
Spotted: Sharp HSDPA slider prototype for European market, plus more insider gossips
A lot of Sharp fans are worried because they have not heard any news from Sharp at 3GSM this year, no new models at all apart from minor facelifts. As told by our insider 2 months ago, it’s about time we expect something from the Japanese company. Itmedia spotted this HSDPA (3.6Mbps) slider prototype at the 3GSM Sharp booth, a model that is not even included in the official press release statement. So far specifications are really sketchy, we know... Continue reading
Motorola Q q9 expands Q platform
Motorola has just released their brand new Q q9. So what is it? It’s basically an upgraded/updated Q with a new design and Windows Mobile 6. So what does the Q q9 offer? One feature is the very nice screen. Whether you are indoors or out in the wilderness (escaping your computer chamber), you will be able to read what it says. In terms of actual hardware, the 256MB of onboard memory ensures that you won’t be stalling the OS... Continue reading
