Try explaining what kind of cellphone you have to your friends. “What kind of phone you got, brotha?”, “Yo-yo”, “Um, yeah, hey, what kind of phone do you got?”, “Yo-yo”, “OK, just forget it.” Could cause some minor difficulties. But hell, this phone concept looks cool enough to put up with the loss of friends that might result. The Yo-Yo ...
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Via Mobile ITX Motherboard will power x86 smartphones: Lots of power in fun size
Via presented its itty bitty ITX motherboard over at Computex, and as you can see, even compared to the already miniature RAZR phone, the board is like the dwarf of phone hardware. The new motherboard from Via is planned to be integrated into x86 smartphones, so we could be seeing some much smaller cells pretty soon. This 3 x 1.8 ...
Read More »Hummer HT1 Phone is (luckily) not Hummer sized, but already past its prime
Porsche just announced their cellphone, and we guess Hummer felt left out? In totally gaudy move, Hummer has decided that the world was lacking a phone with a camouflage theme. The GSM slider doesn’t really come with special features either, other than a Hummer logo if you consider that cool. The Hummer phone rocks a 2.2 inch touchscreen supporting 262k ...
Read More »Microsoft JP fanned out unannounced iPhone-ish Sharp WM6 device
When you develop a product with a large group of companies, sometimes it is hard to keep everybody’s mouth shut. During the WM6 Japanese Edition press conference this morning, Microsoft was a bit too excited with what they’ve been working on with Sharp and Willcom. So here it goes, up on the screen for the gasping fans, people who have ...
Read More »Porsche P’9521 cellphone is a beauty
Porsche presents their new concept phone, the P’9521 design concept clamshell design phone. The P’9521 has a sleek, squared off design that seems pretty attractive with all of the rounded edge concepts being produced recently. The black and white color is pretty minimalist, as it doesn’t look like a typical shiny and metallic phone, but it seems to have its ...
Read More »Junkfood maker prints QR code on prawn crackers
Alphabet soup is so 20th century that a Japanese junkfood company, Shimahide, has decided to print QR code on their famous prawn crackers (ebi senbei). What it does is that it allows different companies to print their content on each and every single piece of delicacies in the pack, for example a special URL for a marketing campaign. If the ...
Read More »The iPhone’s mystery app revealed through sloppy editing
You’d figure that one of the most coveted gadgets to date would have a better video editing team for their ads. Though, with an apparent editing slip-up, Apple might have revealed something they didn’t want to reveal. You’ll see in the top photo that there are clearly 11 apps showings on the iPhone’s main screen. If you look after the ...
Read More »Add a camera lens to your Nokia 6280
It’s true that camera phones are improving all the time, but the optics installed in them are still as crappy as ever. You might not want to go to the extreme that this guy did, but you can definitly sit and admire. Using the power of the mod, this Nokia 6280 has an added 36x optical zoom lens added on ...
Read More »iPhone gets a date, new ad campaign
Aww, the iPhone has its first official date! How adorable. We’re sure that on June 29th the iPhone will be nice and spiffy, dressed up for its big unleashing. The announcement comes in the form of three new ads released by Apple yesterday evening. The ads are titled “Never been an iPod”, “How To”, and “Calamari”. All three of them ...
Read More »The iPhone’s hidden features: Did Jobs tell us everything?
Sources from an Apple affiliate are reporting that Steve Jobs might of kept some secrets up his sleeve during his keynote speech at MacWorld for the big release of the iPhone, including features never mentioned and improved hardware. These rumored secrets include: – More memory than 4GB and 8GB – User Replaceable Battery – Wireless N Support – Software – ...
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