October 14th 2008
Women are confusing. They mean things they don’t say, say things they don’t mean and there is a hidden meaning to everything. We have all heard the stories about what her body language really…
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Tags: Body Language, Cellphones, Text Messages
October 13th 2008
Today marks the 25th Anniversary of the first commercial cellphone call in history. On October 13th 1983, Ameritech executive Bob Barnett called the grandson of Alexander Graham Bell using the now…
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Tags: 25th Anniversary, Alexander, Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham Bell, Ameritech, Bob Barnett, Cellphone, Cellphones, Timeline
October 9th 2008
The term “word’s first” gets thrown around a lot with gadget releases, but with kooky creative phone maker KDDI behind the project, I’m a lot less skeptical about the claim that they have developed…
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Tags: Cellphones, Creative, Gadget, Kddi, Mobile Phone Screen, Quot, Term Word
October 7th 2008
Sonim has gone to great lengths to convince European customers that its XP1 is the toughest phone on the market. They even went so far as to take the phone on tour and encourage spectators to try and…
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Tags: Cellphones, European Customers, Great Lengths, Sonim, Spectators, Xp1, Xp3
October 6th 2008
It looks as though the highly anticipated Nokia 5800 XpressMusic (aka ‘Tube’) will not make its way to the US in time for the Xmas season. Instead, Nokia seems to be content with focusing on emerging…
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Tags: Cellphones, Nokia, Nokia 5800, Nokia Phone, Release Date, Xmas Season
October 1st 2008
You know what’s annoying? When movies are all built upon some complicated premise that would be completely unhinged if a single character had a cellphone. I mean, come on, it’s 2008. Everyone has…
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Tags: Cellphone, Cellphones, Lot, Movies, Premise
October 1st 2008
Japan cellphone carrier KDDI has a knack for turning out handsets that belong in museums. Past hit designs like the INFOBAR, talby, neon and MEDIA SKIN made into the permanent collection at the MoMa…
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Tags: Carrier, Cellphone, Cellphones, Handsets, Infobar, Japan, Kddi, Knack, Moma, Museums, Neon, Space Age
September 27th 2008
Researchers at Purdue University are working on tech that will turn every cellphone into a roaming nuclear weapon sniffer and are lobbying Congress to legally require cellphone users and carriers to…
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Tags: Cellphone Users, Cellphones, Congress, Nuclear Weapon, Purdue University, Sniffer
September 27th 2008
The UN’s International Telecommunications Union announced Friday that mobile phone subscriptions will reach 4 billion by the end of 2008, far more than half of the estimated 6.7 billion total world…
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Tags: Cellphones, International Telecommunications Union, Mobile Phone, Subscriptions
September 26th 2008
Reuters is claiming that the long, long-awaited Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Touchscreen ‘Tube’ will be launched in London on October 2nd, according to their sources. This confirms the rumor that we…
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Tags: Cellphones, Launch, London, Nokia, Nokia 5800, Oct 2nd, Reuters
September 26th 2008
This is Samsung’s promo video for the upcoming M8800 cellphone (aka Pixon) with 8-megapixel camera. In fact it looks very much like a compact camera from the rear, and its 3.2-inch screen bears the…
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Tags: Cellphones, Compact Camera, Pixon, Samsung, Samsung Cellphone, Samsung Video
September 25th 2008
California is joining seven other states and Washington DC by imposing a full-on ban of text messaging while driving. The bill signed by the Governator himself imposes a $20 fine for the first…
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Tags: Cellphones, Driving In California, Governator, Schwarzenegger, Text Messaging, Washington Dc
September 24th 2008
HappyWakeUp is a new cellphone alarm app developed for S60 (the other open platform) that only wakes you when it knows you’re in a light sleep cycle. How does it know? Well, Computerworld says…
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Tags: Cellphone, Cellphones, Computerworld, Microphone, Open Platform, Sleep
September 24th 2008
HappyWakeUp is a new cellphone alarm app developed for S60 (the other open platform) that only wakes you when it knows you’re in a light sleep cycle. How does it know? Well, Computerworld says…
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Tags: Cellphone, Cellphones, Computerworld, Microphone, Open Platform, Sleep
September 23rd 2008
Palm’s long-awaited update to its cellphone software will be finished by the end of the year, reports The Register, but handsets based on it won’t arrive until after the first half of 2009.
As most OS development projects do, Palm OS II has slipped a bit. Palm CEO Ed Colligan indicated in May 2007 that handhelds [...]
September 22nd 2008
Palm’s long-awaited update to its cellphone software will be finished by the end of the year, reports The Register, but handsets based on it won’t arrive until after the first half of 2009.
As most OS development projects do, Palm OS II has slipped a bit. Palm CEO Ed Colligan indicated in May 2007 that handhelds [...]
September 22nd 2008
Samsung’s original Armani phone was a tiny, touchscreen, haptic-feedback gizmo, and actually not bad looking at all: so I’m confused about the upcoming Armani 2 Night Effect. It’s a plain candybar…
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Tags: Armani, Candybar, Cellphones, Gizmo, Samsung, Samsung Cellphone, Samsung Phone, Touchscreen
September 19th 2008
Bad news, dudes and ladies who hope to someday be impregnated by said dudes! According to some researches from the Cleveland Clinic, cellphones wreck your sperms up, making them too stupid to knock…
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Tags: Bad Dudes, Bad News, Cellphones, Cleveland Clinic, Researches, Sperm, Sperms, Stupid News, Uh Oh
September 18th 2008
In case you’ve ever wanted to dabble in telepathy, NeuroSky Inc. has prototyped a new sensor that lets you control your cellphone with brainwaves. Based on similar medical technology, the system can…
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Tags: Brain, Brainwaves, Cellphone, Cellphones, Control, Medical Technology, New Sensor, Telephone Telepathy
September 18th 2008
I don’t know when cellphone manufacturers are going to realize that adding gimmicky cheap features to their cellphones won’t make them better, smarter, or more interesting. Example: accelerometers…
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Tags: Accelerometers, Cellphone Manufacturers, Cellphones, Control, Motion Control, Music, Samsung, Stupid