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Mobile Phone

LG Arena Maxx LG-LU9400: 1GHz Snapdragon Mobile Phone

March 2, 2010

LG’s Arena Maxx LG-LU9400 mobile phone is the first to incorporate a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU in South Korea. The S-Class UI driven LG-LU9400 will be available on both KT and SK Telecom networks. Other specs include: 3.5-inch 800×480 touch TFT LCD, 5MP autofocus camera, WiFi, EV-DO, microSD (max. 32GB), DMB, GPS, and supports HD video [...]

China: 40 Million 3G Mobile Phones in 2010

February 24, 2010

Topology Research Institute, a Taiwan-based market research firm, expects 3G mobile phones to top 40 million units in China for 2010. China’s 3G technology is called TD-SCDMA and the total number of 3G service subscribers will balloon to 71 million by the end of 2010. No doubt China will soon become the largest market for [...]

TAT Dual-Screen Phone Concept

February 16, 2010

Yuck. Use a single screen and via software split it in half. Source: Engadget

Sagem Orga: SIMFi, SIM with WiFi

February 12, 2010

Sagem Orga and Telefonica developed SIMFi, a SIM card that takes cellular signals and pumps it out as WiFi. What this means is that your GSM mobile phone can be used as a mobile WiFi hotspot where you can connect authenticated notebooks and other portable gadgets. This is a fantastic idea and would make MiFi [...]

Cell Phone: Health Hazard?

February 5, 2010

Christopher Ketcham in Warning: Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous to Your Health writes about damning evidence suggesting your cell phone may cause brain damage:
Though the scientific debate is heated and far from resolved, there are multiple reports, mostly out of Europe’s premier research institutions, of cell-phone and PDA use being linked to “brain aging,” [...]

Concept: Coke Powered Phone

January 12, 2010

Chinese designer Daizi Zheng has designed a concept phone that is powered by Coke. Well, sugar to be exact. Screw off the top and pour Coke into cylindrical Nokia and expect the phone to last longer than a traditional Lithium Ion batteries by a factor of three to four. Daizi Zheng:
The concept is using bio [...]

Unbreakable Sonim Breaks

January 11, 2010

Reporter Dan Simmons from the BBC’s technology show Click managed to break a Sonim phone, which was touted by the company’s CEO moments ago as “basically unbreakable” and if you do manage to break it you get a free phone. Dan, from what I can tell, was certainly not expecting it to break. Watch the [...]

iPhone Most Popular Phone in US

December 22, 2009

According to Nielsen, the iPhone captured 4.0% of all mobile phone subscribers in the US making it the most popular handset model in 2009. At #2 was RIM’s BlackBerry 8300 that took 3.7%. Number three was Motorola’s RAZR V3 series with 2.3% share. Source: AppleInsider

Nokia Closes Flagship Stores

December 9, 2009

The Regent Street flagship store in the UK is closing. And so are the Nokia flagship stores in New York and Chicago. The reason? Consumer awareness of the Nokia brand has grown substantially. Here’s the quote from the official announcement:
Since opening the stores in NY and Chicago (2006), consumer awareness in the U.S. has grown [...]

Nissan Scratch Shield

November 28, 2009

Nissan’s anti-scratch paint technology, Scratch Shield, protects automotive paint by using a highly flexible resin used as a clearcoat that heals 80% of surface scratches, taking as long as a week or just overnight. Now, Nissan has agreed to license the technology to NTT’s DoCoMo for “mobile phone applications”. I’m guessing future mobile phones from [...]


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