Researchers have developed an add-on to a mobile phone that can take detailed images and analyse them to diagnose diseases such as tuberculosis., reports the BBC.
“The CellScope works as a so-called fluorescence microscope that can identify the markers of disease.It is hoped the device will be useful in the developing world, where such medical diagnostics [...]

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Tens of thousands of mobile users in Bangladesh’s flood and cyclone-prone areas will now receive advance warning of an impending natural disaster through an alert on their cell phones, reports Reuters.
“… Bangladesh, with a population of around 162 million, has more than 46 million mobile phone subscribers.Syed Ashraf, communications specialist for the country’s Disaster Management [...]

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Designer Zhenwei You has come up with this conceptual cellphone known as B-Touch that aims to help the blind communicate more effectively in a mobile manner with family and friends. It will feature a touchscreen display that caters for Braille, thanks to blind touchscreen technology and a combination of voice systems as well as programs [...]

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Sony Ericsson are gearing up for another round of product announcements on 4th June. Hot on the heels of last week’s unveilingof Yari, Aino and Satio Sony Ericsson look set to show off handsets that incorporate environmentally friendly technologies. You may remember Sony Ericsson’s GreenHeart prototype handset from last year (pictured below); it was an [...]

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New applications will blend real and virtual worlds on cellphones. New Scientist reports.
“… Instead of completely immersing a person in a virtual environment, augmented or mixed reality involves adding digital features to the world they see around them. So what are the advantages of augmenting your reality? Simply, the technology allows you to point a [...]

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HD video at a decent frame rate isn’t something that many handset can claim to offer, but things could change on that front in the near future. A new chip, the Renesas SH7370 will offer 1080p video playback at 30 fps at a size that is suitable for inclusion in a mobile phone. Manufacturers are [...]

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Today Nokia announced the 6216 Classic, a bar-style phone that has Near Field Communications technology built directly into the SIM card rather than in a separate module. By including the NFC technology on the SIM card, it allows network operators to custom tailor services to the NFC capabilities of the handset. The 6216 Classic also [...]

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Opera has launched what they call Fingertouch technology, for touchscreen equipped devices. The fingertouch technology aims to make browsing websites easier and simpler for touchscreen-equipped mobile phones.

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The Inquirer reports on Swiss company Rinspeed’s latest concept car to be shown at the Geneva Motor Show in March, controlled by an iPhone.
“The concept car has adaptive space, meaning the car’s cockpit is capable of reconfiguring itself depending on how many people are travelling. The one-man car becomes a three seater at the touch [...]

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Digicel announced the launch of a new solar-powered handset at MWC 2009 this week called the Coral-200-Solar. The handset has solar panels on the rear of the phone. The company has been providing free and low cost solar chargers with phones it sells for a while but this is the first handset to integrate solar [...]

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Samsung announced the Blue Earth, an environmentally-minded phone made from recycled materials that can use solar power to charge the battery. The solar cells are built into the back of the phone. The Blue Earth, which was designed to resemble a pebble, has a touch screen and custom-made user interface for input. It can go [...]

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A new login security program called PINoptic replaces the basic login procedure using a plain keypad with a login screen that offers numbers and images. The phone owner sets up a password using the images and at each login the images are randomly associated with different numbers.
For a hacker to get your password from looking [...]

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Sony Ericsson have filed a new patent, named as “CAMERA DICTIONARY BASED ON OBJECT RECOGNITION.” Essentially, what would happen is that you would point your image dictionary-equipped cameraphone, at an object, known as a “target object”.

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A student at Canada’s Carleton University has discovered a new way to drastically improve battery life on mobile phones by changing the way the antenna is connected to the device. The method eliminates all the wires used to connect the electronic circuit board of the phone with the antenna. Rather than wires, the antenna communicates [...]

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An AT&T spokesperson recently commented that the company has been trialling 7.2Mbps downloads in Chicago, and will boost those speeds to 14.4Mbps in the near future. According to AT&T, it plans to upgrade its existing HSPA network to HSPA+ before transitioning to LTE. Some of AT&T’s competitors, such as Verizon Wireless, have indicated that they [...]

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