A new phone from PCD (formerly UTStarcom) was seen this week at the CTIA trade show. The TXT8030 is a bar-style phone that is unique in that it twists in the middle. On one side of the bottom is an angled, full QWERTY keyboard for messaging, and on the other side is speakers and music [...]

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The mobile phone market can boast of a pretty good number of handsets applying car theme: remember the Hammer by Fly, Ferrari and Porsche phones. This time we have another interesting handset, in addition to car design it kept the form.
The device is packed in the popular Audi TT coupe form. It looks like a [...]

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Here’s a pretty interesting Korean prototype for an ultra-mobile PC.
One thing that makes the Wibrain B1 UMPC quite unique is how the QWERTY keyboard has been divided into two parts, one on each side of the 4.8 inches large touchscreen.
The screen has a 1024 x 600 pixel resolution and the device is equipped with Bluetooth [...]

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Microsoft has chosen Latin act Wisin & Yandel to grace the case of a limited edition Zune, but it’s not by any means the first, as Reuters is reporting. Joining the Adult Swim, Halo 3, and various Pink limited edition Zunes, the Wisin & Yandel Zune will target the Latin market, hopping on the backs [...]

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We used to see many watch phones but W-100 from Hyundai looks pretty nice… The W-100 is, as you can see, a phone that you can “wear” and which does not only feature a 1.3Mpix camera, but ALSO a touch screen, and Bluetooth! The [...]

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In time for the sparkling Holiday shopping season Motorola announces a luxury edition of the RAZR2 mobile phone.
The luxury RAZR2 features elegant 18K gold-plated accents showcasing a luminous, black slate, vacuum metal finish. A soft-touch back, embossed with a sensual snake skin texture rounds out the ultra-slim design at 12.05 mm.
The finishing touches are details [...]

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The PhoneDaily guys found yet another wonder: the IMOBILE Flying C1000.
The C1000 is a GSM telephone, a Digital Audio Player and more…it features a touchscreen, 60MB of built in memory, an audio/video player (MP4/MP3), BlueTooth and … it’s pretty nice looking!
If you want to look like the king of the Geeks, you know what you [...]

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Australian SMS Technology stopped selling the M500 wristwatch mobile phone directly. They have now signed distribution deals for the U.S. and Europe.

The U.S. distributor is Brightpoint, which is selling wireless products to carriers and other businesses.
The European reseller for the unique GSM watch is Dangaard Telecom, which funny enough was just acquired by Brightpoint.
The question [...]

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Here’s a snazzy-looking “cell watch” that’ll beat the pants off the Apple iPhone. Digitalrise doesn’t have the marketing muscle of Apple but that doesn’t mean it can’t make cool products like this SD88 cell watch and camera. It’s also equipped with an FM tuner, MP3 player and video-playing functionality besides GPRS, SMS, MMS and WAP [...]

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Mobile Phones have increasingly taken on the appearance of Transformers over the years, with all manner of origami-like form factors performing all kinds of gymnastics in an effort to squeeze as much functionality into the device and still be usable.
Now Motorola (or at least a Motorola fan-boy anyway) have taken this to its logical conclusion [...]

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CTIA 2007 — One of the more interesting new devices at CTIA is the Samsung UbiCell base station. A small white box that looks like a WiFi access point, the UbiCell is actually mini cell tower designed for CDMA 1x networks. The device connects to a mobile network through a broadband connection and is [...]

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New York City will become the first city in the country to upgrade its 911 and 311 call centers to handle picture messaging. Landline callers will also be able to transmit images to operators via the web.
“Imagine someone caught in a hostage situation transmitting pictures or video,” he added. “It’s just an incredible amount of [...]

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The Nokia 6086 is a new UMA capable handset announced at Nokia’s annual Capital Market Days event. Unlicensed Mobile Access, UMA, is technology that routes voice calls over WiFi (WLAN) when possible to save on airtime fees. T-Mobile USA is currently testing the technology under the brand name T-Mobile @Home.
The Nokia 6086 features include:

Quad-band [...]

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Sprint Nextel has launched its first dual mode (CDMA and iDEN) handset, the Motorola ic502. We first heard of this handset when it was approved by the FCC this summer. Ever since Sprint’s take over of Nextel the combined company has promised launching handsets that could span both networks as part of a master plan [...]

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Bang & Olufsen has finally announced a ship date for its Samsung-built fashion phone dubbed Serene. Photos of the device were released over a year ago. The original target ship date was Q4 2005, but Bang & Olufsen has now confirmed that Serene will begin shipping next month.
Despite the year delay features of the [...]

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