If the culinary arts isn’t one of your forte in real life, then why not see how you fare virtually on the iPhone with Cooking Mama. That’s right folks, Taito has just released an iPhone version of their popular Nintendo DS game. The look is still quite the same, but the controls obviously are a [...]

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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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For the second time in as many months, a list compiled by AvianResearch reveals the BlackBerry Curve is the best-selling handset in retail stores, with Apple’s iPhone 3G again taking the runner-up spot. The sales numbers were collected for the month of December from the four major US wireless carriers, including AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and [...]

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Nokia said that it is taking more steps to reduce costs, including the new Voluntary Resignation Package. Nokia will offer the package starting March 1 until 1,000 workers accept it. Nokia is also encouraging the use of short unpaid leaves and sabbaticals. Nokia didn’t say how much it hopes to save.

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Samsung have announced their latest Dual-Sim handset, the C5212, which has been priced at a shade under $200, $194/€152, give or take. Going by this, the C5212 seems to be the company’s most affordable Dual-Sim-capable handset, to date.

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The 8MP camera phone Samsung Memoir starts to ship from T-Mobile today. Announced early February the Samsung Memoir from T-Mobile USA is now the highest resolution camera phone available in the US market.
The built-in 8-megapixel camera with Xenon flash, 16x digital zoom and five shooting modes rivals middle-class pocket cameras.
Other features of the Samsung Memoir [...]

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Samsung Korea just announced their new SPH-W7100, a new handset dedicated to kids and adults who want to feel safe wherever they go.
The SPH-W7100 is like many Japanese phones for kids, like the SCH-X850 introduced by Samsung in 2004.

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By the looks of things, Motorola have an imaging-savvy touchscreen handset in the pipeline, of the pictures below are to be believed. As you can see, the unknown device sports a large touchscreen, and a 5MP camera, with an Xenon flash, and Kodak branding, much like Motorola’s current flagship cameraphone, the ZN5. Also on offer [...]

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Today Verizon Wireless announced the CDM8975, which is available through Verizon’s business channels starting today. The 8975, made by Personal Communications Devices, is push-to-talk capable and has GPS, stereo Bluetooth, a 1.3 megapixel camera with video capture and stereo speakers. It supports microSD cards up to 8GB, and is compatible with a number of Verizon’s [...]

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A new mobile web site has gone live that appears to be a tool for users of Verizon’s FiOS Internet and TV services to remotely schedule their DVRs and access other services directly from their mobile phones. Verizon has not announced the site nor mentioned any specific launches, but it can be accessed by most [...]

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We’ve seen the LG GD910 before, and we also now know that Orange has picked it up for retail in Europe and renamed it the G910 phonewatch. The price, unfortunately, was not mentioned, but based on the latest news from the grapevine, buying it might cost you a hefty amount of money. The rumored price [...]

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Bill Gates’ charitable foundation has pledged $12.5m (£8.6m) to help the world’s poor access banking services. The BBC reports.
“Working in conjunction with the mobile phone industry, the foundation aims to help provide a basic service that local banks are unable or unwilling to give. It is thought that more than a billion people worldwide do [...]

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Today, Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA X1 smartphone, powered by Windows Mobile 6.1, has seen the release of four new panels for the handset’s panels inerface. The four panels, which will be available to purchase come the middle of next month, are:

CNN Panel: The CNN panel allows users to be kept updated with the latest happenings [...]

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Today Cricket announced that the Kyocera S1300 is now available in the recently launched Chicago metropolitan area. The S1300 is a slim, bar-style phone that has CDMA 1x data, speakerphone, messaging and mobile web capabilities. It is available for $90 at Chicago-area retailers, but will become available in Cricket markets nationwide soon.

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USBfever has launched two new products in its line of iPhone/iPod touch accessories, the Mini Microphone and a 3-in-1 Combo Charger Kit. The Mini Microphone is a small high-quality microphone that plugs into an iPhone 3G, iPod touch 2G, and Nano 4G. Designed as a small lightweight capsule, the microphone requires no batteries and is [...]

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