Favorite mobile app developer visuamobile has come up with yet another wonderful app. Called Celibrity, it lets you be on the cover of a magazine.
Uploading your own picture to one of 20 magazine covers. You can even adjust the image by cropping or scaling to size.
Available in a lite or pay-for-version ($2.99).

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If you’re in the market for an iPod speaker with an FM radio, there is no sense in getting one with a regular old FM radio - you might as well get one with HD radio. The Gigaware HD Radio with iPod Dock 12-551 is one of the few iPod speaker systems that actually [...]

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Vodafone UK has seen a depressing set of Q1 2009 results with profits falling 45% compared with Q1 2008, that amounts to £255 million down from £431 million. The bad news extends to customers with 450,000 having been lost in Q1; the Q4 2008 figure stood at 19.1 million. In terms of revenue Vodafone saw [...]

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Today documents seen on the FCC web site provided details about an unannounced messaging phone from Alcatel. The OT-800A Tribe is a tri-band GSM/EDGE 850/1800/1900 device that has Bluetooth 2.0 with support for A2DP. The draft user manual notes features such as an accelerometer, 2 megapixel camera with video capture, microSD slot, radio, music player [...]

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Rounding out the AT&T leaks is this batch from Nokia. Two are actually interesting: The odd-in-a-good-way Mako side-slider, which is an S60 phone with full QWERTY and somewhat snoozy specs. And the Thresher, which is probably the shiniest slider Nokia’s ever pooped out.

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Some of you may remember the iPhone artwork that was doing the round son the tubes a few months ago, well the artist, Jorge Colombo, has had his artwork featured on the cover of the prestigious New Yorker magazine. The cover, depicting a New York cityscape was done entirely using Brushes, an app for the [...]

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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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This new eco-friendly LED lantern can be charged either by using the good old hand-crank technique or by the energy from the sun. The lamp is also equipped with a mobile charger.
Features:

Six high brightness LED lights with life more than 10,000 hours
3 LEDs / 6 LEDs mode
Efficient Polysilicon Solar Panel
Useful double charging methods: Solar and [...]

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Alternatively dubbed the G88i, the $120 Imobile phoneV588 unfortunately does not actually contain makeup and even more unfortunate, the mirror does not double as an LCD display. What you have instead is a compct mirror with a 2.6-inch display where the makeup should be. But, then again, you might be tempted by the inlaid diamonds [...]

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Outside Japan the iPhone is the leading 3G gaming mobile device, but in Japan, manufacturers like Panasonic fear no shame with potentially equal or better looking mobile phone games.
Today Panasonic organized a press conference to group in one event all handsets announced yesterday by both Softbank and DoCoM.

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Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said that there is a high likelihood that there will be shortages of the Palm Pre. He said, “We don’t intend to advertise [the Pre] heavily early on because we think we are going to have shortages for a while. We won’t be able to keep up with demand for the [...]

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Okay, so maybe it’s just a microSD-equipped smartphone’s best friend, but you get the idea. Unlike traditional [insert flash format here]-to-USB adapters, Elan’s Mobidapter provides a direct bridge from your microSD slot to your external USB hard drive. The result? Dead simple phone backups and file transfers, all without the use of a PC in [...]

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Nokia announced an updated version of the 6600, now called the 6600i slide, which upgrades the camera to 5 megapixels with autofocus and adds a dual LED flash. The 6600i has quad-band GSM/EDGE radios, as well as support for 850/2100 3G bands. It has an accelerometer for tap controls, support for 16GB microSD cards, Bluetooth [...]

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Apple iPhone Apps, a site with no known track record (which is also down right now) just leaked a July 17 release date and a bunch of specs for the next iPhone. They look fishy.
The July 17 release could technically be possible, since it’s on a Friday and Apple’s been releasing their iPhones on Fridays, [...]

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Orange UK have revealed that dongle subscriptions ahve risen 504% over the last year, a phenomenal statstic, which ties in with recent figures showing that data accounts for 25% of Orange’s revenue. Leading the upsurge in data usage music and video saw an all time high on the Orange network between December last year and [...]

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