It’s also official that Singapore’s Creative is back with a vengeance. Let me just say this on the get-go. As a manufacturer, Creative is wiser than Meizu, waiting until it has a product ready for launch before leaking anything. The Creative Zii Egg is a definite iPod Touch competitor with goodies like WiFi, capacitive 10-point [...]

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An official LG spokesperson has posted professional pictures of the LG BL40 “New Chocolate” phone on his Twitter account. The pictures show a slim, monoblock phone that has a large, four-inch widescreen (21:9) high-def display (800 x 345). The images also reveal a 5 megapixel camera with flash. Not much else is known about the [...]

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Tesco Mobile, one of the many MVNOs operating in the UK market, has sparked a potential price war by announcing a ne wunlimited tariff. The new tariff will be a SIM only deal and will offer unlimited calls, unlimited texts and unlimited data for £30 per month. The only stipulation is that users are restricted [...]

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A teen horror film called, TEXT tells the story of high-school senior Sarah Madison as she frantically searches for answers, after the inexplicable deaths of her best friends; each killed shortly after receiving a mysterious text message on their cell phone.
TEXT premiers at the Action on Film Festival, July 29 and is nominated for Best [...]

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Several Democratic senators are proposing new legislation that would require states to ban drivers from sending text messages and emails while operating moving vehicles. If states don’t comply with the federal mandate, they face losing up to 25% of their federal highway funds. If the legislation is passed, the transportation secretary would have six months [...]

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T-Mobile USA just announced yesterday that they will be making the HTC Touch Pro 2 availalbe from August 12th onwards. This handset is more than ready to take over where the HTC Touch Pro left off, and the US release comes quite late long after the handset was made available to folks living across the [...]

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Google Voice won’t be making an appearance on iPhones any time soon after Apple rejected it from the App Store. The reasoning behind the decision was that it duplicated existing functionality i.e. making calls, etc. It’s certainly a blow for iPhone users given that Android and Blackberry users can both use Google Voice. It also [...]

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On Samsung’s web site, the R560 Vice, which is for sale in Canada, appears with MetroPCS branding on it. The name “Messager” appears below the phone pictured on the Samsung site. It resembles the Samsung R450 Messager, which was sold by MetroPCS. The phone seen on the Samsung site is a sideways slider that has [...]

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Mimoco just keeps the coolest looking Flash Drives coming with the release of Bossy Bear X Mimobot, just in time for the San Diego Comic-Con. Derived from a collaboration with David Horvath the artist and co-creator of the Ugly Doll, comes Bossy Bear X. Just like the rest of the Mimobots, Bossy Bear also comes [...]

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Verizon looks set to offer a new Android handset from Motorola sometime in Q4 later this year, but it remains to be seen whether it will be the Motorola Calgary or not as seen in the image above. Word on the street has it that the Android-powered phone will come with a full QWERTY keyboard, [...]

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One more note about that Android-powered HTC Click that we saw in a gloriously-framed shot yesterday morning: it’s going to be cheap. It had been said all along that the Click would mark HTC’s first Android entry into the low-end fray (joining the Touch Viva on WinMo), meaning the sticker price would be kept to [...]

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Chinese clone makers have found it easy the first few Xenium model phones from Philips. Even a clone purportedly of the non-existent N98 was really a Xenium clone. The Xenium X830 is a well-featured touchscreen phone with WiFi and  5 MP camera. It will also come with an 8 GB storage built-in to be interesting [...]

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Today T-Mobile and Samsung announced the addition of two new handsets in T-Mobile’s line up. The Samsung Comeback and Gravity share a number of features. They both have quad-band GSM/EDGE 1700MHz UMTS/HSDPA 3G, GPS, stereo Bluetooth, 2 megapixel camera with video capture and support for microSD cards up to 16GB. Both have dedicated messaging keys.

Comeback: [...]

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The Toshiba TG01 smartphone, notable for its use of a high-powered 1GHz Snapdragon CPU from Qualcomm, has appeared on the FCC website. Unlike the usual FCC listings, the TG01 tested in this case is a production-ready device with support for CDMA networks and not a prototype, indicating it will very soon launch at either Sprint [...]

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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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