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Nokia working with stretchable skin smartphone concept

, Oct 4th 2010 Discuss [0]

Nokia has a video over on its Research Center website that shows a cool new stretchable skin material that it is using to research future electronics and phones. The stretchable material was developed by scientist Stephanie Lacour. Lacour developed a stretchable electronic skin in an effort to integrate electronics with the brain of patients who are paralyzed. Read The Full Story

Minima concept phone has a wicker style keypad

, Sep 23rd 2010 Discuss [0]

As much time as many of use spend on our mobile phones we want them to be easy to use and comfortable to hold. We also want all kinds of cool features. Some folks would put style over usability. Wood is a popular material on tech gadgets of late with lots of notebooks using wood in the design. Read The Full Story

Sweet dual screen concept phone flips and flops for different needs

, Aug 6th 2010 Discuss [0]

This sweet concept phone designed by Du Jun carries the Sony Ericsson brand. I am sure it officially has nothing to do with Sony Ericsson, if for no other reason that it's too cool for the brand. The concept phone looks normal enough when closed. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Week in Review – Week 24 2010

, Jun 20th 2010 Discuss [0]

Happy Father's Day to all the geeky dads out there from all of us here at SlashGear! Last week was a busy one with E3 going on and lots of new gaming gear unveiled. It wasn't all gaming gear though with the Toshiba GuideBook dual-screen tablet set to land in June. The little thing looks pretty cool. Read The Full Story

Sharp readies Gundam cell phone with robot cradle

, May 19th 2010 Discuss [1]

Those crazy cats over in Japan have an unnatural obsession with robots and animation. These two obsessions converge in Gundam, the wildly popular robot cartoon warrior that shows up in almost as many places as Hello Kitty. Read The Full Story

Nokia Own Voice for Ovi Maps lets you tell yourself where to go

, May 4th 2010 Discuss [0]

Hot on the heels of TomTom's new Star Wars voices for their PND range comes Nokia's alternative: the ability to record your own voice prompts for the Ovi Maps Navigation app available free for multiple Nokia handsets.  Fresh to the Ovi Store - as a free download, no less - Own Voice for Ovi Maps asks you to record 53 different speech prompts and then bundles them together into a custom voice pack. Read The Full Story

Dry-All Wet Cell Phone Emergency Kit might save your phone

, Apr 26th 2010 Discuss [2]

I've never had a problem with getting my mobile phone or other gadgets wet. I have spilled a Dr. Pepper on my keyboard before and had to dry the thing out and my son once spilled a whole can of root beer on a GPS device I was testing. Read The Full Story

Nokia smartphone sales up, but Symbian^3 delayed; MeeGo device due this year

, Apr 22nd 2010 Discuss [0]

Nokia have announced their financial results for the last quarter, and the Finnish company reported a quarterly decline in both cellphone and smartphone sales though an increase in comparison to the same period a year ago.  Overall 107.8m handsets - 21.5m of which were smartphones - were sold in the three month period, up from 93.2-percent in Q1 2009, but down from 126.9-percent in Q4 2009.  Meanwhile, Nokia have confirmed that they will be delaying the release of Symbian^3 handsets until Q3 2010, with the first announcement expected sometime in the first half of this year. Read The Full Story

Prive gold and diamond encrusted phone is straight from the 80′s

, Apr 7th 2010 Discuss [0]

The are some industries where retro works very well. A god example is the auto industry where cars like the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro remind us of the 60's muscle cars they started out as. In some industries retro just doesn't work, like the gadget industry. Read The Full Story

Samsung Bada mobile devices surface for mid-range market

, Apr 5th 2010 Discuss [0]

Samsung has already been talking up its Bada OS for a while now. The Bada SDK turned up back in November 2009. Devices running the OS are on the market and a few details of some coming Bada handsets tipped up at a Russian meeting. Read The Full Story

Verizon Wireless unveils Charge Anywhere for mobile phones

, Mar 25th 2010 Discuss [0]

In some countries, the ability to pay for things using a mobile phone has been around for a long time. Here in the US paying for real world goods with your mobile is still not something that we can do. Verizon Wireless has announced a new service called Charge Anywhere that will change that. Read The Full Story

Kempler & Strauss announces limited edition gold W PhoneWatch

, Mar 23rd 2010 Discuss [1]

We first caught wind of the Kempler & Strauss W PhoneWatch back in October. The firm behind the cool watch phone has announced a new and limited edition version of the device that will be gold at CTIA. Read The Full Story
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