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Sony Ericsson XPERIA Pureness clear-screen cellphone gets video demo

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Sep 8th 2009 No Comments

Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA Pureness managed to split opinion last week, with some reckoning that the clear-display candybar was a triumph of design and new materials, while others dismissed it as a gimmick. No matter the camp, though, we’ll always welcome new images, and so SE-First’s hands-on gallery and video with the XPERIA Pureness is a must-see.

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Video demo after the cut

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Polymer Vision bought: new foldable ebook readers planned

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Sep 8th 2009 No Comments

Polymer Vision has reportedly been sold to an unnamed Asian company, who will restart the firms development of foldable e-ink displays. Having declared bankruptcy back in July, Polymer Vision – whose first device, the Readius, was to be a cellphone with a large fold-out e-ink display – will now retain around 80-percent of its staff after new contracts were signed this week.

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nio Bluetooth cellphone guardian [Video]

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Sep 8th 2009 No Comments

If you’ve ever watched a taxi drive off into the distance with your cellphone on the back seat, left your phone under a napkin at a restaurant or just found you’re halfway to work and your BlackBerry is still sat charging in the kitchen, then nio believe they have the solution. The UK firm are offering a Bluetooth keychain and some proprietary software that you install on your cellphone; that creates a roughly 25m link between the two, which if exceeded causes both keychain and phone to flash and sound an alarm.

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Video overview after the cut

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Nokia S40 Facebook app; new Facebook Connect for Mobile announced

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Sep 3rd 2009 No Comments

Nokia and Facebook have teamed up to offer a new S40 app that allows for status updates together with providing a homescreen widget. Intended to leverage Facebook’s huge mobile growth – more than 65m mobile users in August alone – the app joins the company’s existing offerings for S60 handsets such as the N97. Facebook also announced Facebook Connect for Mobile Web, a service which – as already on the iPhone – allows developers to include integration with the social networking platform with their mobile apps.

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Nokia Ovi SDK plus Navigation and Maps APIs launched

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Sep 3rd 2009 No Comments

Nokia have announced a new set of APIs for mapping and navigation, which developers can use to add location-based information – such as showing nearby search results – and display location-based data. The Ovi Navigation Player API and OVI Maps Player API are also joined by the new Ovi SDK, a platform which the company claims can be used by anyone with HTML, CSS and JavaScript coding skills.

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Nokia X3 hands-on [Video]

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Sep 2nd 2009 No Comments

It’s not all high-end touchscreen here at Nokia World; the company has also delivered an entry-level music phone, the Nokia X3. With an MRSP of €115 pre-subsidies, the X3 has a slide-out numeric keypad and dedicated hardware media controls flanking the screen.

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Video hands-on after the cut

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Nokia N97 Mini, plus X6 and X3 music phones announced

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Sep 2nd 2009 No Comments

Nokia have announced several new devices at Nokia World, including making the Nokia N97 Mini official – complete with preloaded Lonely Planet information – as well as debuting the Nokia X6, a touchscreen device, and the Nokia X3, a Series 40 music phone. The X6 has managed to fly beneath the radar in the run-up to Nokia World, offering a 3.2-inch touchscreen, 16:9 aspect display, direct access to Ovi Store and Facebook integration.

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Context is the killer app for the digital consumer

By Michael Gartenberg on Tuesday, Sep 1st 2009 No Comments

ocean2 7 slashgear 480x386 As recently as a five years ago, it was relatively easy to segment the mobile market into business users and consumers. Business users had specific needs, as did consumers, and rarely did those needs intersect. Today, the idea of segmenting users into the classes of business vs. consumer is becoming archaic and to attempt that level of breakdown will lead to erroneous views of the market.

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HSL 2.75G Femtocell to support multiple networks

By Chris Davies on Friday, Aug 28th 2009 No Comments

Femtocells aren’t exactly embedded into the public vocabulary yet, but the carriers are ramping up to make a pretty decent push for it. So far we’ve seen a handful of models from some of the bigger operator names, but now a Scottish firm, HSL, are promising a single femtocell that can support users on different networks.

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