It has a 2.8-inch capacitive touchscreen and a menu similar to that of the PRADA cell phones. In fact, save for the slide out number pad, it kind of looks like a more generic version of the PRADA phone.
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LG Glimmer touchscreen slider coming to Alltel – too bad it couldn’t have hit a better carrier
Cellular disruption in Afghanistan brought to you by the Taliban
The terrorists are at it again threatening to manually (a.k.a. things that go boom in the night) disrupt cellular service if all 4 cellular providers in Afghanistan don’t start shutting down their networks at night. Their reasoning? They believe that occupying forces are using the networks to track members of the Taliban.
Chances are they are right; it’s quite easy to track people by their cell phones thanks to the large numbers of towers that are required for even remotely decent coverage triangulation is quite easy. Cell phones not only transmit to these towers when they are in use, but all the time, for some phones, even when they are turned off.
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Chinese Voice Changing Telephone
I guess that’s the official U.S. product title, anyways, it’s a standard telephone that has voice changing capabilities built right in. There is no need to go buy a separate box to change your voice, and that way it’s harder for the police to figure out what’s going on when they raid your house.
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Metro Phone is cordless and retro
It runs on the 900MHz band and is a cordless phone with such modern amenities as caller ID. Even with the current century upgrades it still manages to maintain the retro look that makes it worth its cost.
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Waterproof Scuba MP3 Player
This unit has an iRiver iFP-380T MP3 player at its core then adds in a waterproof case for that as well as a waterproof amp and set of underwater headphones to complete the underwater aural excursion. The headphones come with clips that allow them to attach the strap on your goggles.
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Nokia developing S60 touch interface
We have video of Nokia’s upcoming touch-based S60 interface. Well, we don’t our generous and amazing friends over at MobileBurn hooked us up with video, but anyways, it no iPhone interface, but it’s nice.
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Teleport 2.0 by Art Lebedev – in Russia the phone call records you
On a more serious note, this thing does connect your landline/phone to your PC allowing your computer to record who called and when and even record the actual phone call. So you can get your Patriot Act on and do some wiretapping of your own.
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Neo 808i is about as small as practical cell phones go
This tiny, tiny handset is like some sort of weird side-by-side version of your normal candy-bar form factor phone. Its really small but yet still manages to pack in WiFi, a 4MP cam and MP3 and MPEG-4 playback.
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T-Mobile to kick off 3G network by Summer, also to launch Android phone and iPhone in Austria
Sounds to me like T-Mobile might be writing checks they can’t cash. But, apparently, the issues they were having with their 3G network have all been resolved and they will have it launched and activated sometime this summer.
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Nokia’s latest 6210, 6220, N78, and N96 Hands-On
Vincent finally made it over to the Nokia booth and has some hands on shots of all that new Nokia stuff they announced the other day. He was even keen enough to throw down his N95 next to the new N96 for a size/appearance comparison.
Nokia Remade concept – Uses recycled materials to make phones
Lots of companies went green last year, and this year won’t be any different. Nokia is showing off concept phone at Mobile World Congress that is made entirely from recycled materials.
Android OS and the Mobile World Congress
It almost seems that amongst the other announcements today, Vincent had his own personal agenda to get his hands on as many Android OS based handsets as possible. He didn’t do too bad either by hitting up Qualcomm, TI, and ARM, all of which had booths with their prototypes.
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