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11MarWhat if I told you that you can get the T-Mobile G1 at one of the best prices available on the web right now? What if I told you not to push this shiny red button to see this outrageous G1 deal? Did you push it? I did. Soon I’ll be the proud owner of yet another [...]
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11Mar
We had a sneak peak of the Samsung S5600 last month where we likened it to the ever-so-successful Tocco and generally got a little bit excited about it. Now Samsung have made an official announcement of the S5600 official along with the S5230, a sister phone with differing features allowing you to pick which suits your needs best. Let’s take a look at the S5600 first:
- A 2.8″ touchscreen with a resolution of 240×320.
- Rear mounted 3.2 megapixel camera lens.
- It’s a 3G phone with HSDPA support.
- MicroSD card slot.
Now here’s what to expect from the S5230: (more…)
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11Mar
We all expect a bit of BS before a new phone launch. In fact we turn up with shovels and full anti-BS suits and, if it’s an announcement by Ballmer, a specially rented fertiliser truck so that it doesn’t go to waste. But Steve’s “Spore-level Overhype” crown has been stolen by Roger McNamee of Elevation Partners, who hyped the Palm Pre so hard that Palm themselves issued a press release saying “Steady on there, partner, we’re not the Holy Grail or anything.”Roger’s main points were that the Pre was going to be the best thing ever, it would do things no phone had ever thought of before, it would in fact be the first of an entirely new generation of phones, and that existing iPhone users would ditch their handsets to get one - and if nothing else, that’s where the alarm bells go off. The average iPhoner couldn’t be cut from their handset with an oxyacetylene torch. Even the the most ardent “hater” has to show you exactly what they hate, no, hang on, it’ll come up in a minute, no wait till I show you this…
Most of Palm’s proclamations were along the lines of “Since we haven’t actually finished building the thing, it may be a little premature to claim it’ll cure cancer.” Then again, since Roger and Elevation Partners have a major stake in Palm, he might not want to wait before seeing returns on his investment.
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11Mar
We talked about Hyundai entering the UK mobile phone market a while back and amongst their line-up of possible models was a watch-phone. It’s now looking like Hyundai will be launching the MB-901, which was on display along with other likely release candidates at Mobile World Congress, during the second quarter of this year.The watch face is a touchscreen measuring 22×30mm, while the body is 16mm thick and the whole thing weighs 58 grams. The watch-phone naturally utilises Bluetooth and includes a headset in the box, however you will be able to speak directly into the watch if you’re feeling starved of attention. Laughably Hyundai claim it has ‘video-playback’ and it currently appears to only use GPRS for data.
Perhaps the one thing which may save the MB-910 is its potential price, just £200 SIM-free! While not cheap, it’s considerably more reasonable than the rumoured price of LG’s GD910, which will have to rely on its more attractive looks to stand out. However, since we can only see the watch-phone as a toy, why spend five times more than needed on it?
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11Mar
iPhone users will soon have an alternative to the App Store, and amazingly enough it’s created by Apple. Specifically, it’s been created by Apple telling hordes of developers that they can’t have part of the huge iPhone app revenue stream, and then honestly expecting them to give up and go home.
Cydia is a popular open-source installer for jailbroken iPhones, allowing users to install “unauthorised apps”. Remember: just because you spent hundreds of dollars on the phone and want to run the app doesn’t make it okay - only your Apple overlords may tell you what is and is not “authorised”. Now it’s making the leap to full unauthorised application market, and theCydia Store is aiming at the huge chunk of the iPhone market annoyed at being told what they’re not allowed to do. Which, at the last count, was all of them.
A competing marketplace is the last thing Apple was expecting - their entire business model is specifically built around that not being possible - so we’ll have to see how this plays out. The most popular business option, “Suing your opponent into oblivion”, is already proving less than effective in other examples of “Apple vs Owners”. They may have to consider extreme options like “Not driving so many developers away in the first place.”
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11Mar
We’ve always known that we’re going to be murdered by machines, but assumed that it was because
- Robots are jerks
- Red LEDs turn things evil.
- Anything built to look like Arnold Schwarzzeneger will just shoot people with bullets until one of the two runs out.
In fact it’s because small teams of species-suicidal scientists are subjecting silicon systems to tortures that would make the Ro-Buddha leave NeoNirvana and grab a couple of chainsaws.
1. Full Metal Jacket
The psychotic drill sergeant from the Stanly Kubrick masterpiece is meant to be a movie character, not a project lead. A Japanese team apparently watched him turn a harmless loser into a psychotic killer and thought “We should do that, but with indestructible robots!” The entered the Baca RoboCup with one whose only functions are to do push-ups until its arms break off, scream in childish pain, and claw its armless way inside your skull to haunt you with cybernightmares from now until the end of time. (Video which makes “The Ring” look like Teletubbies here)
This is what happens when geeks hate exercise, know robotics, and drop about ten tabs of bad acid into an absinthe milkshake. This “Kintore-Z” won a prize, which is a slight mistake since the Baca RoboCup is meant to (more…)
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11Mar
The global economy is not doing well right now. With unemployment on the rise and the word “recession” on everyone’s lips, change is in the air. People are altering their purchasing habits and making different choices about saving their money. What does all of this mean for the mobile phone industry? It, too, is facing a lot of changes as a direct result of the changing economy.
Here are ten changes that are taking place with mobile phones in the new depressed economy:
1. There are fewer handset sales in today’s market. One of the things that we started seeing in the headlines towards the end of 2008 and which generally continues to be true is that handset sales are down. People just aren’t out there spending money on new handsets if they don’t have to because they’re trying to cut back on all areas of spending. This doesn’t mean that no one is buying new phones. When new phones are released, there is still a market for them. But there is definitely a significantly smaller market for each new phone than in the past.
2. People are choosing the handsets that they really want. One major difference in the new economy is that people are really thinking about which mobile phone handset they want. In the past, many people would just get the free or cheap phones that came with their contracts and then upgrade a few months later to something else. That isn’t the case anymore. People are pinching pennies and that means that they won’t (more…)
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11Mar
Nokia has unveiled three new models of their XpressMusic series. The Nokia 5030, 5330 and 5730 XpressMusic handsets have been unveiled prior to their official introduction later this week.
These particular handsets should appeal to people who care a lot about playing music on their cell phones.
Nokia unveiled the Nokia 5730 XpressMusic model, which targets the social networking market by offering a full sliding keyboard. This model runs for $355.
Nokia 5330 XpressMusic will be arriving in Q3 with a sticker price of $230. It has a light feature for ravers.
The Nokia 5030 is aimed at emerging markets, and offers a music-capable phone for a moderate price.
“Additional launches, including Italy, Sweden and Mexico, are planned for the coming several months,” Nokia said in a statement.
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11Mar
Here’s a story to make you smile on any day, an amazing journey undertaken by a Nokia 1600 in some of the most challenging environments imaginable. Online businessman Andrew Cheadle’s phone slipped out of his pocket and fell into the sea while he was playing with his dog on the beach. Later, realising it was missing, he called it but received no answer, so he purchased a new one and moved on with his life.But the little Nokia’s adventure had only just begun. Sometime later, Andrew’s girlfriend got a call on her mobile phone and the caller ID revealed it to be…Andrew’s phone! On the end of the line was a trawlerman by the name of Glen who had recovered the Nokia, popped the SIM into another phone while it was drying out and tried to find the owner.
But Glen had not simply found it washed up on the beach, instead it was (more…)
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11Mar
The imaginatively titled “Blackberry App World” has set its minimum price at $2.99, over three hundred per cent the Apple Store’s $0.99 (and make no mistake, that’s who they’ll be judged against). Both software sellers will still allow free downloads, but Research In Motion’s message is clear - if you’re going to pay for Blackberry software, be prepared to pay more.For humanity as a whole it’s a great move - the increased expense is obviously an attempt to prevent stupid stuff like iBeer or the “That’s What She Said” sampler. For the company it might not be so good, as studies show that the vast majority of apps aren’t used after the first two days. They’re just the cash-generating extension of Internet-era ADHD onto the mobile market, and making money out of attention-deficiency is a serious moneyspinner these days.
We applaud RIM, brave heroes sacrificing profits to prevent people from putting “Fart Button” apps on their kit.
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