Running Skype on the Nokia N800

Kevin C, a good guy from jkontherun.com, caught Skype alive on Nokia N800 during Digital Experience Show in New York. He saw it and captured the display as shown above. According to him, the Skype for Nokia N800 will be available for download around July, but he not sure weather the application support video call or not. N800 has been known with its VoIP support via Gizmoz, but with the coming of Skype just positive for users experiences.

[via jkontherun]

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The Upcoming HTC Iris S640 (CDMA Phone)

As i promised a few days ago to post another upcoming HTC smartphones, now i am back with Iris S640 CDMA Phone. The Iris will run Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 Standard and supported by 256MB of ROM, 64MB of RAM, and 1200 mAH battery. Featuring 2.4-inch TF LCD at 320×240 pixel resolutions, the S640 will run on 400 MHz Qualcomm MSM7500 and dual-band 800/1900 MHz CDMA 1x-EVDO Rev. A networks.
It also support WiFi 802.11 b/g so what else do you want?. It is ok, these are another useful features: Bluetooth, gpsOne, QWERTY keyboard, miniUSB, USB 1.1 and microSD card slot. [via]

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Tips & Tricks To Get The iPhone for Cheaper

The tips & trick that i will describe is based on the original author point of view. His contract with Cingular/AT&T is about to end and he consider to renew his contract with the same service provider (Cinguar/AT&T) and he automatically will get a new phone (known as equipment upgrade). And what he will do with the new phone? You guess, he will sell it for a few hundred dollars and then use the money for iPhone. What next? register the iPhone via iTunes for another 2 years. Clever or no money? you decide. [via gadgetreview]

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iPhone Answers to Gizmodo’s List of What iPhone Doesn’t Have

+ Song as Ringtones
- Ringtone is ringtone music is music, dont mix it!

+ Games
- Buy PSP to play games


+ Any flash support
- I don’t like Flash Gordon

+ Instant Messaging
- You can SMS stupid!

+ Picture messages/ MMS
+ Picture? Gmail it up to 20MB

+ Video recording
- Play don’t record

+ Voice recognition or voice dialing
- Touch it and shut your mouth

+ Wireless Bluetooth Stereo Streaming/ A2DP
- Wire not less

+ One-size-fits-all headset jack (May have to buy an adapter for certain headphones)
- Make it by yourself

Gizmodo’s list via newlaunches

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iPhone Visual Voicemail Now Available on BlackBerry

SimulScribe today announced about the release of SimulSays Beta, a downloadable visual voicemail application for the BlackBerry 8800 series, BlackBerry Pearl, BlackBerry Curve and Windows Mobile devices. Interested users able to download the SimulSays Beta at www.SimulSays.com or at mobile.SimulSays.com from a handset, it is free.

“We strive to deliver voicemail in better, easier and more useful ways,” said James Siminoff, founder and CEO of SimulScribe. “SimulSays Beta was created to give our customers better control of their voicemail, saving them time and money. SimulSays Beta is ideal for people looking to add visual voicemail functionality to their existing mobile phones without having to purchase an Apple iPhone.”

[Press Release]

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LG Muziq Was Born

LG add new music phone to its Sprint series. They released LG Muziq that does have FM transmitter (radio station on the go?) with radius coverage about 10 feet (3 meters). Radio is not the only wireless feature it has, but it also comes with Bluetooth. For the best multimedia experience, the LG Music has 1.3MP integrated camera, 64MB memory which expandable via microSD slot up to 4GB via expansion micro SD slot. Interested buyers should e able to buy the phone start at 15 July for $99. [via newlauches]

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Download iPhone Wallpapers

The Icon Factory, one of my favorite resources for wallpapers and mobile icons has announced that they have resized a number of their images for use with the iPhone. You can check them out here. The iPhone compatible wallpapers can be distinguished by the iPhone icon beside the download button.

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Apple iPhone Review Roundup

Let’s not reinvent the scrollwheel gents. Here are links to reviews of the iPhone around the Internet:




Walt Mossberg’s Review

But the iPhone has a major drawback: the cellphone network it uses. It only works with AT&T (formerly Cingular), won’t come in models that use Verizon or Sprint and can’t use the digital cards (called SIM cards) that would allow it to run on T-Mobile’s network. So, the phone can be a poor choice unless you are in areas where AT&T’s coverage is good. It does work overseas, but only via an AT&T roaming plan.

David Pogue

The Web browser, though, is the real dazzler. This isn’t some stripped-down, claustrophobic My First Cellphone Browser; you get full Web layouts, fonts and all, shrunk to fit the screen. You scroll with a fingertip — much faster than scroll bars. You can double-tap to enlarge a block of text for reading, or rotate the screen 90 degrees, which rotates and magnifies the image to fill the wider view.

MSNBC

The specially formatted YouTube videos work great on Wi-Fi, but can display in a lower quality when you’re not at a hotspot and are using AT&T’s EDGE network. At launch, only a small percentage of the millions of video will have been reformatted to work with the phone. (Fortunately for me, this included a couple of swell Amy Winehouse videos.) The fact is that YouTube without the long tail of hundreds of thousands of videos is barely worth the effort. But Google and Apple promise that by fall the entire collection will be available for iPhone streaming, and that users will be able to fill up every idle moment with unproductive glory.

USA Today

Finger-tapping takes getting used to. Best advice: Start typing with one finger before graduating to two thumbs. You also have to learn to trust the device; an intelligent virtual keyboard auto-corrects mistakes on the fly and anticipates what you will type next to try to prevent you from making a mistake.

Though you’re frequently touching the display, I didn’t notice fingerprints when iPhone is on.

New York Post

But the reality is that the iPhone has a very small screen compared to even the tiniest laptop. You can’t read much of an article on a Web page without panning back and forth across. This is true of word-processing, too; at a size comfortable enough to read, you can’t see either the full length or width of a document.

Where is the SIM slot located?

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Millimetres Matter: Samsung Viral Advertising

This is a viral video advertisment that shows how the current Samsung “ultra thin” line of phones are a cut thin slice above the rest.

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Quick Link: The Apple iPhone Tour

You can view the guided tour of the Apple iPhone on the Apple Website. The video is about 25 minutes long. It answers several questions about the iPhone such as UI functionality, the Safari browser usefulness and real estate considerations.

What it doesn’t address are the following:

• battery life issues with all the functions taken into consideration


• 
  
  iPhone quick functions (how it functions as a “no look” phone and MP3 player) — as from the looks of it, you need to have your eyes gaze into the huge screen to do most of the functions


• there seems to be no place to attach a strap

Buying an iPhone necessitates the purchase of a case as well as a screen protector. That thing looks too delicate to survive when it kisses the pavement. The screen is made of glass for crying out loud. Get one this Friday!

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Nokia 6267 Will Ship In Q3 2007

Nokia introduced new phone which made for professional workloads. Coming with flip mode, the Nokia 6267 has special media key to deliver easy access for configuring and playing music/phone/video. The phone has dual camera (VGA camera for video calls plus 2MP camera with 8x digital zoom). As a 3G phone the 6267 offers video call functionality as well as internet access. Available in orange/blue/black/silver, Nokia set the price at $320. Last but not least it also also offers calender & organizer features that useful enough for professional workforce. [via crave]

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Levi’s Enter Mobile Market

Levi`s Strauss the mercedes of denim planned to release Levi`s phone in Paris, the ka’bah of fashion. It is could be most fashionable phone in the world but who knows. Levi’s designed the phone in partnership with ModeLabs. The phone will features 2 megapixel camera, 1.8-inch screen, Bluetooth, MP3 player, as well as microSD card slot. And Levi’s will start selling the phone on September 2007, just wait to know what the real look is. [via gizmodiva]

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Statement: “I’d rather give up on sex than my mobile phone”

It’s Sunday morning, and this should probably wake you up. Here are some statements taken from Reuters, on the importance of phones are in comparison to opportunity cost:

One in three people would not sacrifice their mobile phone for one million pounds or more, with women leading the way on those most likely to refuse, the survey by the Carphone Warehouse and the London School of Economics found.

Most respondents aged between 16 and 24 would rather give up alcohol, chocolate, sex, tea, or coffee than live without their mobile phone for a month.

In contrast, more than 40 percent of the those aged over 45 would give the phone simply to be able to have their favourite hot drink.

Asked the same question, I would reply nonchalantly with, “no comment.”

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Japanese Dreaming Phone With X-Ray

I do not know what the main aspects that force this Japanese coming with a new visionary phone, it could be something like Sigmund Freud mentioned many years ago. As Steve Jobs coming with his visionary iPhone, the Japanese coming with X-Ray vision. Who will win the battle? Who knows, but at least Steve has been set the release date of iPhone and the Japanese still dreaming. I think 1-0 for Steve. [via techdigest]

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After Levi’s Now Playboy To Enter Mobile Market

Oh what the hell is going on? Everyone seem to enter mobile market. After Levi Strauss officially confirmed the release date of its fashionable phone, now Playboy become the next follower. According to BGR, Playboy is in talk with Motorola, Siemens, and LG to develop a new cellphone with Playboy brand name. The phone will comes with youth …such as MP3 player and camera. But we should wait a little longer to get the exact specifications. [via BGR]

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New World’s Slimmest Phone: Pantech IM-S230

The previous world slimmest cellphone is Samsung U600 which is only 10.9mm, and now the record is broke by Pantech with the release of 9.9mm cellphone IM-S230. It is mean that the new IM-S230 outrank the U600 by 1mm thinner. Samsung U600 was released on 12 february 2007,
it means that they holding the crown of world’s slimmest phone only for 4 months. So what happen in the next 4 months? Who will brake the record? [via gizmodo]

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Samsung SGH-950, SGH-E840 and SGH-J600

Samsung introduced its newest fashion phone during CommunicAsia 2007 in Singapore. They comes with 3 phone at the same time: SGH-950, SGH-E840 and SGH-J600 and their main target is Southeast Asia market. First impressions are sleek, slim, and stylish slider phone (see picture), but what do you think?

Ok lets look closer to the SGH-E950. The phone features 3.2MP camera, email/web client, music player, and touch-screen. The SGH-E840 share the same sliding keaybod feature as the other two. And the SGH-J600 also coming with music player and integrated camera as SGH-E950 does. More technical specification will be unveiled later on. But it has been said that all of them featuring impressive touch-sensitive keypad which is very responsive. [via mobilewhack]

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The Upcoming Nokia N7900 Fashion Phone

Nokia has been released various fashion phones in the past, we could mention Nokia 7373 for example. And now we can expect some thing more with rumor about the upcoming N7900 series. The phone will comes with triangle pattern both in the front and in the back side, it so natural. The suggested specifications include UMTS, 1GB of integrated memory, and 240×320 screen. Nothing else except the battery life which lasting up to 230 hours in standby mode or 3 hours in talktime mode. [via slashgear]

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LG KU580 and the “Google Phones”

Apple is doing it. So is LG. And the tech industry has been abuzz with Google partnerships. Take for instance the LG “Google” phone that upon further inspection, doesn’t really offer much apart from Google-bundled applications. The only reason I would see why I would want this particular model would be because it looks like a slightly better Chocolate.

If phone manufacturers did it right, a Google partnership would offer incentives to making searches on your phone. This in paper does make sense to advertisers, as your phone’s real estate is confined to a 240 x 320 screen that allows for more conversions for text links.

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“Not just a cellphone…”

Where I’m from, credit card theft isn’t such a big deal. In fact the rumors of credit card swiping scandals aren’t as ominous as how they are claimed to be. What is actually more rampant is cellphone theft. The mobile phone serves more functionality that just making calls - no surprise here. It’s a PDA, a clock, a camera, small computer … but these are hardware givens.

What the cellphone is to most of my countrymen is a payment hub, a metro rail transit pass, a debit card,and many more. With the stiff competition between telcos, the providers are not only coming up with cheaper services - but more innovative ones at that. Telco “A” provides subscribers with prepaid link to the metro rail system that automatically deducts balance from your phone when you flash a handy piece of plastic across the rail sensor. Telco “B” innovates a way for you to send off prepaid load from your postpaid line to your kids phones. Your kids can also “ask” for credit by sending an SMS to an operator number. Telco “C” allows you to purchase three postpaid lines for only $20.00 with a set amount of credit for each phone. This supposedly is targeted to families who need to be constantly in touch, earning only $6.00 a day.

The phone isn’t just a communications device back here. If stolen, pains have to be taken to cut the line and renew certain value added services. In fact, a lot of people back home tend to invest more on the phone’s insurance provided by the telco rather than their own health insurance.

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[CommunicAsia] Samsung SGH-F210 Cell Phone

Samsung showcased its latest music phone, SGH-F210, during CommunicAsia event in Singapore. This slim handset looks more like a portable music player from the outside, complete with an iPod-like metalic dial-pad under the screen that lets users navigate through the menu easily. Rotating the front panel out will reveal the usual phone keypad. Very unique! The keypad itself isn’t much different than F200, its predecessor. However, this little brother comes with larger storage (1GB) and support for external media (microSD). Check below for the complete list of features.

Samsung SGH-F210 Cell Phone Specifications

* Network: GPRS Class 10, Tri-Band (900/1800/1900)
* Dimension: 87.7 x 30.9 x 20.4 mm
* Camera: 2 Megapixel / MPEG4/H.263
* LCD: 1.46” 262K Color TFT Display (128 x 220)
* MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+/WMA
* Music Library 3D Sound Effect, Background Music Play, WMDRM / MTP, Music Recognition
* Memory: 1GB + micro SD (up to 2 GB)
* Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0 / USB 2.0 (High Speed)
* Others: JAVA (Embedded Game Only) / MMS/WAP 2.0

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LG KH1400 Cell Phone - HSDPA and DMB TV Collide

LG has just unveiled KH1400 cell phone featuring built-in HSDPA support. HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) allows users to download content from the internet with up to 3.6 MBps speed rate. The cool thing, the phone also comes with integrated DMB (Digital Media Broadcast) receiver which lets satellite broadcasted TV to be received and displayed on its 2-inch screen on the go. This display is swivelable thus giving you a chance to watch your favourite TV programme in a better position. If not enough, there’s a TV out port provided.

More pics after the jump.

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LG SH130 HSDPA Phone

Along with LG-KH1400, LG also unveiled LG-SH130 cell phone in Korea. Not much detail about this sliding handset except that it’d come with built-in HSDPA connectivity, allowing high-speed mobile internet access. You can download media content, browse the web, open Daily Gadgets News, or check your email at a blazing speed (up to 3.6MBps). I’ll post further info once they become available.

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LG KU250 “3G for All”

LG has released one of, if not the cheapest “3G for All” phone. This is supposedly the mass market booster for 3G phones in the worldwide market. The phone retails for about $100.00.

The phone comes with two cameras, a 1.3MP camera behind and a 640 x 480 camera in front for video calls. The phone’s real estate is one of its main attractions, apart from the 3G features. It is tight, robust and boasts huge buttons.

Other features include the following:

* MP3 and video recording
* Full Internet Browsing via WCDMA (384kbps)
* MMS / Email
* WAP 2.0 / JAVA 2.0
* microSD expansion
* Bluetooth and USB connectivity

For what it is, the KU250 is a handy phone for a cheap 3G solution. It offers nothing really spectacular with regards to its feature set, but the $100 price cannot be ignored. It is a bit of a turn off though that the device includes memory expansion — but has no bundled card in its default package.

I would like to say that this phone may make for a cheaper 3G modem alternative which you can pair easily with your computer for wireless surfing.

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Nokia 6267 Cell Phone

More 3G handset from Nokia. This one is called 6267 and it sports an enhanced music player and dedicated music keys. Equipped with a 2 megapixel camera module, the phone lets users capture and record their precious moment for later viewing. Its camera even comes with flash and 8x digital zoom capabilities. Obviously, with its 3G support, users will be able to make video call with their friends, as well as enjoy high-speed internet access. Other features include a high-resolution display, a large keyboard, up to 4GB of external memory, up to 6.5 hours of talktime, and up to 12.5 days of standby time.

Nokia 6267 cell phone will hit the store with a price tag of 240 EUR.

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LG To Release Fusic II Cell Phone

LG is rumored to currently work on the successor of Fusic phone, “Fusic II”. Not much words about this handset at the moment, apart from the 220×176 display, EvDO support, and 1.3 megapixel camera module. So let’s wait until there’s more info on this slick and sexy mobile device.

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Using Fring on the Nokia N95

Perhaps one of the most powerful mobile phone applications released today is Fring, an instant VoIP conduit that allows you to use the voice features of Skype, Google Talk, MSN and SIP on your mobile phone. A couple of days ago I posted some pictures of the unboxing process of the N95. Because of Fring, my N95 is now also a VoIP phone. I’ve tested the app over my WiFi network at home, and it really simulates the benefits driven by having unlimited telephone calls to anyone who is online using any of the above mentioned third party applications.
Installing the application to your mobile phone is quick and easy. All you need to do is go to the Fring homepage and key in your mobile number. An SMS will be sent to your phone which contains a link download for the app. I’d advise downloading over WiFi if you have a crappy data plan. You will then be asked to key in a new username and password which will link to the four supported services. Voice quality was loud and clear with some breaks when I would move around the house through doors. But I guess the experience will be different according to your ISP’s quality of service.

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Innovations of “Share A Load” Services

Here in the Philippines, the pre-paid (as opposed to post paid / line subscription) business model accounts for a huge percentage in the revenue stream of telcos. Because of this, several “unique” things have developed to ensure that the inconvenience of not having any credits will not happen. One such device is the “pass a load” system where a subscriber can send credits from his or her own phone to anybody under the same telco prepaid service. This is done by registering your phone via SMS, typing out an SMS containing the indicated amount and a service number. Easy as pie.

Of course, there are some system quirks like delayed sending of credit, but essentially, the service works to the advantage of consumers who like to keep a hawk’s eye in tracking expenses.

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Motorola Deluxe ic902 Cell Phone

Motorola has just unleashed its “Deluxe ic902″ cell phone to Sprint. The handset biggest selling points are the built-in EvDO support (CDMA’s high-speed internet access) and walkie-talkie capabilities via iDEN network. It also offers an integrated 2.0 megapixel camera module, MP3 player, Bluetooth connectivity, and a microSD card slot (128MB card included). It does sound like a boring device, but wait, there’s a GPS satellite navigation function (through TeleNav) as well, making the phone worth-buying.
Motorola - Sprint Deluxe ic902 cell phone is currently available for $300 for a 2-year contract.

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wo New Flavours For Sony Ericsson S500 Cell Phone

Sony Ericsson has just announced two more colors for its S500 cell phone, purple and silver/white. Previously, the GSM sliding handset comes in black and yellow color. Regarding specs, both new editions still retain the original features, including 2 megapixel camera module with 4x zoom, built-in media player, Bluetooth connectivity, web browser, and USB interface.

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Unboxing a Nokia N95

So much marketing has been placed into the Nokia N95. Here are some photos of me unboxing a unit just to show you the suspense and vigor that comes with unpacking something that is “the same as other things but is like nothing else.” The experience is similar to stacking up one of those Russian egg doll sets.

I’m greeted with a marketing tease of the product. It is no joke that one spends for roughly the price of a decent spec laptop just to get this phone. Might as well make the unboxing experience for the new owner gleeful, helping you justify the reasons why they bought this in the first place. Reinforcement is the key to positive self concept.

After removing the “teaser” packaging, you get the box with the phone itself lying comfortably on more neat-o packaging. You get answers to the soliloquys mentioned in the previous box. The Nokia N95 is more than just a phone. It drives the point through and through and through your skull. Again: Reinforcement is the key to positive self concept.

Hands on to follow.

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T-Mobile To Release Sidekick LE and Sidekick LX?

This rumor has spread over the blogosphere recently. It’s due to the fact that T-Mobile, the developer of highly-popular Sidekick phone, has just registered two new domains, sidekickle.com (Sidekick LE?) and sidekicklx.com (Sidekick LX?). However, no one has been able to figure out what kind of phones are they (well, no confirmation that the domains will be used for showcasing a new cell phone either), so let’s stay tune for more information.

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Sony Ericsson K850i Cell Phone

K850i is one of the new phones announced by Sony Ericsson yesterday. Being a Cyber-Shot handset, K850i obviously comes with impressive photography capabilities (5MP, auto focus, Xenon flash) and digital photo editing (Photo Fix that automatically improves light balance in one click, PictBridge, etc). Added to the mix is the new camera user interface that intuitive enough to scroll between functions. Still about the camera, with a single push of a button, its lens cover will automatically retract and upon switching to camera mode, the phone keypads will have an illuminated icons which indicate the camera control buttons.
I own K800i cell phone, and like mine, K850i’s multimedia functions are pretty standard. However, it does come with a brand new media browser which hopefully will improve our media experience. Personally, I vote SE’s media browser over Nokia’s.

One of the most admirable feature is the built-in HSDPA (3.5G) support which provides up to 3.6MBps download rate. Eventhough I live in an area that doesn’t have 3.5G coverage yet, but if I ever decide to replace my K800i, I’d definitely looking forward for a phone with HSDPA connectivity.

Other features include a large 2.2-inch display, auto-rotate screen orientation, picture/video blogging, and quad-band GPRS/EDGE network. Sony Ericsson K850i cell phone will be released in early Q4 2007 in two different flavours, Velvet Blue or Luminous Green.

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