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Exclusive membership for Newber service up for grabs!

Raise your hand if you like getting free stuff. We thought so. How about an exclusive membership to the latest iPhone call management service? Good, keep reading.
The good folks over at Newber were kind enough to give our readers a chance to win an exclusive sneak-peak at their Newber phone call-management service. Newber, as you’ll […]

New liquid lens technology uses sound and water for smaller cameraphones

Sure, pixel count and optical quality are key to determining a cameraphone’s worth. But, not much consideration is given to the size of the camera module in today’s high-end cameraphones. Smaller camera lenses make for smaller camera modules - in turn making for smaller, slimmer, and more power-efficient cameraphones.
Different research teams are looking into leveraging […]

Vodafone Spain and Qualcomm help the Elderly

The Vodafone España Foundation (FVE), the Spanish Red Cross (CRE) and Qualcomm have announced an alliance to launch a pilot project named “3G Connecting Generations.” The project aims to take advantage of HSPA broadband technology to connect the elderly to their caregivers and families by unifying voice and videoconferencing through a familiar device like television.
Apparently […]

3 Italia and Alcatel Lucent build out Mobile TV in Italy

Alcatel-Lucent (AlcaLu) has signed an equipment and services contract with 3 Italia, for the expansion and optimisation of it’s Mobile TV broadcast network in Italy. The solution is based on DVB-H terrestrial transmitters (as oppose to the satellite-based DVB-SH), and will allow 3 to increase the indoor and outdoor coverage.
Interestingly, the AlcaLu solution supports DVB-T, […]

Tough times ahead in UK for N96?

Mobile News is carrying an interesting article, and in the manner of giving a balanced view, I thought I would bring it up for our readers to comment on.
The gist of the article is that the N95 (and to a certain extent N95-8GB) was the first of a new breed of devices to cram in […]

Follow-up: Smileys can be “Straight-on” too…

Following on from my post the other day about Japanese Smileys, NetLingo were kind enough to let me know via email about “Straight-on” smileys too - these are again generated using text characters to form shapes that you may not associated with the component characters on their own.
If you want to add some aesthetically pleasing […]

Telus Touch Pro, Dual kinda sorta announced

A Best Buy Mobile ad popped up in Canada over the weekend, showing off the HTC Touch Pro, the HTC Touch Dual and the HTC Touch Diamond (though the Diamond’s been out for awhile) and tragically shy of pricing details. It’s still a sign of things to come, even though we’re missing an official launch […]

Follow-up: IBC 2008 rocked the house!

Well, the show that is known as IBC 2008 (this year at least), sure was busy! As I mentioned in a previous post, this is where the illuminati (and other people too) of the broadcast world get together, to show their wares, and present information directly to peoples’ brains.
This year, as is usually the case, […]

Apple on track to move 5 million iPhones in Q4 2008

The latest estimates are in, and they have Apple shipping something like 5 million iPhone 3G units for fiscal Q4 which ends on September 30. Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster has raised his previous iPhone 3G sales estimates from 4.1 million by the end of September to a more optimistic 5 million units by the end […]

UK: Nokia N96 - coming very soon on Vodafone and Three!

Hey, you there, in the UK - want a Nokia N96? ‘Course you do. But where, oh where, may you purchase the uber-device from?
Well, it appears either Vodafone (above), or Three (below):
Mmmmh, N96, very tasty - and now you can get one - or at least, you can from 1st October (Three), or 2nd October […]

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