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Motorola names Qualcomm COO to head Cell Phones
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Motorola Inc named Sanjay Jha, Qualcomm Inc's former chief
operating officer, to head its loss making mobile devices business and become
co-chief executive with Greg Brown, the company said on Monday.
Shares of Motorola, which plans to split off its mobile division as a separate
company in 2009, rose nearly 4 percent in pre-market trading to $9.15 from their
Friday close on the New York Stock exchange of $8.81.
Some investors had worried that Motorola, which has been has been looking for a
new chief for its mobile phone unit since early this year, was having trouble
attracting strong candidates.
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Posted on Mon, 4 Aug 2008 10:14:56 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
E Ink Displays for Cell Phones
E ink display tech is showing up all over the place lately. E ink will be the display provider for the first print magazine issue ever to use a digital display on the cover when a special news stand edition of Esquire goes on sale in October as we reported yesterday.
E Ink announced this week that its displays have been chosen by Casio and Hitachi to be used in two new mobile phones. The Casio G’zOne phone uses an E Ink Vizplex display. Details on exactly what the display will be used for won’t be announced until the phone launches. E Ink only says its display will be a silhouette display. Read more
Posted on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:54:48 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Cell Phones are Growing as Camera of Choice
If you go to a party or sporting event odds are you will see someone shooting pictures with their camera phone. The good part about a camera phone is that we almost always have our phone on us allowing us to take pictures at any moment. The bad part about camera phones is that the cameras in them tend to be subpar.
Wirefly.com did a survey that shows the camera phone is becoming the camera of choice for many adults. The survey says that 63.8% of adult’s age 18 to 30 say they use the cell phone camera at least once per week and 26.3% say they use it daily. Read more
Posted on Wed, 9 Jul 2008 11:38:20 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Expert Says Strong Link Exists Between Brain Tumors and Cell Phones
According to Dr. Lennart Hardell, MD, an oncologist from University Hospital in Orebro, Sweden there is a strong link between heavy cell phone use and glioma brain tumors. The doctor says that heavy cell phone users are defined as having more than 2000 lifetime use hours.
According to Hardell long-term use of mobile phones and cordless phones is associated with increased risk of glioma brain tumors on one side of the head over a period of ten years or more. Read more
Posted on Fri, 23 May 2008 11:16:28 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Nokia sees half of Cell phones with GPS in 2010-12
By Eric Auchard
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Nokia plans to add navigation to half of the phones it
sells within a few years to find new revenue streams amid decreasing handset
prices, a senior official at the world's top cellphone maker said.
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Posted on Wed, 14 May 2008 06:01:17 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Giant Cell phones are the new Trend in Korea
We all look to Korea to see what the future in mobile phones is. Now the latest trend seems to be going towards huge cell phones that are bigger than notebooks.
Yes, of course this is not true, there are no giant cell phones in our future. Korean SK Telecom sent out this press photo though today over the wire. It was not me going crazy with Photoshop.
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Posted on Tue, 13 May 2008 23:49:02 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
When Should Your Kid Get a Cell Phone?
When is your child old enough to get a cell phone? This is something I have considered a lot recently. We live in a neighborhood with lots of kids in a small area that doesn’t have much traffic. Because of this my 7-year-old son spends lots of time riding his bike or playing at a friend’s house.
The problem was that he is too shy to ask to use a friends phone to call us when he wants to go to a different house and would ride home to tell us he was going to the house next door to where he was playing rather than calling. To fix this problem, we got him his own cell phone. We had a talk about the rules of a phone mostly not answering it unless the caller ID said mom or dad on it and not letting friends use it. I remember my brother’s first cell phone when he was 17 and the $600 bill that my mother received shortly thereafter. I didn’t want that to happen here.
The plan has worked very well for us and since my son started carrying a phone many of the kids in the neighborhood now have them, not only because they want to have the same things their friends do, but because it is undeniably convenient to be able to reach your kids whenever and wherever they are. Read more
Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 09:20:03 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Urban Miners look for precious Metals in Cell Phones
By Miho Yoshikawa
HONJO, Japan (Reuters) - Thinking of throwing out your old cell phone? Think
again. Maybe you should mine it first for gold, silver, copper and a host of
other metals embedded in the electronics -- many of which are enjoying
near-record prices.
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Posted on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:15:50 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Samsung Soul 3G 5MP Cell Phone launches in Europe
Samsung announces the launch of the feature packed Samsung Soul in Europe. In good Korean electronics company tradition they published some sexy Gadget Model photos with the Soul announcement.
Feature highlights of the Quad-Band HSDPA 7.2 Mbps Samsung Soul include 5MP Camera with AF, 4x digital zoom, Power LED light, Face detection, image stabilizer, 2.2 inch QVGA screen, Bluetooth 2.0, MP3 and WMA music player and ICEpower Technology by B&O.
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Posted on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Cubans line up to buy Cell Phones for first Time
HAVANA (Reuters) - Hundreds of Cubans lined up at state-owned telephone offices
on Monday as the new government under President Raul Castro began selling
cellular phone service to the general public for the first time.
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Posted on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:18:35 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Cell Phone Usage Rises
Harris Interactive released a new report today that shows cell phone usage is climbing. According to the report not only is cell phone usage climbing, land line usage is dropping. The study shows that 1 in 5 adults no longer have a landline.
The study also shows that 1 in 7 adults use a cell phone exclusively. That statement seems a bit at odds with the previous 1 in 5 has no landline. That is until you consider broadband like DSL where you have to have a phone line or need a fax machine. Read more
Posted on Fri, 4 Apr 2008 08:04:05 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Dell Exec declines Comment on Talk of Cell Phone
ROUND ROCK, Texas (Reuters) - A Dell Inc executive said on Thursday the computer
maker has room to be more experimental with consumer gadgets, but he declined to
comment on whether it plans to sell mobile phones.
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Posted on Thu, 3 Apr 2008 13:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Cell phones could improve Teens' Health
By Amy Norton
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Teenagers love their cell phones, and researchers
may be able to take advantage of that fact to improve their health, a pilot
study suggests.
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Posted on Thu, 3 Apr 2008 13:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Panasonic Cell Phone with Plasma Display
This is something you just don’t hear every day. Panasonic announced that it will be putting a low-voltage plasma display into a mobile phone to operate on AT&T's new Mobile TV service. The mobile TV service will feature content from CBS, Fox, MTV, and more.
The tiny plasma display will be built by AbleComm and is reported to run on only 1.5 volts of power and won’t require special wiring or power supplies. The tiny plasma displays will also find their way into other electronic devices from phones to fax machines and door intercom systems. Read more
Posted on Thu, 3 Apr 2008 09:02:44 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Sharp to sell Cell Phones in China before Olympics
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sharp Corp said on Friday it would start selling cell phones
in China ahead of the Beijing Olympics, heading into a market where a rival has
just pulled out in the face of fierce competition.
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Posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:35:41 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Japan's eAccess plans new Move in Cell Phone War
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's eAccess Ltd, a broadband Internet and wireless data
services provider, said on Monday it will offer a mobile phone service with no
basic monthly fee. eAccess, one of three companies granted new wireless licenses
in 2005, will start voice services in March, and its move could further
exacerbate a price war in Japan's tight mobile market, where NTT DoCoMo Inc,
KDDI Corp and Softbank Corp are locked in a fierce competition.
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Posted on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
ACECAD Digital Notepad Sends Email Via Cell Phone
ACECAD introduced an interesting new device today called the DigiMemo with Bluetooth Transmitter. The gadget is a standalone notepad with memory and can send email or MMS messages written on paper via Bluetooth connectivity to an email enabled smartphone.
The device uses plain paper and electromagnetic technology to write in standard ink on the digital pad. Notes and messages are stored digitally along with drawings, charts and sketched in the 32MB of internal memory. Read more
Posted on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:04:49 CST | by Shane McGlaun
Porn to spice up Cell Phones
By Sinead Carew
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Size matters in pornography, except when it comes to tiny
mobile phone screens, the next frontier for erotica.
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Posted on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:51:07 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Realeyes3D Provides Barcode Scanning Via Cell Phones
Realeyes3D has announced a breakthrough in the ability to allow digital cameras on cellular phones to read standard 1D barcodes. Realeyes3D says that until now decoding barcodes has required a dedicated optical reader.
The new one-click technology from Realeyes3D claims to allow any wireless phone with a camera on the market today to read standard barcodes. "Our technology dramatically increases both the number of camera phones that can be used for 1D bar code scanning and the decoding performance of any camera phone, by increasing the number of bar code pictures that can be read," said Benoit Bergeret, founder and CEO of Realeyes3D. "Our unique deblurring technology enables mobile 1D bar code scanning to considerably expand its scope and accelerates the introduction of one-click m-commerce applications for the benefit of all camera phone users -- not just for high-end users anymore." Read more
Posted on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:32:11 CST | by Shane McGlaun
Strategy Analytics Announces Ten trends in Cell Phones for the Next Decade
Strategy Analytics says it has identified ten key trends it expects to emerge in the mobile handset industry over the next decade. Neil Mawston from Strategy Analytics says, "Such new form factors as the transformer and rollable displays will revolutionize media phone design." By 2018, every handset will effectively be a Smartphone, with a wide screen, sizeable keyboard and dense battery.”
I’m not sure what he means by the “Transformer”, maybe a cell phone that turns into a robot. Other key trends identified sound like things we see now and aren’t so farfetched. Read more
Posted on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:51:15 CST | by Shane McGlaun
France warns against excessive Cell Phone Use
By Brian Rohan
PARIS (Reuters) - The French Health Ministry on Wednesday issued a warning
against excessive cell phone use, especially by children, though it recognized
science had not proved cellular technology was dangerous.
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Posted on Wed, 2 Jan 2008 15:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
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