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Rhapsody In Music Cell from LG Sports iPod-esque Clickwheel

LG launched its romantically named Rhapsody In Music mobile phone in Korea today. So far, so Richard Clayderman. Apart from a clickwheel—sorry, “Wheel Key”—that makes one nostalgic for Cupertino, what else has the LB3300, as it is also known, got? Multimedia player 1GB memory MicroSD slot Bluetooth DMB 2 Megapixel camera All this is a…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Nokia Expects HD Video on Cellphones in 2 or 3 years

According to Nokia’s Chief Technology Officer Tero Ojanpera, HD quality video recording on a cellphone is “technically a couple of years away.” Then, in almost the same breath he said that “it’s still a few years away.” So what is it man—2 or 3? Better yet, what resolution are we talking about here? If you…

Tech News Sean Fallon

More Windows Mobile 6.1 Details

BGR has an update to the Windows Mobile 6.1 details we showed you earlier in the week, showing off some more improvements that make us excited for WinMo again. Besides the Vista-esque home screen that you saw last time, there’s a new font, zooming, and copy/paste in IE, process list and CPU usage in the…

Tech News Jason Chen

T-Mobile Rolls Out Second 3G Phone, Nokia 6263, Still No 3G Network

While everyone else is readying their 4G network, good ole T-Mobile is still prepping its 3G network, which is expected in early 2008. Though it feels like it’s coming at a snail’s pace, the carrier has made its second baby step with release of the Nokia 6263. Like the Samsung t639 before it, the 6263…

Tech News Hook

Ice Brkr Takes All Human Interaction Out of Going to Bars

Yes, I know, going up to a girl in a bar and introducing yourself is hard. What if she shuts you down?! Your fragile ego will be shattered! But really, it’s not so bad. And I’m pretty sure the alternative that Ice Brkr is proposing is much worse. The new service, which is clearly destined…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Verizon Expands Its Lineup with Moto Z6c and Red LG 8350

Just as we suspected, the CDMA/GSM hybrid Motorola Z6c arrived on Verizon Wireless for $180 after a $50 rebate and service contract. The slider for jet-setters was joined by a scarlet-hued LG 8350, which can be picked up for $80 after a $50 rebate and service contract. [Verizon Wireless] https://gizmodo.com/motorola-rizr-z6c-has-dual-band-gsm-and-cdma-327556/

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Mobile Secretary Does Everything a Real-Life Secretary Does — Except That

Developed by Chinese company InterGrafx, Mobile Secretary was unveiled yesterday at Nokia World. Basically a 3D avatar that handles SMS and incoming calls on your mobile phone, Mobile Secretary comes in various shapes and forms (plump maternal, foxy blonde Svetlana, cool-headed brunette—wonder if there are any male ones?) You can even create your own avatar…

Tech News AddyDugdale

Send Photos From Phone to Web With Belkin Kodak Bluetooth USB Adapter

It’s annoying that so many good (or terrible) photos are stuck inside your cameraphone. Belkin’s F8T012 Bluetooth adapter gives your computer Bluetooth 2.0 for all your diabolical purposes, but it also specifically lets you wirelessly drop photos from cellphones, for printing, storing or uploading. This can often be a pain, especially when you’re dealing with…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Paperless Boarding Passes Coming To Cellphones

While it’s nice to print out boarding passes at home before you leave, you can’t always do the same on your return leg. Continental has a proposed fix, now in testing in Houston. You load your boarding pass onto your phone’s screen with 2D barcode exposed, then let the TSA and airline ticket checkers scan…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

HTC Touch Clone Has GPS, But Still Runs Windows Mobile

If we were a Chinese company that made knockoff phones, we probably wouldn’t make a knockoff of the HTC Touch. Not that the phone is bad—it’s somewhat usable—but putting Windows Mobile 5 on any phone when WM6 is the standard now is kind of a bad idea. However, we would follow in their footsteps and…

Tech News Jason Chen

T-Mobile Customer Service Killed By Flooding in the Northwest

Our busybody brother Consumerist is reporting that T-Mobile’s customer service is totally down and out for the time being thanks to some wrath-of-god flooding in the Pacific Northwest. Their soggy computers can’t pull up customer info, apparently. It’s been down since last night, though no word on when it’ll be back up. [Consumerist, Image via…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Motorola’s Chief Technology Officer Officially Gone

Confirming our scoop from yesterday, InfoWorld’s reporting that Moto’s chief technology officer, Padmasree Warrior, is out the door, complete with her Soviet-like erasure from Motorola’s websites. While the article says “it’s hard to know if Warrior’s departure is linked to Zander’s,” our original source later added that it’s rumored Warrior and incoming CEO Greg Brown…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Nokia 3110 Evolve: Greening Up Its Act, One Phone at a Time

Perhaps in response to Nokia’s sizeable slip in Greenpeace’s Guide to Greener Electronics, the Finnish phone giant has “Evolved” its 3110 model to become, well, greener. The Nokia 3110 Evolve has “bio-covers” made from more than 50% renewable material, its packaging has been reduced in size and comes from 60% recycled content. It also comes…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Verizon Hugs Google, Says Android Is Key to Open Networks

In a breaking BusinessWeek story, Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam says that it will support Android, Google’s new platform for phones and mobile devices, making Verizon a member of sorts in the Open Handset Alliance. While this seems to be the logical conclusion to Verizon’s weeklong openness bender, McAdam claims that it was the Android…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

iPhone Browser Marketshare Nears .1 Percent, Windows Mobile Trails By a Third

The iPhone’s browsing marketshare stands at .09 percent five months after launch, coming close to being one out of every thousand pageviews on the internet. More interestingly, Windows CE—all Windows mobile platforms combined—has only 66 percent of that. Discuss. [CW]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Millionaire Fair Features $1.2M Phone, Other Baubles for the Fabulously Dumb

For those of you who thought the iPhone was too expensive, brace yourselves for the crap that turned up at Russia’s Millionaire Fair. A gold and diamond-encrusted phone—possibly the customized Vertu shown above—costs a jaw-dropping $1.2 million. (Cash only, please.) Does it do anything particularly exciting that other handsets can’t, like neutralize your enemies with…

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Apple and AT&T Sued Over Visual Voicemail Patents, Will Probably Lose

Klausner Technologies, a patent holding firm founded by the inventor of the PDA, is suing Apple and AT&T for $360 million for infringing on its patents with visual voicemail. Its patents cover selectively retrieving messages from a menu displaying the caller’s name, number, etc. Yes, they have on patent on that entire concept. Lending credibility…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Windows Mobile 6.1 Has Streamlined Today Screen, More Improvements

The Windows Mobile successor we told you about last week seems to have gotten a tentative name (Windows Mobile 6.1), and Boy Genius has an illustrated guide to some of the new features you can find. Among them are a sideways scrolling home screen that gets rid of the cluttered Today page you have now,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Motorola’s Chief Technology Officer Splits

Motorola’s personnel issues continue. We just got word a company-wide email went out announcing that Padmasree Warrior—Moto’s chief technology officer—is out the door “to pursue other opportunities.” Could this be because stepping into ousted CEO Ed Zander‘s shoes is a Moto insider—president Greg Brown—rather than fresh blood? Given their woes, a clean break from the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Wi-Fi Moto Q9 Unboxed, Heading to AT&T?

Boy Genius just got his hands on a new Moto Q9 that features Wi-Fi, AT&T branding and a slight color change. In addition to the hardware upgrade, the new Q9 is shipping with Windows Mobile 6.1, complete with a new user interface. Boy Genius notes the speediness of browsing online with the Q9 and seems…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Rhapsody In Music Cell from LG Sports iPod-esque Clickwheel

Nokia Expects HD Video on Cellphones in 2 or 3 years

More Windows Mobile 6.1 Details

T-Mobile Rolls Out Second 3G Phone, Nokia 6263, Still No 3G Network

Ice Brkr Takes All Human Interaction Out of Going to Bars

Verizon Expands Its Lineup with Moto Z6c and Red LG 8350

Mobile Secretary Does Everything a Real-Life Secretary Does — Except That

Send Photos From Phone to Web With Belkin Kodak Bluetooth USB Adapter

Paperless Boarding Passes Coming To Cellphones

HTC Touch Clone Has GPS, But Still Runs Windows Mobile

T-Mobile Customer Service Killed By Flooding in the Northwest

Motorola’s Chief Technology Officer Officially Gone

Nokia 3110 Evolve: Greening Up Its Act, One Phone at a Time

Verizon Hugs Google, Says Android Is Key to Open Networks

iPhone Browser Marketshare Nears .1 Percent, Windows Mobile Trails By a Third

Millionaire Fair Features $1.2M Phone, Other Baubles for the Fabulously Dumb

Apple and AT&T Sued Over Visual Voicemail Patents, Will Probably Lose

Windows Mobile 6.1 Has Streamlined Today Screen, More Improvements

Motorola’s Chief Technology Officer Splits

Wi-Fi Moto Q9 Unboxed, Heading to AT&T?

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