cellphones

Dotmobi Top-Level Domain Now Ready For The Masses

The many companies behind the dotMobi top-level domain hope to make your mobile Internet experience both better and easier. The top-level domain—like .com and .org—opened up to the general public yesterday (it was announced just a few months ago, too) and I saw the domain in action (if you can call it that) at an…

Parrot MK6000 Hands-Free Car Speaker

Parrot’s set to make an official announcement on the MK6000 in-car Bluetooth speakerphone tomorrow, but uber gizmo has news of it today. The MK6000 has dual microphones for noise reduction, text-to-speech to read back your phone’s contacts, and can play streaming music from any bluetooth device—which includes phones, laptops, and MP3 players. https://gizmodo.com/stormblue-a9-bluetooth-enabled-music-player-203090 The MK6000…

Freedom Mini Bluetooth Keyboard for Cellphones Finally Available

We remember wanting a piece of this Freedom Mini action way back when it was announced last year, but not being able to find it anywhere. But good news shoppers, it’s finally available from X-TremeGeek for $84.97. https://gizmodo.com/freedom-input-mini-keyboard-it-loves-our-freedom-116004 To recap, the Freedom Mini is a Bluetooth mini-keyboard for cellphones and PDAs that don’t have a…

Nokia N95 In Action

Nokia N95 Cellphone has Wings, 5MP Cam, GPS, HSDPA

Good thing DEMO is so F’n boring, I can still post. Nokia dropped word of their N95 multimedia computer today. (We still call em cellphones, but don’t tell Nokia that or they’ll bop us on the head…again) The smartphone has a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens, which they say can take dvd-like video…

Nokia N75 Smartphone, 20.2mm Thin

The smartphones get smaller and thinner, and Nokia rolled out its N75 clamshell WCDMA and GSM smartphone today that’s just 20.2mm thick. It has a 2-megapixel camera and a 2.4-inch 320×240 screen inside, and music keys on the outside. It includes Nokia’s Internet browser and e-mail, too, and lets you view e-mail attachments in Microsoft…

Hey! Hey! Unplug Me, You Moron!

Well, your cellphone may not be that abusive, but if the mobile industry task force led by Nokia has its way, your cellphone might give you a gentle audible reminder that its charging cycle is done and that you can unplug it. The task force reports that if 10% of the world’s cellphone-using population unplugged…

Cingular Exclusive on Apple iPhone?

Clandestine info about Apple’s upcoming iPhone (see fake pic at right) keeps trickling in, and the latest assertion has Apple and Cingular teaming up to distribute the phone at first, with Cingular snagging exclusive rights to Apple’s iPhone for its initial six months on the market. After that, other providers will also be joining the…

Mercora M Lets WM5 Phone Owners Stream Music From Your Library To Their Mobile

Instead of downloading songs onto your phone over EV-DO or pre-loading them via your computer, Mercora M lets you access your entire music library streamed over your broadband connection. The upside is that you have all your music all the time. The software’s only available for Windows Mobile 5 devices now, the Mercora M service…

Cellphone Concerto Encourages Ringing Phones During Performance

David Baker is a composer putting on a 15-minute, fully interactive cellphone concerto at the Chicago Sinfonietta. Fully interactive meaning the audience members will be playing the concerto from the direction of Baker. The audience will be divided up into sections and red and green lights will tell the audience when to activate their ringtones.…

Absurdly Small Cellphone from Xun Chi

We’ve shown you tiny phones before, but this is getting ridiculous: the Xun Chi 138 is scarcely larger than an AA battery and it weighs just two ounces. Too small to even dial, it requires you to use a stylus on a touchscreen and plug in a headset to talk and listen. Since it only…

Sony DR-BT30Q Bluetooth Headset – No More Looking Like Corporate Madonna

The DR-BT30Q is a long needed overhaul of the bored Bluetooth headset styles of the present. Intended for use with a music phone, the DR-BT30Q look like a nice pair of headphones but support a quasi-hidden microphone as well. But why stop at cellphones? Because they are Bluetooth and non-proprietary, you can look forward to…

Sorry T-Mobile, Cingular Gets BlackBerry Pearls Too

The BlackBerry Pearl, was for a week, something T-Mobile users could hold over the head of Cingular users. Sorry pals, now Cingular is getting the 8100 as well, and their version has Push-To-Talk. https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-frankenreview-blackberry-pearl-8100-200244 Some more pictures and a small review here. https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-pearl-8100-officially-shot-out-of-a-cannon-198992 Cingular to get BlackBerry Pearl [CNET via Crunchgear]

New Shots of the White Limited Edition PEBL

In case you were wondering what the limited edition white Maria Sharapova PEBL looked like, here you go. Only one of 50 available to special contest winners. Or if your name is Maria Sharapova. https://gizmodo.com/maria-sharapova-branded-motorola-pebl-199331 We wish we were famous enough for people to make limited editions of stuff with our name on it. The…

Motorola Bluetooth Hat For Snowboarders

This goofy looking cap from Motorola has a Bluetooth headset built in so snowboarders can carry on a conversation using their cellphones or listen to music while sliding down the mountain to their death. The cap comes in two versions, white and black. Unlike Apple, Motorola doesn’t charge more for the black version. Both are…

Nintendo DS Cellphone Toy, Almost as Fun as The Real Thing

Bummed out because you can’t find a Nintendo DS Lite anywhere? Upset that Nintendo’s successful product is nigh unobtainable in the color you want? If you’re willing to accept a horrifically cheap imitation, then feast your eyes on these cellphone strap DS toys. Yeah, they won’t play New Super Mario Bros. but they do come…

Motorola KRZR K1m Imminent

Could the Motorola KRZR K1m, that scaled-down version of the iconic RAZR, be on the verge of release from Verizon? Well, it’s showing up on Verizon’s testman site, a sign that it may hit the streets sooner than everyone thought, perhaps by mid-October. In fact, sources say it started shipping out of Asia last week.…

Nokia Release 6315i for Verizon—Good Bang, Less Buck

This little Nokia clamshell is a pretty good phone with a pretty good price. The Nokia 6315i is a Pantech-branded Nokia phone that is now available for Verizon Wireless. One of the nice features is that it included EVDO. Also packed into this small clamshell is a 262k display, 1.3-megapixel camera and Bluetooth. It will…

Philips S660 Budget-Minded Music Cellphone

So it looks like Philips is the latest company to jump into the music phone game with its S660. That said, Philips may be targeting a more budget-minded audience with this one given its fairly small feature set. Only coming with 128MB of storage, the S660 doesn’t even offer a memory card slot, which is…

Lowbie Palm Treo 680 Confirmed

Well, I was completely unaware that Palm was capable of making a low-end phone, but it is true. The 680 will be available worldwide, and the only confirmed detail is that it will include a VGA camera. Uh, VGA—yeah this phone is going to suck. It will be roughly the same size of the 750v.…