Motorola Unleashes the ROKR E2 Upon Asia: Just as Bad as the ROKR?
Motorola just launched the Linux-based ROKR E2 music cellphone in Singapore (isn’t Motorola an American company?) and hopefully it’s not as big of a disappointment as the original ROKR was. This time around you can load up to 500 MP3s onto the cellphone, but, since it’s based on Linux, you probably won’t be seeing iTunes…
UPlus 2, the World’s Smallest Cellphone Charger (Maybe)
Straight out of Korea comes the UPlus 2, a USB cellphone charger from NewQ that is supposedly the world’s smallest, but manufacturers like to claim that their product is the world’s first/biggest/fastest etc. all the time. It is hard to imagine anything smaller than this, however. The charger is small enough to be carried with…
Nokia Year 2015 Cellphone Design Contest Winner Video
This concept cellphone was lionized back in June , but now we have a video of it in action. To recap, Nokia held a contest where designers were to come up with a cellphone that would “hit” the market in 2015, making it a 4G or 5G cellphone. The winning design, by Daniel Meyer of…
Puma Cuff Pouch, an MP3 Player on Your Wrist
Puma’s come out with a small wrist pouch that’s able to store pretty much any type of small gadget, be it your iPod, your non-iPod or cellphone. The Cuff Pouch is available in two colors, puma red and whisper white. https://gizmodo.com/ipod-vending-machine-in-action-170776 Far be it from Puma to list how much the pouch costs, but then…
Vertu Constellation Luxury Cellphone, Supposedly More Affordable
Vertu is going to launch a line of slightly more affordable “luxury” cellphones sometime this fall, giving them the name Constellation. Three different cellphones will be released under the Constellation moniker, one covered in 18 karat gold (pictured here), and the other two in polished and satin steel. Luxury, baby! The GSM/EDGE cellphones, aside from…
Samsung SCH-a870 Family-Friendly Cellphone With VibeTonz
Samsung and Verizon Wireless just unleashed the SCH-a870 onto the mobile phone market in the US. The clamshell is being marketed as a family-friendly cellphone, so don’t expect too many whizz-bang features here. What you will find on the SCH-a870 are some of the little nickel-and-dime services that Verizon Wireless is in love with nowadays,…
Sprint Releases EVDO Rev. A Card, Faster Than ‘Regular’ EVDO
The constant oneupsmanship, to use a semi-real word, between Sprint and Verizon Wireless just got more interesting with the upcoming Sprint release of a Rev. A EVDO card. EVDO Rev. A is faster than the EVDO (Rev. 0) currently being used by Verizon Wireless, with download speeds up to 3.1Mbps and upload speeds of up…