cellphones

Samsung SPH-M250 FCC Approved

Remember that cute waitress at the coffeehouse? Go ahead and ask her out, because today, Thursday July 20th, 2006, a Korean phone has made its way to the US, which means dreams actually do come true. This DMB-ready (Mobile television) phone had a 2 megapixel camera, MP3 player, TransFlash memory support and a TV out…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Yahoo, Motorola: Together At Last

Yesterday the Internet powerhouse, Yahoo, announced a deal with Motorola that will embed Yahoo’s data service into millions of mid-range and high-end Motorola phones. Yahoo data services include e-mail, web, address books, photo albums, Yahoo Messenger and more. At first this deal seemed a little ho-hum to me, but Yahoo has a lot of good…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Cingular Updates Sony Ericsson Z520a with Z525a – Adds PTT

Fans of the *beep beep* Z520 launched last year by Cingular that miss *beep beep* push-to-talk functionality will like the Z525, which is pretty *beep beep* much identical save for the PTT. It’s *beep beep* got a VGA camera, 16MB of memory, Bluetooth, and quad-band GSM. You can get it now for *beep beep* $19…

Tech News Jason Chen

Motorola i670 Available on Sprint/Nextel

The carrier that businesses love—Sprint/Nextel—continues its tradition of black, non-aerodynamic phones with the Motorola i670. The 130×130 display won’t be curing eye-cancer anytime soon, but the Push-To-Talk, GPS navigation, Direct Talk off-network walkie talkie and group walkie talkie makes this targeted towards the exact opposite audience that Helio is aiming for. The i670 is available…

Tech News Jason Chen

Whirlpool Begins Testing High-Tech Laundry Project

Today Whirlpool launched a pilot project called “Laundry Time.” The idea behind the project is making the washing machine more connected to your life. The washer and dryers being tested will be able to be monitored and controlled via computers, cellphones and televisions. To be conducted in Atlanta homes between today and early September, Laundry…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

i.Tech Clip R35 Bluetooth Stereo Headphones

Tired of taking your MP3-playing phone out of your bag just to fast forward past James Blunt’s You’re Beautiful, the song your girlfriend put on there but you still haven’t taken off yet? Then get yourself the i.Tech Clip R35 A2DP bluetooth headset. This headset connects to your phone so you can wirelessly stream your…

Tech News Jason Chen

Samsung Mass-Producing 8 Gigabit NAND Flash Memory

Samsung’s announced that they’re starting mass production of their 8-Gigabit NAND flash memory. What this means to you is Samsung is offering an 8GB worth of memory by “‘vertically stacking two 4GB packages, each package carrying a vertical stack of four 8Gb dies’, meaning each solution has eight 8Gb dies in it for a total…

Gadgets Jason Chen

BenQ’a Mia, A Cellphone For Girly Girls

Girls and gadgets don’t often go together so it’s nice to see companies trying to squeeze some money out of a relatively untapped market. The company in question is BenQ-Siemens and the gadgets is Mia, a pastel-colored EF61 cellphone with a girl-friendly flower petal print on the front. The clamshell cellphone has a groove along…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon

Gigabyte Keroro Frog Phone For Kids

On our recent trip to Japan we discovered that every man, woman, child, pokemon and dog has a phone. When babies are born, the DoCoMo ritual birthing process involves inserting a phone…well, we’ll spare you the details. Suffice it to say, they get’m early. It’s no surprise that Gigabyte is making this Keroro phone “based…

Tech News Jason Chen

Samsung Launches SGH-P200 UMA Phone

The Samsung SGH-P200 cellphone has been launched in the Italian marketplace. I know, you are saying to yourself: “Oh, another cellphone from Samsung, who the hell cares?” Well this one is a little bit different. It is the world’s first Unlicensed Mobile Access phone. This basically means it can switch between cell networks and fixed…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

FCC Gives Go Ahead for Vertu Phone

In today’s episode of “What the FCC is Approving” starring Tony Danza and Betty White, we are greeted with the latest phone from luxury phone manufacturer, Vertu. This phone may be “luxury,” but it doesn’t seem that spectacular in my book. It is a candybar style phone with quad-band GSM support, EDGE, Bluetooth and even…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Water-Powered Cellphones? Really?

We can tell you how to rescue a cellphone that’s been dunked in the water, but it’s a bit more difficult for us to explain how a cellphone can be powered by water. This fuel cell by Japan companies DoCoMo and Aquafairy can recharge a cellphone several times, and it’s a quarter of the size…

Tech News Charlie White

Goldvish Illusion Gold Cellphones

Slightly less gaudy than the million dollar diamond encrusted phone, this Illusion line of phones from Goldvish is made of at least 140 grams of gold. Add to that, the handful of diamonds on the front, including what looks like the numbers on the phone spelled out in diamonds, we’re going to say this will…

Tech News Jason Chen

Helio’s Second Ad: Frenchie

Some of you didn’t like Helio’s first ad, even though we thought it was pretty entertaining. So here’s Helio’s second ad, “Frenchie”. It’s not even on the air yet, so you guys are getting the first look. We chuckled. https://gizmodo.com/helios-first-ad-187519 No more ads after this one, we swear!

Tech News Jason Chen

Nokia Opens Flagship Store In Hong Kong

Nokia’s first flagship store in Asia was in Moscow, so in expanding to Hong Kong, they’ve covered two of the largest countries on that continent they’ve gone to Asia too. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-opens-first-flagship-store-in-russia-142028 The store features their phones plus multimedia displays and “team members” that graduated from the “Nokia Academy” program—an accredited school of higher education if…

Tech News Jason Chen

Motorola Canary Gets FCC Thumbs Up

Listen up you thin form-factor Motorola lovers, the next phone to complement your Q, RAZR, and SLVR has just gotten one step closer to hitting the shelves by getting FCC approval. The phone, named the RAZR K1, has been approved as a quad-band GSM and EDGE phone. Check out all of our hip-hoppin’, be-boppin’ Canary…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Micro-T M689 Retro Brick Cellphone

Eat your heart out Zach Morris. The retro brick phone is making a triumphant return thanks to Hong Kong manufacturer, Micro-T. It’s big, it’s ugly, it’s gaudy and it will likely make the ladies weak at the knees. This retro brick phone has gotten a few non-retro upgrades that include a LCD display, polyphonic ringtones,…

Tech News Travis Hudson

LG CU500 HSDPA Phone Available on Cingular

Cingular releases its first HSDPA phone with the LG CU500 flip. The CU500 has a swiveling 1.3 megapixel camera, music keys, microSD, stereo Bluetooth and weighs 105 grams. https://gizmodo.com/lg-cu500-slim-clamshell-forthcoming-167622 The phone has a pretty average talk time of 3.5 hours, but it’s the first phone to use the new HSDPA network, so quit complaining. But,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Helio’s First Ad

Pretty funny ad for Helio, the phone phone phone damn it, the phone company with MySpace Mobile. Interesting setup that’s actually happened to us once! You could not believe the reactions our parents gave when we came home with an Asian man that one time. Helio’s First Commercial [iSee Video – Thanks Vincent!]

Tech News Jason Chen

LG VX-8500 Chocolate to Verizon: Confirmed

Even though I blasted Verizon earlier today, I am happy to announce that they will be officially carrying the line of LG Chocolate phones that have been making waves overseas. https://gizmodo.com/verizon-hates-creative-razr-owners-187369 The Verizon LG Chocolate page doesn’t have much information besides a nifty interactive rotatey phone model and a “Tell me when it is available”…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Samsung SPH-M250 FCC Approved

Yahoo, Motorola: Together At Last

Cingular Updates Sony Ericsson Z520a with Z525a – Adds PTT

Motorola i670 Available on Sprint/Nextel

Whirlpool Begins Testing High-Tech Laundry Project

i.Tech Clip R35 Bluetooth Stereo Headphones

Samsung Mass-Producing 8 Gigabit NAND Flash Memory

BenQ’a Mia, A Cellphone For Girly Girls

Gigabyte Keroro Frog Phone For Kids

Samsung Launches SGH-P200 UMA Phone

FCC Gives Go Ahead for Vertu Phone

Water-Powered Cellphones? Really?

Goldvish Illusion Gold Cellphones

Helio’s Second Ad: Frenchie

Nokia Opens Flagship Store In Hong Kong

Motorola Canary Gets FCC Thumbs Up

Micro-T M689 Retro Brick Cellphone

LG CU500 HSDPA Phone Available on Cingular

Helio’s First Ad

LG VX-8500 Chocolate to Verizon: Confirmed

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