cellphones

Goodbye, Mr. TDMA

Oh, TDMA, we hardly knew you! You and your analog friends over at Cingular are still used by 2.5 million former AT&T subscribers, but by 2008 they’ll have to buy a new GSM phone or lose service. Fair? No. An example of what happens when you invest too heavily in one, proprietary standard? Absolutely! Cingular…

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Alcatel OT-C850 Music Phone

Alcatel’s new OT-C850 Music Phone has a 1.3 megapixel camera, a 65K color 176 220 screen, plays MP3s (256 MB of memory onboard, plus a MicroSD slot) and EDGE, blah blah blah. Let’s be honest now: the most interesting thing about this phone that it looks like it was designed by Knight Industries. Would you use…

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Mago Luxury Smart Phone

Russian is not one of the languages we speak at Gizmodo and so we can’t confirm whether the Mago Luxury Smartphone you see above has ever gone into production or if it ever will (we’re guessing not), but damn, it sure is pretty, innit? Not that specs really matter in this case, but here are…

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Nokia’s Vanjoki Expects Total Domination

Anssi Vanjoki, head of Nokia’s multimedia division, recently did an interview with the Financial Times in which he expressed the belief that the ubiquity of multimedia cellphones would soon sound a death knell for music device and camcorder manufacturers, much as they have helped herald the end of the photo industry as we know it.…

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iPod Phone All But Confirmed?

Australian tech news site Smarthouse talked to an unnamed executive at Taiwanese cellphone company BenQ recently, who says Apple representatives have been working on manufacturing deals in Taiwan for an iPod phone over the past few months: “An iPod phone is definitely coming. BenQ will not be making it as we are in competition with…

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SK Telecom LG-SD910 Duo Slider

Two different ways to slide, why the hell not? It kind of reminds us of the latest shaving razor shenanigans. In a couple of years we will see the SK Telecom Ultra Slider Deluxe Fusion featuring five different sliding mechanisms. The screen slides out horizontally to unveil multimedia function keys and the entire face unit…

Tech News Travis Hudson

KTF Technologies EV-K100 is Ultra-Thin

KTF Technologies one-ups everybody else with the EV-K100, a telephone it calls the world s slimmest. It s so thin, if you turn it sideways it’s almost invisible. To put its size into context, the EV-K100 s 7.9mm thickness is only slightly larger than the iPod nano s 6.85mm dimension. The company reached this level…

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Polymer Vision Screen Thin as Paper, in Cellphones Someday

If you’re tired of squinting at that postage-stamp-sized screen on your cellphone, Polymer Vision is pimping a 4.8-inch roll-up screen for cellphones, GPS, and mobile entertainment devices, and maybe someday it will make its way to the real world. This fanciful mockup is said to have a 240×320 color screen with a refresh rate of…

Gadgets Charlie White

Phlash Adds Flash to Mobile Phones

Phlash is a self-contained LED unit powered by coin-shaped lithium batteries that lets you add flash to your mobile phone pictures. You either stick Phlash on your phone with its self-adhesive backing or hang it from your phone with the included strap. Made for close-up photos of three feet or less, it’s manually synchronized, meaning…

Gadgets Charlie White

CellAntenna CAE750 Boosts Cell Signal for Emergency Use

The CellAntenna CAE750 Dual-Band Rapid Deployment Cellular Repeater System (RDCRS) could have helped with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina where cell phone signals were weak or non-existent. Communication was a major hurdle to not only rescue efforts but to the survivors trying to reach friends or relatives outside of the affected area. Small and light…

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Motorola C116 Cellphone: Too Cheap for the US?

Here’s a dirt-cheap GSM cellphone that’s available everywhere in the world except the United States: the Motorola C116 is a basic $39 handset (or get it unlocked for $70) that Motorola developed specifically for developing countries. The bare-bones candybar has a monochrome screen and is good for five days worth of talk time on a…

Tech News Charlie White

EMF Reducing Clothing

This hat — made from cotten fiber, silver and copper — will help reduce your brain’s exposure to EMF. LessEMF also sells shirts and cell phone covers to accomplish the same thing. The shielding comes at a price, though. When you reduce the radiation coming from a cell phone, you also reduce the signal strength…

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Giant LG Cellphone Balloon

LG announced yesterday that in an effort to strengthen its European market the company will be participating in the 2006 European Balloon Tour with a massive cellphone balloon. Yes, it is one big-ass cellphone, and no it doesn t get any better reception. Good luck on your trip, LG. We hope your massive cellphone doesn…

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LG Style-i Acts as Cellphone Remote, But Like a Bluetooth Earpiece, Too

What the heck is this neat-looking thing, anyway? Well, it’s not exactly a Bluetooth earpiece but works like one. It’s not exactly a cellphone, but it works as one. The 4.3-inch-tall LG Style-i still needs to your cellphone to work, but communicates with it and even two other phones via Bluetooth. You hold it like…

Tech News Charlie White

Sharp Intros Tiny Camera Module

How much a smaller can a video camera get? Apparently, tinier than a ladybug. Sharp introduced the LZ0P396D, a CCD camera module destined for mobile phones that will be used as a secondary camera capable of 30fps video. The company plans to start mass producing them in April, and each module will be $10. Beyond…

Gadgets Charlie White

FCC Approves VC Mobile’s VC2020 & VC2010

Thin is in and phones don’t get much thinner these days than the 0.35″/8.8mm VK2020 & VK2010 from VK Mobile. How skinny is that? They make the Motorola RAZR V3 look fat at 0.5″. Unlike the RAZR, there’s no cameras on these babies as they’re meant to be music players. The VK2010 (the one that…

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Motorola Ming Ships, Finally

After being merely a tease on our senses, the Motorola A1200 has finally shipped with a brand new name. The renamed Motorola Ming is still has all of the same specs that we reported on back in December. The best feature being the 2.0-megapixel camera that includes optical character recognition (OCR) for business card scanning…

Tech News Travis Hudson

D-Link DPH-540 is First Clamshell WiFi Phone

Until now, if you were looking for a clamshell-style WiFi VoIP phone, you were out of luck. But D-Link changes all that with its DPH-540, a phone that lets you make free calls anywhere you can find a WiFi hotspot. This one has a soft phone on board from global Internet telephone provider TelTel, whose…

Gadgets Charlie White

Nokia Announces T-One: Voice and Data at Home and On the Road

Nokia is using its and E60 and N80 (pictured at left)) devices to study whether you really can have it all: voice and data on both fixed lines and on the road. The Finnish phone giant has gotten together with the Deutsche Telekom group and announced T-One, an integrated dual-mode telephony system that’s aiming to…

Tech News Charlie White

Cellphone Camera Hinders Subway Flasher

A 15-year-old girl has taken a step to beating New York City flashers with the help of her digital camera. A man who was flashing on the subway was identified when the girl snapped a picture of him—his face, not his junk. The NYPD has released the photo with hopes of catching the perpetrator. Cellphone…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Goodbye, Mr. TDMA

Alcatel OT-C850 Music Phone

Mago Luxury Smart Phone

Nokia’s Vanjoki Expects Total Domination

iPod Phone All But Confirmed?

SK Telecom LG-SD910 Duo Slider

KTF Technologies EV-K100 is Ultra-Thin

Polymer Vision Screen Thin as Paper, in Cellphones Someday

Phlash Adds Flash to Mobile Phones

CellAntenna CAE750 Boosts Cell Signal for Emergency Use

Motorola C116 Cellphone: Too Cheap for the US?

EMF Reducing Clothing

Giant LG Cellphone Balloon

LG Style-i Acts as Cellphone Remote, But Like a Bluetooth Earpiece, Too

Sharp Intros Tiny Camera Module

FCC Approves VC Mobile’s VC2020 & VC2010

Motorola Ming Ships, Finally

D-Link DPH-540 is First Clamshell WiFi Phone

Nokia Announces T-One: Voice and Data at Home and On the Road

Cellphone Camera Hinders Subway Flasher

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