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The Latest Cameraphone Trend: Funerals

Reuters is reporting on the latest camera phone trend in Japan. It seems that funeral attendees are now photographing the deceased one last time before the burial or cremation. A Japanese funeral director described an event where a group of people circled around the corpse and began snapping photos from camera phones before the cremation…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Old Cell Phones Save Gorillas, Kind of

The Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C. has begun a campaign collecting old cell phones. The cell phones, batteries and other accessories will be collected and recycled. How does this save said gorilla? Well, it will cut down on the mining of the coltan in the Congo. Coltan, which is short for columbite-tantalite, is a…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Song Limit Upgrade on Motorola ROKR?

Observant tipster Evan DiBiase was rooting around the iTunes 6.0.3 binary file while lamenting the 100-song limit on his ROKR iTunes phone, and noticed some mysterious references to upgradePhone . One thing led to another and suddenly DiBiase found a link that led him to the iTunes Music Store. He saw the screen above, offering…

Tech News Charlie White

Fiery Red PEBL (?)

Looks like we missed this one on Sunday, but Motorola seems to have released a Fiery Red PEBL “for the ladies.” It was supposed to be a Valentine’s Day promotion, so we’re not sure if this will appear pressed against the ear of short girls in furry boots and huge sunglasses around the world this…

Tech News Johnb

Motorolas Mass Market RAZR

Motorola has unveiled the W220, a RAZR with less bells and whistles, at the 3GSM conference in Barcelona. The phone comes in the same popular slim design of the RAZR, but is aimed at consumers not especially willing to spend an arm and a leg on a cellphone, especially those in developing countries. The W220…

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Orange Talks Big SIM Cards

With cellphones leaning towards becoming full-fledged media players, it’s nice to know someone is trying to come up with something to help us easily store all our stuff. Orange mobile phone group announced plans to launch a SIM card that will hold 8,000 times more data than the SIM you have in your cellphone today.…

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HELIO Launches Two Phones

HELIO, a new mobile carrier aimed at the kids—you know who you are—will launch this spring with two phones, the black Hero and the white Kickflip. The Hero is a rebadged Pantech phone with a slide out keyboard and 3G compatibility, while the Kickflip is made by VK Mobile. Like Boost and others in this…

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LG 5 Megapixel KG920

This LG, full-featured swivel cameraphone has a whopping 5-megapixel camera with built-in flash and a nice big display for image viewing. Other features include a MP3 player, miniSD memory card slot and Bluetooth. The lens cover is also a nice addition because with a camera that mighty, you don’t want to get crud all over…

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HTC Star Trek Phone

Though we’ve shown you images of the HTC Star Trek cellphone before, it’s finally been formally announced at the 3GSM show. Also known as the i-mate Smartflip, it’s a thin, clamshell phone that runs Windows Mobile 5. Specs include a QVGA display, quad-band GSM, EDGE data, 64 MB ROM / 64 MB RAM, a MicroSD…

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Xensaxion: ROKR Docking Beats

We’ve seen an overabundance of iPod docking speakers, so it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise to be bombarded with Qool Labs Xensaxion for your Motorola ROKR. A neat little gadget, it’s a pair of docking speakers that also allows you to charge the phone, synchronize your files and even take a call using…

Tech News Tgrumet

Oscar Swag: Motorola’s “Gunmetal” PEBL

Motorola always gives its latest, just-released phones away to Oscar nominees, and this year’s, ahem, gifting experience includes the special edition PEBL shown above. Moto is touting the “gunmetal” finish (as opposed to silver or black), as well as the personalized “keepsake box”—although why anyone would keepsake this is beyond me. The phone is only…

Tech News Noah R

LG and Kodak Unite for AMOLEDS

Hoping to get AMOLEDs (active matrix organic light emitting diodes) up and running for future mobile technology, LG and Kodak have united to “jointly evaluate” the displays. The technology, which is thin with extremely quick response times, sandwiches carbon based films between two charged electrodes, one of which is a metallic cathode and one a…

Tech News Tgrumet

Samsung i320 Smartphone

Here’s another Samsung cellphone just announced at 3GSM in Barcelona. The i320 is pretty straight forward, running on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 5.0 with 120MB of onboard memory (with a microSD slot just in case you need to add more storage). It’s uses tri-band GSM, supports Bluetooth and is capable of GPRS/EDGE where available. Other features…

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iPhone Concept Photos Leaked? Update: Good Lord, No

Some 3D renderings have popped up that are claiming to be conceptional designs of the Apple iPhone. From appearance alone it looks as though this phone will be a traditional clamshell design constructed from brushed metal. Of course Apple has made no announcements about this phone, but this could be one of those purposeful leaks…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Motorola W220 Mass Market Phone

Though not the most remarkable clamshell cellphone Motorola ever put out, the W220 does have a certain funky look to it when its closed and includes a built-in FM radio as its big selling point. That, on top of the fact that it’s built for the mass market and should come with a nice, easy-to-handle…

Tech News Tgrumet

DoCoMo and Nokia’s NM850iG 3G FOMA Phone

Though another Japan-only launch, here’s the NM850iG 3G FOMA cellphone—made by Nokia and announced by DoCoMo. Though it runs on the 3G FOMA network in Japan, it can also run on W-CDMA, GSM and GPRS networks for overseas use using DoCoMo’s WORLD WING 3G roaming service. The phone includes another 1.3 megapixel camera (what is…

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Just One More Thing: iPod On Steroids?

Amphetameme.org reads the tea leaves and carefully reasons why Apple is about to release an iPod “phone” which goes far beyond the everyday cellphone and takes mobile media to the next level. The site reviews a few key facts, such as the fact that Apple registered to sell mobile phones and mobile service, and is…

Tech News Charlie White

Mitac Mio A701

If you ever wanted to multi-task to the point of insanity AND know where you are, the Mitac Mio A701 is your new favorite toy. Arriving in March according to this translated page, the Mio runs on Windows Mobile 5.0, has Bluetooth and USB and is yet another PDA that doubles as a phone but…

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Samsung SGH-Z600 Flip Phone

Samsung introduced the SGH-Z600, a GSM/3G flip phone running the Symbian 8.1 operating system and the S60 2.8 smart phone platform. It has a 2-megapixel camera, and its 2-inch diagonal screen has a resolution of 176×208. It’s capable of MPEG-4 video recording, and can play back MP3 and WMA audio, among others. Its tiny dual…

Gadgets Charlie White

Consumerist: Cheapest American Pay-As-You-Go Cell Plan?

Over at The Consumerist, our poor mother needs a cheap American pay-as-you-go cell phone plan. John Brownlee explains how these type of phones work in Europe: The way these phones work is this: you buy a phone for maybe €60-€100. It comes with a certain amount of credit, which you can use to make phone…

Tech News Joel

The Latest Cameraphone Trend: Funerals

Old Cell Phones Save Gorillas, Kind of

Song Limit Upgrade on Motorola ROKR?

Fiery Red PEBL (?)

Motorolas Mass Market RAZR

Orange Talks Big SIM Cards

HELIO Launches Two Phones

LG 5 Megapixel KG920

HTC Star Trek Phone

Xensaxion: ROKR Docking Beats

Oscar Swag: Motorola’s “Gunmetal” PEBL

LG and Kodak Unite for AMOLEDS

Samsung i320 Smartphone

iPhone Concept Photos Leaked? Update: Good Lord, No

Motorola W220 Mass Market Phone

DoCoMo and Nokia’s NM850iG 3G FOMA Phone

Just One More Thing: iPod On Steroids?

Mitac Mio A701

Samsung SGH-Z600 Flip Phone

Consumerist: Cheapest American Pay-As-You-Go Cell Plan?

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