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Cellphones to Further Ruin Airplane Travel

As if flying wasn’t miserable enough already, soon you’ll have to cope with the cell phone yell up close and personal on airplanes. Starting in December of this year, the US feds will allow onboard satellite uplinks on airplanes, threatening to eliminate that last bastion of chatter-free existence. If you thought that crying, pooping baby…

Tech News Charlie White

French GSM Phone in US

Never really heard much about the French cellphone company Sagem, but it looks like its my400L GSM phone was just approved by the FCC to arrive here in the US. A candybar phone with Bluetooth and a camera placed on the left instead of centered (not sure how many MP), it includes a mirror for…

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Verizon Gives Directions, Too

Verizon has finally decided to do something with the GPS feature in some of its phones. Cashing in on a service Sprint has already been providing, it’s launched the VZ Navigator, a subscriber service that will let you get directions and the location of nearby businesses including every Starbucks in the whole world (ok, maybe…

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Cellphone Jammers on the Way?

This is a little Japanese gadget that will make living life day-to-day so much nicer. It’s a simple device with an on-button. It has two modes, one mode will disable all calls within a area for 70 seconds, the other will fade away the call with “natural atmosphere” to assist ending that call with Aunt…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

LTT: Cell phone for a Tree

Manchester Telco Your Communications will be handing out 25,000 bags for their customers. Donate an old cellphone using the bag and Manchester Telco will dedicate a tree to a local Lancashire farm. Additionally you can get a tree dedication for switching to the e-billing system. Manchester Telco Your Comm is working with the CarbonNeutral Company…

Tech News Travis Hudson

First Look: Verizon’s Pink Razr V3c

Some of the girly girls we hang around with were just dying for the new pink Razr V3c from Verizon, so Gizmodo got its greasy paws on one last weekend. It’s the usual Motorola Razr stuff, with its effortless good looks but labyrinthine user interface. Its 1.3 megapixel camera is bad (see pic after the…

Tech News Charlie White

More Transparent OLED Madness

The Fraunhofer scientists who developed the transparent OLED technology I told you about on Friday are not the only ones with see-through powers. An outfit called Universal Display Corporate also has the technology, which they have dubbed TOLED. Universal also claims a patent on transparency, but the two technologies are different. Universal has developed a…

Tech News Noah R

Pastel Pink RAZR

If the Magenta RAZR was a little too much for you, Verizon has launched a soft pink version of the v3c for about $50 more than the original silver it put out last month. So, to review, it’s got a 1.3 MP camera, Bluetooth and weighs 3.49 ounces. The cost from Verizon is $250 with…

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Transparent OLED On the Way

It’s hard to wrap your head around at first, but there are a zillion innovations that will be possible now that German scientists have figured out how to make organic LEDs that are transparent. The most obvious application is to incorporate them into conventional LCDs and “transform laminated glass into a display panel.” OLEDs could…

Tech News Noah R

Soldius Solar Golf Bag

I’m not sure the guy behind you is going to be thrilled when he catches you banging away on your cellphone and/or Blackberry on the links, but the Soldius golf bag will certainly make it easy to stay in touch on your next golf outing. A nice-looking golf bag with integrated solar charger, it comes…

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Verizon Says Fat Chance to Cellphone Porn

Though the Mobile Adult Content Congress seemed to be a big hit this past week in Miami, and everyone knows that bringing cellphone-based smut to the masses is a billion dollar business, many cellphone operators aren’t buying into the idea so readily. Already, Europe is steeped in tens of millions of dollars worth of mobile…

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New Ben-Q Quad-Band P50: Kinda Old OS

First Ben-Q announces a tie-in with Siemens to make cellphones and now we have news of the P50 smartphone/PDA. It offers quad-band coverage and runs on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 2003 (that’s a bit odd, huh?). The insides are powered by an Intel PXA272 416MHz processor and it has 64MB of SDRAM and 64MB of Flash…

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New Pics of Samsung 7.7 MP phone

We told you all about Samsung’s crazy-ass 7.7 megapixel cameraphone with optical zoom, but now we have a proper pic. So here it is in all its glory. Also includes DMB TV reception, TV-output, landscape view, MP3 audio playback, and microSD memory card storage. Samsung 7.7-Megapixel DMB Camera Phone

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JBL Accessories Partner With Motorola

With more music phones hitting shelves every day, it’s now time to concentrate on the important stuff: Accessories. So, to try and make a dent in this not so sexy category, JBL is partnering up with Motorola to market all kinds of headphones (think Bluetooth), speaker systems and other goodies to accompany the Motorola stable…

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Pentech Scrollwheel WonderPhonen

Yesterday we showed you Pantech’s music phone and today we have another nice surprise from the Korean wunderkind (though remember, it is only the second largest cellphone manufacturer in the country). Take a gander at the IM-U100 portable multimedia phone. This thing comes with MP3 player, camera and movie functions and has a pretty big…

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Pantech’s PT-L1900 Audio cellphone

Today was have another case of a mistaken gadget identity. Yesterday we saw the Samsung cameraphone that was fighting between being a badass camera or an actual phone. Today we see Pantech’s Audiophone. This phone features an embedded fully digital amp chipset. Additionally it has 11 acoustic modes, a 7-band equalizer and 3D stereo sound.…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Verizon Wireless Music Phone

Verizon Wireless has teamed up with UTStarcom Personal Communications to offer its own branded Music Phone. The CDM8945 will be able to take advantage of Verizon’s Vcast Music service and includes up to 256MB of memory on a TransFlash card (not included with phone). Also expect streaming mobile video and 3D gaming from the phone,…

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Metrosexual Phone, For the Feminine Side in All of Us

LG wants to make sure its got a phone for everyone, including you guys who are comfortable with your aesthetics. So if style and appearance are that important to you, go ahead and ogle this LG S5000 glossy black cellphone, which has been launched in China as the perfect product for the “metrosexual male.” It’s…

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Hype Sheet

Terrell Owens for Boost Mobile By Brendan I. Koerner The Pitch Ad-libbing in an empty gym, eternally controversial Philadelphia Eagles wideout Terrell Owens waxes poetic on his dedication to the game of (American) football. “I’m running routes in my head right now, catching a pass right now,” he informs us, while stealthily flexing his impressive…

Tech News Brendan I. Koerner

Hitachi TV Phone

One-segment broadcasting is a service that allows you to watch terrestrial digital broadcasts from mobile phones and other devices. It will be available in Japan starting April 1. And Hitachi has produced a mobile phone to capitalize on this, it’s the W41H, and will be supplied by au. It has a 2.7-inch LCD display that…

Tech News Noah R

Cellphones to Further Ruin Airplane Travel

French GSM Phone in US

Verizon Gives Directions, Too

Cellphone Jammers on the Way?

LTT: Cell phone for a Tree

First Look: Verizon’s Pink Razr V3c

More Transparent OLED Madness

Pastel Pink RAZR

Transparent OLED On the Way

Soldius Solar Golf Bag

Verizon Says Fat Chance to Cellphone Porn

New Ben-Q Quad-Band P50: Kinda Old OS

New Pics of Samsung 7.7 MP phone

JBL Accessories Partner With Motorola

Pentech Scrollwheel WonderPhonen

Pantech’s PT-L1900 Audio cellphone

Verizon Wireless Music Phone

Metrosexual Phone, For the Feminine Side in All of Us

Hype Sheet

Hitachi TV Phone

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