Archive for March 9th, 2009
First solar powered CDMA payphones launched
Tritel Services Ltd launched the first ever solar powered CDMA public payphones to the Sri Lankan market. “This phone has been designed to overcome limitations in expanding payhones coverage such as restricted access to wired telephone connectivity and availability of electricity as the only source of power,” Tritel Services Ltd Chief Operating Officer Ushatha Thilakeratne [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )UStream iPhone Video Broadcasting Application
By Brian, Mobilewhack.com An application that is more or less similar to the Qik application, streaming video needs on the iPhone are pegged to get a big boost with this new UStream iPhone video broadcasting application that is vying for a place on the Appstore. The good news is that their latency from streaming to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Survey shows increasing preference for MP3 by youngsters, audiophiles weep
By Darren Murph, Engadget.com We can already envision the flame fest on this one, so we’ll just cut to the chase. Jonathan Berger, professor of music at Stanford, has been conducting some pretty interesting tests on incoming students, and he’s been recording results that’ll surely make audiophiles cringe. He has been asking his students to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Pure Digital (Flip Video) In Acquisition Discussions; Cisco May Be Buying
By Michael Arrington, Techcrunch.com San Francisco based Pure Digital Technologies, the seven year old company behind the Flip Video line of video cameras, is considering a sale of the company, multiple sources have confirmed. One interested buyer is rumored to be Cisco. Flip cameras – dead simple and small video devices that are tailored towards [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Avaya 9670G Office Desk Phones
By Brian, Mobilewhack.com Here is a great piece of device that most offices can do well with. As far as productivity is concerned, the Avaya 9670G desk phone is the world’s first media phone for enterprises that can provide business users with greater flexibility and more efficient communications while lowering the cost of operation to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Acer Aspire One AOD150 Laptop
By Elias Plastiras, PCWorld With its burgundy palm rest and lid, the Acer Aspire One AOD150 looks nice; not too flashy and not too dull. It has a good number of features, and it also has the best screen we have ever seen in a netbook, so it gets by on much more than just [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 8 so far )Optus’ HTC Dream spotted, photographed passionately
By Darren Murph, Engadget.com Low light, candles in the corner — seriously folks, these shots are downright sultry. Optus’ HTC G1, er, Dream has been spotted and photographed in some random corner of the world, and while it basically looks like every other G1 you’ve ever seen in this hue, we’re absolutely certain that Australians [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Pavilion TX1120US Tablet PC
The HP Pavilion tx1000 is a Tablet PC notebook convertible. HP refers to it as an entertainment notebook, and the system includes media control buttons, dual headphone jacks, a touch screen that works with any stylus or your fingertip, and a new high-gloss finish screen. Its powered by an AMD processor. Specs: •1.8GHz Turion 64 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Latest OS updates for BlackBerry Bold and 8900 leak out
By Peter Ha, Mobilecrunch.com Attention BlackBerry users- Just wanted to let the Bold users know that the latest official OS, v4.6.0.414, has been released in Austria, but works with all carrier models. According to one BlackBerry Forum user this update seems to improve the browser and adds a bit of extra memory among other things. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Big Music Will Surrender, But Not Until At Least 2011
By Michael Arrington, Techcrunch.com I had a surprisingly candid lunch conversation last week with a big music label executive, and a good part of our talk focused on the future of music. I asked the usual question: Why are you guys so damned clueless? Your business is disintegrating before your eyes, and all you do [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Topps launches 3D Live baseball cards, video cards on deck
By Thomas Ricker, Engadget.com Put aside those Pokeman or Bakugan cards kids, Topps is back with a vengeance in an attempt to woo Internet bred sophisti-tots back into collecting baseball cards. Right, Topps, the company that pre-dates Human Growth Hormone abuse and packs a nostalgic smack of dusty pink sticks of chewing gum is back [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )GoGo Powerpack
By Simon, Mobilewhack.com The GoGo Powerpack charges iPhones (including the 3G), iPods and all mobile devices that have a USB charge cable A mini-USB connector is included free to make many other mobile devices compatible. It is compact enough to tuck away your glove box, briefcase or purse,yet powerful enough to recharge a mobile device [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Pay-For-Play Comes To Online Radio.
By Erick Schonfeld, Techcrunch.com When it comes to promoting new music, pay-for-play schemes are generally frowned upon. The practice, which involves music labels or artists paying radio stations to play their songs in heavy rotation, dates back to the beginnings of terrestrial radio. It got so bad in the 1950s that Congress had to intervene, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )T-Mobile Launches Nokia 5310 in 2 New Colors
By T-Marco, Cellphonesignal Today, T-Mobile just launched 2 new refresh colors for the Nokia Xpress Music 5310. Those 2 new colors are Aqua and Silver-White. This thin music-centric GSM phone has much in common with Nokia’s 6500 Classic and 7900. While it lacks 3G, it weighs in about an ounce lighter, while adding music features [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Nokia 5800 XpressMusic NAM Ready for Amazon’s Video On Demand
By Chris, Mobilewhack.com Since the Nokia 5800 NAM is fully working again, there’s no reason for not getting one. And we have just heard that Amazon’s Video on Demand service will be available on the Nokia handset. It will bring you over 40,000 movies and TV shows straight to your phone. Sure the screen might [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Zivix Headliner Digital Guitar Is Rock Band & Guitar Hero Friendly
By Andrew Liszewski, Ohgizmo.com A Minneapolis-based company called Zivix has developed a real guitar with special fingertip sensors allowing it to be used with games like Rock Band or Guitar Hero. The idea is that players who’ve spent countless hours mastering the games might actually be able to learn to play a real guitar at [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Cisco said to be buying Pure Digital for around $500 million
By Darren Murph, Engadget.com Believe us people, popularity pays off. Just ask Pure Digital CEO Jonathan Kaplan, who is reportedly scrambling for ways to spend $80 million of the $500 million Cisco Systems is about to hand over in order to acquire the company. Granted, none of this has been confirmed just yet, but TechCrunch [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Mimi Switch remote control relies on facial expression, not phalanges
By Joseph L. Flatley, Engadget.com For some reason, whenever gadgetry and smiling cross paths, things tend to get a little creepy. Where the smile trainer was mostly a curiosity, the Orwellian implications of the Okao Catch technology were a bit much — even for the hardened tech blogger. Sure, the Mimi Switch is quite clever: [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )HTC Touch Diamond2 Applications Available for HTC Touch Diamond
By Chris, Mobilewhack.com The applications on board of that new HTC Touch Diamond2 are all available for download. As you can imagine they are not official and they have been ripped off the ROM of the Touch Diamond2. Here’s what’s available: •HTC Calculator 1.0.1822.4128 •HTC Album 2.5.1820.4127 w/ Social Networking (Thanks to herg at XDA) [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )EETI Has Multitouch Capacitive Displays Ready for Netbooks
By Chris, Mobilewhack.com Multitouch capacitive displays are heading to netbooks and notebooks and we’re anxiously waiting for them. EETI will begin shipping 7- and 12-inch versions in the second half of the year. Manufacturers will have all the time in the world to play with them and we should expect them to arrive in netbooks [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Sony’s Vaio P benchmarked in all its magnificent and diverse forms
By Joseph L. Flatley, Engadget.com Thanks to the work of the gang making time over at their Vaio P forum, the folks at Pocketables have been able to compile benchmarks of all the various configurations of the ultraportable. Including the three models available domestically (which all sport a 1.33GHz Intel Atom Z520) and the various [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Amazon HD VOD still on the way for TiVo, at some point
By Darren Murph, Engadget.com Months after Amazon Video on Demand HD began “ on TiVo, we’re being told that, um, testing is still ongoing. After Sir Dave Zatz openly questioned where this long awaited addition was, he received confirmation from multiple undisclosed sources that TiVo’s implementation was still being honed. He also suspects that the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Gresso Lady Diamond Phone Available for $5,500
By Chris, Mobilewhack.com In case you need another really expensive diamond phone then you should look for one at Gresso’s. The Russian company launched a new handset made for the ladies. The Gresso Lady Diamond phone in the picture above is priced at $5,500, so it might just not be the best choice if you’re [...]
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