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According to the guys at Dialaphone.co.uk, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 is due for UK release in October next month. This much hyped and highly anticipated phone was originally announced back in Feburary, and is set to be launched exclusively first in the UK, Germany and Sweden.
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SanDisk has teamed up with four major music companies to release a new format of music called SlotMusic in the USA. Each SlotMusic card will come preloaded with music and can be played on mobile phones, PCs, and portable MP3 players which containn microSD slots.
Several major artists are scheduled to have their music sold in [...]
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Sprint and LG have teamed up again for a new messaging phone with a QWERTY keyboard. The Lotus LX600 is set to be one of the first Sprint devices to offer One Click, which is a customizable interface which lets you organize your shortcuts right on the home screen. It will also have EV-DO support, [...]
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Philips are set to to add to their Xenium Series with the introduction of their latest model the X500. One of the key features of Philips handsets is the astonishingly long life of the batteries, and the X500 does not fail to disappoint.
The Philips Xenium X500 comes with a 1720 mAh battery, and call time [...]
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The hottest trend in the Japanese phone industry are super pimped and glammed up Deco-Den mobile phones. Deco-den, short for ‘decorated denwa’ (telephone) involves customising handsets with all sorts of weird and wonderful things – from sticking a fake creamy plastic cake on the top of your phone to adding coloured Rhinestone
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Industrial designer Peter Huvander has created a stylish and eco-friendly phone charger named the Yo Yo. Huvander, who lives in Sweden, wanted to find a sustainable way to charge his iPhone in preparation for the darkness of the Swedish winter. As solar power was not an option, he needed to create an alternative enegry source [...]
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After the success of their previous collaboration, Samsung and Giorgio Armani have unveiled yet another designer branded phone – the Samsung Armani M75500 (nicknamed Night Effect).
Designed by Armani himself, this candybar phone is the second handset produced by the two companies and the first to come with the Emporio Armani branding ( it was Giorgio [...]
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The guys at AppleInsider.com have reported some interesting rumours about the possibility of a 32GB Apple iPhone to be released shortly. According to their report, sales of the 8GB version are now drying up and this may signal the cancellation of the model and the introduction of the 32GB version later this year. Multiple sources [...]
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Sony Ericsson’s Walkman and Cyber-shot handset ranges have been the company’s leading products in their mobile phone collection for so long, that even a novice to the world of mobile technology would know about them. This device is for the dedicated music lovers who also have a need for GSMA themes of imaging and the [...]
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Mobile phone use has been linked to potential health problems such as headaches and cancer for quite some time now, but new research suggests that people should start worrying about another possible side effect – a reduction of sperm quality.
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Do you remember LG’s latest flagship phone the LG KF570 Secret? You know the one, it’s made of carbon fibre and tempered glass, has a 5.0 megapixel camera with face recognition software, and allows you to record videos at 120 frames per second?
Well it turns out that the slider phone has become so popular that [...]
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Nokia have announced the arrival of their new automated kiosks in Malaysia designed to encourage recycling of used mobile phones.
From a recent global survey of 6500 people, Nokia discovered that only 3% recycled their mobile phones, and 50% were completely unaware that their handsets could even be recycled. Hoping to improve these dire statistics, Nokia [...]
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Have you been noticing recently that your mobile phone bill is higher than normal? Perhaps you have been wondering who made those extra calls to numbers you have never heard of? If that is the case, you could have very well been attacked by a Trojan Virus.
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It’s been about five months since the first pictures of the Velocity Mobile 103 were posted on the internet, but they have now officially announced the introduction of their first ever touchscreen phone.
Running on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, this smartphone comes with Velocity’s own Odysseey interface which you can customise to give quick one-touch access [...]
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The guys over at Unofficial Sony Ericcson Blog have released leaked pictures of what is rumoured to be the Sony Ericsson Walkman G705, codenamed Rika.
The specifications remain a mystery, but is rumoured to feature a 3.2 megapixel auto focus camera, auto rotating screen (accelerometer) with full HTML browser
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