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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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Now I didn’t say black market; underneath the ground in London’s subway system. People won’t be standing in the trains picking their noses; they’ll have mobile phone attached to their ears. Glasgow Subway will be the first subway system with mobile phone coverage as long as things go as planned for O2.
O2 plans [...]
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If you’re ever stranded on a deserted island, you just may be able to get internet service, that is, if you remembered to bring your mobile phone. Start up company, O3B, which stands for the “other three billion people in the world without internet service,” plans to put up 16 low flying satellites. These satellites [...]
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This choice may just be about preference, like choosing white gold over yellow gold, but you just may find yourself standing on the mobile phone store for hours with the Touch Pro in one hand while the Touch Diamond is in the other. Darn it, why don’t these guys let us test these things [...]
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UK Pay & Go customers can now enjoy the iPhone 3G without a monthly contract. The new iPhone 3G 8GB for Pay & Go will be available for £349.99 and the 16GB version for £399.99.
This also includes unlimited browsing and Wi-Fi for the first 12 months after you activate your iPhone 3G. At the end [...]
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The Telegraph had an article on Monday about research done by Powerwatch suggesting a link between mobile phones and brain cancer. Many scientists agree with this claim; many don’t. There are other studies that also suggest a link; there are others that don’t. What’s a mobile phone user to do? Do we pitch our mobile [...]
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A few hundred thousand people in India have already been reminded about the safety of the condom thanks to www.condomcondom.org. On this site, you can listen to and download a ring tone this sings the word condom in an entertaining Indian melody. This public safety communication has a nice ring to it, excuse the pun. [...]
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Best Buy thinks that 7 and ½ hours of talk time are worth €494.50 ($699 US). Of course there are other features of HTC’s Touch Diamond that Best Buy hopes will lure consumers in and put aside eating for a month or two to purchase their new mobile phone. It also helps that the Touch [...]
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We’ve all seen distracted drivers with their mobile phones stuck to their ears and other drivers looking down to play with their mobile devices as if they had eyes on the top of their heads; both swerve and sway and some tragically cause accidents. New Zealand’s Transport Safety Commission has proposed an amendment to ban [...]
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There’s plenty of hype about iPhone and Google’s new Android Project but there’s also anti-hype about the economy. In a scary financial climate, would you pay a few hundred pounds for one of these hand held computers? Are these brainy computer/phones really worth the extra money charged for them?
Consumers world wide seem to think so. [...]
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The title may confuse you but by Christmas, it won’t. The verb, Google, being the only verb I know that’s capitalized, will no longer just mean; to perform an internet search via Google’s search engine. When you see a good looking person that you’d like to ask out, just give that person your number and [...]
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Ever text your friends while sitting in class while your teacher mentions something about something somewhere nobody really cares about? Don’t. Well, just don’t get caught. You may get it confiscated, that is, if you attend Kearny High School in Kearny, Nebraska. If you don’t, be not surprised if your school, or your kid’s school, [...]
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For those who are admittedly addicted to their mobile phones, traveling overseas could be the same as trying to quit smoking cold turkey or being a drinker and forced to detoxify in a rehab clinic without drugs to ease the feeling of withdraw. That constant and instantaneous availability to their family and friends must still [...]
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If you’re riding on the bus, waiting for a train, or stuck in traffic and want more than regular text messaging then have no fear, BlackBerry and MySpace are here.
You can now access main features of MySpace like messaging on your BlackBerry smartphone. The came out with a similar option in July and it [...]
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