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Recent mobile coverage at The Mobiler
By Tim Hanlon
23:31 April 27, 2009 PDT
So far this week at The Mobiler, we've covered CSIRO’s 100Mbit wireless technology, the HTC Dream arriving in Spain, Averatec’s 12-inch N2700 laptop, Samsung's Android-powered I7500 handset, 3 UK announcing free Skype calls on their 3G network, a 9-cell battery for the HP Mini 2133 and Mini 2140, Nvidia telling us to expect Ion-powered netbooks to ship in July, and T-Mobile Germany confirming the May release of the Android 1.5 Cupcake update. Read More
Orbita Sparta Mini watchwinder - one for the ladies?
By Karen Sprey
01:09 April 27, 2009 PDT
As the name suggests, automatic or self-winding watches wind themselves using a moving weight mechanism inside the watch. All well and good if you are wearing your watch everyday, but if you happen to have a collection, you'll often find yourself faced with the fiddly task of manual winding and resetting features like perpetual calendars - a difficult job for large unwieldy fingers (men) and delicate fingernails (women) - which is where watchwinders come in. This one, the Sparta Mini from Orbita, is for the ladies. Read More
Bellperre adds extra-bling to custom made mobile phone collection
By Mick Webb
18:00 April 26, 2009 PDT
The words “global economic downturn” are not are part of luxury phone maker Bellperre’s vocabulary, as evidenced by the release of its new high-end Nero Gold series. The Netherlands based company offers handcrafted tailor made handsets using “0% plastic”, and has now added even more precious metals and gemstones to the available mix. Read More
The KissPhone for remote kissing
By Mike Hanlon
04:23 April 24, 2009 PDT
French freelance inventor Georges Koussouros was thinking outside the square when he came up with the KissPhone. Humans already interact synchronously with voice, text and video, and there's a whole science developing behind closed doors called Teledildonics, which is about remote sexual interplay. The KissPhone fits somewhere in between and has a mouth which you kiss - it subsequently measures the pressure, percussion speed, temperature, and sucking force of your mouth, transmits those same parameters to the remote user's Kissphone where it recreates your kiss for your teleparamour. Read More
Bluetooth 3.0 goes to 24 Mbps via 802.11
By Darren Quick
22:25 April 21, 2009 PDT
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has officially launched the Bluetooth 3.0 + HS specification, which ups the transfer rate from a top speed of 3 Mbps for the current 2.0 + EDR standard to a rate of 24 Mbps. The SIG says latest iteration of the popular short-range wireless technology will enable the high-speed transmission of large amounts of data such as photos, music and even video between devices and has attracted interest from not only computer and mobile phone manufacturers, but also television manufacturers. The new Bluetooth 3.0 gets its speed from the 802.11 radio protocol with the inclusion of the 802.11 Protocol Adaptation Layer (PAL) providing increased throughput... Read More
Today on The Mobiler
By Tim Hanlon
02:23 April 20, 2009 PDT
Today over at The Mobiler we've looked at Samsung's prediction that 29 percent of the mobile market will be made up by smartphones in 2012, using the iPhone as an ignition key for the Peapod electric vehicle, a custom homescreen for the BlackBerry Curve that makes it look like the Pip-Boy 3000 wearable computer from the hit RPG Fallout 3, a 3D PalmOS game running on the Palm Pre with MotionApps Classic emulator, the winner of Microsoft's Mobile Incubation Week, a launch date for Windows Mobile 6.5, and Dilbert taking on the dreaded Rebaterus. Read More
Meccaniche Veloci teams with Brembo to create world's first carbon fiber wristwatch
By Mick Webb
16:24 April 16, 2009 PDT
For many years now the Formula 1 industry has championed the use of carbon fiber as a superior material for creating a competitive edge. With the current buzz surrounding the Moto GP and the Ducati carbon-framed Desmosedici GP9, it seems only timely that two other Italian companies should unveil the world's first carbon fiber encased wristwatch, the Quattro Valvole CCM. Read More
Mobile telephone news from The Mobiler
By Tim Hanlon
05:59 April 15, 2009 PDT
Over at The Mobiler today we looked at push notifications on the iPhone being great for users (but not so great for small developers), more speculation about the release date of the Palm Pre, a preview build of the Android 1.5 "Cupcake" SDK, the release of the Nine Inch Nails iPhone app, the Samsung Propel Pro now available on AT&TSamsung Propel Pro arriving at AT&T, and the companies rumored to be supplying components of the next-generation iPhone. Read More
Bodelin Launches ProPrompter for iPhone
By Mike Hanlon
22:16 April 14, 2009 PDT
April 15, 2009 After being swamped with requests at NAB 2008 to use the ProPrompter Pocket PC with an iPhone or iPod touch, Bodelin has done just that. It features landscape mode, smooth scrolling, seven speed levels with on the fly adjustment, unlimited script capacity, a wide variety of fonts and font sizes, and background colors, excellent readability in bright sunlight, looping, recue, mirroring for use with the ProPrompter in-lens teleprompter and an extensive help menu. ProPrompter software is expected to be available as a free download in the Apple App Store by NAB on April 20, and the aluminum ProPrompter Wing Mount costs US$130 to attach the iPhone to the tripod mount of any camera. Read More
The CellScope: transforming the cell phone into a mobile microscope
By Karen Sprey
20:09 April 14, 2009 PDT
The CellScope is a revolutionary attachment that turns a standard camera-enabled cell phone into a clinical quality microscope, with magnification up to 50X. Health workers in developing countries, where expensive equipment, facilities and on-the-ground physicians are scarce, will be able to use the mobile microscope to quickly and easily capture images of blood cells, lesions and infections and transmit them via the cell phone network to remote experts for analysis and diagnosis. Read More
WildCharge expands wireless charging compatibility with new Universal Adapter
23:00 April 8, 2009 PDT
Boosted by the buzz surrounding wire-free charging at CES earlier this year, solutions for powering up portable devices without the hassle of messy cords and multiple chargers are making the transition from curious concept to viable consumer product. One of the obvious problems with the early examples of this kind of technology was that each solution is tailored to a particular device, but now early mover WildCharge has released a Universal Adapter for Cell Phones which works with multiple devices across multiple brands. Read More
Today on The Mobiler
By Tim Hanlon
05:32 April 6, 2009 PDT
Over at The Mobiler today we've covered an OS X app called DemoGod, which displays a feed of your iPhone screen on your desktop, next-gen iPhone rumors regarding 802.11n support and a 3.2 megapixel camera, tentative HTC Touch Pro2 and Blade Sidekick release dates from a leaked T-Mobile roadmap, Deutsche Telekom trying to stop Skype for iPhone, code names and specs of three upcoming BlackBerry devices, T-Mobile planning several Android-based devices including a home phone, Vodafone Australia getting into a spin over their iPhone plans, and Cell Phone Recycling Week which kicks off today. Read More
Samsung launches first WiMAX-enabled mobile internet device
By Darren Quick
23:07 April 2, 2009 PDT
One of the new releases attracting a lot of attention at CTIA is the Samsung SWD-M100 Mondi, a mobile WiMAX enabled handheld device that is designed for use with the Clear mobile WiMAX service from Clearwire. The touch screen Mondi includes a slide out lower lip QWERTY keypad and, according to Samsung, ‘many of the powerful features and uses of a laptop computer or netbook,’ in a unit that fits in your pocket. Read More
Gizmag launches new site: The Mobiler
By Tim Hanlon
03:46 April 2, 2009 PDT
The Gizmag team has been slaving away over a hot keyboard to bring you a new sister site covering all things mobile, called The Mobiler. Today we've written about AT&T offering $49.99 netbooks if you sign up for a two-year data plan, HTC's Snap handset which promises to keep you from drowning in unimportant e-mail, Palm opening up the Mojo SDK for their upcoming Pre handset, Clearwire's Clear Spot personal WiMax hotspot, and plenty more. Point your browser at the-mobiler.com and let us know what you think! Read More
LG makes things clear with the transparent GD900 mobile phone
By Darren Quick
22:00 April 1, 2009 PDT
The LG-GD900 mobile phone will feature not only a 3-inch full touchscreen, but also a transparent touchpad that supports finger-writing recognition and vibrational haptic feedback. The stylish looking phone features a slider form factor with the translucent rear slider containing a touchpad that allows users to navigate through the phones features and 3D user interface. Further enhancing the phone’s style cred is the fact that the clear slider will be made from glass instead of plastic. Read More
Hyundai MB-910 Watch phone to launch in UK
By David Greig
18:46 March 18, 2009 PDT
The idea has been with us for more than half a century and numerous examples have made it to market, so why aren't we all wearing watch phones? Maybe it's a question of usability, maybe the watch phone is just that bit too geeky or maybe it's simply that the right product hasn't yet emerged. Hyundai Mobile is throwing its hat into the ring by announcing of the imminent release of the Hyundai MB-910 watch phone in the UK. The MB-910 is already selling in mainland Europe and features a Bluetooth headset, email client, video playback, music player and touchscreen control. Read More
iPhone OS 3.0 unveiled
By Tim Hanlon
16:55 March 17, 2009 PDT
Apple today unveiled OS 3.0 for the iPhone and iPod touch, which is set for release this summer (that's June-August for those of you south of the equator). It's far from the revolution some were expecting, and strikes us as more of a defensive play to bring the iPhone further in line with its hardware capabilities, users' desires, and the increasingly heated competition from Android, BlackBerry and Palm's imminent release of the Pre. Read on for the full details. Read More
iPhone OS 3.0 unveiling tomorrow, rumor round-up
By Darren Quick
02:15 March 17, 2009 PDT
Apple is set to preview the iPhone software version 3.0 at an invitation only event on March 17th and, as is traditional in the lead up to any Apple event, the rumormongers have been busy with predictions of what will and won’t be added to the device. So we thought it would be timely to do a bit of a rumor roundup in readiness for the imminent announcement. Read More
Kogan launches 10-inch Agora netbook series in Australia
By Tim Hanlon
23:32 March 16, 2009 PDT
Kogan Technologies today launched the Agora netbook series, featuring the Agora and the Agora Pro. The 1.6GHz Atom based netbooks are the cheapest available in Australia, starting at AUD$499. Both models come preloaded with the gOS operating system, a variant of Ubuntu Linux, but in an interesting move, Kogan's support team is offering to guide customers through the process of installing other supported operating systems including Windows XP and Windows 7. Read More
The Android handset war begins in 2009
By Loz Blain
15:45 March 16, 2009 PDT
While Apple's iPhone has enjoyed enormous success using a highly controlled, locked-down handset, operating system and application store, Google's touchscreen smartphone platform takes the opposite approach. Android is a completely open-source operating system, meaning that developers can write whatever abilities they want into it - and Google doesn't make or recommend any particular handsets. The HTC Dream (AKA the T-Mobile G1) gave Android a start in the market - but several big-name competitors are working on Android smartphones to be released sometime this year. The battle for Android handset supremacy is about to begin - let's take a look at the challengers. Read More
Lenovo Pocket Yoga to take on the VAIO P
By Tim Hanlon
06:54 March 16, 2009 PDT
Lenovo has posted a number of images of a new netbook they call Pocket Yoga on their photo feed, sans press release, tech specs, or...anything. What we can tell you is that it's a tiny, leather-bound touchscreen PC with an odd, ultra-wide aspect ratio that can be folded over to create a tablet. And it might just fit in your pocket. Read More
Wind-up cell phones are coming
By Darren Quick
00:27 March 13, 2009 PDT
Swiss watchmakers Ulysee Nardin have teamed up with European company SCI Innovations to develop the world’s first mechanical mobile phone. The "Chairman" utilizes the kinetic energy provided by a highly specialized rotor to deliver power to the handset via an integrated battery. Read More
Forget your wallet? Pay with your mobile phone
By Paul Evans
18:07 March 11, 2009 PDT
With around four billion mobile phones in use world wide at the end of 2008 they now outnumber credit cards in circulation by a factor of 2:1, so the proliferation of payment systems based on the ubiquitous mobile phone seems almost a certainly. We've previously reported on Near Field Communication (NFC), a new generation of mobile phones able to make contactless payments and now UK mobile phone operator Orange is partnering with businesses to offer a complete range of contactless services. Read More
Tendril mobile energy management system
By David Greig
00:44 March 10, 2009 PDT
If you are looking to reduce your energy consumption, be it as a good green citizen or just to save those hard earned dollars, knowing how much energy you are using, where specifically it is being used and having the capability to monitor it is essential. To this end, Tendril, a Boulder Colorado based company that make hardware and software to monitor and control power usage of home electricity using devices, has unveiled Tendril Vantage Mobile. This is a mobile Web application designed to provide consumers with information on their home energy consumption. The application offers consumers a range of features including text message alerts, usage graphs and carbon footprint information and modeling. Read More
New Fully Rugged Getac GPS PDA PS535F with camera, altimeter and e-compass
By Mike Hanlon
23:09 March 2, 2009 PST
Specialist rugged mobile computer manufacturer MiTAC has released details of the Getac PS535F, a next generation fully rugged GPS PDA featuring an auto focus camera, altimeter and E-compass. The PS535F is designed for GIS surveying applications and will find use in the utilities, oil and gas, forestry, geology and mineral resources sectors. These new features will enable field-based workers to capture field data on-site and transmit data back to headquarters in real-time, as well as provide pinpoint navigation support to improve location based productivity. Read More
Gary Noel
- November 22, 2009 @ 06:20 UTC
