News bubbling out of Motorola Korea is that the company’s classic StarTac phone brand is making a comeback with this, the new StarTac III MS900.
The slim 89 × 49 × 20mm handset weighs in at just 92g – but while it sports a nice QVGA (240 x 320 pixel) screen and 128MB of on-board memory [...]
Motorola’s StarTac is (re)born
Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Leave a Comment
iPhone: end of February round-up
Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Leave a Comment
With the month drawing to a close, we thought it a good time to round-up a few of the iPhone stories that have been floating around.
Quantum Research’s rumblings that it might sue Apple over iPhone tech infringing its patents have settled down to a quiet grumble, with the company now being reported as saying, ‘Until [...]
KDDI samples The Rolling Stones
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 Leave a Comment
Sometimes things get lost in translation. Whether or not that’s the case here (we’re guessing there was an amusing board meeting at some point in the run-up to this TV ad’s production), Japan’s KDDI provider has decided to use a cover of The Rolling Stones’ classic ‘Satisfaction’ as the theme tune for its latest campaign. [...]
Lawson, NTT announce ‘phone wallet’ collaboration
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 Leave a Comment
Osaifu keitai, which is Japan’s system for charging compatible 3G phones with Yen currency that can be used in shops across the country, has been around for a while. And so has Lawson, which is one of Japan’s most successful convenience stores. (There are three Lawson conbinis within walking distance of this Pocket Picker’s Kyoto [...]
Strapping phones in Japan
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 Leave a Comment
There’s a huge market for phone straps in Japan, and some of the most elaborate loops we’ve seen in Kyoto are attached to any manner of bizarro paraphernalia: Pikachu figurines, glo sticks, miniature Hanshin Tigers baseball bats, and lots of fluffy little animals. Even Japanese businessmen are often seen with cute junk attached to their [...]
Content drives selection of new phones
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 Leave a Comment
It seems that as consumers are becoming increasingly tech-savvy, having the latest in technology just for the sake of that technology is becoming less and less popular. A report from Instat, investigated by IT News, suggests that content has now become the main driving force, and that a devices ability to play content has become [...]
Bollywood to burst onto a phone near you?
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 Leave a Comment
Bollywood may be on its way to a mobile near you a lot sooner than you think. That’s because Hungama Mobile, who own the rights to digitally distribution of over 70 per cent of the Bollywood films produced yearly, has announced the licensing of MobiClip, a codec developed by Actimagine. Hungama believe that the codec [...]
Rumour: World of Warcraft on iPhone?
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 1 Comment
We weren’t going to cover this story because it seems to kind of stretch credibility a tad, but the internet massive has just picked up on iPhone World’s February 9th piece claiming that World of Warcraft is coming to the iPhone.
The site’s anonymous source reportedly said, ‘Imagine playing WOW using the touch screen interface… Steve [...]
Extra iPhone features uncovered
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 Leave a Comment
Actioncorp TV has cut together the below video that looks more closely at some of the iPhone features which Steve Job revealed at the handset’s January unveiling. There’s some nice details about how you navigate the phone’s menus, and also strong evidence that Apple is planning to sell iPhone ringtones via the iTunes music store.
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Apple’s iPhone Bluetooth headset
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 2 Comments
The eagle-eyed chaps over at Mac News Network have spotted that the ‘wireless’ section of Apple’s iPhone pages has been updated to mention, ‘Apple’s new, remarkably compact Bluetooth headset’. Although no further details are given, we expect there to be some kind of neat integration with various iPhone’s features – and that the headset will [...]
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