5
2008
Water Cube-inspired cell phone from Beijing Olympics
With the next Olympics event four years away, you can expect gadget makers to keep capitalizing on the excitement over this year’s happenings. This Water Cube-inspired cell phone makes a good example. The cell phone’s design mimicks the Water Cube’s unique “soap bubbles” that were used to light up the aquatics center. Featuring a 2.4-inch [...]
30
2008
Flexible Motorola Z10 doesn’t deserve 500$
Though it’s billed as a “pocket-sized mobile studio,” this 4-ounce, platinum-trimmed phone is certainly no substitute for even a mediocre mini-camcorder (Exhibit A: the Flip Mino). So why drop $500 on the Z10 when you can get a 5MP camphone (Exhibit B: the Nokia N82) that shoots crisper stills and comparable vids? Beats us. Maybe [...]
24
2008
Plywood works as a display, a printer, a keypad and a projector
If you ever looked at a slab of plywood and thought, “I’d love a phone that resembled this,” Japan’s KDDI has you in mind. Designed by Hideo Kanbara, the conceptual “Ply” would put a different function in each of its six super-thin layers. On the top one, the display; in the next, a keypad; in [...]
20
2008
Treo Pro – the real price for his performance ?
Made official after a couple of hours of speculation a few weeks ago, Palm’s Treo Pro is now ready to roll. Running Windows Mobile 6.1 on a 400MHz CPU, it has 128MB of RAM, 3G, Wifi and Bluetooth, a 320×320 touchscreen display, and GPS. A micro-USB port replaces the thingie hole, meaning no new cables [...]
12
2008
Luxurious Veva S60 – chinese mobile phone exclusive for women
China’s putting up a really strong show at this year’s summer Olympics, backed by the home crowd. I wonder if the same can be said of the Veva S60 luxury cell phone from Qiao Xing Universal Telephone, Inc. This handset targets “female professionals with its unique and luxury design and features.” Through cooperation with Swarovski, [...]
9
2008
Solar power recharger for your gadgets
Off to sun yourself this year? If so you’ll need something to power your various Gadgets and Gizmos, and what better way in our increasingly Green aware world than with the Solar Power ? Not only does it allow you to charge your mobile phone or MP3 player, while sunning yourself, but once all your [...]
7
2008
Recharge your IPhone with solar energy
Due for release mid-August, MobileFun’s Solar Powered case contains a 1500 mAh battery that soaks up rays to charge your iPhone 3G. It’ll take three hours of fun in the sun to charge your handset with enough juice to function, and 10 hours to get a full charge. Pricing has not been announced. And even [...]
6
2008
Recharge your mobile phone with economic charger
No doubt we’ve all seen the reports about how much energy is wasted by phone chargers left plugged in, in fact according to statistics it’s a shocking 95%! Unplugging a phone charger when it’s not in use is a small thing that can save a lot of money and energy over time, but it’s not [...]
29
2008
SIM Recovery Pro
The SIM Recovery Pro is an advanced SIM card reader and software program combined which quickly and effectively retrieves text messages, purposely or accidentally, deleted from SIM cards that would otherwise never be found and presenting the information in an easy to read format. In addition to SMS message retrieval, the device serves many other [...]
25
2008
Wirelessly Charge Gadgets, iPhone with WildCharge Pad
The WildCharge is a flat and thin conductive surface that allows you to charge with energy any mobile phone or electronic device that is enabled with WildCharge technology no matter what orientation or position it has on the surface. The energy transfer is done through some tiny contact points that come in physical contact with [...]
