Knock Knock! It’s The Teddy Calling
With the world closing in on Nano technology, smaller and more potent gadgets keep hitting the market from time to time. In such a scenario, something that reverses the tide mostly meets a sore eye but then the Japanese have their own way of thinking and they really don’t care about the world. They adore some real bizarre gadgets and the direct entrant into that category is the Kuma Phone from Willcom. Kuma means a bear in Japanese and thus the Kuma phone is a bear phone. Yes, you got it right, it is a phone within a teddy bear and you can make calls using that bear. The tail acts as the button that helps one answer and disconnect whilst the four paws act as receptors for speed dials. Since Willcom is a PHS mobile service provider, the SIM card lies within the teddy bear. Heavily popular at the 2008 Good Design Expo, it is now going into mass production with a price tag of not more than $500. Crazy how the Japanese are ready to shell that much for a teddy bear phone!
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Icono Concept Phone: It is about emotions and iconic gestures
I don’t know whether Zinc Chan’s Icono will have any takers in the practical world but Chan deserve accolades for wedding iconic gestures with technology. Although Icono is a phone but the design has very little similarity with the standard phones we are used to. The phone is divided into two parts, earphone and microphone. To make these two parts become a complete whole for the sake of communication, the user has to use the hand in the iconic gesture associated with the telephone. However, the weirdest part of the Icono is that instead of dialing numbers you have to dial an animated path on the touchscreen of the device. Is it easier for one to associate people with unique patterns? Zinc Chan, I think is the best person to answer this question.
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SmartBerry: Now children have their own smartphones
Children look at parents for inspiration, so if parents are tech savvy then why should kids be satisfied with a Barbie or a toy car? The tech age kids also want the real things and keeping their demands in mind, Bandai has launched a smart phone tool for kids, dubbed the SmartBerry. The pink color of SmartBerry makes it amply clear that its main target is little girls in the 6 to 9 age group. Just like the adult smart device, SmartBerry is a touch screen phone with a slider keypad. It has instant messaging service, three chat rooms, digital business card, games, planners, calculator and alarm. Gifting the child a ¥10,290 ($94) swanky device is the perfect way to spoil her.
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Smartest of the smartphones coming?
Is the smartest of the smartphones coming to the tech world? Apple, Nokia, BlackBerry and Samsung beware if the website the01phone.com, devoted to this new wonder, is to be trusted then we have 28 more days for the launch of the 01 Phone, which incorporates all those features missing from famed iPhone, Nokia N96, BlackBerry Bold, Samsung’s INNOV8 i850. The 01 will don a 5.0-megapixel camera, 3G internet, laser QWERTY keyboard, full touch-screen, forward facing camera for video calling, swanky headphones and 32GB internal memory. The appearance of the 01 appears tempting but it will take some time to reveal the actual mystery behind this phone.
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360 Touch Phone Concept: Slick looks and novel charging solution
If you could for a moment see beyond the amazing looks of 360 touch phone concept, you’d see that it is not all about superficiality. Instead it tries to incorporate every nice feature that is deemed necessary these days and still proposes something new. Designed by Eno Setiawan from Malaysia, 360 Touch Phone Concept is for a smartphone that has, well, a touch-screen. It has a rotating screen that makes it equally suited for left- and right-handed users. There’s also an accompanying stylus, camera with flash, and accelerometer technology. And as already said 360 concept promises a great charging option. It provides users with a charger adapter that can be plugged to either an electric plug or a USB one. The charging is then accomplished wirelessly. If only this were an actual product, I’d be so all over it!
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Sprint adds Sanyo Katana Eclipse to its kitty
Well, well, looks like Sprint are all set to capture their customers’ imagination this fall and this dazzling new Sanyo Katana Eclipse offered by them certainly shows us why. Featuring some pretty stunning lighting effects like the option of choosing illumination for each of the contacts, the cellphone is all set to enable high-speed wireless transfers through the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network. Over-the-air downloads, live on-demand TV, web browsing, GPS navigation, games, multimedia player, speakerphone, Bluetooth wireless technology, Sprint Radio with 150 channels and dedicated music player controls add to the versatility of the phone while a built-in 1.3MP camera with 12x zooming and video recording ensures you’re fully armed with a media monster at all times.
An internal 2-inch TFT LCD display with 65K colors and an external 1 inch diagonal display lend a certain handiness to the device while cool apps like stereo Bluetooth, SMS Voice Messaging, voice-activated dialing, Calendar, Scheduler, To-Do List, world clock etc. make it your very own digital assistant. Also offering upto 8GB memory expansion via microSHDC card, the phone retails for $99.99 with a 2-year Sprint contract.
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18K Gold Plated Quadband Cell Phone Watch
Gee… I never expected the wristwatch cellphone trend to catch on this fast but it really has and manufacturers out there are making sure having one of these strapped to your arm will get you mugged for sure! Take this magnificent 18K Gold Plated Cell Phone Watch for example. It comes with a large 1.5-inch touch screen LCD color display that can literally be spotted from space, a 1.3 megapixel camera, quad-band GSM network support, 1GB MicroSD/ TF flash memory card slot, Bluetooth V2.0 with A2DP stereo music support, MP3/MP4 player as well as USB data charging cable and headset earphones.
If that’s doesn’t put you on the street gang’s list of targets, then the $163 watch phone’s flashy 18K gold plated watch decorative frame will do that for you for sure!
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Alcatel Cell Phones 2008 Collection
One of the leaders in the cell phone manufacturing industry, Alcatel, known for its fashionable design lines and for the famous Mandarina Duck model, unveiled a new collection for 2008 exposing it at CTIA Conference 2008 in Las Vegas.
More than more than 15 handsets will be launched this year in US, including Alcatel OT-E227A, OT-V270A, OT-S210A, OT-V209A, OT-S120A, OT-E206A, OT-S210A, OTS211A, OT-S215A, OT-S319A, OT-S520A, OT-C701A, OT-S621A, OT-C700A, OT-C717A, OT-C820A, One Touch X030, One Touch SPORT, and One Touch PRO.
They are categorized on lifestyle sectors such as Essence, Life, Flavor and Brand, to inspire uniqueness, smart, trendy, elegant and fun.
You can color your life with the Alcatel OT-V209A cell phone, a retro 10 mm candybar-style model with customizable front panel, or reflect your personality with the Alcatel OT-V270A, an attractive clamshell with dark chrome mirrored housing and serious soft-touch interior.
With the Alcatel OT-V770A you can be different showing a Glossy White/Soft-touch Black cool cell phone that sports a landscape color display and measuring just 10 mm thick.
One Touch SPORT is designed to take you into an extreme adventure, as Alcatel like to say, because it features an orange/black exterior design, has one month standby time, a G sensor, and is a great mobile handset for long time use
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More than more than 15 handsets will be launched this year in US, including Alcatel OT-E227A, OT-V270A, OT-S210A, OT-V209A, OT-S120A, OT-E206A, OT-S210A, OTS211A, OT-S215A, OT-S319A, OT-S520A, OT-C701A, OT-S621A, OT-C700A, OT-C717A, OT-C820A, One Touch X030, One Touch SPORT, and One Touch PRO.They are categorized on lifestyle sectors such as Essence, Life, Flavor and Brand, to inspire uniqueness, smart, trendy, elegant and fun.
You can color your life with the Alcatel OT-V209A cell phone, a retro 10 mm candybar-style model with customizable front panel, or reflect your personality with the Alcatel OT-V270A, an attractive clamshell with dark chrome mirrored housing and serious soft-touch interior.With the Alcatel OT-V770A you can be different showing a Glossy White/Soft-touch Black cool cell phone that sports a landscape color display and measuring just 10 mm thick.
One Touch SPORT is designed to take you into an extreme adventure, as Alcatel like to say, because it features an orange/black exterior design, has one month standby time, a G sensor, and is a great mobile handset for long time useLabels: Cell Phone
Simply yet elegant Windows Mobile touchscreen concept phone
You know how they say that God lies in the details? Well, David Turpin certainly seems to have found a sleek yet simple way to demonstrate that saying. His concept design featuring a touchscreen cellphone with Windows Mobile creds is simply more than brilliant. With a petite body that reminds one very strongly of the iPod touch, the elegant handset’s best virtue may well be its handy touchscreen display. Stunning Windows Mobile 7 apps coupled with an accelerometer for an auto-rotating menu may make this cellphone a surefire fashion trend if the designer decides to bring his vision to life.Labels: Cell Phone
Chinese-made Mickey Mouse Phones
While you are worried sick about how to get your pre-teen daughter to not raise hell over having her own Hello Kitty cellphone, Chinese cellphone manufacturers are all set to launch their own line of Mickey Mouse adorned cellphones. Obviously aimed at younger cellphone users, the phones not only copy the design of major cellphone brands including the iPhone, they are also sure to catch the fancies of children still in the Mickey-loving age-group!
Now that’s just gotta make parents even more vary of whining kids throwing tantrums for their own cellphones! What’s worse is that you might even encounter a few grown up cartoon-lovers flaunting their Mickey Mouse phone and bombarding you with boring details of their annual trips to Disney World!
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SKY Neon Sign HSDPA phone 'speaks' the language of LCDs
Cool guys have cool way of doing things. And often, such cool things very effectively express the meanings that even words fail to construe. Designer of the Sky Neon Sign HSDPA phone must have been one such cool guy when he was struck with an idea of fitting these 49 LEDs on the front panel of the cellphone. These LEDs can continuously glow in any chosen pattern allowing the owners ‘digitally’ communicate their personality by setting shapes such hearts, dolphins or smileys on the front panel from the choice of 46 patterns! Other features include T-DMB, WCDMA global roaming and video telephony, a 2 Megapixel camera, mp3 player, text viewer, electronic dictionary and multitasking functionality. Well, Korean youths have gone crazy with this 108 gm ‘digital tattooing’ that costs them between 400,000(KRW) and 500,000(KRW).Labels: Cell Phone
Basic Tab cell phone: All looks here!
You want the latest in technology then just switch to Nokia or Apple’s page. This bit is about a cell phone that makes no excuses about sacrificing features for form, and we love it as much for the honesty as for the pretensions. The Basic Tab phone has been designed for Resonates 08 to compliment our dressing sense, not fulfill our technological aspirations. Physical traits are worked upon at the cost of technological characteristics! Does it make a penny worth of difference to our liking; no it doesn’t. The front of the phone is a gorgeous black screen with little else to draw attention. This humongous screen rests upon a metal slab to add volume. The camera located at the back also makes claim more as a fashion accessory than anything else and is designed as something located on a designer handbag than a tech device. Tech junkies move over, Basic Tab will put you at shame for having to pass over so sleek a device.
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CulArt mobile phone - A true amalgamation of culture and art!
Incorporating art and culture into the ubiquitous mobile phone might sound a new concept but the evolution cycle of the mobile phone cannot be devoid of the artistic spirituality as CulArt hopes to build into its touchscreen phone. The specs of the CulArt mobile phone include a 3-megapixel camera, 2.7-inch full-touch screen, Bluetooth remote control with 5 way jog keys. As for the artistic and cultural elements of the phone, it would have the ridge of the mountain on the side view, rock-crag on the rear view and wood/archaic TV on the side view of the phone display. Will we ever be able to see this piece of art and culture in mobile phone in reality?
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Cellphones to get E Ink electronic paper displays soon
Taking electronic paper technology one step ahead, E Ink is all set to introduce E Ink Vixplex Imaging Film for the outer display in future clamshell handsets. Since e-ink only consumes power when the image changes, the technology can help cellphone makers enhance their exterior display screens without cutting down on battery life. The first two handsets that are set to get revolutionary technology are the Hitachi W61 and the Casio Model G’zOne. Clearly visible even under direct sunlight, the displays give the user a viewing angle of up to 180-degrees. For people who love to personalize their phones, this could be a real boon.Labels: Cell Phone
Sexy Bikini PDA type phone with touch panel
Ok before you get your hope up, lemme burst your bubble here. The Bikini PDA type phone has nothing to do with a bikini, except for the print on its body perhaps. With a 2.6 inch wide LCD panel with touch screen creds, the phone comes fully laced with handwriting recognition and thus maximizes your accessibility to all functions of the phone as well as simplifying its operation for you.
The PMP Slim-T offers you the most unique styling along with a form that reveals a hidden camera in its silhouette. For the fashionista who like to show off her tastes through all her accessories, this Bikini PDA type phone with touch panel is the best fashion ever.
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MS may still have a Windows Zune Phone up their sleeve
Indicating a marked shift from Microsoft’s current software-centric outlook towards a more handset-oriented course of development, the company’s CEO Steve Ballmer made a subtle reference about a Microsoft branded handset being in the works. In an all-points bulletin sent out to Microsoft employees, the CEO said: We’re changing the way we work with hardware vendors to ensure that we can provide complete experiences with absolutely no compromises. We’ll do the same with phones—providing choice as we work to create great end-to-end experiences.
Of course it doesn’t say anything about a Zune phone per se, but for the optimist, even this says a lot and seems to be quite enough to keep the rumors fired up for the time being.
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WAVE Interaction mobile phone concept
Taking visual function and efficiency of a cellphone up another notch, the WAVE Interaction mobile phone keeps you in the know always by displaying key information like battery condition, weather information, timers, etc. on the exterior of the clamshell design. By replacing the small LCD with a full-cover display, the design also makes it easy for users to use and respond to information much better than with traditional cellphone designs.
By using arty and tasteful patterns to display information, the concept enhances user interaction and aesthetic experience by a generous degree and that too within the limitations of a clam shell design.
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Sporty looks and features on Casio G’zOne W62CA
Casio has unveiled its latest lineup of G’zOne W62CA cell phones in Japan. Sporty features characterize these phones and looks to say the least are attractive and chic. The gorgeous design hides a variety of features that’ll strike chord with outgoing users. The active users will be especially attracted by multiple sensors on this device. G’zOne W62CA has GPS receiver and has temperature and body movement sensors on it and the in-built calorie counter will enable the user to determine precisely the burnt up calories. The clam shell cell phone has 2.7” QVGA display, battery with 260 minutes talk time, a 1.97 million pixels camera, support for microSD and one-seg TV. Another feature adding to the persona of G’zOne W62CA is that it is waterproof and impact resistant; the phone is able to resist 30 minutes in 1 meter depth for up to 30 minutes. To add to its appeal it comes with an option to receive earthquake notification via KDDI. Ah! A clear necessity in Japan.
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Nakamiki - Cell phone for kids
Nakamiki is a cell phone designed especially for little children who don’t need complicated functionalities, but just the main use of such a device – calling when needed.Provided by Ajoka, a Chinese manufacturer of low cost small GSM cell phones for kids is easy to use and has an appealing bear shape.
It offers some cool features such as the possibility to audio monitor the environment where your child is, at any time, and the kid can use SOS buttons to send preset messages to 3 receivers. The level of radiation is low so it won’t affect child’s health. A SAR of 0.208W/kg is way below 1.6W/Kg, the International average SAR value.
In addition, the external material used to build the children's cell phone is non-toxic and it has rounded margins so your kid can’t get injured accidentally.
The manufacturer didn’t add any display, to avoid fraud messages and to not distract the child from learning activities at school, and added just 4 speed dials to minimize calling costs. To make a call the kid has to press one of the 4 buttons depending on the person he/she wants to contact, and parents can set number from the family members, Police, teacher and others.
Specifications highlight GSM 900/1800/1900MHZ and GSM 900/850/1900MHZ support, 6 ~ 16mA power consumption, maximum 160mA power consumption when in use, a 600mAH battery, 90 minutes talk time, 100 hours of standby, and 97.5 x 62 x 28 mm measurements at a weight of 80 grams.Nakamiki is maybe the best cell phone for kids and costs around $70. It is available on different markets worldwide.
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Prepaid Disposable Phones
Hop-On is one of the world’s famous wireless phones and accessories developer but also the first prepaid disposable phones manufacturer. It also provides software for cell phones so you can stream live interactive feed from legal jurisdictions to play poker, blackjack, roulette and baccarat.
Recently the company launched the Hop1800 model worldwide. This cell phone is the world’s cheapest, available at just $10 in the United States. These prepaid disposable phones can be used only for making phone calls.
It’s funny to hear it is promoted as the $10 Anti-iPhone as it doesn’t have a display, but its main features include dual-band support, 4 hours talk time, 150 hours standby, polyphonic ringtones support, vibration, and measures just 96.6 x 41.6 x 14 mm at 77 grams. In addition it uses the Infineon sound chip for high audio quality and call stability.
About the design we have to mention its tactile numeric keypad with Braille markings and the fact that it can be co-branded.
“Though the iPhone is an amazing device, I challenge anyone to make a call faster than with the HOP1800,” said Hop-On CEO Peter Michaels. “With the cost of living and roaming fees going through the roof, the HOP1800 is also the perfect iPhone traveling companion. Just buy a local SIM card and you can use the HOP1800 with over 40 domestic wireless carriers,” Michaels said.
Hop-On disposable cell phones cost just 10$ in US and if you return it for recycling you receive $5 back just to Keep it Green.
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