Vodafone Extends Mobile Music Catalogue to 500,000 Music Tracks
February 28, 2005
Although “one millionnnn dollars…” (apologies to Dr. Evil) doesn’t seem a whole lot these days when we talk about big corporate companies such as Vodafone, one million full music tracks downloaded onto cell phones is a big deal. Vodafone announced today that they’ve extended their mobile music catalogue to 500,000 music tracks and that one million full music tracks have been downloaded since the launch of full music downloads across a full range of new 3G handsets in November 2004.
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T-Mobile Releases Official Security Tips
February 27, 2005
In light of the recent negative publicity surrounding Paris Hilton’s phone getting hacked, T-Mobile has released an official security tip sheet to prevent someone from hacking into your phone. Basic advice: don’t use the same password for different areas and change your passwords often.
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LG to Introduce Five Megapixel Camera Phone
February 26, 2005
LG, the world’s fifth-largest manufacturer of mobile phones, has announced that it will release a 5-megapixel camera phone in the second quarter 2005. The 5-megapixel LG camera phone will likely incorporate a camera module supplied by Japan’s Asahi Pentax that was announced in October, 2004. The camera phone will likely be first introduced in South Korea where more than three-quarters of the 48 million population have mobile phones.
Samsung Demonstrates Push-to-All Conferencing
February 26, 2005
Samsung demonstrated its “push-to-all” solution at the company’s telecom R&D center in Suwon, Korea on Thursday, February 24, 2005. This total mobile communications solution incorporates the existing PTT (Push-to-Talk) one to multi-user voice technology with the one to multi-user video conferencing ability of PTV (Push-to-View) and multimedia file sharing function of PTD (Push-to Data).
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Treo 650 In-Depth Review
February 26, 2005
The Treo 650 is a great wireless cell phone for anyone who needs to be connected while on the go. Compared to its predecessor (the Treo 600), the Treo 650 has the same great design, a higher resolution display and a faster processor. In addition, like virtually all new 3G cell phones on the market today, the Treo 650 comes with Bluetooth wireless. An improvement over the old version is the change in design of the Treo 650 to accommodate a removable battery port. Finally, the Treo 650 comes with PalmOne’s Palm OS 5.4 operating system built-in to allow for future expansion and customization of applications.
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Samsung IP-A790
February 25, 2005
Sprint’s first digital quad-band phone, the Samsung IP-A790 was announced on February 24, 2005. When used in conjunction with a subscriber identity module (SIM) card, the Sprint PCS International Phone IP-A790 by Samsung allows customers to make voice calls on both CDMA and GSM networks. The phone also functions as a multimedia device on the Sprint Nationwide PCS Network so customers can view on-demand streaming video and audio and shoot video clips with the embedded camera and camcorder. The IP-A790 by Samsung will be available beginning in March for a suggested retail price of $549.99.
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Yahoo Driving Directions to Phone Via SMS
February 25, 2005
Ok, this is neat: Yahoo SMS driving instructions to your cell phone. How many people use Yahoo maps or Mapquest? Probably much more than those who use Yahoo Driving Directions which give you block-by-block driving instructions. Trouble was, you had to print it out and take it with you. But now you can go to Yahoo Driving Directions and hit the “send to phone” link and have driving instructions sent to your SMS-enabled cell phone. Maps can also be accessed for those with more advanced phones and a data plan. This should increase the visibility and use of Yahoo Driving Directions.
Here is the press release:
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Fujifilm MP-70 Mobile Printer
February 25, 2005
Come July 2005 you will be able to print out photos from your cameraphone on the go. Fujifilm will debut its MP-70 mobile printer. Two CR-2 lithium batteries will print out 130 prints and a 10 pack of film sheets will set you back $6. Small enough to fit into a shirt pocket, the MP-70 produces equally small photo-sized prints of 2.4 by 1.8-inch prints from an infrared-enabled cameraphone, handheld or laptop in about 20 seconds. Cost estimate: $100
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Hannah Zakari Mobile Phone Charms
February 25, 2005
I gather most of the people who actually surf onto this site are men. But now in the interest of being a gender-friendly site as well as being more open about what my readers may actually be interested in, I’ve decided to post a link to Hannah Zakari. Who is Hannah Zakari? I have no idea except that I think she produces jewelry, including jewelry for cell phones.
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Orange Audiovox SPV C550
February 25, 2005
Unconfirmed rumor about the Orange SPV C550 smartphone by Audiovox. Apparently, the C550 will have the following features:
- 1.3 megapixel camera
- GPRS class 10
- 240×320 QVGA 65k (see below) TFT colour screen
- 64MB internal memory and Mini SD external memory
- USB, IrDA and Bluetooth connectivity
- Video MMS and download and playback
- Java 2.0
- Integrated SZGA and Flash
- 262K (not 64K gisplay)
