Category: Mobile phones
Nokia to launch hard disk mobile
Just in case you needed any more evidence that your phone is going to morph into a serious music and video playing entertainment device Nokia yesterday confirmed that it will launch a 'media type' phone with a hard disk sometime…
Jabra's latest Bluetooth headset
Jabra's BT800 will be out at the end of this month with a street price of £99.99. The company's latest headset comes with all sorts of fancy features, including a choice of ringtones, vibrate mode and noise reduction courtesy of…
Three more from Nokia
Nokia used the swanky backdrop of Monaco to launch three new phones and confirm that it is to produce a handset with a hard drive in 2005. Most interesting of the new line up is the 7710 – a…
NEC TV Phone
NEC has some pretty neat phones out in Japan but they've yet to make their way over here (natch). In the meantime, the company just keeps on bringing out more and more to make us feel ignored and unloved. The…
First gig to be broadcast on 3G
We assumed that, with a name like Rooster, the band's sound would best be described as "Cock Rock" (ho ho*), but apparently, Music Week describe them as having 'the swagger of Oasis with Aerosmith's riffs' (so it is cock rock…
BenQ P30 smartphone
We somehow managed to miss this one off last week. BenQ's continuing its spate of innovative gadget releases with the launch of the P30, the company's first Symbian-based smartphone. The handset, just 17mm thick, comes with a 262K-colour TFT touchscreen,…
Panasonic 3G handset
Panasonic's Z800 3G handset has just been announced over in Asia. The phone has a 1.3-megapixel outer camera (no mention of the internal camera's resolution) with auto-focusing and Panasonic's proprietary AV technology. The 2-inch internal screen is only 65K colour…
See through clothes using your mobile
Not content with a bit of friendly groping on the underground during rush hour, Japanese phone owners can now see through people's clothing using an add-on for Vodafone handsets. Yamada Denshi, third party developer, has come up with a night…
Treo 650 not heading our way soon
The Treo 650 is launching in the US today, but there's no news of when it's likely to reach these shores just yet. No carriers have been announced in the UK so we'll have to wait our turn to see…
Mobile phones powered by jet engines
It sounds like crazy talk to us, but according the the New Scientist, engineers are well on their way to batch producing miniturised jet engine-based generators. These "mîcroengines", it's suggested, could be used to power mobile devices such as phones…