Tag: mobile phone
Mobile phones worse than smoking or asbestos, neurosurgeon claims
A top British neurosurgeon and medical researcher, Dr Vini Khurana, has publicly spoken out about the dangers he sees in the use of mobile phones.
With something of an obsession — he’s published over 30 papers on cell phones and their links to disease — he doesn’t mince his words.
“Mobile phones could have health consequences far greater than asbestos and smoking. There is a significant and increasing body of evidence for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumours.”…
Green-house offers telephoto lens kit for mobile phones
The cameras in our phones are often as good as a standalone these days – so perhaps offering a lens kit isn’t such a stupid idea?…
Orange offering discounted music as part of new mobile advertising trial
Orange is trialling a new ad-funded download service with nearly a million of its users, allowing them to get their hands on free or half-price music.
Super cheap SX 200 mobile comes to Woolworths
Couple of Easter eggs, bag of pick ‘n’ mix, a JML slice ‘n’ dice… oh, and a cheap mobile phone.
Claiming to be the best value mobile phone currently on the UK market, Fly Mobile’s SX 200 offers a range of decent features for under thirty quid, and you can pick one up on the Virgin Mobile network from good old Woolworths…
PhoneShield gizmo reduces mobile phone radiation
Responding to the continued growth of mobile telephone usage in the UK, the PhoneShield has been re-launched.
This small, discreet product can be easily attached to any mobile phone, and is supposed to reduce the effects of low frequency non-thermal radiation by the use of quartz crystals…
Texas Instruments' Pico chipsets go into production – projection coming to mobile phones in 2008?
We’ve been talking about this for some months, but until this week, Texas Instruments’ pico projector technology was just a concept. Not anymore – the DLP Pico chipset is now in production, with availability from mid-2008.
Polaroid replaces Instamatic with Digital Instant Mobile Photo Printer
Polaroid is synonymous with instant pictures, most notably with the Instamatic camera. That’s now a thing of the past, but Polaroid isn’t giving up on instant photos – it’s now offering the Digital Instant Mobile Photo Printer.
MWC 2008: Mobile operators collaborate to prevent access to child sexual abuse websites
Though mobile operators are usually in direct competition with one another, it’s encouraging that, where the subject really matters, they can cooperate to help combat a problem.
The GSM Association, the global trade association for mobile operators, has announced the launch of the Mobile Alliance against Child Sexual Abuse Content, which aims to block those who wish to access or profit from websites depicting child sexual abuse.
Their concern is that, with the continued rollout of high-speed mobile networks (mobile broadband), those determined to access such material will move from more conventional technology to the mobile space.
MWC 2008: New Nokia 6210 Navigator and 6220 classic handsets offer advanced navigation and multimedia functions
Nokia has announced two new handsets boasting a collection of advanced navigation and multimedia features. Click on any of the images for higher resolution shots.
The Nokia 6210 Navigator is the company’s first phone to incorporate GPS with an integrated compass, allowing for a much more advanced navigation service for pedestrian use. Bundled with the newly announced Nokia Maps 2.0, the phone utilises an accelerometer (yes, made popular by that other phone) which should allow for accurate guidance based on changes in the user’s orientation. Mind you, I wonder if you’ll have to employ a silly walk in order to ensure that it always works?
MWC 2008: Nokia N96 versus Nokia N95
With Nokia finally announcing the N96, it’s time to take a look at what new features they’ve added since the N95.
Dimensions
Boring but necessary are dimensions. The N96 isn’t going to take up much more room in your pocket than the N95 — it’s marginally bigger and slightly heavier, but we’ll forgive that for the extra features.
