Mio planning 3G GPS phone for 2008

mio-gps.jpgGPS is the final piece of the mobile phone world domination plan. Mobiles can play music now. They can play films. They can do the internet. All we need now are decent, free GPS features and every other gadget can get the hell out of our pockets and onto eBay.

GPS specialist Mio’s 3G GPS phone plans are a response to the mass arrival of the new wave of super-spec GPS phones…

Stay on the bleeding edge of fashion with Nike and KDDi Communications' blood-red shoes

nike-shoes-2.jpgA product is never just a single product these days, with convergence being more popular than this year than touch-screens, believe it or not. Just look at how many applications and features the most popular touch-screen product of all time is…

Nike is making leaps and bounds in the tech-convergence field, with their Nike + iPod shoes, and now their collaboration with Japan’s…

Philips' Xenium 9@9 mobile phone has a battery life of two months, apparently

philips-xenium.jpgWe’ve all been there, on a night out, when your mobile phone dies right as you’re trying to phone for a taxi. You can try and carry around a gizmo like Proporta’s emergency charger, but what are the odds you’ll remember to charge that up? The only reasonable answer lies with Philips.

They’ve developed a confusingly-named Xenium 9@9 mobile, which has TWO MONTHS OF BATTERY LIFE. That…

ThinkGeek solves your lost mobile phone worries, with the SIM card back-up machine

think-geek-sim-card.jpgGroups are springing up across Facebook asking for friends’ phone numbers faster than you exit the site when your boss walks past – all because people foolishly lose all their contacts’ details when they lose their phones on a boozy night out. You know what I’m talking about.

Thankfully this device will help cleanse Facebook of all those ubiquitous groups, courtesy of those brain-champs, ThinkGeek. It…

Hulger channels the 1920s with their Sophia VoIP handsets

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The Hulger phones we’ve featured in the past have all been decidedly retro, but this Sophia model? Gorgeous, and so much more classic than their previous styles.

Unfortunately the ’20s-era phone is being sold in a limited edition number of ten, and cost a whopping $215 each. But if you can hunt one down (try eBay if they’re all sold out), you’ll experience full Bluetooth…

HTC adds another model to their Touch family, the Touch Cruise with GPS

htc-touch-cruise.jpgI’m a firm advocate of the HTC Touch family, having been an obsessive user of the first-gen model since it launched in June, and been salivating over the new Touch Dual we saw back in October. Heck, even the purple Ted Baker-branded Touch from the other week has got me dreaming of the day my mobile contract expires.

Sadly it doesn’t look like my obsessive thoughts about the Touch are going to be disappearing any time soon, as they’ve just…