“Sprint customers will continue to see more eco-friendly options, whether through our products and services or our business practices. Sprint’s eco-friendly products will help consumers conserve natural resources and reduce their carbon footprint. In addition, our new green-themed website offers more tips on how consumers can help the environment with easy steps, such as recycling old phones.”
So now you can have these cool ..er.. cellbots ! Yea that's what i'll call them. A cell phone that could transform into a robot. Compact, small, and lightweight at only 100 g. Micro USB port is available as well. The features on this phone aren't great or even noteworthy but the way it can be transformed makes it an engineering marvel. A definite collective for the Transformer fan. There's a video of this coming up tomorrow.
Another one is the previous rokr below from Motorola.
More photos of this Motorola ROKR E6 Transformers phone at Gear Fuse.
Hats-of to Motorola for the design !
If you feel the Need for Speed or the itch for illegal street car racing, then this screen saver will make your day ! Of course you gotta make sure that you have a Symbian s60 device at home.
Ubiquitous Wi-Fi: Imagine a future in which wireless connectivity is everywhere. Wi-Fi using applications and gadgets in which information processing has been thoroughly integrated into everyday objects and activities. In the course of ordinary activities, someone "using" ubiquitous computing engages many computational devices and systems simultaneously, and may not necessarily even be aware that they are doing so.Wi-Fi connects your computers, printers, refrigerators, home entertainment systems, burglar alarms, and more. But it's not quite here yet: We do have the Nseries range of phones with built-in Wi-Fi but some of these applications are still the province of bleeding-edge people for whom technology is a hobby. These people want the latest and greatest, which is why we have n96 owners flocking to the Nokia Flagship store when the n97s get released. They want to have it first, and are willing to go to great lengths to be the first on their block with the new technology toys.
Bearing today's reality in mind, i found an article that takes a look at the Wi-Fi home of tomorrow from two perspectives:
If someone launches virtual reality games will consoles die off ?
Steven Spielberg think so.
He tells the Guardian in this podcast that the 3-D revolution will soon do for gaming what it's doing for film - transform an industry. "I really think virtual reality, which experimentally came and went in the eighties, is going to be redeveloped, just like 3D is being redeveloped today," he says, "and that's going to be the new platform for our gaming future." He must think so. He's the guy who moved to direct Games instead of films and is now working at EA on Project LMNO.
Of course, many of us remember how bad the VR games from the 80s and 90s turned out (Dactyl Nightmare, anyone?). And there were plenty of people back then who thought VR would be the next big thing. It wasn't. Why? Because the games sucked. The risk here is the breathless embrace of a new technology. VR is meaningless without a compelling game to drive it. It's still so far away from adoption that we'd be better off focused on improving, say, iPhone games in the meantime. Or perhaps building PayPal support into nGage.
A theme of a gift for our visitors, it's an Aiswarya Rai theme this time. These themes are for the Symbian s60 v3 phones like the Nokia N95 etc.
Why haven't smartphones like the Nokia N97 or N95 been overrun by a avalanche of worms and viruses like PCs have ? According to researchers at NorthEastern University, in Boston, these phones have been safe because no single cell phone operating system has achieved a big enough market share for a major virus outbreak to occur.
So are you planning to go on a caribbean vacation? If you are, you might want to pay a visit to the breezes.com portal as well as to the Carribean Mobile Providers page so that you can set-up your telephony while there in advance - i don't want you running about without your phone =) They seem to be a nice lot who'll help you setup your vacation in no-time. I'm really impressed by their all inclusive vacations because they really do give you a peace of mind - something you'll be looking forward to while holidaying. Breezes also have pretty all inclusive resorts and their site is elegantly designed so they do look like they know what they're doing.After unveiling 3 new cheap phones for emerging markets yesterday , Nokia today announced the Nokia 6600i, am thinking it's the successor to the 600 Slide. Styling is cool, it's got a 5MP cam with flash, and brushed metal design as well. I love those. Especially in silver.
It's got this neat hidden external display with the outer face equipped with touch technology, enabling you to simply tap it to bring the external screen to life or snooze alerts and silence or reject incoming calls.
Standard Nokia goodies include 3G, FM Radio ,Stereo Headset, 1 GB Memory Card - can be upped to 16GB.
The phone will be available in two colors, silver and black. But I'll go for silver since there's a brushed finish.
The 5 megapixel cams design seems to understate it's power. No wonder they've written it beside.
No MMS on the multimedia phone ! And Steve calls that Advanced ? Crazy.
Apple this week enlisted the services of the Associated Press and called upon many of its iPhone developers to help stress test its new Push Notification service slated for delivery in iPhone 3.0.The test application, which requires iPhone OS 3.0 beta 5, will be active over the next week and will then expire. During that time, "AP will be sending a high-volume of real news alerts" to give Apple an opportunity to monitor how well the system works and what optimizations can be made.Planned for last fall, Apple's Push Notification system was delayed after the company underestimated the demand third parties would make of the system. After realizing its original design would not adequately serve the needs of developers or users, Apple pulled the plug and returned to the proverbial drawing board to create a supportable system that was up to the task of serving alerts to the audience of tens of millions of iPhone and iPod touch users.
I was slightly concerned when I first thought about it but as soon as I get the idea of taking something apart to see how it works or maybe doing some sort of mod, the item becomes like Pandora's Box. At best it's only a matter of days before I go ahead and do it, in this case, it took me about 4 minutes before I got the screwdrivers out
If you do take it apart, one tip I'd give is that make sure the PCB is aligned properly when you put it back together and you sufficiently tighten the top 2 silver screws. I didn't tighten them enough and the board moved slightly, which gave me terrible phone reception. Wiggled the board, tightened the screws and it was fine again.
I also soldered a 9 inch piece of copper wire to the main PCB (onto that gold isolated junction near the bottom left) and routed it around the case avoiding any metal bits. The GPS reception is definitely better, no noticeable effect on battery life, and the original case fits back on almost perfectly (the wire I used was a touch on the thick side.)
Starting in late January all authorized service centers have been receiving packages with the new earpieces and any users who made warranty claims after that time shouldn’t experience the problem again.
It’s worth noting that the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is one of our company’s top-priority products therefore its sales have been monitored by our Research & Development (R&D) division from day one, and as soon as we found out about this defect an official representative of Nokia’s R&D department visited Russia to study the issue on-site.
Recurring warranty claims mentioned in Mobile-Review’s article started with the first phones sold in the region, as back then we didn’t have a solution, and therefore all the faulty earpieces were exchanged for the same units, which were manufactured by our previous supplier. However, as we gained a greater understanding of what the real cause of the problem was it became obvious that a simple replacement couldn’t solve the issue. I can’t name the company that made these flawed speakers, but I can say that it’s a respected and world-renowned vendor whose quality standards could not be doubted. Unfortunately, nobody is immune to these sort of mistakes.
Also, it needs to be mentioned that with the scope of the problem and Nokia’s global operations in mind, the single month that we took to deal with this issue is a very short period of time given the problem. Naturally our record-breaking sales of this phone in December led to the fact that more consumers were ultimately affected, but we have put a lot of energy and resources into rectifying this defect and we believe that it no longer poses a problem.
Therefore, we would like to assure our clients that it’s safe to buy the 5800 XpressMusic. Furthermore, if you returned your phone for repair some time after the end of January you shouldn’t run into this flaw ever again, and if you have just encountered it with your phone bought in 2008 then you can claim for repair and have the earpiece changed for a new unit.
Courtesy Mobile-Reivew
