by Patrick Altoft on April 18, 2007
This Porsche shaped mobile phone selling in Hong Kong brings a whole new meaning to the term “Speed Dialling”.
Apparently the Porsche 911 phone runs dual band GSM and is selling now for $164. Other features include microSD memory card support, 2 megapixel digital camera, MP3 player and 262k colour screen.
This phone is fantastic for anybody who doesn’t own a real Porsche but we can’t see it being popular with anybody who can actually afford a 911. Maybe Porsche should bring out a really classy, high spec phone for Porsche owners?
HK Sincere (Chinese) via Gear Fuse
by Patrick Altoft on April 4, 2007
A Chinese company has come up with one of the strangest inventions ever - a retro brick cover for your shiny new super slim phone.
The BW-A888 clips over your existing phone and makes it look and feel like its from the 1990’s.
Apparently it even includes a compass, extended battery life and loudspeaker.
Via Slash Phone
by Patrick Altoft on March 28, 2007
A Dutch company called Skins Mobile has launched a new brand of condom designed to protect your mobile phone.
Simply slip the Skins Mobile Protection condom over your precious mobile phone and you can even made phone calls underwater. The condoms can be used on flip phones as well as candybar style handsets and protect against mud, grit, sand and water.
by Patrick Altoft on March 27, 2007
Fresh out of China comes this Thunder Super Radio HiFi phone complete with FM radio and bulging speaker on the back.
With a 2.4 inch screen and 1.3 megapixel camera its got all of the features of a modern phone as well as the added features of a stereo system. The phone takes microSD cards and has dual screens to show track information.
Via Gear Fuse
by Patrick Altoft on March 27, 2007
Texas Instruments is demonstrating a prototype digital projector this week that fits inside a cell phone and is capable of beaming DVD quality movies onto a screen or wall.
The DLP (Digital Light Processing) projector is on show at CTIA Wireless this week and contains three lasers, a DLP chip and a power supply. It measures just 1.5 inches in length.
We don’t expect this sort of device to become commonplace on phones anytime soon but its fun to imagine beaming funny videos onto the office wall from a mobile phone.
Via CNET News.com
by Patrick Altoft on March 21, 2007
This is probably the most ridiculous product to come out of China in some time. The Smokers Phone looks like a cigarette packet but is in fact a real working mobile phone complete with a handy compartment inside to keep your cigarettes safe.
With the official government warning stickers this handset looks exactly the same as a real cigarette packet and includes a microSD card slot, MP3 player, colour screen and VGA camera.
Source (Chinese) via Gear Fuse
This was a guest post by Paul who runs a Party Supplies website.
by Patrick Altoft on March 19, 2007
An interesting new handsfree kit in the shape of a pillow is the latest concept device to hit the cell phone world.
Described on the Urban Tool website as a perCushion it will act like a standard Bluetooth headset and allow you to make calls in total comfort.
With a velvet finish the 66cm long perCushion includes a microphone, loudspeaker and LED indicators to silently announce incoming calls.
Remember the times before our mobile digital lifestyle, when communication with a close friend stood for something emotional and touching. It can again with the soft and relaxing perCushion. Your cell phone notifies the digital cushion wirelessly, via Bluetooth and enables you to pick up the call while relaxing on your sofa.
Via Coolest Gadgets
by Patrick Altoft on March 15, 2007
Pantech are bringing a new technology to Korea this year by using magnetic levitation to make phones even slimmer.
In a bid to beat Samsung and create the thinnest phone in the Korean market Pantech has created this 9.9mm thin model which uses magnets to create a smooth sliding mechanism. Brilliantly, because the usual spring doesn’t need to be used, this shaves vital millimetres off its size. Imagine if Samsung gets hold of this technology!
The Pantech includes a 1.3 megapixel camera and MP3 player.
Pantech spokesperson Yang Yu-in commented:
This will be the world’s first cell phone based on magnetic levitation technology. The top half of the slider moves via magnetic power.Thanks to magnetic forces, its users will be able to almost automatically slide open their phones and vice versa. This is an out-of-box product.
Korea Times via textually
by Patrick Altoft on March 13, 2007
Wi-Ex, a company making indoor cell phone boosters, has carried out a survey into the things people do to get reception.
Apparently 62% have done something special to improve reception with 46% having to go outside to use the phone.
Below are some of the ways mobile phone users have tried to boost their reception:
- “Stood in the closet with the light off”
- “Stand in my daughter’s room while touching the chain from her ceiling fan”
- “Stand on higher things like a couch or chair”
- “Stood by metal [stuff]”
- “Lay perfectly still without moving”
- “Run back and forth”
- “Moved my arm around”
- “Held my head at a funny angle”
- “Gone upstairs”
- “Hang out the window”
- “Kept moving my cell phone until I got a signal - and ended up pulling a matrix move as I tried to keep the signal”
Lloyd Meese, President and CEO of Wi-Ex, commented:
Mobile phones have evolved from car phones to hand held data devices that increase productivity throughout our business and personal lives. As cell phones have become more integrated into our lives, consumers are demanding better reception at home, in the office and on the go.
Via
by Patrick Altoft on March 8, 2007
Chinese student Zhang Yi claims to have owned and used around 500 mobile phones over the last nine years.
Since his father, a mobile phone wholesaler, handed over the first phone in 1998 Zhang has developed a taste for new handsets. Keeping each one for only a few months and selling them to his friends Zhang has become a consultant and problem solver for fellow students.
Zhang commented:
I got my first cell phone in 1998, as a present from my father. I felt a great sense of fulfillment after learning all of the functions. From then on, a mobile phone has been like a big toy to me. I always want to have the latest one to learn its functions.
It takes less and less time for me to fully understand a new model, and I still haven’t found the phone which suits me best.
Ananova via textually
