Believe it or not, your cell phone has more bacteria that your toilet seat.
a mobile phone retailer called Dial-a-Phone did a study on how clean the average cell phones are. The study shows there’s more bacteria on the average cell phones than the average door handle, keyboard, and bottom of a shoe or even a toilet seat
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LG annouces a new cellular phone, the LG SH-110 which is a HSDPA phone that support fast wireless connection up to 1.8 mbps.
The phone has a secondary camera for video call and another 2 megapixel camera module at the back.
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It is projected that there will be 10 billions of cellular phone sold in year of 2007. That’s why Apple quickly jumps into cellular phone market with her “reinvented phone”, iPhone Another cellular phone industry outsider, Tag Heurer plans to do jump into cellular phone bendwagon.
Tag Heurer, which is famous in making luxury watches, annouces the partnership between ModeLabs in releasing watches with cellular phone capabilities.
The final product is tipped to be released sometime this year, and you can expect to fork out a premium for them if the prices of their watches are anything to go by.
Limited to just six handcrafted units, this ivory Nokia Cell phone which looks the same like regular Nokia 8800 cellular phone is priced at $23,000 US Dollars. Even if you can pay for this cellular phone you can only buy it in China. The ivory, harvested from Elephant, Mammoth(?) and camel teeth, taking three engravers over 3 months to make.
“Special edition” sales technique isn’t new but i think it is a pretty good working technique to generate more sales. Hence, SonyEricsson has released two new “James Bond” special edition cellular phones which are the K800 and K790.
The K800 and K790 will sport a silver finish which is used in the latest James Bond flick, Casino Royale
So, if you are a die-hard James Bond fan, you will find the Sony Ericsson K800 and K790 cellular phones pretty attractive for you as both of these cell phones are pre loaded James Bond wallpapers, ringtones and a movie trailer.
SonyEriccson has unveiled a new type of Bluetooth watch, MBW-W100 that rocks and rolls. The MBW-W100 watch is a wonderful gadget as a result of partnership between Fossil and Motorola. The rocking features of the MDW-W100 watch is the Bluetooth features that enables you to connect to your cellular phone through Bluetooth technology, so that you can take control of your cellular phone from your SonyEricssson MDW-W100 watch! For examples, you can receive incoming messages and calls and play musics with your watch (should we call it a watch?)
The MBW-W100 watch will be released at the end of 2006 and it is price tagged at 300 Euros.
tags: SonyEricsson, WBW-W100, Bluetooth Watch
Besides preventing your from getting lost, GPS system isn’t as boring as you think after you have seen the Dash Navigation’s Dash Express gadget. Why? Because the Dash Express is not only a GPS system, but also a a cellular device with Wi-Fi enabled. So, besides looking at boring maps, now you can write emails or call your friends with Dash Express which looks just like a regular GPS system that is installed in your car.
The Dash Express will be released in 2007, however there isn’t any information about the price.
[via Engadget]
tags: GPS, Cell Phone, Dash Express, WiFi
O2 has released the all new “Stealth” cellular phone which is powered by Windows Mobile 5.0. The Stealth cellular phone comes integrated with amazing 416MHz Intel Xscale PXA 272 processor with 64MB RAM, 192MB ROM. Besides that, the OS’s Stealth smartphone has built-in 2.0-MP digital camera, 802.11 b/g Wi-FI connection and Bluetooth support.
The Stealth measures 110 x 53 x 22.5mm and weights 140 grams. One of the most notable feature of this smartphone is it has touchscreen display likes Palm’s Treo.
[via TechEblog]
tags: O2, Stealth, Smartphone
Pantech is going to release a new type of music phone called Pantech PT-K2700 which built in white color case. The Pantech PT-K2700 has an impressive 140MB of internal memory and micro SD expansion slot for you to carry more songs in this cellular phone. Besides that, the Pantech PT-K2700 slider phone also has a 1.3-MP digital camera for snapping photos.
More Picture of Pantech PT-K2700 after jump.
[via HandCellPhone]
RIM has announced the long-waited next-generation of BlackBerry PDA cellular phone, the Blackberry 8100 Pearl. The Blackberry 8100 Pearl is a Quad-band cellular phone that operates in both GSM and GPRS networks. Thanks God! RIM decided to integrate a 1.3-MP digital camera in the Blackberry Pearl cellular phone. Integrated digital camera is always the missing feature of the previous models of BlackBerry devices. The 8100 will be available through T-Mobile in US from September 12, 2006.