SE W44S

The Japanese operator KDDI has announced a new mobile phone by Sony Ericsson – the W44S. This is a clamshell with additional free screen area, Nokia N93 and Nokia N92 smartphones have similar form-factor, however the construction is implemented in other way.
The phone is tuned for multimedia functionality, including video. The W44S is equipped with a huge 3” 16:9 widescreen LCD. It involves RealityMAX brand technology, which ensures high image resolution.

SKYPE FOR MOBILE

Skype launched its first mobile voice-over-IP service in collaboration with an operator, 3 Group, whose customers will soon be the first to use it.

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UMTS - leading global 3G technology: reports 3G Americas

More than half a billion new customers were connected with all technologies of mobile wireless service in the year preceding September 2006. This increased the global wireless market to more than 2.5 billion total users of various technologies. The GSM family of wireless technologies dominated the marketplace, growing its customer base by 497 million new customers and increasing its global market share to 83%, according to the research of Informa Telecoms & Media. Over the same twelve months, CDMA technology also added customers - nearly 50 million - while other technologies showed a decline, including TDMA and analog.

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Visa launches pilot mobile payment program

According to Mobile tech News, Visa is now testing the delivery of mobile payment coupons and rewards via text message, graphic and bar code images direct to US consumers' mobile devices.
The pilot, which is scheduled to launch in November with approximately 500 Visa employees in California, is expected to expand to public trials over the next year. Pilot participants will receive payment coupons and rewards that can be redeemed at on-site cafes located at Visa's corporate campus.

Now its TINYTUBE

Now you can download all the youtube videos to your mobile phone from tinytube. It automatically converts it to 3gp format to your mobile. So what are you waiting for??? Enjoy the great features...

Indian Army has launched its own exclusive cellular communication system

According to India Daily, India's army has launched its own exclusive cellular communication system in Kashmir, and officers said Tuesday the new set up should help soldiers battling Islamic insurgents in the Himalayan territory.
"The new system, which should be fully online in a couple of months, should allow soldiers to more easily speak with each other when searching for and fighting militants... Only the military would have access to the system, and outsiders would not be able to call phones working off the network.
More than a dozen insurgent groups have been fighting Indian rule in Kashmir, and many are using mobile and satellite phones and other modern communications gadgets to plan attacks _ a development that has caught the military off-guard."

Music Video created solely on a Nokia Nseries multimedia computer

Nokia recently premiered musician Rob Dickinsons new video, "Oceans;" which is the first music video created solely on a Nokia Nseries multimedia computer.
The "Oceans" music video was shot by Hodgkinson on the Nokia N93, a 3.2 megapixel cameraphone with DVD quality video and Carl Zeiss optics.
Click here to view the new 'Oceans' music video as well as the creative 'Making of Oceans' video by Mike Hodgkinson. [press release]

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FULL FEATURE FILM ON YOUR MOBILE

This could happen some day. Following a long and tiring day at work, you unwind by popping some popcorn, curling up in a cosy chair and watching a movie -- on your mobile phone. The last bit might sound far fetched, but it really isn't.
Mobile content providers are hoping to bring mobile phone owners a comfortable wireless Web experience coupled with a new world of portable multimedia entertainment. It's not just a volley of creative frames shot with digital cameras or handicams that are gaining traction among the young cinema makers, the mobile phone cameras are getting their bit of publicity too.
Among the first ones, Hungama Mobile has begun by teaming up with leading Indian filmmaker Dev Benegal's maverick film production programme 24x7 Making Movies that will produce almost 100 films every year.
"It started off as a crazy idea," recalls Benegal, "What if, for one week, we could forget red tape, bureaucracy, development executives, financiers, the underworld mafia, film commissions and people who stifle creativity? What if a person could walk in and make a film? What if one could make films for free? No questions asked, no scripts scrutinised... no nothing."

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World's fastest text messager

Sixteen-year-old Ang Chuang Yang, a student from Singapore, broke the Guinness World Record for the shortest time needed to type a 160-character SMS message on Sunday after whizzing through the task in 41.52 seconds in a competition, reports Reuters.
Just for comparison'ssake, in 2004, James Trusler typed the message in 67 seconds beating his previous record by one second. Trusler was the confirmed world text champion by the Guinness Book of Records since September 2002.
The phrase to qualify is: "The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human."

Free mobile phones funded by ads - Google CEO

Web search leader Google Inc's chief executive, Eric Schmidt, sees a future where mobile phones are free to consumers who accept watching targeted forms of advertising. CNN reports.
"Schmidt said Saturday that as mobile phones become more like handheld computers and consumers spend as much as eight to 10 hours a day talking, texting and using the Web on these devices, advertising becomes a viable form of subsidy.
"Your mobile phone should be free," Schmidt told Reuters. "It just makes sense that subsidies should increase" as advertising rises on mobile phones".
The Google executive said his own company had no plans to directly give away phones itself, nor is he aware of any effort by partners such as phone makers Nokia or Motorola or mobile operators like Vodafone to make such a radical move, he said.
Schmidt acknowledged that mobile phones may never become totally free to the consumer. Newspapers are still not completely free a hundred years after they started relying on advertising, but they certainly are inexpensive, he noted.
The company, which will derive virtually all of its expected $10 billion in revenue this year from selling text ads to computer users who use Google to search the Web, has said previously it expected mobile phone advertising to match computer-based ad revenue over time."

File sharing software for mobile phones

POGO, a South African company, has launched a free Internet-based file sharing software for mobile phones, enabling users to share ringtones, music, games, videos and themes.
In the three weeks following it's launch, Pogo has signed up 1,000 users. Some 6,800 items, mostly music or games, have already been downloaded, with music downloads as the most popular content.
Additional content will become available as more users join the POGO peer-to-peer community. There is also a free instant messenger available for download that will allow users to send SMSs and chat in the mobile chat rooms."

K-FED dumped by text

A video of Britney Spears' soon-to-be ex-husband apparently getting a text message informing him that the pop princess had filed for divorce became the most viewed item on the YouTube on Thursday, with more than 1 million hits.
"The Web video shows kevin Federline taping a reality television show and talking about Spears being his biggest fan -- until he gets a text message. Then he puts his head in his hands, rips off his microphone and disappears, returning 30 minutes later visibly upset."

No mobile phones, say Maoists

Left wing militants, active in Orissa's southern most Malkangiri district, have directed the people residing in a large area not to use cellphones anymore, reports India's Financial Express

"Posters and banners have appeared in several places under Kalimela, Motu and MV-79 police station limits of the district asking people not to use cellphones anymore, official reports said on Thursday.

Leaflets had also been distributed in several villages containing the threat: those ignoring this directive will not be forgiven.
A total ban has also been imposed on cockfights - a big attraction in weekly village markets - and gambling."

SAMSUNG - SPH-P9000

Samsung Electronics has announced a device called SPH-P9000 Deluxe MITs. Its futuristic design might be a sample of future 4G devices. the SPH-P9000 is a convergent device that can make voice calls and transfer data via Mobile WiMAX networks. There is the support of CDMA EV-DO cell networks.

Taking into account the dimensions, we have something between the PDA and the notebook-transformer. As for the opportunities and technical specs the SPH-P9000 is like the UMPC, but with compact size. It is powered by Windows XP. Its LCD features 5” diagonal and a WVGA resolution. The device comes with 256 MB RAM onboard, Transmeta processor, 30 GB HDD, 1.3-megapixel camera and folding QWERTY-keyboard. There is the support of Bluetooth interface and miniUSB port. Measuring 143x92x29.7 mm it weighs 560 g

A low-end Motorola KRZR???

A low-end clone of Motorola KRZR, which differs little from the original more expensive model. Initially the phone was rumored to be called the W210, the info wasn’t confirmed.
Its design is similar to the W220 GSM phone, but it is designed for CDMA networks.

SMS TO MOON

Public art, and peace activist tometaxy.net is launching a small 3 kgs moon into real space, equipped with small displays, antennas and cameras for still images and video.
"People will be able to send pictures or SMS to this artificial Moon. A small camera will take a picture from space of your message on the picosatellite screen and return this image back to your mobile phone."

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Bird-friendly communications towers

The FCC drew praise from a wildlife conservation group for considering a plan to make communications towers less deadly for migrating birds - which currently kill up to 50-million birds a year in the United States.

An American Bird Conservancy report analyzing documented towers kills, lists 230 species – over one third of all avian species found in the United States – that are known to be killed at towers, including many species of conservation concern such as the Blackpoll Warbler, Gray-cheeked Thrush, and Yellow-billed Cuckoo.

ABC is a central participant in the Communication Tower Working Group (CTWG), which is chaired by USFWS and consists of representatives from government agencies, telecommunication, broadcasting and tower industries, scientists and conservation agencies. The CTWG is attempting, to foster research, to ascertain mitigation measures that can be applied to towers to avoid such large-scale avian mortality. ABC also continues to prod federal agencies, such as FAA and FCC, to require bird-safe lighting and tower construction for new and existing towers - see the letter to the FAA. So far the FCC has resisted efforts to assume responsibility for the killing of birds at communication towers that it licenses.

Helio unveils phones with locatior services

Helio, a venture of EarthLink Inc. and SK Telecom, teamed up with Google Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. to deliver a new phone with features such as a friend locator service and driving directions.

"Wireless provider Helio said its customers would be able to find out their current location and look up traffic conditions or directions to specific addresses by using Google maps and satellite positioning technology in Samsung's Drift phone.
The phone, which sells for $255, also gives users the option to look up the location of nearby friends, or to have their own location show up on their friends' cell phones."

Source: Reuters

NOKIA IN US ARMY

Nokia has entered into a Research and Development agreement with the US Army to evaluate Nokia technology in the areas of PCS, WCDMA 3G, GSM, WiMAX and advanced wireless networking protocols for potential military and defense applications.

"This program will evaluate the capabilities of various Nokia products and systems to determine if they can potentially meet ARMY requirements for high-speed data communications."

NOKIA 6639 - Makes u think about it...

I just got these pics from my friend, but i'm not sure whether its original or fake. Even there is no information about this on the Nokia's official site. I think this must be a photoshop fun. Otherwise who knows, it could be real one or Nokia may have plans to produce this...