Posts Tagged ‘mobile’
Com-putter science: GPS golf caddies
Imagine for a moment that you are faced with a dilemma. You are in the middle of the fairway having just nailed a drive and your second shot is crucial. It’s about 173 yards to the green but It’s over water and you’re just not sure what the carry is. There was a time when you just had to hit and hope, after all, most of the time you don’t…
Inmarsat’s iSatphone Pro: Satellite communication goes handheld
Our mobile phones have become such an everyday part of our lives, it’s almost impossible to imagine what it would be like without one. Well, in the middle of the Atlantic on an oil rig would be a good place to start, or perhaps in deepest Amazonia or even up at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. Just spotting a ‘no service’ warning on our handsets are enough to raise the…
Come As You Are – The Nirvana Smartphone
In a world of increasingly sophisticated and even pointless developments in mobile phone technology (yes I’m looking at you translucent phone) it takes more and more for mobile phone ideas to stand out. The Nirvana phone concept from Citrix, whilst not exactly new, does manage to do this by taking some of the more interesting possibilities of advancements in mobile phone technology and marry them to solid real world usage…
Sony Ericsson launch Xperia 10 successor: Vivaz
Those of you inspired by the Golden Globes and imminent Oscars will be pleased to learn that the Sony Ericsson Vivaz could help you take your first steps to stardom. The handset allows you to produce and broadcast HD video content from your phone, making it a big temptation for any budding film-makers out there. Thanks to the dedicated video key, it’s easy to capture spontaneous moments for your hard-hitting…
Sssh… lets whisper about the LG Rumor Touch
It may not be available until the spring, but there are some stirring rumors flying around about LG’s new Rumor Touch phone. In bragging a hefty 3-inch touch screen, increasing its 4-line keyboard to a 5-line one, boosting its camera by O.7 MP to 2.0 MP, and including a 3G data capability on Sprint’s network, the Rumor Touch can justifiably be considered as being infinitely superior to its predecessor, the…
Google announces first phone: Nexus One
After a lot of behind-the-scenes work, including the development of a mobile operating system and pulling the strings behind the Motorola Droid, Google has finally come to market with a product that it spear-headed itself – the Nexus One. Despite being released for sale only a few hours ago it’s already on prime time news across the World. However, promoting the phone would be easy for Google even without the…
Access and Emblaze Mobile release ‘Else Intuition’
With the iPhone currently seeming near uncatchable in terms of branding, even companies with established names within mobile technology must resort to good old-fashioned ingenuity to widen their slice of the smartphone market pie. Rather than following the popular trend of churning out a phone that looks a bit like an iPhone but has a bigger screen, that so many manufacturers are peddling, Access and Emblaze Mobile have teamed up…
Look out Q, here comes the W Phonewatch
Miniscule, inconspicuous and with its real identity masked, even James Bond’s “Q” would be proud of Kempler & Strauss’s W Phonewatch. As the name suggests, the W Phonewatch is a cellphone, disguised as a wristwatch. Although unlike the torrent of wrist-watch phones that have saturated the market in recent years, which awkwardly lie on its owner’s wrists and become more of a hindrance than a help, the W Phonewatch is…
