April 13, 2006
Aston Martin has announced a Aston Martin branded Nokia 8800 handset. Like the cars, Aston Martin wants a whopping £940 for the device reports the register.
The phone is a tri-band GSM/GPRS device with EDGE support. It has a 208 x 208, 262,144-colour display and a megapixel camera. The on-board music player supports MP3 and AAC songs, and the phone is based on Nokia's Series 40 UI.
The Nokia 8800 weighs 134g and measures 10.7 x 4.5 x 1.7cm. It's got a 600mAh battery, sufficient for up to three hours' talk time and eight days on stand-by.
The AM-branded 8800 is available now from the car maker for £800 excluding VAT - £940 inclusive. ®
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April 8, 2006
The Modeo DVB-H is a sleek all in one device from HTC of Taiwan. The handset features Mobile TV, Quad Band GS, incorporated DVB-H, Windows Mobile 5.0, video reception and playback of Modeo's CVB-H broadcasts enabled via Windows Media Video, powered by OMAP850 200 MHz digital processor, NVIDIA Go-Force 5500 GPU. The handset supports GPRS/EDGE services, enabling high speed data access and file downloads.
via New Launches
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April 6, 2006
Motorola, Inc is demonstrate a new technology that can move recorded shows from a Motorola digital video recorder (DVR) set-top directly to a Motorola mobile device like the next-generation RAZR V3x. This new ability to move content can expand Motorola’s existing whole-home video platform to meet the video needs of consumers anywhere and everywhere.
The explosion of digital video technologies in recent years is leading the demand for ever-greater control over TV at home and on the go. Starting with a Motorola set-top, consumers can now create a multimedia network that sends content not only to other rooms in the home, but to mobile devices with storage-card capacity. In addition, Motorola mobile devices can be used to program a Motorola DVR remotely. No more worries about forgetting to record your favorite show – control your television wherever you are!
“By combining the reliability and clarity of Motorola video products with the style of Motorola cell phones, we can deliver a truly personalized television experience,” said John Burke, corporate vice president and general manager of digital video solutions at Motorola. “Consumers get the chance to enjoy seamless, mobile entertainment, and service providers get the opportunity to extend their reach beyond the home.”
The full Follow Me TV experience is enabled by Motorola DVR set-tops and the company’s OCAP® software solution. This software solution includes powerful tools designed to offer home media networking using the Multimedia over Cable Alliance ( MoCA™ ) standard.
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April 5, 2006
Samung's 0.39-inch thick SGH-T509 phone should be available in the states this May reports Engadget. The phone features EDGE data, Bluetooth 1.2 connectivity, and a camera of undetermined resolution.
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Nokia has announced four new phones, Nokia 6126, a Quadband GSM handset with EDGE, 1.3 MP camera, a microSD card slot, music player capabilities (MP3, AAC, WMA) and QVGA display with millions of colors, expected to ship in Q2.
The other three handsets announced all have FM radios and Bluetooth standard. The 6175i features a 1.3 MP camera and a 128x60 pixel screen with 260K colors. The 2865i, has push-to-talk, real music ringtones (MP3, AAC),. The entry-level 2365i, has MP3 ringtones and 128x160 pixel 65K color screen.
via Gizmodo
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April 4, 2006
Vertu has announced two handsets to get things off for their new Racetrack Legends series. The first two phones in a series of six which pay homage to legendary tracks are Monza and Silverstone. The phones are available in limited, numbered editions of 1,000 each and feature racing tread rubber details and a map of the track laser-etched on the phone. The Monza is in red and the Silverstone is in green
Seen at Luxist
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Fujitsu plans to show off a new 4 way slider at a special exhibition taking place in Milan reports reghardware
In addition to a pair of concept PCs, the Japanese giant has a couple of futuristic mobile phone designs including a landscape-orientation unit designed more for browsing than making calls. Dubbed the "slider", it sports a full keyboard - the keys are touch-sensitive, we presume - for web use, texting and instant messaging.
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April 3, 2006
The Xcute S50 is a new 6-megapixel camera-phone from Taiwan company Xcute.The 9mm handset weighs 100g and features onboard flash, triband, TV-out, 16.7 million colors, support for AVI, ASF and MOV, and T-flash expandability.
Via Cnet Asia
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NTT DoCoMo will next month ship a music player capable of downloading songs from its 3G FOMA mobile phone network. The Music Porter X is designed to spend as much time hooked up to a hi-fi as placed in a pocket writes the register. The Music Porter X features 1GB of memory, but it supports Sony's ATRAC 3 Plus format, an FM radio , a big, 2.8in 240 x 400, 262,144-colour display and a 320,000-pixel camera. It weighs 136g and measures 10.9 x 5 x 2.4cm. DoCoMo said it will deliver 170 minutes' talk time, 90 minutes' videocall time and 20 hours' continuous music playback. The Music Porter X ships with a cradle, headphones and a remote control. DoCoMo said a Bose-speaker equipped dock will be made available too.
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April 2, 2006
The new technology, known as "One Seg," after "One Segment," was offically introduced to the Japan market on Saturday. "One Seg," allows users to watch digital television broadcasts on mobile telephones.
Handsets have been on the market in Japan for several weeks that are equipped with the service, which can also broadcast programs onto laptop computers, high-end video-game machines and other terminals.
The service will be free for now and programming will be the same as on home televisions as mobile operators examine whether One Seg will prove to be popular.
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