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UK-based Rok Entertainment, developers of mobile technologies, applications and entertainment content has announced the launch of a service that provides visual content directly to a user’s mobile phone. This service has been launched in Turkey with Vodafone as the network carrier and via ROK’s Turkish representative Mobileturk.

Vodafone customers in Turkey will now be able to watch a range of live and on-demand content via the service known as ROK TV. This services uses technology that maximizes deployment across 2.5G networks to provide a high frame-rate mobile TV service.

Incidentally, ROK had entered into an agreement with Mobileturk in October 2007 for the introduction of the first commercial mobile TV service in turkey.

To utilize this new ROK TV mobile TV service, Turkish Read the story »

A Dutch company called Polymer Vision has come out with a very unique mobile phone called the Readius. A very special feature seems to be the phone’s display, which is roughly the size of two business cards, and fold up when not in use!

The display of the Readius measures around 5-inches and happens to be the world’s first screen that folds out, allowing the users to read news, browse the web, blog it out or even send emails. After his/her work is done, the screen folds back together.

The whole mobile phone is quite small as well, as it can perfectly fit into one’s pocket.

Here are the salient features of the Readius Mobile Phone:

Motorola showcased its Moto SLVR L7 mobile phone at the recently concluded CES 2008. However, this wasn’t an ordinary handset, as it was powered by an Angstrom Power EverOn hydrogen fuel cell and not the usual lithium ion battery. We know that its too late to be reporting about CES, but it’s never too late to save the environment!

Everybody knows that Lithium ion batteries clog up landfill sites and even contaminate water sources. So, what better than to do away with such batteries in favor of one powered by a methanol fuel cell.

A good thing is that the Angstrom-powered hydrogen fuel cell fits into a normal mobile phone. Even better is the fact that a direct methanol fuel cell is much more efficient than lithium ion batteries. And nothing can Read the story »

Nokia has unveiled two mobile phones, dubbed the Nokia 2600 classic and the Nokia 1209. These phones come with useful features and wide range of colors. The company also offers exchangeable covers for consumers to customize their phones.

First is the Nokia 2600 Classic phone that sports a number of entertainment features such as FM radio and VGA camera. This phone has been developed to allow users to personalize their handset with colors and fully changeable Xpress-on covers. You are also allowed to set MP3 ring tones.

Alex Lambeek, Vice President, Entry Devices, Nokia, expressed “The Nokia 2600 classic offers a colorful sense of flair and a robust set of features at an exceptionally accessible price. As with all Read the story »

Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ), a network solution provider has announced the launch of IIJ Mobile, a data communications service for corporate customers. Now, IIJ is entering into the mobile communications market as a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO).

IIJ Mobile will enable its users to use NTT DoCoMo’s 3G FOMA network and data communications to provide high speed Internet which is up to 3.6Mbps.

IIJ future plans to offer to the consumers includes access to closed networks without going through the Internet or providing mobile access as a part of the WAN using some of IIJ’s existing services.

IIJ will also provide one-stop corporate network construction and operation that includes mobile data communications.

The service offered by IIJ Mobile Service includes:

AT&T and Apple iPhone has announced their foray into the corporate arena. AT&T now offers Enterprise data plans for iPhone customers, especially business users.

Further, a $25 per month credit will be offered by the end of the year to the business users who activate the data plan before 31st March.

Following packages would be available on the enterprise-class device:

iPhone owners have to sign up for a 2-year service agreement. And if they are existing AT&T wireless customer, they need to renew 2-year service agreement.

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Samsung has officially introduced its latest slider handset, called the Samsung SGH-T819. This brown-colored sleek phone will be available through T-Mobile.

This stylish mobile phone comes equipped with a 1.3-megapixel camera with video capture support, a 176 x 220 resolution screen, MP3 player, a speakerphone and A2DP Bluetooth for wireless music streaming.

It also incorporates in-built Micro SD slot that provides a storage capacity of up to 2GB. The slider phone offers quad-band GSM/GPRS connectivity with Edge. Users can also access Yahoo, ICQ, Windows Live and AOL for instant messaging.

Through T-Mobile’s myFaves application, you can call five friends or family members for free, and is compatible with T-Mobile Address Book. Now, that sounds Read the story »

People at times have disturbed sleep or headaches due to lack of sleep. The study made by researchers from the US and Sweden have found out that radiations emitting from mobile phones cause headaches and interrupt vital sleep patterns.

The researchers from Wayne State University in the US and Swedens Karolinska Institute explained that people who were exposed to mobile radiations were found to experience headaches, change of moods, confusion and trouble in sleeping.

The study made from the exposure to 884 MHz wireless signals, affected components of sleep, which are important for recovery from daily wear and tear.

The researchers also said that the mobile phone radiation extended the period of time it took for participants to fall Read the story »

We have reported about the luxury mobile phones coming up in the market alot these days. More recently, we reported about the Diamond Case which was for $20,000 and was showcased at CES few days back. Now, here is another luxury handset for these lavish users and is known as the Motorola’s KRZR by Goldstriker.

This Motorola’s KRZR’s front bezel which is with 336 of the finest Swarovski’s diamonds. These diamonds are embedded in platinum.

This handset has been made by Goldstriker International, who is well known for making exclusive gold and diamond mobile phones, iPods and other accessories.

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Now in the UK, a new software has been developed by researchers which will allow users to use their camera phones as a PC mouse to move the items on the screen.

This software iwhich s yet in its early stage will enable users to use camera phones to scroll public displays or to get the information on products or even to buy tickets of airlines online.

Patrick Olivier, an associate professor at Newcastle University is working on the technology together with other researchers Nick Pears and Dan Jackson of Newcastle University.

Olivier explained that the consumers with the help of Bluetooth can connect to a PC to move the cell phone or use a stylus on the cell phone’s screen to also Read the story »