Cell Phone News

Microsoft Shift Project May

The Microsoft shift project is expected to provide a big leap in designing greater touchscreen technology for the crowded cellphone industry. An additional function that makes the project very useful in designing  is visual feedback provided to narrow down your inputs as well. This kind of touch screen will  outscore over the others in the shells like Apple’s iPhone, Windows Mobile phones and other touchscreen phones as it will need no stylus to operate as in these phones.

Meizu MiniOne is More Than Just an IPhone look alike

The amazing specs of the MiniOne include a 3.3-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 728 x 480, 3.0-megapixel camera, 0.3-megapixel secondary camera for conferencing, up to 16GB of storage capacity, 533Mhz Samsung processor, 128MB SDRAM, Wi-Fi, an integrated DMB TV tuner, Bluetooth, and GPS functionality. The price tag? Between 250 and 450....

Callpod multiple charger

To enable multiple charging of our electronic gadgets with the help of one single device Callpod has showed a new charging device called Chargepod that boast 6-way charging contraption for you to use at the same time. This baby allow users to charge our daily use gadgets like multiple cell phones, PDAs, headsets and many other electronic devices with the help of single power chord.

Haier Elegance: World’s Smallest GSM Phone

Haier has released a new mobile phone model called Haier Elegance that boasts to be world’s smallest GSM phone in the shells. This super compact phone weighs only 64grams with 90.6 x 35.3 x 18.2mm dimensions and features MP3 player (128MB, expandable by 1GB via Micro SD), FM tuner, stereo Bluetooth, voice recorder, OLED display, 3D graphics, Tri-Band GSM. It also offers three hours of talktime and 11 hours MP3 playback.

DoCoMo D904i Magic Phone

This magic device features: • 180 minutes talk time • 600 hours (static) or 420 hours (dynamic) standby • microSD memory card slot • 2.8 inches widescreen 240×240 QVGA TFT LCD; 262,144 colours • CMOS camera with AF - 3.2 megapixels • Video Calling • 110×49×16.8 mm • 114 grams • Colors: Brilliant Pink, Mirror Black, Super White, Mirror Wine. Don't you want one?

Motorola Z8

Motorola has released out the expected multimedia handset dubbed Z8. The handset comes with amazing features, including video capture and playback at 30 frames per second. The 80MB on-board memory doesn’t impress me so much but thanks to the microSDHC cards that hold up to 32GB of data. Other salient specs include HSDPA and Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity. The multimedia phone boasts a QVGA 16 million color TFT display.

LG NEWS

Now, it’s not the Apple iPhone who is starring the show. LG has also taken a leading part with its tiny concept clamshell that has taken a different approach in the designing of the future phones. Amazingly, the concept clamshell reveals two touchscreens as you unfold it. The dynamic icons will move around at the tap. The phone will offer support for games. I sincerely wish to see this clamshell go into production for real.

Windows Mobile 6 Professional handset

Xda terra is goin to be launched anytime soon. The noteworthy thing is not that they have started selling the Xda terra, but it’s that they have become the first major provider to offer up and ship a Windows Mobile 6 Professional handset. The quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE Windows mobile-powered pocket PC phone comes equipped with W-LAN, Bluetooth 2.0, and a 2-megapixel on-board camera.

vital signs

Leeds University researchers have developed a mobile phone which can measure the vital signs of a patient.The advantage of this phone is that it would cut down on the number of visit to the doctor’s clinic and hence save out on expensive medical bills. The patients can also keep a tab on the progress of their health by manually entering nutrition related data or undertaking psychological tests on the phone. A prototype testing is about to begin with full fledged trials beginning next year.

QVGA 260k color touchscreen

This huge phone houses lots of features under its cool cape. It has a 3.5 inch QVGA 260k color touchscreen, transparent protective lid, Bluetooth stereo, 2 mega pixel camera. And all this has been packed into very impressive dimensions of 119×64x16.5 mm. The phone has a support for microSD cards and comes with 2000 mAh battery. The most amazing feature is a 7.1 speaker system with excellent treble and bass output and Windows operating system. What else can you ask for?