Mobile:Life (topic:[News])

SD, miniSD and now microSD

mobilelife — 2005-03-15T14:28:04Z

The new flash-card standard microSD has been announced yestarday. The highest capacity of miniSD is 1GB. At the moment it isn't known big the capacity of microSD will be.

i-Cybie, the robot dog...

mobilelife — 2005-03-10T16:32:28Z

It was predictable: After the big succes of Sonys AIBO (at least in Japan) someone had to develop a similar toy. And surprise, surprise: It's a DOG! ;)
The i-Cybie is capable to do some typical doggie moves such as sit, stand, shake and lie down, as well as
using its robotic brain to respond based on how it’s treated: praise it and the dog will be in a good mood, but scold
it and i-Cybie will behave more passively. Sensors throughout its body help prevent it from bumping into things, and
enable i-Cybie to be sensitive to light changes. In case of "low-bat" the dog will go into the “downward-facing dog” yoga pose to let you know it needs recharging. Cuuute!

Motorola cancels iTunes phone launch at the last minute!

mobilelife — 2005-03-10T16:27:03Z

Today was supposed to be the big day that
Motorola unveiled the first
iTunes phone (which is probably going to be the
E399), but at the last minute they decided to cancel,
supposedly in response to a “last-minute message from a wireless carrier or carriers.” The official word from Motorola
is that they decided to kill the big announcement after consulting with the carriers who would be offering the phone
because they wanted “to wait to announce it when everybody is in sync with it.”
So what happened? It looks like one of the carriers or several carriers were not happy with the handset and pushed Motorola to postpone the announcement.

Bluetooth controled camera by SonyEricsson

mobilelife — 2005-03-10T12:34:11Z

The silverish thing showed below is ROB-1
It's a camera on wheels which roves about and captures images. It can move around freely, steered wirelessly by the joy-stick or keypad on your mobile phone or as for P900/P910 with the touch screen, enabling you to see on your phone screen exactly what ROB-1 is looking at. You can then capture these images using your phone just as you would a normal photo.
WICKED!

photo.

Source: slashphone.com

Motorola to launch ROKR iTunes phone this Thursday!

mobilelife — 2005-03-07T15:52:37Z

Motorolla is going to launch it's iTunes enabled phone this Thursday (10th of Mars). The device will be called ROKR (see: RAZR and ROCKR) and is definitely not the E1060. Let's wait and see... :)

No, that's not the ROKR

The Lenovo ET960 GSM/GPRS Pocket PC

mobilelife — 2005-03-06T22:18:43Z

Lenovo, the Chinese company which bought the PC sector of IBM, is going to launch a Windows Mobile Smartphone:

Here you go with the technical specs of the Lenovo ET960 GSM/GRPS Pocket PC

* Operating system: MS Windows Mobile for PPC 2003SE
* Language support: English, simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese
* Processor: 312 MHz Intel PXA272
* Memory: 128 MB (64 MB ROM + 64 MB SDRAM)
* 1.3-Mpx digital camera
* Bands: GSM900/1800/1900 MHz
* GPRS
* Dimensions: 110x62x19 mm
* Weight: 135 g (with the battery)
* Expansion slot: SDIO/MMC
* Interface: IrDA, Bluetooth
* Battery: Li-Ion 1100 mAh
* Approximate price in Europe: about €900.

The iAudio 5, another "iPod shuffle killer"?

mobilelife — 2005-02-18T17:57:37Z

Cowon is going to release their
Audio 5 MP3 player, which will play back MP3, WMA, OGG,
and WAV, and comes in sizes up to 1GB.It looks like they want to play in the "iPod shuffle laeague". Therefore they would better work on the site of their device: 3.02 x 1.38 x 0.71-inches.
However, this is not the badest and not the ugliest player around, in this sense it's sure worth a look.
Oh, I almost forgot this one: >You can switch between 1000 available display-colors! The iPod shuffle is dead! ;)

Link: Official site here

Philips new HDD093 and HDD095

mobilelife — 2005-02-16T19:02:26Z

Well, it appears Philips is due to release two more models, the HDD093 and HDD095, which will have 3GB drives, ten hours of battery life, play back MP3s and WMA, and have grayscale and color screens, respectively. But their new gimmick? It’s called Like Music, and as the name implies if you engage it while listening to a song it’ll pseudo-randomly and intelligently shuffle you up 20 more tracks that it thinks sounds similar to what’s on . I guess they just had to follow the trend started by this player.
Anyways, even if you won't need that, the player is pretty small and well designed.

Cannes XV: Oakley's and Motorola's RAZRwire

mobilelife — 2005-02-16T18:11:29Z

Ok, so here are the first live-pics of the bluetooth enabled sunglasses from Oakley.
As you can see, they've got a earbud on the left side. You can use these glasses as a headset and/or as a music player.

mobileburn.com

Sandisk announced 1GB miniSD and 512MB TransFlash Cards

mobilelife — 2005-02-16T07:04:28Z

With better cameras built into cellphones and the ever groing hunger for more and more features, SanDisk now offers the first miniSD card with ONE Gygabyte of memory.

The SanDisk miniSD card includes an adapter allowing it to be used in any of the existing SD card devices. The new 1GB SanDisk miniSD card is expected to be available at the suggested retail price of $99.99 in Q2 2005.
However here is the official statement:
"The 1GB miniSD card provides a level of storage that significantly enhances the features and usability of these full-featured mobile phones," said Nelson Chan, executive vice president and general manager of SanDisk’s consumer and handset business. "For example, with a 1GB card you can store approximately 16 hours of MP3 songs, record up to several hours of MPEG-4 video or take more than 2000 digital photos on a 1-megapixel mobile phone. With that level of capability, consolidating music, video, digital camera and other key features into the mobile phone platform is much more meaningful and powerful."

SanDisk also announced was the 512MB SanDisk TransFlash, one of the smallest flash memory storage cards designed primarily for the mobile phone market.

Detect a Wireless Network with a Flower!

mobilelife — 2005-02-07T22:27:15Z

The so called "Hotspot Bloom" is a WIFI detector disguised as a flower!
Based on a hot-to-cold scale, Hotspot Bloom glows red in a location with a strong wi-fi signal, green to orange for a medium signal, blue for a low signal, and pulses blue if there is no signal available at all.
I'm not sure if any guy would wear something like this but hey: "Impossible is nothing!"

Link to the developers site

iRiver H10 Reviews

mobilelife — 2005-02-07T21:58:45Z

The guys from engadget.com made a list of reviews concerning the iriver H10.
Here you go!

Read - PC World
Read - Misticriver
Read - Head-fi
Read - Lordpercy.com
Read - Club
iRiver
Read - Pocket Lint

SonyEricsson Clara/K800 Pics!!

mobilelife — 2005-02-06T19:35:13Z

"So I was surfing trough the web and suddenly I was like OMG!! What had happened?
I saw these pics of the long awaited SonyEricsson "Clara". This phone will be the new flagship of SonyEricsson.

Specs: (as known so far)

2Mp cam with autofocus

Video Cam

262k color display

Memory Stick Duo

Bluetooth

And now, enjoy the pics: ;)

Napster To Go offers you a free iRiver H10

mobilelife — 2005-02-06T19:08:01Z

Napster has a new offer to promote the official launch of
Napster To Go: be one of the first 1,000 people to sign
up for a year of their new all-you-can-download service for $179.00 and they’ll toss in
iRiver’s new H10 5GB MP3 player for
free.

SORRY!: Looks like a lot of people signed up..... Offer expired.

New Siemens M75

mobilelife — 2005-02-05T15:35:53Z

According to the latest rumors, Siemens are going to expand their "M"-line. Under the M Siemens releases phones for "active" people and outdoor handsets.

Here is a pic: