List/Grid Tag Archives: Cell Phones
Sony Offers Movies on AT&T Cell Phones
This is kind of a good-news, bad-news story. The good news is that Sony Pictures Television will be the first Hollywood studio to offer full-length movies on your AT&T cell phone. In May, they will launch the service, and the company says that it will offer a “wide-range” of popular titles. The company noted that the titles will be streamed with advertisements.
Japanese Robot Phones Interact with You
Want a Cell phone that turns into a Robot? Me too. But while there’s little hope any of us will ever get their very own Transformer, a Japanese company called Softbank Mobile Corp. wants to hook you up with the next best thing. It’s called the PhoneBraver, and looks like a small humanoid robot with arms, legs, and faces. The little monster’s bodies are made up of the cell phone itself.
News You Need to Know: Analog Cellular Systems Being Decommissioned in February 2008
Cell Phone Service providers will soon start shutting down the oldest of the industry’s cellular networks starting in February of 2008. The shutdown concerns only the largely outdated Analog networks.
The shutdown will probably not affect you. Here’s some of the criteria: If this sounds like you please for heaven’s sake go buy a new cell phone or home security system. We’re all worried about you!
I’m on Mt. Everest–Can you hear me now?
Cell phone users can cross at least one place off the list of “dead spots†where they receive little or no cell phone signal: Mt. Everest. Yes, one of the…
To Text or Not to Text: That is the Advertisment
Gullible Americans? Word has it that Americans receive fewer ads via text messages than their European counterparts, yet are more likely respond. This tidbit comes from M:Metrics a mobile measurement…
One-Minute Mile? How about One Minute GPS Locations from Nokia
Mobile Phone Heavyweight Nokia has launched a service that will cut the time it takes a GPS enabled phone to locate via satellite virtually in half. This opens the floodgates…
New Kodak Technology Boads Well for Cameraphones, Low-Light Photography
Everything from candlelit birthday parties to risqué In-the-Club image captures are getting a boost from new color filtering technology. Eastman Kodak Co. (Yes, that Kodak) has developed a way to…
Slider Phone! Samsung SGH-U600 Unlocked GSM Phone
Everyone has seen the new large-screen smartphones that are flooding the market. It seems that everything that could even remotely be considered a PDA has been modded to fit a…
Research In Motion To Allow .Net Software Development
Research In Motion will allow software developers to create applications directly for BlackBerry Phones via Microsoft’s .Net Programming environment. This continues the phone manufacturer’s efforts to increase the usability of…
RIM Does it Again! With the Blackberry Curve
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. is introducing its third new model in less than a year, a mid-sized device geared toward consumers who might prefer a full keyboard for…
