The LED Mobile Phone

All the major manufactures are just enamoured with touch sensitive mobile phones at the moment and along comes something so simple it just makes you wonder - The LED mobile may not be comparable to a high-end smartphone but we have to tell you everything about phones.

The phone from designer Tao Ma has no display or touch screen, just plain old LEDs. The LED patterns will govern you to the necessary functions like SMS, contacts, and one can even enjoy games on it.

The phones uses two AAA batteries No lithium ion. The incorporated standard USB interface can charge your AAA battery as well.

Lotus Notes on the way for iPhone

It’s looks like Lotus Notes will soon be available for the iPhone, IBM (who own Lotus Notes) look like being the first official iPhone third party application to be available.

“we have a lot in common [with Apple]. We’re going to cross-pollinate.” Said IBM

It’s kind of an interesting development that will give would give the Mac platform a serious competitor to Microsoft Office and, in the case of the iPhone and I guess the iPod touch give it the productivity software all detractors claim currently prohibits it from being a true smartphone.

No formal announcement has been made about this by Apple yet but we await to see what happens.

Pink Nokia N95

The N95 is an impressive phone and now Nokia have release it in Pink we seen red the other week and of course it comes in Grey and Black. Just so you know the entire phone is not pink, but just the back panel and sides.

Is this the Samsung i900?

The Samsung i900 looks similar to LG Prada or LG KS20 with it’s touchscreen. Rumour has it that the phone will be powered using Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional and will come with 8GB storage space.

Not much information is available yet as to when this might be released.

Samsung i900 specifications

* GSM Quadband
* UTMS, HSDPA 7.2 mbps
* Bluetooth 2.0
* 5 megapixel camera with auto focus
* FM Radio
* Java
* 8GB built in memory
* microSD card slot
* gesture control
* 112 x 56 x 12.5 mm
* 1500 mAh battery

FREE iPhone Games

Just came across this site it’s called iPhone Nova and they give you unlimited free access to a load of original games, movies and music for your iPhone.

They say on their website that you get access to the fastest iPhone downloads on the net!

With Games, movies, ebooks and more maybe worth checking out to see what they have to offer.

Via : iphonenova.com

iPhone 1.1.3 firmware now available with wiggles

Not really for us here in Ireland as we still await the iPhone but for other readers the firmware version 1.1.3 adds in a few nice new fun goodies into the iPhone mix. Most notably, the iPhone now comes with maps service which includes a WiFi triangulation, which is like GPS, though less accurate. Providing a general range of where you are located based on WiFi and GSM signals.

They have also made room for more icons, now allowing you to mix and match your main interface icons.

Here are some of the updates so far

* The ability to send an SMS message to multiple people is now there
* Google Maps can now display the Hybrid map view
* You can now drag and drop application icons on your home screen
* The home screen supports pagination
* You can now add web bookmarks to your home screen

The Samsung F700 review

The Smasung F700 is a touchscreen phone with a slide out full QWERTY keyboard. it come with a 3MP Camera MP3-player and video player. Data input is done with fingers - no stylus ships with any of the new models. Nevertheless, there are two keyboard types available - a full-size on-screen QWERTY and an on-screen phone-esque keypad.

The F700 measures up at 104×50x16.4 mm which is about normal for a phone. The large screen provides up to 262k colours with a screen resolution of 420 x 240 pixels. The phone comes with something call VibeTonz technology which allows the user to actually feel the buttons with a responsive vibration.

Key Features
2.78 Inch TFT 262k Full Colour Touch Screen (440 x 240 Pixels)
QWERTY Keypad
3G HSDPA Technology
EDGE Technology
5 Megapixel Camera with Auto Focus
Music Player (MP3, AAC+ & eAAC+)

Samsung is planning to roll out around five F700-esque devices in 2008

The New Motorola ROKR E8

Another new release form Motorola comes the ROKR E8, the phone has no physical keys and is completely smooth.

When the phone is powered off, the surface of ROKR E8 is smooth, and no visible keys. Once you power on the phone you basically get a virtual numbered keypad on the front surface. With one simple “press” of the virtual music key, the phone keypad disappears and control keys for the music player appear in its place.

The 2GB internal memory can store up to 1,500 songs and if you choose to use external memory this is expandable up to 4GB. With FM radio and a microUSB plug the phone is Linux-based and look really nice to boost.

The ROKR E8 is expected to be available in Q1 2008

* Dimensions: 115 x 53 x 10.6mm
* Quad Band; GPRS/EDGE class 12
* Weight: 100 grams
* Battery: 970mAh
* Display: 2.0″ QVGA 240×320 262K TFT
* ModeShift technology transforms the device from phone to music player to imaging device with thetouch of a button
* FastScroll navigation wheel allows for scrolling through songs, contact and image library with theslide of a thumb
* haptics technology provides tactile response when a virtual key is pressed
* 2GB internal memory;
* external memory support up to 4GB capacity
* Microsoft music ecosystem support
* 3.5 mm stereo headset jack, stereo Bluetooth wireless technology (A2DP)
* 2.0megapixel camera with 8x zoom, multi-shot feature, video capture and playback
* Airplane mode to play uninterrupted music in the air
* MIDI, MP3, AAC, AAC+, Enhanced AAC+, WMA, WAV, AMR-NB, Real Audio (RA) v10
Crystal Talk technology
* Full HTML browser
* Connectivity: Stereo Bluetooth Class 2, USB 2.0 Hi-speed, GPRS Class 12, EDGE Class 12

The Motorola Z10 announced

The Z8 successor the Motorola Z10 was announced today at CES 2008 in Las Vegas. The mobile comes with some nice features like video editing tools with the ability to overlay text on the 30fps QVGA video you’ve shot and then adding a soundtrack from your device and if need you can then upload it to YouTube.

With stereo speakers to listen to your tunes, 3.2 megapixel Camera, memory is expandable up to 32 GB once that becomes available. Oh and I almost forgot the camera can take 3fps (frames per second) which is nice and quick for a phone..or is this a camera, anyway no word on pricing yet it’s expected to start shipping sometime this quarter 2008.

The Nokia N95 Bright Red

Not a new phone I know, but a new colour for the Nokia N95. It’s looks really nice a different to the boring Grey and Black N95’s that everybody else has.