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Verizon Launches the G'zOne Type-S Tomorrow
Verizon Wireless today announced the Verizon Wireless G’zOne Type-S will be available nationwide tomorrow. The second phone from Verizon Wireless that is built to provide reliable performance for customers with outdoor lifestyles, the G’zOne Type-S is exclusively available through Verizon Wireless. The G’zOne Type-S not only meets multiple Military Standards specifications, but also offers customers a streamlined form factor and Bluetooth capabilities, making it the ultimate outdoor communications tool.
In addition to meeting rigorous testing standards, the G’zOne Type-S is able to access some of the key services that Verizon Wireless customers have grown to expect, including access to Verizon Wireless’ Get It Now virtual store and VZ NavigatorSM, a tool that includes mapping, audible turn-by-turn navigation and access to information on more than 14 million points of interest. Features of the G’zOne Type-S from Verizon Wireless include:
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Nokia Announces the Nokia 6500 Classic & 6500 Slide
Nokia announces two new handsets aimed at the mid-range market; the Nokia 6500 classic and Nokia 6500 slide. Designed to be precisely balanced in the hand, with large keys and ergonomically correct dimensions and surfaces, both phones have been created with maximum usability in mind. Along with third generation WCDMA technology and sleek, contemporary designs, these new devices feature carefully engineered touches that help to ensure that the beauty endures.
Nokia 6500 classic
Instantly recognizable by its seamless case crafted from 360 degrees of anodized aluminum, the Nokia 6500 classic is a 9.5mm thin statement of unsurpassed attention to detail. | 
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Nokia Unveils the Nokia 8600 Luna
Today unveiled the Nokia 8600 Luna, which has been precision engineered from the same material that has inspired both artists and craftsmen for centuries- glass.
The melding of nearly opaque smoked glass with unique, soft-touch stainless steel makes the Nokia 8600 Luna as enchanting to behold as it is a joy to touch. Adding to its mysterious allure, a gentle keypad illumination pulsates from beneath the glass case while the phone awaits a call. Combined with the warmth of its glass and stainless steel body, this "heartbeat" transforms the Nokia 8600 Luna from an inanimate object into a trusted companion with an organic, virtually alive form. When a call does beckon, the signature slide movement is carefully balanced to smoothly raise the ergonomic keypad from within its glass cocoon.
The balance of aesthetics and ergonomics found in the design of the Nokia 8600 Luna continues in its well thought out feature set. | 
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Bookmark Sites With Your Cell Phone
Do you surface the web with your cell phone and want a easy way to bookmark your favorite sites. Well you are in luck. Mobleo.net is Social Bookmarking for Mobile Phones! With Mobleo.net you store all your favorite mobile bookmarks online for easy access from any mobile device, but that is just the start. Because your mobile bookmarks are stored online you can: - Control how your bookmarks are organized and displayed on your mobile phone from any desktop computer.
- Easily share your mobile bookmarks with your friends, family, and colleagues even the Mobleo.net community if you choose.
- Access your favorite bookmarks stored on third party websites such as del.icio.us from your mobile phone.
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Microsoft Announces the "Surface" - 1st Tabletop Computer
| Microsoft has announced the first commercially available surface computer called “Surface”. The Surface turns an ordinary tabletop into a vibrant, interactive surface. It's really cool! (See Promo)
The product provides effortless interaction with digital content through natural gestures, touch and physical objects. In essence, it’s a surface that comes to life for exploring, learning, sharing, creating, buying and much more. Soon to be available in restaurants, hotels, retail establishments and public entertainment venues, this experience will transform the way people shop, dine, entertain and live. In viewing the promotional videos, it seems the surface will integrate with mobile devices by Bluetooth. | 
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Palm Introduces Linux-Based Companion for Treo Smartphones
Palm, Inc. today announced the Palm Foleo, its first smartphone companion product. (see video)
The Foleo mobile companion has a large screen and full-size keyboard with which to view and edit email and office documents residing on a smartphone. Edits made on Foleo automatically are reflected on its paired smartphone and vice versa. Foleo and its paired smartphone stay synchronized throughout the day or at the touch of a button. This powerful combination is for productivity-minded business people who want a more complete mobile solution for email, attachments and access to the web. | 
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Samsung Develops 4GB Mobile Phone Chip
Samsung Electronics today announced that it has developed a four gigabyte (GB) MCP (multi-chip package) for mobile phones that for the first time forgoes the need for an external memory card slot and also eliminates having to develop interface software for all types of NAND memory.
Samsung’s new moviMCP is a multi-chip package carrying an embedded (moviNAND) memory solution, which provides a simple-to-design memory package that satisfies the high-speed data transmission needs of mobile phones, while fully supporting the communication features within the handset. The new moviMCP combines a 4GB embedded memory card, which consists of two 16Gb (gigabit) NAND flash chips and a controller, | 
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Beatnik Music Compression 10X More Than MP3
Beatnik, a U.S. software company, yesterday announced a new music download system that compresses music up to 10 times more than the MP3 format, allowing for faster downloads. Beatnik claims the service will deliver music services to mass-market, lower end phones over 2.5G networks.
With the Beatnik Mobile Music Player, users are promised to experience the same high quality digital music playback as on high-end digital players. The company promises its "highly efficient" file format will increase storage space on phones, and enable much faster download speeds.
Beatnik founder, Thomas Dolby Robertson, said in a company statement, "The mobile music market has shown it has massive potential. Now the race is on to turn every consumer mobile phone into a personal music player. But people demand a high quality listening experience, an easy-to-use and intuitive user interface and immediate access to the widest range of music product. | 
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Google Calendar Now Available on Your Cell Phone
Google has recently enabled users of Google Calendar to now access their schedules from their mobile phones. When users log on to Google Calendar from their Web-capable mobile phone, they see appoints complete with date, time, location, and description, formatted in a way for easy reading on small screens. Users can scroll through the day's events, and also previous and forthcoming events.
In addition, the new service provides a link to Google Maps to find directions, as well as an option to add new appointments.
Missing, however, is a useful option for changing or deleting existing appointments.
The new mobile service should come in handy for users of Google Calendar who use the online service as their primary scheduling tool, but could prove clumsy and restricted for smart phone owners who can more quickly and easily synchronize their complete Outlook or Lotus Notes calendars with their computers.
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Sony Develops Razor Thin Display
Sony is beating Samsung, LG, Phillip and others with the race to develop razor-thin displays that can be used for cell phone, TVs, and other gadgets.
Sony has posted a video of the new 2.5 inch display on its Website. The video showed a hand squeezing the 0.01 inch-thick display, causing it to bend. It is supposedly unbreakable since it is as thin as paper.
The electronics and entertainment company is to demonstrate the research and video of the display at a symposium in Long Beach, California, for the Society for Information Display, AP reported.
The technology is rather unique in that it is a combination of Sony's organic thin film transistor, commonly known as TFT, and the organic electro-luminescent display technology.
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LG Prada by Verizon Vs. Apple iPhone by AT&T
It seems that the LG Prada will be launched by Verizon and will the competitor against Apple's soon to be launched iPhone. The iPhone will be exclusively sold by AT&T. According to Scott Moritz, of TheStreet.com, Verison will sell a version of LG's phone in the United Stated. It maybe the Prada or a slightly different version of the Prada.
Like the iPhone, the LG PRADA eliminates the conventional keypad making the overall usage experience a highly tactile one. An extra wide LCD screen maximizes visual impact, allowing the user to benefit from several key features of the phone, including the 2 megapixel camera featuring Schneider-Kreuznach lens, video player and document viewer capacity. Above all, these features contribute to the phone’s beautifully sleek and simplistic appearance. | 
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RIM To Launch a Wi-Fi / Cellular Enabled BlackBerry
A Wi-Fi / cellular enabled BlackBerry will be launched later this year, according to Research In Motion's (RIM) co-CEO Jim Balsillie. Mr. Balsillie made the announcement earlier this week at the JP Morgan Technology Conference.
Motorola, Nokia and HTC have released Wi-Fi enabled devices as early as last year. However, RIM has been hinting at a Wi-Fi device in the works.
The BlackBerry Enterprise Server already supports roaming for customers traveling between multiple operators, so the server will treat Wi-Fi networks just like additional cellular networks. That capability enables the handoff of data connections and voice calls between Wi-Fi and cellular networks as customers move. Avi Greengart, analyst at Current Analysis, stated RIM's apparent change of heart is not a reaction to T-Mobile USA's Wing, which launched earlier this week, or to the coming iPhone.
T-Mobile's Wi-Fi offering is designed to offer consumers access to data because the carrier doesn't yet have a 3G network, while the iPhone's intended market is high-end, multimedia-minded users.
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Bank of America Launches Mobile Banking
Bank of America, recently completed the rollout of its secure Mobile Banking service, enabling more than 20 million Online Banking customers to manage their personal finances 'on the go.' Consumers across the country now can use their cell phones and smartphones to check account balances, pay bills and transfer money. Bank of America began rolling out Mobile Banking service to consumers in March and now is providing the service to more than 20 million online customers across the country. Using the Web browser built into most current cell phones or smartphones, consumers can: - Check balances on their checking, savings and credit card accounts, as well as mortgages and home equity lines held with Bank of America.
- Pay their bills and e-bills.
- Transfer money between accounts and to other Bank of America customers.
- View transactions for checking and savings accounts, mortgages and home equity lines, including posted and pending transactions.
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PlayStation Portable (PSP) To Get Wireless Broadband Capabilities
BT and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) have signed a groundbreaking deal to transform the PSP (PlayStation Portable) gaming device by adding wireless broadband communications functions, including high quality handheld video calls, voice calls and messaging.
The two leading companies signed a four-year contract to develop a raft of extra features for the successful PSP, which has already shipped over 8 million in Europe and 24 million globally.
BT will be SCEE's lead wireless communications partner across SCEE territories and is already working with other communications providers to deliver this exciting service. BT and SCEE will initially promote the offer in the UK.
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Sprint & Pandora To Deliver Cell Phone Streaming Radio
Sprint Nextel Corp. and Pandora Media Inc., a popular online music service, has partnered to deliver personalized streaming radio to its mobile phone users.
Pandora is a free Internet-based radio service that lets people create stations based on their favorite artists and other songs it finds that match in style. Pandora has attracted 6.9 million users since launching in November 2005 and was recently banned, along with a dozen other popular media Web sites, such as YouTube and MySpace, from the Defense Department's computer system because of network bandwidth concerns.
Pandora's Internet radio service now will be available beyond computers on Sprint beginning Wednesday. It will be free for the first 30 days of use but will cost an additional $2.99 per month with a Sprint data plan. | 
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Start Your Own Cell Phone Company for $0
Do you want to own your own cell phone company? Well now you can for $0. Sonopia Corporation has launched a service that makes it easy for anyone, whether a major corporation or an entrepreneurial individual, to become a mobile carrier in a matter of minutes.
Sonopia offers a full range of wireless packages; complete with a selection of branded handsets, calling plans to suit a variety of lifestyles, and access to exclusive content tailored to their personal interests. Sonopia handles all the backend details. Sonopia gives each virtual cell company from 3 percent to 8 percent of the monthly proceeds, depending on how many paying customers they have. | 
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Cell Phone Service To Help Fishermen Catch Fish
Another application for mobile phones was revealed yesterday by SK Telecom. South Koreans who love to fish will now be able to use their cell phones to help locate the catch of the day. SK Telecom has introduced the service which uses a float-shaped ultrasonic transmitter connected to a cell phone on one end and a fishing line on the other. The transmitter sends out ultrasonic pulses to gauge the density of fish in the surrounding water and communicates this back to a receiver plugged into a cell phone. The service needs a transmitter / receiver device which cost approximately 120,000 won ($129). The software can be downloaded to the cell phone cost approximately $5. The device shows the location of the fish and the dept and temperature of the water. | 
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Nokia Develops Software for Cell Phone to Detect Lightning
Nokia has filed a patent for developing software that transforms a mobile phone into a signal receiver and warns the user of an approaching lightning strike.
The technology works by using the multiple receivers in a cell phone (Bluetooth, FM, tri-band GSM, Wi-Fi and RFID) to detect the radio waves emitted by lightning bolts which are electric currents. Lightning bolts produce frequencies between 10 hertz and 5 gigahertz. The distribution of these signals depends on how far away the lightning is.
The newly developed software interprets the radio waves, determines the distance to the lightning, and notifies the user if the lightning strikes are getting closer.
This new software will be a great safety device for outdoor enthusiasts who like to golf, jog, fish, camp, hiking, etc. | 
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T-Mobile Announces the T-Mobile Wing Smartphone
Today T-Mobile announced the T-Mobile Wing smartphone, which is a blue soft-touch exterior, touch screen, and full, slide-out QWERTY keyboard.
Manufactured by HTC has the following main features:
- New keyboard design
- Longer battery life
- 2.0-megapixel camera
- Speakerphone
- Bluetooth connectivity
- Full QWERTY "slider" keyboard
- Instant messaging providers - AOL, Yahoo!, Windows Live Messenger and ICQ
- Powered by Microsoft Windows Mobile 6
- 2.3 x 4.3 x 0.7 inches; 6.0 ounces
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Palm Releases Bluetooth Keyboard for the Treo Smartphones
Palm Inc. has released the Palm Bluetooth keyboard for the Treo smartphone series (650, 680, 700p,700w, 700wx, 750), Tungsten E2, and T|X for those that need to write extended emails or edit presentations.
The keyboard is a compact yet full-size wireless keyboard folds up for portability, while giving you the benefits of true touch typing. Plus, the freedom of Bluetooth® Wireless Technology allows you to work with or without your Treo™' smartphone docked on the pull-out easel.- Features a QWERTY keyboard with five rows of full-size keys (including numbers)
- Pull-out easel provides adjustable viewing angle and a steady platform for your Treo smartphone
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