Ok, so I was wondering what is the MOST expensive cellphone you can buy, and, I found it. A Vertu Cobra. The phone has one pear-cut diamond, one round white diamond, two emerald eyes and 439 rubies. Vertu, a luxury cell phone manufacturer which is a subsidiary of Nokia, has limited production of the Signature [...]
With all the latest high-speed, music-playing, web-browsing, picture-taking, mobile-messaging, game-playing, life-organizing, do-everything, all-in-one devices hitting the market, there seems to be one common problem… Keeping them going strong all day long.
Having all the latest technical capabilities in the palm of your hand is truly awesome, but as we rely on them for more and more, the mobile device makers [...]
As more and more people are now using mobile broadband cards or “aircards” to get their laptops on the Internet while on the go an adjunct invention that is very cool and for a select few probably very useful has come along - The Mobile Router. I have had the opportunity to try out the [...]
Google Phone? There have been on and off rumors about a Google cellphone, or GPhone, for the last year or more. The rumored phone would be run on the Android platform, which is sponsored by The Open Handset Alliance, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies which is working on developing “Android: [...]
US wireless powerhouse Verizon Wireless has gotten behind 2 rugged phones from Casio the new Type-S and the Boulder. Here is a video of a Type-S spending some time under water and coming through to ring another day.
These are newer models of the Verizon Casio G’zOne Type-V Cell Phone which can be seen being through [...]
In summer 1984 Motorola introduced the DynaTAC 8000X which was the world’s first commercial handheld cellphone, If you had one you were beyond cool. Here is a picture of the device from Motorola’s archives. With 30 minutes of talk time, 10 hours to recharge, eight hours of standby time, LED display, memory to store 30 numbers, it [...]
Watching the 2008 Opening Ceremony last night, and doing my AM web reading today it struck me that new mobile and web-based technology is just as much on display with these 2008 Summer Games as are the athletes. Many of the athletes, from almost every nation involved, walked into the now famous Birds Nest [...]
So with all the blog’s that are growing like mushrooms after a rainstorm all over the web, why in the world do we need another technology blog about gadgets? What is a gadget? A Gadget is: “a mechanical contrivance or device; any ingenious article” Synonyms for a Gadget are - contraption; whatsis, doohickey, thingamajig. What [...]