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  • NAVIGON Launches First On-Board Navigation App for Windows Phone 7 Smartphones

    Posted on October 11, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Everyone’s Getting an iPhone 4 – Be Different! Get a Customized Cover from Coveroo

    Posted on June 24, 2010 | No Comments
    SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Coveroo, creator of the highest-quality customized covers and cases for mobile phones and consumer electronic devices, debuted its line of customizable cases for the iPhone 4. Customers can place their orders for iPhone 4 cases today at prices starting at $29.95. Cases will begin shipping on July 1. Coveroo is the first company to offer customized cases for the newest generation of iPhones. Coveroo offers the widest array of designs available with over 3,000 choic

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  • PlayStation emulator coming to Android, courtesy of yongzh and ZodTTD

    PlayStation emulator coming to Android, courtesy of yongzh and ZodTTD

    Posted on June 4, 2010 | No Comments
    If you don't know the names yongzh and ZodTTD, you can certainly be forgiven, but they're basically the cell phone emulation dream team -- where the former has been cranking out high-quality Nintendo and Sega emulators for Android, the latter is the one who brought PSX to iPhone, iPhone 3GS and the Palm Pre. Today, we hear they're collaborating on a PSX emulator for Android that's running faster than the 3GS version -- before Froyo's even factored into the equation -- and that when his domination over the PSX is complete, ZodTTD intends to begin work on an Nintendo 64 emulator for Android, and then VLC. Without letting our enthusiasm get the better of us, let's just say it's an exciting time to be an Android owner, to say the least.

    PlayStation emulator coming to Android, courtesy of yongzh and ZodTTD originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Photo gallery: Japan’s SoftBank shows 13 Twitter-powered cell phones

    Photo gallery: Japan’s SoftBank shows 13 Twitter-powered cell phones

    Posted on May 18, 2010 | No Comments
    We've shown you the summer cell phone lineup from KDDI (Japan's No. 2 carrier) yesterday. Today, Japan's third largest carrier, SoftBank Mobile, showed its own summer lineup during a special press conference, and all of their 13 new models have one thing in common: they all come with Twitter pre-installed. The buyers of these cell phones will be able to access Twitter either via a pre-installed app or through a pre-installed widget on the homescreen. The background is that SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son himself is a huge Twitter fan (he has almost 300,000 followers) and believes Japan is set to become Twitter country. And in fact, by some measures it's already No. 2. Photo gallery of all the 13 new Twitter-powered cell phones over at MobileCrunch.

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  • Verizon misses the point of the Kin, prices it out of its market

    Verizon misses the point of the Kin, prices it out of its market

    Posted on May 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Well, there goes that. The Microsoft Kins seemed like a good system. Online reviews are somewhat positive, at least most say the Kin shows potential. But it doesn't matter. Kin One and Kin Two are likely going to be the only ones of their kind and will only be around for a short while. Verizon killed the platform when it decided that these feature phones need an expensive smartphone data plans.

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  • Photo report: Darth Vader promotes DoCoMo cell phones in weird campaign

    Photo report: Darth Vader promotes DoCoMo cell phones in weird campaign

    Posted on April 30, 2010 | No Comments
    NTT DoComo, Japan's largest cell phone carrier (55 million customers), is currently running a pretty bizarre viral promotion campaign in this country (both on- and offline). The company has set up a weird website [JP] that, for some strange reason, shows Darth Vader running around Tokyo and asking who's his boss ("Who is my boss" is the official tag line of the campaign).

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  • Samsung: “Like our new phone? Play some dodgeball!”

    Samsung: “Like our new phone? Play some dodgeball!”

    Posted on April 29, 2010 | 1 Comment
    Let’s try a little thought experiment here. Think about a new cell phone: it’s shiny, has a touch screen, and even a QWERTY keyboard. What else comes to mind when you think about that phone? What do you feel like doing? If your answer to that last question was “play dodgeball”, then congratulations! You’re insane exactly [...]

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  • Citizen Japan to release new i:Virt M Bluetooth watch for cell phone control

    Citizen Japan to release new i:Virt M Bluetooth watch for cell phone control

    Posted on April 29, 2010 | No Comments
    Citizen in Japan has two new models in its oddly named i:Virt M series of Bluetooth-enabled wristwatches ready [JP], the TM84-0351V (108g, leather band) and the TM84-0352V (178g, stainless steel band). The last update i:Virt M happened about a year ago. Owners can use the watches to interact with their (Japanese) cell phones, i.e. by noting incoming calls, controlling the phone camera (the shutter button, to be more exact) or displaying emails.

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  • New market study shows iPhone continues to be big in Japan

    New market study shows iPhone continues to be big in Japan

    Posted on April 23, 2010 | No Comments
    A lot has been written on how the iPhone performs in Japan, the world's most advanced mobile nation, but the general consensus in this country now is that it sells very well (even though both Apple and provider SoftBank Mobile refuse to break down Japan-specific sales numbers). It's rumored that the number of iPhones sold in Japan has passed 3 million. There are reasons for this success (super-low pricing, aggressive marketing, Apple's pre-iPhone brand popularity in Japan, clever product positioning by SoftBank, etc. etc.), but we're talking about a country in which basically every cell phone is a smartphone, a country where you'd be hard-pressed to find a handset without a digital TV tuner or e-wallet function, for example.

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  • New cell phone study to follow 250,000 users for 30 years

    New cell phone study to follow 250,000 users for 30 years

    Posted on April 23, 2010 | No Comments
    And here we go again. Every few months (it seems) there's another study telling us that either cell phones are safe, or they are evil. It just goes to show, there's a study to prove anything. This particular study however is going to take a bit more time then the other ones have. Plus, it'll involve quite a few more people.

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  • Japan’s DoCoMo announces new mobile projector for cell phones

    Japan’s DoCoMo announces new mobile projector for cell phones

    Posted on April 22, 2010 | No Comments
    It's not that there's a shortage of mobile projectors, but when DoCoMo (Japan's biggest cell phone carrier) announces [JP] a model for its 55 million customers, it deserves a mention. DoCoMo specifically suggests using the F01 with Fujitsu's uber-cool "Separate Keitai", a cell phone that breaks into two parts (and that's currently available on the Japanese market only).

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  • Pew Internet report reveals what everyone already knows: Teens like to text

    Pew Internet report reveals what everyone already knows: Teens like to text

    Posted on April 20, 2010 | No Comments
    If you've seen a teenager in the last two years, then you've seen a teenager texting. Seriously, I can't think of a situation in the last couple of years where I saw a teenager without a cell phone. The teenagers in my extended family send text messages seemingly all day long, every day. Now the Pew Internet and American Life project has released a pretty comprehensive analysis of teen texting behavior.

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  • Consumer Reports calls out Microsoft for “advocating sexting” in Kin ad

    Consumer Reports calls out Microsoft for “advocating sexting” in Kin ad

    Posted on April 14, 2010 | No Comments
    When a man loves a woman very, very much and he’s not really thinking of repercussions and the state their relationship might be in a few months down the road, he sends her pictures of his netherparts via his cell phone. This act, friends, has come into the mainstream lately with its very own buzzword: [...]

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  • For the Nintendo 3DS? Hitachi develops glasses-free, mobile 3D display

    For the Nintendo 3DS? Hitachi develops glasses-free, mobile 3D display

    Posted on April 12, 2010 | No Comments
    Sony, Panasonic, NEC and now Sharp: All of these Japanese tech powerhouses are playing the 3D game now, but what about Hitachi? The biggest (sales-wise) of them all has been working on a glasses-free 3D projection system and sells a 3D cell phone in Japan (pictured), but Hitachi has been relatively quiet in terms of 3D. Today, however, Hitachi Displays announced [JP] the development of a new 3.1-inch 3D LCD, which is - you guessed it - specifically designed for mobile devices.

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  • Nap Vieeb Plus II: Wearable doze prevention device

    Nap Vieeb Plus II: Wearable doze prevention device

    Posted on April 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Are you constantly in danger of falling asleep while working or driving? Alarm clocks, watches or your cell phone are of no help? Then the oddly named Nap Vieeb Plus II [JP], offered by a Japanese company called Takanoha, might be the right thing for you. The Nap Vieeb Plus II is a simple earpiece alarm gadget whose first version was released about four years ago.

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