Cell Phone News

Gigabyte’s new PDA phone i300

The Gigabyte’s new PDA phone i300 will be released in China first. Announced in October last year, the i300 runs on Windows Mobile 6.0 and is powered by a 520MHz PXA270 processor with 256MB of RAM. The company hasn’t commented yet on the pricing.

Blackberry Curve

The sleek, slim and ultra-light Blackberry Curve brings you the  prefect mix of RIM’s QWERT keyboard functionalities and entire features of a smartphone. The Curve is set to appeal to both business users and consumers. The specs list include : • 2-megapixel camera with 5x digital zoom • A2DP Bluetooth audio profile • Media player backed by Desktop Multimedia Suite • Updated version of RIM’s BlackBerry Maps application • Overhauled desktop media manager • USB, microSD storage • Trackball navigation and integrated multimedia options

T-Mobile “Wing”

The T-Mobile “Wing” is all set to be launched to the masses. This little marvel would definitely give an awesome fight to every other smartphone in the market. This one is actually the HTC Herald mobile phone with a  wide range of features that make it stand apart.

Samsung low-budget flip phone

Samsung has introduced its low-budget flip phone in a choice of vibrant colours. Samsung X520 comes with an integrated camera and an FM radio with 2.5 mm audio jack. It features a 1.9″ color TFT screen with a resolution of 128×160 pixels. The WAP enabled phone boasts of a 6.3 hour battery life. It is available in five colours- light-green, red, pink, violet and black.

BenQSiemens Snake phone

The concept phone seems to be the recreation of a snake and you can wrap it around your wrist. The looks are cool and captivating but I doubt the ease with which we will be operating this freaky concept phone. Fashion but not practical is my veredict.

CUin5 Concept Cellphone

CUin5 mobile phone is inspired by the big firm’s designs of a ‘super-practical’ interface with the comun feature set. Every face of the phone carries a keypad, microphone, and speaker.  A really weird look but your math teacher will certanly apreciate it.

Bracelet Phone with Built-in MP3 Player

When this Bracelet phone receives any message, it starts vibrating and making or receiving a phone call is just too easy. To read the message, take the bracelet out of your wrist and press the diamond-like keystroke.
Whoa, it’s not just another run-of-the-mill concept. Instead, the bracelet phone comes with a built-in MP3 player. So now you can bring your cellphone to the fanciest party and don't look like an idiot :P

Helio Ocean

The dual-side mechanism of the new Helio Ocean combining a customary numeric keypad and full QWERTY keyboard is pretty inspiring. It has a 2.4-inch QVGA screen, 200MB internal memory, Bluetooth 2.0, 3G compatibility, over-the-air music downloads, video-on-demand, POP and IMAP with Push-email support, 2-megapixel camera, an HTML browser and GPS-enabled Google Maps with Buddy Beacon. The good looking feature packed phone comes for a fair price of $295 this spring. Don't you want one?

Plastic Based Chips for Cell Phones

The worst thing that can happend to you  is drop your cell phone on the pavement, why? cause if that happens no cell phone or iPod can function.That is because the chips inside these devices contain microscopic pathways that send the signals to the device. After a pavement bounce these pathways are disturbed making the device unusable are you can forget about it, I know, sad but true.
Plastic can absorb such shocks but they are not good conductors of electricity, Paulette Prins of the Delft University of Technology has discovered that in plastics, the movement of charge is hindered by the structure of the material.Prins has extended the research and has rebuilt the chain in plastics to form a ladder-like structure. This new plastic can conduct electricity in a much better way which makes these chips an alternative of silicon chips.Once the research is complete, these chips will be used in portable devices which can easily survive drops. I can't wait!

Philips Xenium

A team of Philips, Energizer and Techtium have developed a new technology which they are calling as AAA BackuPower. As the name suggests the cell phone has a new backup embedded charging technology. Philips Xenium range of phones can also run on an AAA sized battery. The cell itself boasts of a standby time of up to 1 month on a single charge and with AAA BackuPower feature you can extend it further by dropping a standard AAA battery. There is no news on the price and the availability of the technology yet.