Japanese phone of the future - INFOBAR 2

Long time before designed concept mobile phone gets a chance to become a real phone (if ever gets).

Happy apart from the concept of a phone INFOBAR2 , which some time ago as part of its design project gave users a Japanese company KDDI AU. On Wednesday, September 26 presented a working model INFOBAR2 and made a formal statement of withdrawal phone market by the end of November.

As with the original telephone INFOBAR, issued in 2003, design phone INFOBAR2 drafted renowned Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa (Naoto Fukasawa), a company engaged in manufacturing Sanyo.

In the stylish design with smooth lines INFOBAR2 also quite capable of attracting users with its technical characteristics and functionality, including: 2.6-inch display with OLED- improved visibility outdoors, One-Seg DMB TV tuner card, slot for microSD cards, 1.9-megapixel auto-focus camera with built flash wireless payment card, stereo speakers AGPS support, ability to view HTML pages and the work of high-speed network CDMA / EV.

The size of the device is 47 х 138 х 15.5 mm, weight-104 grams. In standard device also includes TV stand and cover. Information on the indicative price of the gadget is not reported.

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Dopod C750 - WM - smartphone

HTC is planning to release DOPOD C750 smart phone for Asian region. This is more smart phone rather than a communicator.

Dopod C750 Specifications :

• Work in networks GSM / EDGE
• Windows Mobile 6.0 Standard
• Screen 2.6 inches (diagonally) with resolution of 480 x 640
• TI OMAP850 200 MHz processor
• SureType keyboard
• MiniUSB port
• Micro SD slot

Dopod C750 should be the first smart phone (without touchscreens) with VGA display that somewhat unusual, especially in conjunction with the processor at 200 MHz. In any case, all the information yet is a rumour.

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Kyocera Bluetooth Wireless Stereo Headset and Portable Speaker

Kyocera Bluetooth Stereo Headset with Pendant Controller
Wireless Portable Speaker with Headset

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MOTORIZR Z10 Pics

This is a successor to the RIZR Z8 smartphone powered by Symbian UIQ 3.1. It inherited the kick-slider form. As for the technical specs, I’d note, a 2.2” QVGA 240x320x16M color TFT display with a protective anti-scratch coating.

There is a 3.2-megapixel camera with LED backlight and video capture capability (QVGA resolution, 30 fps). The device supports quad-band GSM (GPRS/EDGE) and dual HSDPA. The shipments should start in December at €400.

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MOTOROKR E8 Pics

This Motorola’s music phone comes with a novel navigation element called “Omega Wheel”, probably because of its form resembling the letter from the Greek alphabet. Its keyboard is peculiar for tactile feedback whenever a key is pressed.

The E8 comes with 2GB of memory onboard expanded with microSD cards (up to 4GB), an FM-radio, Bluetooth, USB v2.0 and a 3.5-mm audio jack. Measuring just 115x53x10.6 mm it houses a 2-megapixel camera and a 2” 240x320 TFT display.

MOTOROKR E8 supports quad-band GSM and EDGE. The sales are set for November at the price of €280.

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Nokia 6301 UMA phone

With a sleek stainless steel design, the Nokia 6301 phone launched today is not only stylish, but offers consumers seamless voice and data mobility across GSM cellular and WLAN networks via Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) technology. The Nokia 6301 phone uses UMA technology to integrate the benefits of landline and a mobile phone, including seamless indoor coverage, sound quality and affordability.


With UMA technology, the consumer can use the GSM network or a broadband Internet-connected WLAN network for mobile services. This can ensure excellent indoor coverage both at office and home. The consumer can have one multi-mode handset that works everywhere with enhanced and easy-to-use voice services. And, WLAN/UMA provides excellent coverage and sound quality, even in areas where mobile phone reception has previously been poor.

Orange will be one of the first operators to offer the Nokia 6301, as part of its Unique portfolio.

Weighing a mere 93 grams and measuring less than 13.1mm thin, the Nokia 6301 is constructed of quality materials. To accompany the UMA technology, the Nokia 6301 also offers consumers a modern suite of features, including a 2 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom and full screen viewfinder. Ideal for home and office, the Nokia 6301 comes with an attractive desk stand, the Nokia Desk Stand DT-23, to hold the phone and keep its battery charged while connected to WLAN.

Nokia 6301 Specifications:

• 2-inch QVGA screen
• USB/PC Synchronization
• Internal user memory of 30MB and 128MB in-box microSD card, with support for up to 4GB microSD cards
• Voice dialing, voice commands and voice recording
• MP3 player, FM radio
• Integrated hands-free speaker
• Talk-time of up to 3.5 hours

The Nokia 6301 is expected to begin shipping to select markets in Europe during the fourth quarter of 2007 with an estimated retail price of 230 euros before subsidies or taxes.

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Stylish phone from Levi Strauss

On 23 June 2007 I had written post about Levi's getting ready to launch fashion phone in Paris now in september FCC has approved the Phone. here are some pictures of the opcoming Levi's Phone. The device will be manufactured under licence by the Paris-based ModeLabs.

Basic Features Of Levi's Mobile Phone:

• 1.8 inch screen
• 2 mp camera
• Bluetooth
• Mp3 player
• Micro SD card slot
  
  

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Parrot Party Bluetooth Speaker

Recently France's Parrot has unveiled the portable wireless audio Parrot Party. This compact (228x79x85 mm) and very light (only 620 grams) irradiation can use any reproducing sound device that supports Bluetooth A2DP profile (Bluetooth v2.0 + EDR), whether mobile phone, PC, PDA or player.

Parrot Party has Class D amplifiers (Class), and can operate in several modes: normal, pair, a low energy consumption or low levels of battery life. As developers working in audio mode playback sound is up to 4 hours (from the heat capacity of 2100 mAh battery). Moreover, the shell audio LED indicators allow the user to instantly determine the status as Bluetooth, and various audio effets (Bass strengthening, expansion and other stereo). Maximum power output speakers W-2 x 3. It is also possible to connect an external analog audio source through a 3.5 mm input.

They come with cover for the transport, wrist band, a user's guide and adapter. Cost of Parrot Party is £ 79.37 (about $ 159). For more information and to buy audio Parrot Party is available at the company Parrot.

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Multi sensory screen - all in the fingers

New concepts and ideas are continuous rocking the mobile world. In the photo below you are seeing the product of cooperation of Microsoft Research and Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs. This time, they presented a new multi sensory screen (multi-touch screen), which greatly expands the functionality of traditional touchscreens.


As we know that to enter and manage applications on a small screen mobile devices is more problematic. Stylus and the small buttons do not do it quickly and conveniently. If using immediately hands, the work become more complicated.

New technology's Lucid Touch removes these restrictions. The user can interact with the device, referring to the back part. Out-hand image on the screen, this technology creates the illusion of mobile device, which is directly semi transparent. Thus, you can enter information with a virtual keyboard and all the fingers much easier viewing of the image data, such as maps.

According to Patrick Baudisha (Patrick Baudisch), a researcher from Microsoft Research, a transparent touch screen at the front and rear is very problematic. Therefore, the test sample was made with the camera, Located at the rear, it broadcast images on the screen, creating the effect of transparency. Future plans for this purpose is to put sensors located on the back surface.

The existing test sample size is such Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC). However, developers continue to experiment and look at other form factors, such as the PDA or Tablet PC. The researchers plan to submit a report on its work in early October at a symposium Association ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).

Multi sensorny screen is not the design work, it is a research project with the existing model. But it will take time to see gadgets loaded with LucidTouch devices on the shelves of stores .

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Lobster - modular concept phone

An interesting concept of universal mobile phone called Lobster (as translated from English. - Omar) was 29-year-old Italian designer Danilo Mandzhini (Danilo Mangini). New Concept phone main feature of these devices is its simplicity and functionality at the same time.

"A key feature is its lobster" Modularity, ie there is a central control unit gadget, which is integrated module for phone calls and sending SMS messages, and have to block it is possible to connect different functional modules: MP3- player, a GPS module, hard disk, camera and cardiometer. Each module has a glowing indicator that shows the active work.Those modules can also work autonomously from the "base".

"Lobster" can be at the wrist or forearm, and there have free access to the withdrawal / add modules working in the central device.

This phone will be interesting to those who frequently travels regularly engaged in sports, well, and of course, to all those who enjoy such gadgets. Unfortunately, Lobster has not gone beyond the concept stage.

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HP iPAQ 614c and 914c Communicators

HP continues to work on new models of handheld computers. For fans of classic CPC just want to note that HP plans to release several models. Today, HP introduce the upcoming new, Communicators HP iPAQ 614c and 914c. Both models will be almost identical characteristics, and the main difference will be the form factor and the amount of display: the iPAQ 614c will be the traditional 12-button keypad and display with 2.8 inches diagonal, iPAQ 914c will QWERTY- keyboard and display with diagonal 2 , 46 inches.

HP iPAQ 614c:

• Operating system - Windows Mobile 6 Professional
• Display – 2.8” touchscreen (240x320 pixels)
• Support for 3G and Wi-Fi
• Built-in GPS-receiver

HP iPAQ 914c:

• 3-megapixel camera
• Operating system - Windows Mobile 6 Professional
• Display – 2.46” touchscreen (320x240 pixels)
• Support for 3G and Wi-Fi
• Built-in GPS-receiver

You can also note the special touch navigation wheel on top of the keyboard to HP 614c. Sample images are presented, and are the result of creative designers site Smartphone France.

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Bluetooth headset as part of the phone

Have you ever tried to use Bluetooth headset with your phone? It's very convenient -- just hitch gossip on the head and you can talk. The lack of wires and hands free offer more comfort.

But there are some nuances in the exploitation of the periphery. Always be mindful of the timely replacement of power or charge, sometimes requires quite often. In addition, the Bluetooth headset is fragile thing and require special protective cover for storage. Simple and beautiful idea of Samsung solve all these problems at once-a Bluetooth headset, which are part of the phone!

If the headset is not in use, its fits in the phone, and will charge. Once again, you need to seize it, remove from the phone and putting it on the ear. In addition, there are buttons on the headset for convenient management audio player.

So far, this idea is at the stage of patent and not reported on when such a device could be seen for sale. The very application for a patent is available on the website Bureau Patent and Trademark dollars.

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