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May 2008
Samsung has set up the official site for the SI over at SamsungInstinct.com. It's complete with a flashy Flash interface and all the deets. To begin with, it's a bit obvious that their design was inspired by everyone's favorite divine telecommunications device (aka the Jesus Phone, aka the iPhone). But how fair can any criticism along those lines be? After all, any device with a touchscreen that foregoes more than one old-fashioned button on its face is going to end up resembling the Almighty iPhone. Of course, it is possible to to get a little more creative with the more minor design details.
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May 2008
Have you ever found your non-wifi-enabled cell phone without any reception at all while at home or the office? Perhaps you work deep in a big cube farm or maybe your boss makes you do your job from inside a Faraday Cage. Or you could have your home office in a particular corner of the world that doesn't have a nearby cell tower with your particular carrier's signal carried on it. Femtocells can fill in that gap.
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Apr 2008
OK, laugh a little. The Readius from Polymer Vision is the latest offering in the e-book reader genre of handheld devices and just by looking at it one wonders just how it works. The best known e-book reader available these days is Amazon's Kindle, but to some people, the Kindle is just too big to be practical. The Readius comes in at much smaller. in fact, it's so small, its makers have added mobile phone functionality. However, that's not really the neat thing about this gizmo. The neat thing is that the display screen actually folds away, making the screen larger than the device, itself, when it's not in use.Now, don't get too excited--the display is grayscale and just 5 inches. It's not a touchscreen, so ignore tat urge to compare it to the iPhone. The device is controlled by tapping five physical buttons that correspond to icons on the screen. While it does function as a phone, its lack of a physical keypad, or the aforementioned touchscreen, seems to suggest that you need to dump your contacts onto the the Readius before you can make any calls with it. Perusing the official Readius website betrays no information on how to dial numbers you don't already have loaded.
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Apr 2008
However, Jabra has done one better than their BT320s by replacing the dorky wad of plastic with something much more cool. Jabra's BT3030 is modeled after a military-style dog tag and as a result is about a thousand times more impressive looking. It does everything a Bluetooth headset should--it connects to a media player and/or your phone and automatically pauses your music when you get a call. Like the BT320s before it, the 3030 has a built-in microphone in the "tag" and allows you to use your own headphones. Sure it sounds perfectly adequate, but sadly, it's not adequately perfect. What's wrong with it? Read on...
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Apr 2008
Well, it's actually fairly simple--it's a way of delivering video and audio to cell phones and PDAs using a combination of wireless technologies, most notably the UHF spectrum, which used to be reserved for old-fashioned broadcast television.With the industry-wide move toward digital TV, UHF has been, at least partially, re-purposed for use by technologies other than TVs. Does this mean that your cell phone will eventually function like a tiny TV set? That's kind of the idea. The "FLO" in "MediaFLO" stands for "Forward Link Only" which is just a fancy way of describing the way TV has always worked--one signal, one direction--from the cell tower to your phone (or, as in olden-times, from the TV station's transmitter to your TV). But what would stop just any TV or similarly equipped cell phone from displaying the UHF signal? Don't carriers want to make money off of this service?Of course they do.
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Mar 2008
In terms of the receiving end, the Zivio comes with sets of interchangeable earpieces and soft gel caps that are mounted onto a ball-and-socket joint, offering a diversity of positions to suit your individual needs. Matching the excellent functionality, the Zivio also has great visual appeal; with its compact, slender design and array of colour options, it becomes more of an accessory, than merely a headset.
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Feb 2008
One of the cooler features of the K800i is the ability to post pictures directly to your blog from your phone. This is a perfect feature for those traveling or on vacation because you can publish your pics to your blog from anywhere in just seconds. Imagine snapping a picture of yourself beneath the Eiffel Tower, only to share it with family and friends moments later. Speaking of traveling, the K800i supports GSM, meaning global cellular usability. |
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The Instinct is Samsung's attempt to usurp the dominance of Apple's iPhone. At least, that's what most folks are believing. On the surface, it looks like if you wish you could get an iPhone but prefer to stick with Sprint (why that would be is anyone's guess) you can set yourself up with an Instinct and get many of the same features of the iPhone--along with a few more that the Almighty Fruit Phone doesn't have. Of course, no phone is perfect, so make sure to stay tuned for the caveat.
If you're a casual gadget addict, it's possible you've never heard of femtocells and have never heard of any other way for a cell phone to use an Internet connection for calls other than the phone, itself, having the ability to connect to a wifi router. A good portion of the mobile phone industry is comfortable with the idea that cell phones are moving in the direction of WiFi compatibility. However, there is also a movement that supports Femtocells.