Skype Mobile Phone Now Available Title: Skype Mobile Phone Now Available

14 Kasım 2007 Çarşamba

For someone who is very addicted to Skype to maintain my long distance relationship with my wife in Toronto (for 3 years now), you can't imagine how delighted I am with the launch of Skype mobile phone.
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The low-cost advantage inherent in VoIP services and the power of mobility is a deadly combination that can shake and shape the future of the wireless industry.

Dubbed as 3 Skyphone, it is a collaboration between eBay's VoIP company Skype and mobile phone group 3. It will be available for a price of £49.99 for "Pay As You Go" customers and free for monthly subscribers.

Moreover, the 3 Skypephone will be available this year in the UK, Australia, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland, Macau and Sweden.

Will it be available in the U.S.? Sorry to disappoint you guys for 3 Skypephone is dual band and therefore will not work in the USA.

But don't lose hope for this is just the beginning of something great for mobile consumers. 3 may not be able to do that but there are other startup VoIP companies developing this same concept for the American market.



As expected, there are some flaws in this new Internet mobile phone. Go over to Skype Journal to know what's missing in this revolutionary device.

cellity Launches Weblog at Creative Weblogging Title: cellity Launches Weblog at Creative Weblogging

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cellity, a leader in mobile web technology, has teamed up with the Creative Webloging network to launch the Mobile Weblog at http://www.mobile-weblog.com!

Palo Alto, California, USA - November 3, 2007 - Be connected any time any where. Never miss a phone call. Contact anyone you need to right away, no matter if he or she lives on the other side of the globe from you. In fact, you can make international calls for peanuts as well as talk to groups simultaneously using technology provided by cellity (http://www.cellity.com/). To help get the word out about cellity's numerous mobility products, such as Tweeter, worldCALL, groupCALL, and freeSMS, they have teamed up with Creative Weblogging, an international blogging network as a sponsor for The Mobile Weblog (http://www.mobile-weblog.com/).

Young start-up companies to old been-around-the-block corporations can all benefit from mobile services and related gadgets. And, that's what The Mobile Weblog is all about. Keep up to date with the latest mobile technology with a little help from cellity and Creative Weblogging at The Mobile Weblog (http://www.mobile-weblog.com/).

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Mobile Vending Machines at the Airport. Will it Work? Title: Mobile Vending Machines at the Airport. Will it Work?

Mobile phones are certainly everywhere. Telecom and cellular services provider 011 Mobile now sells mobile phones and SIM cards via touch screen vending system at the Terminal 2 of Las Vegas' McCarran Airport.

Designed like a giant cellphone, it is specifically intended for international travelers looking for cheaper alternative to make calls compared with other pre-paid calling cards and paying roaming charges. The company claims its rates are similar to landline calls.

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Based on its initial performance, SIM cards contributed 60% of the sales. Both SIM card and mobile phones work immediately upon purchase and consumers can use their credit cards to buy time.

However, this channel may not survive over the long run given the rapid developments in the mobile Internet. Why change your SIM card or buy a new phone if you can download a software like cellity worldCALL to make cheap long distance calls?

Via LetsGoMobile

Meet Asus R3 UMPC with Linux




Looks like 4.8 inch 1024 x 600 screen.. GPS icon near fingerprint reader..

UPDATED: Video after the jump.





Showing Adobe AIR on it...

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IBM Developing Wicked-Fast Wireless Data Transfer Chip

BM Developing Wicked-Fast Wireless Data Transfer Chip




IBM and MediaTek have announced a joint effort to develop ultra-fast chipsets that will be able to blast a full-length high-definition movie faster than most people can read this sentence. For example, IBM says, a consumer could upload a 10 gigabyte file in five seconds with the new technology versus the 10 minutes it takes using current WiFi technology. The new technology will be based on the 60 GHz band, which is a free and unlicensed band of radio spectrum. Most home wireless networks utilize bands in the single-digit range, such as the popular 2.4 GHz band.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and MediaTek have announced a joint effort to develop ultra-fast chipsets that will be able to blast a full-length high-definition movie faster than most people can read this sentence. For example, IBM says, a consumer could upload a 10 gigabyte file in five seconds with the new technology versus the 10 minutes it takes using current WiFi technology.

The new technology will be based on the 60 GHz (gigahertz) band, which is a free and unlicensed band of radio spectrum. Most home wireless networks utilize bands in the single-digit range, such as the popular 2.4 GHz band.

IBM and MediaTek will collaborate to integrate IBM's new millimeter wave (mmWave) radio technology chips, antennas and package technology with MediaTek's expertise in digital baseband and video processing chips. The partnership is also intended to leverage MediaTek's influence in the consumer electronics market. IBM first demonstrated a prototype chipset as small as a dime in February of 2006.

A Whole New Living Room

The idea is to let media devices transmit or receive large amounts of data quickly, making the millimeter wave radio technology particularly useful for PCs, digital video recorders (DVRs), handheld devices like iPods or iPhones and HDTVs. Synchronization between the devices could occur in seconds and without a mess of cables.

Aside from speeding up home networks, there are other uses in store, such as file transfers from kiosks that a consumer might find in common retail spaces.

"[A kiosk would be] more like a point-and-shoot application," Mehmet Soyuer, IBM lead researcher on the mmWave project, told TechNewsWorld.

"It could be used to download DVDs and movies, things like that, in a train station or airport," he explained.

High Frequencies Are the Key

Higher frequencies -- 60 GHz in this case -- tend to allow greater bandwidth for data transmission than lower frequencies like the popular 2.4 GHz used in many home wireless networks. While transmission speeds at 60 GHz are super fast, "the signal doesn't travel too far," Soyuer noted. "It typically stays in a room, so it would be a good match for personal area network -- PAN-types of applications. It's like a much higher data rate version of Bluetooth , in some respects."

Using higher frequencies for the transmission of very large media files is a more logical solution for wireless applications, Soyuer said. "For the application of uncompressed video, we are talking about needing two, maybe three GHz per second, and it's almost impossible to achieve those data rates using the conventional lower frequencies," he added.

Years Away

Wicked-fast movie downloads using IBM's and MediaTek's mmWave technology is a few years away. In addition to nailing down wireless networking standards -- critical so that a variety of devices can talk to each other in the same language, so to speak -- device manufacturers need to build and ship products with mmWave features.

Progress is happening, however. The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 802.15.3c is a working group that was formed in 2005 to standardize the use of the 60 GHz band.


Link:http://www.technewsworld.com/story/59941.html

NASA to test thermal patch on next spaceflight


Repair was one of three fixes agency considered for Endeavour's gouge

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA hopes to test a thermal tile patch on the next space shuttle mission that could have been used to fix the gouge that was carved into the bottom of Endeavour during last month's launch.
The repair — a squirt of goo — was one of three methods NASA considered using before deciding the damaged tiles didn't need to be fixed in flight.
Shuttle program manager Wayne Hale said Friday he also plans to expand the flight readiness review for Discovery's mission next month to encourage more people to speak up about safety concerns, an ongoing culture problem for NASA, and indicated the space shuttle Atlantis might not retire next year after all.

Once the tile-repair demonstration is formally approved Monday, a fifth spacewalk will be added to Discovery's two-week flight to the international space station. Two shuttle astronauts will use a caulk-like gun to squirt the goo into deliberately damaged tile samples, and small foam brushes to tap down and smooth the material. The tiles will be returned for analysis.
Hale called the demonstration — which was moved up by more than a year — "a confidence builder." The salmon-colored goo, the consistency of peanut butter, has been tested extensively on the ground, but never in space. It has a tendency to bubble on Earth, and NASA wants to see if that happens in space.
NASA concluded last month there was no need to apply this goo to a 3 1/2-inch-long gouge on Endeavour's belly that was caused by a piece of foam insulation and possibly ice that broke off the external fuel tank during liftoff. But the episode reminded NASA it needs to sharpen its repair skills, Hale said.
The astronaut who will do the repair demo, Dr. Scott Parazynski, said the delicate work on fragile tiles will be like surgery.
"This is a very exciting time for us to finally get the ground truth if you will — or the space truth — on how this material behaves," he said.
Parazynski said he was confident the goo would have worked for Endeavour's damage, given how small it was.
Developed in the wake of the 2003 Columbia disaster, the goo was not tested sooner in orbit because of toxicity concerns and unwieldy tools. A caulk-line gun has replaced the much larger applicator, and the smaller amount of goo made it safer to handle, Hale said.
The fuel tank for Discovery's Oct. 23 launch has been modified to reduce the possibility of foam coming off the latest problem area, brackets that support the liquid-oxygen feed line.
At a news conference, Hale said the flight readiness review before Discovery's launch will be more thorough and extensive. The two extra days of informal discussions hopefully will encourage more lower-level engineers to speak up, he said.
A reluctance by space program employees to openly bring up safety concerns contributed to both shuttle accidents.
"I would like to say that everybody feels comfortable coming to a board, standing up in front of the management and presenting their case, but apparently that's not so," Hale said.
He noted that safety concerns are still being reported anonymously for fear of retribution.

Mobile Payments Market to Reach $11.5 B by 2011 Title: Mobile Payments Market to Reach $11.5 B by 2011

As what may be a preview of the bright future of mobile commerce in general, the latest study of Juniper Research shows that about 52 million people will adopt mobile payment methods like NFC (Near Field Communication) and RFID to pay for everyday goods and services by 2011 and drive the physical mobile payments market to reach $11.5 billion.

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Moreover, Juniper found that by 2011, around 12% of the total mobile phones in circulation will offer support for contactless payment, specifically NFC - equating to nearly 470 million NFC-enabled handsets worldwide, thereby providing a significant marketplace for retailers to offer goods via mPayment applications.

Impact on Mobile Phone Selection

As we, mobile consumers, slowly welcome mobile commerce as part of our daily lives, it is logical that our criteria for selecting mobile phones will dramatically change as well. Jake Saunders, Vice President of ABI Research Asia-Pacific, says that the "Flash Factor" or the look and feel of a particular cellular phone is the current key motivator for purchase.

The growing number of mobile applications and the rising role of mobile commerce in the near future will create a shift in buying motivation. The look and feel will always be there but we will be more concerned with the capability of a particular handset to support our preferred mobile apps.

iPod Acessories

iPod Acessories
Visit our iPod Accessory Reviews Page

Bluetooth Stereo Headsets
AnyCom BluNa Bluetooth transmitter only, no headphones included, designed for nano
Bluetake i-Photo Bluetooth Stereo Headset with transmitter
IOGEAR Bluetooth Stereo Headphone Kit with transmitter
Plantronics Pulsar 590A Bluetooth Stereo Headphones with transmitter

Digital Camera Reviews
Pentax *ist DS Digital SLR Camera
Olympus EVOT E-500 Digital SLR Camera

PVP- Portable Video Players (Plays Video and MP3)
Apex E2go MP-2000 Portable Media Player and DVR (digital video recorder)
Archos AV 700 Portable Media Player and DVR
Creative Zen Vision W Widescreen Portable Media Player
PQI mPack P800
Portable Media Player and DVR (digital video recorder) Editor's Choice

Security
StealthSurfer III A USB flash drive that keeps your data secure when using public computers

Video Recorders
Neuros Recorder Record from any video source that has RCA jacks (TV, DVD, etc.) to CF, SD or MemoryStick media
Neuros Recorder 2 Plus Records in QVGA and VGA formats at higher quality with stereo sound
PCTV Pro USB Watch live TV and record it in MPEG4 format. Includes Windows software and a USB TV tuner.

TV Tuners
EyeTV A USB 2.0 TV tuner stick for the Mac

Headphones and Earbuds
Etymotic Research ER-6i earbud headphones
Sony MDR-NC6 Noise Canceling headphones
v-moda Remix and Bas Freq earbud headphones
v-moda Vibe earbud headphones
XtremeMac FS1 High Definition Earbuds

eBook Readers
Sony Reader PRS-500

Smart Watches
Swatch Paparazzi SPOT Watch

Mass Storage
Ridata QuattroDrive (CD burner and card reader in one) Editor's Choice

Portable Game Console Reviews
Sony PSP Editor's Choice
Nintendo DS
Nokia N-Gage QD (has phone)
Tapwave Zodiac (also Palm OS PDA)

UMPC (Origami), Micro PC and Handheld PCs

UMPC (Origami), Micro PC and Handheld PCs
OQO Model 01
Raon Vega (Windows XP)
Samsung Q1 Ultra UMPC (Vista)
Samsung Q1 UMPC (1st gen, Windows XP)
Sony Vaio UX180P Micro PC (Windows XP)
Sony Vaio UX380P Micro PC (Vista)

Internet and Lifestyle devices

Internet and Lifestyle devices
Nokia N800 Nokia's second generation Internet Tablet that fits in the palm of your hand
Nokia 770 A reaonably priced Internet Tablet that fits in the palm of your hand
Pepper Pad A home Internet Appliance and web tablet that weighs 2.3 pounds
Sony mylo This personal communicator has WiFi, a thumb keyboard and weighs only 5.3 ounces

Symbian OS Phones (Nokia Series 60, S60, Series 80, Series 90 and UIQ)

Symbian OS Phones (Nokia Series 60, S60, Series 80, Series 90 and UIQ)

Nokia N75 The first Nokia S60 smartphone with US 3G. This quad band GSM clamshell phone is offered by Cingular in the US and it has UMTS 3G on the US bands. S60 flip phones are relatively uncommon but we love 'em in the US, so Nokia cooked up the N75 which features a fantastic main display, a capable music player with external controls, Bluetooth 2.0, Cingular Video, an FM radio and a 2 megapixel camera with LED flash. It has a best of breed web browser and it syncs easily to Outlook. AT&T
May
Nokia N75 review
Nokia N95 This smartphone has every feature in the book, but its claim to fame is its 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss autofocus lens. If you thought the N73 was good, imagine a phone that takes better photos than the N73 and videos on par with the Nokia N93. That's just the start: this unlocked quad band GSM phone has a stunning QVGA display, two-way slider design, WiFi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR, integrated GPS, strong multimedia features and it's both compact and attractive. It syncs with Windows and Macs, has full PIM apps and Office viewers. The N95 has Euro-3G (not compatible with US 3G) and EDGE for data. It's sold unlocked directly by Nokia USA as well as importers.
Unlocked GSM
April 2007
Nokia N95 review
Nokia E62 The US sibling of the Nokia E61 we reviewed and loved in August. This slim and attractive phone wants to be your PDA too. Its metal sleek silver casing has that thin is in look but with all the power you'd expect from a smartphone. It has strong PIM applications with Outlook syncing, an Office suite, a fantastic web browser, and support for several push email solutions including BlackBerry Connect. This quad band GSM world phone has EDGE for data, Bluetooth 2.0, a really sharp landscape QVGA display, excellent battery life and a QWERTY keyboard. It's offered by Cingular in the US for a modest $149.
Cingular
Sept. 2006
Nokia E62 review
Nokia N91 This convergence device wants to be your phone, PDA and iPod. It features a 4 gig hard drive which can hold approximately 1,000 tunes, great playback quality and a standard 3.5mm headphone jack so you can use your favorite headphones. If that isn't enough, it's a powerful smartphone running Symbian OS 9.1 and Nokia's S60 3rd Edition software, has a 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, WiFi and a slick stainless steel finish. It's a GSM triband phone with EDGE and Euro 3G that's sold unlocked by Nokia and importers.
Unlocked GSM
Sept. 2006
Nokia N91 review
Nokia N73 This smartphone is a photographer's dream. Now there's no tradeoff between a savvy business phone and one that can take simply excellent photos and videos. The N73 features a 3.2MP camera with Carl Zeiss autofocus lens and it can take some of the best photos among any high end camera phone on the market. Though the phone also plays MP3s, has an FM radio and does a great job playing video on its stunning 240 x 320 display, it's not just about multimedia. It runs Symbian OS 9.1 with Nokia S60 3rd Edition and has capable PIM applications, MS Office and PDF viewers and more. It's a GSM quad band world phone with EDGE and Euro 3G that's sold unlocked for use with any GSM carrier in the US.
Unlocked GSM
Aug. 2006
Nokia N73 review
Nokia E61 Brains and good looks: what a combination. The Nokia E61 proves that business phones can be beautiful. Its metal, sleek silver casing has that thin is in look which helps the Moto Q thrive, but the Nokia adds WiFi and BlackBerry Connect support. This quad band GSM world phone has EDGE and Euro 3G for data, Bluetooth, a really sharp landscape QVGA display, great battery life and a QWERTY keyboard. It's not offered by any US carrier, but importers in the US offer it at surprisingly reasonable prices unlocked. Definitely worth a look if you want more style and multimedia capability than BlackBerry offers and you feel that Palm OS is a bit too dusty.
Unlocked GSM
Aug. 2006
Nokia E61 review
Nokia N80 Who says good looks and great photos aren't for smartphone users? One of Nokia's flagship smartphones in their Nseries, the N80 boasts a good 3MP camera with flash, really great looks and a small size with a slider design. The phone runs S60 3rd Edition on Symbian OS 9.1 with powerful PIM applications, syncing, Office viewers and a host of multimedia goodness. The Nokia has an FM radio, video playback, PictBridge support, Bluetooth, WiFi and an amazing 352 x 416 pixel display with 262K colors. It's a quad band GSM phone with EDGE and Euro-3G that's sold by importers in the US.
Unlocked GSM
Aug. 2006
Nokia N80 review
Nokia N90 Thanks to Nokia, if you want a smartphone that can take a darned impressive photo, you can have it. While most smartphones and PDA phones have rudimentary cameras, the N90, released in the fall of 2005, has one of the best 2MP cameras on the market. It takes sharp, colorful photos and smooth video. It's a Symbian OS phone running S60 2nd Edition and it has full syncing capabilities, email, web and PIM applications. Though this triband phone isn't officially offered by any US carrier, some dealers sell it with a T-Mobile contract at a hefty discount. It's sold unlocked for use with any carrier.
Unlocked GSM
April 2006
Nokia N90 review
Nokia 9300 An ergonomic delight as a phone and PDA. Closed it looks like a large candy bar phone, open it's like a mini notebook. This triband GSM phone runs Symbian Series 80 and has full support for PIM, Office, web and email. It has GPRS and EDGE for data and a sharp widescreen color display. It's offered by Cingular in the US.
Cingular and unlocked GSM
Sept. 2005 and March 2006
Nokia 9300 review
Nokia 9500 This giant among phones looks like a candy bar phone until you flip open the lid and transform it into a micro notebook with QWERTY keyboard. It's a GSM triband phone that supports the 900/1800/1900Mhz bands and it has GPRS and EDGE for data. If that's not interesting enough, it has WiFi, a lovely 640 x 200 transflective display, Bluetooth and runs the Symbian OS with Nokia's Series 80 user interface.
Unlocked GSM
March 2006
Nokia 9500 review
Nokia 6682 Nokia's Fall 2005 Series 60 (now called S60) smartphone for the US. It's a triband GSM phone supporting the 850/1800/1900 MHz bands with GPRS and EDGE for data. Offered unlocked through Nokia and resellers, and for a short time by Cingular, the phone has a dual voltage RS-MMC card slot, a great 1.3MP camera and Bluetooth. It syncs to Outlook on the desktop via the included USB cable or Bluetooth.
Cingular
Nov. 2005
Nokia 6682 review
Nokia 7710 The first and last Symbian Series 90 smartphone is both a PDA and a phone. Not only that, it claims to be a multimedia powerhouse. This triband GSM device is available only through importers in the US and supports both GPRS and EDGE for data. It has a 3.5" 640 x 320 touch screen, lots of memory, Bluetooth, an MMC slot and a suite of Office, PIM and Internet applications.
Unlocked GSM
July 2005
Nokia 7710 review
Nokia N-Gage QD This unique device is a GSM mobile phone, smartphone with PIM apps and application expandability and most interestingly, a handheld gaming device. It's compact enough to carry with you, and works surprisingly well as a phone while offering excellent gaming ergonomics. And it's a smart fella, running the Symbian Series 60 OS. Add Bluetooth and a hot swappable MMC slot for games and expansion and you've got the QD, head and shoulders above the original N-Gage. Not bad for $199 or less!
T-Mobile & Cingular & unlocked GSM versions
Feb. 2005
N-Gage QD
Nokia 7610 Smartphone This Symbian Series 60 phone sports a lovely design, has good ergonomics and a very impressive 1 megapixel digital camera. Add in the usual Nokia Series 60 features like Bluetooth, great reception and reliable operation and you've got a winner. This phone has been out in Europe for several months and is now reaching US shores where Cingular is offering it.
Cingular & Unlocked GSM
Nov. 2004
Nokia 7610
Siemens SX1 Here's a rare find: a Symbian Series 60 phone that's not made by Nokia. Since it runs Series 60, it qualifies as a smartphone, offering PIM apps, MP3 playback, bluetooth and more. It's a GSM tri-band world phone with GPRS for data. Add to that a VGA camera and one of the oddest designs you'll find in a production phone and you've got the SX1.
Unlocked GSM
July 2004
Siemens SX1
Sony Ericsson P900 The successor to the P800 offers just about every feature you could want in a smartphone: GSM/GPRS world phone service, Internet browsing, email, full featured PIM apps, Bluetooth and a VGA camera. It runs Symbian OS 7 and UIQ 2.1. The keypad flips open to reveal a large touch screen color display.
Unlocked GSM
March 2004
Sony Ericsson P900
Nokia 3650 Smartphone This is Nokia's latest 60 series Symbian OS Smartphone that offers many PDA functions. It has a large color display, a unique circular dial pad and a built-in VGA camera that takes 640 x 480 pictures! It's a triband GSM world phone that supports GPRS for data, web and email.
AT&T
June 2003
Nokia 3650
Sony Ericsson P800 This much anticipated smartphone runs Symbian OS 7, has a touch screen display, an integrated VGA camera and runs on GSM networks anywhere in the world. The dial pad flips open to reveal a large color display suitable for web browsing, email and more. Discontinued.
T-Mobile & Unlocked GSM
June 2003
Nokia Communicator 9290 If you're a Psion fan, take a look at this phone which has been very popular in Europe since it's intro in 2001. It runs Symbian OS, has a 640 pixel x 200 pixel color display and a built-in keyboard. It comes with a great deal of useful software, including a package that allows you to work with MS Office docs. It runs on the GSM network and is offered by T-Mobile in the US (it should also work with Cingular). It does not support GPRS. Est. $399-$599, depending on specials and sales. Seems to be discontinued in the US. Discontinued.
Jan. 2003