The much-delayed Nokia N80 is finally coming close to being released, and Sogi.com have managed to get their hands on one for a full-featured review. The N80 is a stunning technological show-stopper from Nokia, cramming in an extraordinary array of features. WiFi, Bluetooth, UPnP, 3 megapixel camera, 3G, VGA video camera, MP3 player and support for up to 2GB of storage are just some of the features of this amazing phone.
Inventables, a product design studio, have developed the "Origami Cell Phone", a concept phone design inspired by e-paper developed by Mag-Ink, and the Popout Map. The concept is designed to squeeze more screen space from existing form factor sizes.
Nokia have taken to calling their latest N-Series mobile phones "multimedia computers", and have reportedly forbidden their employees from using the word 'phone' at all. Rather than just being a marketing gimmick though, it underlines how Nokia sees the future of its mobile phones (sorry, multimedia computers) developing.
When Motorola teamed with Oakley to produce its awkward-looking mobile-music-shades, which attempted to merge the mobile phone with sunglasses, it forgot one crucial component - the display. Now Korean start-up Kowon Technology aims to rectify that with its new product, the niftily-titled MSP-209 "Video Glasses".
Many mobile network operators lock a mobile phone to their network, ensuring you can't just up and leave them whenever you feel like it. They do this by locking your phone's SIM to the phone itself, so no other SIM will work in it. But what if you do want to switch networks? What if you want to leave your old contract and go to a shiny new (and cheaper!) operator, or just switch SIMs to use a local operator's network when you travel abroad?
Apple iPhone hype continues unabated, but this time it's the fanboys doing the hyping. Christopher and Gregory DeSantis have made their very own Apple iPhone promo video (beats a be-Photoshopped mock-up I guess!), showing what they believe the new phone could look like.
The UK's home broadband market is being shaken up at the moment, with Carphone Warehouse (our leading mobile phone retailer) offering free broadband bundled with its TalkTalk landline phone service. Now, T-Mobile has waded in by threatening to replace the landline altogether - both for voice calls and broadband data services.
Pink phones are all the rage these days, ever since Motorola released a pink RAZR. Such was the popularity of this new colour, every other handset manufacturer jumped on the bandwagon and came out with its own pimped-up pink version.
Samsung have announced what they claim is the world's thinnest mobile phone. The Samsung X828 beats the previous record-holder, the KTF EV-K100 (itself announced only two weeks ago!) by a full millimeter. One millimeter may not sound much, but given that the EV-K100 was only 7.9mm, the new Samsung X828's record-breaking 6.9mm is a full 12.7% thinner.
This nifty looking beast is the Alcatel OT-C850 mobile music phone. Looking like a weird cross between a futuristic dictation machine and a retro hand-held games machine, the Alcatel mobile phone is short on features, but oozes style. It comes with a 1.3 megapixel camera, 65k colors screen (176×220), and obviously an MP3 player (256 MB memory, plus a microSD card slot).
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