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Logic Instrument got FCC approval nearly two years ago for its “Tetra T-Pad” rugged smartphone, but not much has been heard about it since then. Perhaps the French manufacturer thought better of trying to sell a phone that costs about $2,600 on the American market.
Essentially, this tough little gadget can operate happily in sub zero conditions whilst suffering the kind of punishment your average cell phone can only dream about.
We’ve finally got an official release date for the HTC Touch Diamond as a SIM free handset.
Featuring a sharp 2.8-inch touch screen housed within a stunning formation of brushed steel and flawless faceted edges, the HTC Touch Diamond is as beautiful to behold as it is to use.
The Plantronics Discovery 925 Bluetooth® earpiece is your essential conversation piece, blending an elegantly simple VFrame™ design with crisp sound quality and lightweight, couture comfort. The effortless set up, AudioIQ® noise control technology and carrying case with rechargeable battery let you stay in touch and in style while you’re in motion.
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A new Harris Interactive study finds that mobile phone users are increasingly comfortable making banking and purchase transactions while on-the-go – a virtual taboo until now. The survey finds 16 percent of mobile phone subscribers already use mobile banking services, with 60 percent of these people using the services at least once a week. Many others presently not banking and buying on-the-go expressed interest in mobile banking, with 35 percent open to checking bank account balances and transferring funds via their mobile devices. A third of those surveyed (33 percent) also said they would like to receive text message alerts from their financial institutions.
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The survey also finds that on-the-go mobile purchases are on the rise. About 25 percent of mobile phone users with mobile access to the Internet now use their devices to buy goods and services online via a credit card. One in five respondents (20 percent) said they would like to someday use their phones like a “mobile wallet,” where charges would be billed directly to their mobile accounts. In addition, ten percent of the survey participants said they would consider wire transfers and stock trading via their mobile phones.
Russia’s bid to create a rival to the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS, has been delayed by equipment flaws and other technical problems, a senior Cabinet official said Wednesday.
First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov acknowledged that Russia’s Global Navigation Satellite System, or GLONASS, failed to become fully operational at the year’s start as the government had planned.
The Freedom Phone is a concept by designer Vadim Kibardin for travelers looking for a pre-paid phone to use while abroad. It’s lightweight and sleek and has all of the information you need to know about it, such as your own number or dialing codes, printed on the back.
I’m entirely for gadgets that keep things simple yet functional. I’ve never used the FM/AM tuning on any MP3 player I’ve ever owned, and I’m one of those curmudgeons who doesn’t like to mix cameras and phones. But I can readily imagine a few features that may make the Freedom Phone just a touch more friendly, like a small screen to see what numbers I’ve dialed (international dialing has rather long strings of numbers, after all), or a detachable card on the back so I can easily access my phone’s information while talking to someone
You may think the groovy chick in the top pic is trying to drown the new Fujitsu F705i cellphone, but you would be negating the fact that the F705i is the world’s slimmest waterproof 3G cellphone. Sitting pretty at 13.7mm thick, the Fujitsu handset can handle a 1-meter water submersion for 30 minutes. Check out the rest of the mega gallery after the jump.
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c79207) has announced the addition of “Mobile Payments Making Progress in North America” to their offering.
Using mobile handsets to accomplish financial transactions and purchases is starting to appear as something inevitable in the worldwide marketplace. However, we do not believe that 2008 will be the year of mobile payments. It may not even qualify as the year of trials of mobile payments; However, there is evidence that the US market may overcome a crucial issue: technology incompatibility, and make progress toward contactless payments using cellphones.
LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)—-Today, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2008, Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) announced the early preview of its Mobile Developer Platform, a one-stop solution for developers to create mobile-optimized applications that are easy to build, quick to deploy, and run across a wide selection of devices, thus making it much easier for Internet content and services to “go mobile.” By providing developers with tools to write code once and efficiently publish their content instantly across hundreds of devices – accessible by hundreds of millions of users – Yahoo!’s Mobile Developer Platform is expected to usher in a dramatic acceleration in the adoption of mobile services by creating an explosion of new choices for the consumer.