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.
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BEIJING, China (AVING) — <Visual News> Samsung Electronics presented its ‘dual stand-by phone(model:W629)’ during PT EXPOCOMM CHINA 2007. Since it can have two SIM cards (GSM and CDMA) at the same time, users can take the advantages of two different service providers simultaneously with just one device. It is designed for businessmen with sleek card phone design and leather case, 2.6-inch QVGA TFT LCD, 3M camera, Bluetooth headset, and some conversational languages (English, Chinese and Korean). It is scheduled to hit China market at the end of this year.
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Here comes yet another sweet Korean cellphone, this time made by Sky: the IM-S240K .
As usual, the design is very nice, and as usual, it is only for Korea… the specifications of this slide phone include a 2MPx camera, HSDPA 7.2MBps, multimedia player, DMB, E-dictionary… this little wonder will soon be put on sale at a price of 400000Won (~307Euros)… just to let you know.
The long-term cancer risk of mobile phone use cannot be ruled out, experts have concluded.
A major six-year research programme found a “hint” of a higher cancer risk.
But the UK Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme (MTHRP) did rule out short-term adverse effects to brain and cell function.
Researchers are now expanding the programme to look at phone use over 10 years, and the specific impact on children, which has not been studied.
The MTHRP programme, funded by the government and communications industry, has carried out 23 separate studies into the health impact of mobile phones, masts and base stations.
Programme chairman Professor Lawrie Challis said it was now up to the government to offer advice.
The team found that there was a slight excess reporting of brain and acoustic neuroma (ear) cancers.
Researchers said this was on the borderline of statistical significance.
Professor Challis said that it was only responsible to do more research, citing the way smoking was not linked to lung cancer at first.
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