Bone conduction involves conducting sound to the inner ear through the bones of the skull. This concept is nothing new when it comes to earphones or hearing aids. Many gadgets have incorporated this technology in the past, the newest of which is the Pantech A1407PT. It uses bone conduction loudspeakers which channel sound through [...]

French laws which state that 1) carriers are required to unlock any phone upon customer request (for a fee within the first 6 months of contract or for free afterwards) and that 2) carriers are required to sell both locked and unlocked version of a handset have, well, laid down the low for the Apple [...]

In several years your handset could be running on water. Samsung Electro-Mechanics have announced that it has developed a micro-fuel cell and hydrogen generator that uses H2O. Oh Yung-soo, VP of Samsung Electro-Mechanics’ research center had this to say: “When the handset is turned on, metal and water in the phone react to produce [...]

The Verizon Wireless Juke by Samsung will be available for sale by the end of the week. This swivel phone/music player supports MP3, WMA, AAC and AAC+ formats, comes in red, teal and navy blue, and supports A2DP stereo Bluetooth. The swivel hinge opens up 180 degrees, revealing the keypad. Navigating through your playlist [...]

Flip Sidekick LX’s screen around and up, revealing the QWERTY keyboard underneath. Noted LCD Maker Sharp manufactures the Sidekick, and given Sharp’s display manufacturing prowess, it makes sense that the high-quality, 3-inch, WQVGA (400-by-240-pixel) display would draw on Sharp’s Aquos LCD technology.

Behold Sprint’s/HTC’s copycat iPhone running on the Windows Mobile 6 interface. HTCdoes so with hardware tweaks and its own software, written to integrate with Windows Mobile yet provide a very different, more simplified experience. The result includes screens such as this one: a home screen that’s easy to read and navigate compared to a [...]

Nokia is set to reveal another secret on November 2, based on the teaser found at the company’s website. Now many are speculating that this big announcement on All Soul’s Day, is the phone that has been doing the rounds in the grapevine, the Nokia N82. Some rumored specs of this much anticipated smartphone, [...]

In conjunction with its 40th year anniversary, Psion Teklogix his releasing the iKon, a shock-resistant well-equipped smarthphone slated for releaset this December. The lineup of features include a 3.7″ VGA display, a camera, media player plus WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth and a barcode scanner. The PDA phone can work in either the Windows Mobile 6/Pro [...]

Samsung and Adidas are set to release a co-branded F110. The F110, while not exactly meant for the tech-hungry set, does include a heartbeat monitor, step counter, and other sports-related applications. This 2.5G GPRS/EDGE handset packs a 2-inch display, a 2MP camera, FM tuner and MP3 player function. As with most of Samsung’s phones, [...]

The LG Viewty, a candybar-cum-camera phone recently launched in Korea several months ago was recently unveiled by the people at LG for the European market. Also known as the LG-KU990, this handset sports a 5-megapixel Schneider-Kreuznach camera with manual focus, SmartLight technology, one touch Image Stabilizer and an ISO of up to 800.The Viewty’s [...]