Harlequin Books now has a series just for busy women — Harlequin On The Go. They send their electronic books to cell phones in small, daily installments — 5-10 minutes each. Each installment takes up about 8 screens of text.
This service is currently available only to Verizon customers, but all national cellular carriers [...]
Ring tones have been around for a while. You can purchase your own, make your own, or use the ones that come with the phone. However, it hasn’t been easy, until now, to find good, classical ring tones. The couple that come with the phones are not the best quality. I currently have an aria [...]
The US Postal Service is starting a new recycling program for small electronics. The “Mail Back” pilot program will include ten areas, but if positive, may be available across the country this fall.
Customers use free envelopes found in 1,500 Post Offices to mail back inkjet cartridges, PDAs, Blackberries, digital cameras, iPods and MP3 players [...]
A partnership between Nokia and the Cambridge Nanoscience Center has created the Morph. The Morph is one example of a cell phone that is transparent and can be molded into anything you’d like — even a bracelet.
These devices use nanotechnology, flexible materials, transparent electronics, and self-cleaning surfaces. Check out the video (46mb) to [...]
Vollee is working to bring Second Life to your handheld. Amazing. Second Life will not work on most computers because of it higher requirements. To get it to work in a mobile environment seems questionable. However, this company has demonstrated their version and it seems to be true to the Second [...]
Google has created an open source environment for mobile phones — Android. Unlike the phone software currently in use, this software would be free for phone manufacturers and allow users more flexibility in loading the applications they want. Android includes:
Operating system based on Linux
Browser
Media support
GSM telephony
Bluetooth, EDGE, 3G, WiFi
Camera, GPS, compass
Development environment
There are other features, [...]
The Environmental Protection Agency will be starting a public education campaign — called “Recycle Your Cellphone. It’s An Easy Call” — asking us to recycle our old cell phones. Current partners include AT&T, Best Buy, LG Electronics, Motorola, Nokia, Office Depot, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Sprint, Staples, and T-Mobile.
Some of these companies already have recycling programs [...]
Microvision has developed the world’s smallest projector — the Pico Projector. It can project a 5-foot image from 5 feet at roughly a resolution of 848 x 480. It runs on rechargeable batteries and charges via a USB cable. It should be capable of connecting to any device with a video-out. [...]
Want to know how many messages are waiting for you on your cell phone? How much battery life you have left? Watch for Shoogle:
Shoogle is a novel, intuitive interface for sensing data within a mobile device, such as presence and properties of text messages or remaining resources. It is based around active exploration: devices are [...]
LG hosted the National Testing Championship in Roseland, New York in April 2007. Each texter had to use a QWERTY keyboard phone and could not use T9 (a shortcut texting service). A phone was placed on a table in front of each participant. As soon as a phrase was flashed onto [...]
