This news cannot be good for the smartphone market. Sony Ericsson's Q2 profits have fallen by a whopping 97%. The company knew their profits would fall in the second quarter but nobody predicted a 97% drop.
The company has been placing their hopes in the upcoming Xperia X1 Windows Mobile smartphone but they'll need much more than one device to pull themselves out of this one. With iPhones and BlackBerrys flying off the shelves Sony Ericsson had better come up with something else....read more
A German supermarket chain has introduced a new way to checkout your items. In the new chain of stores, customers can pay for their purchases with a specially adapted mobile telephone.
"The Future Store" was recently opened near Duesseldorf. Customers pick up a specially adapted phone when they come to the store. When they pick something up for purchase they scan the barcode by taking a picture with their phone. At the end of their shopping trip they place the phone in a machine at the door...read more
Google decided to show off the Android operating system at the Google I/O Conference last week. Andoidcommunity.com was there and took some video footage of the presentation. Check out the video of Google Android. Will Google be able to dominate the smart phone market? We'll see....read more
Qualcomm says Windows Mobile 7 may power mini laptops. The company displayed a 3G, $299 mini-laptop made by Inventec. The mini-laptop currently runs Linux but Qualcomm expects it to run Windows Mobile 7 in the future. Windows Mobile 7 supports Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipset so it's a natural fit.
Didn't we go through this years ago with Windows CE? Is there a need for a mini-laptop that runs a different operating system? Won't we just buy a small Sony laptop that runs a full version of Vist...read more
The University Of Michigan's College Of Engineering has been awarded a five-year, $10-million grant to pursue, among other things, this concept spy bat. The grant establishes the U-M Center for Objective Microelectronics and Biomimetic Advanced Technology, called COM-BAT for short.
The proposal for the spy bat says that the bat should be six inches in length and weigh four ounces. It will use just one watt of power, backed by a lithium-ion battery, which could be charged by solar and wind ene...read more
In another sad turn of events for the standard brick and mortar stores, Sharper Image has filed for Bankruptcy protection. After several years of declining sales they are finally packing it in.
The company says it "intends to continue to conduct business as usual while it devotes renewed efforts to resolve its operational and liquidity problems and develops a reorganization plan."
Last week Sharper Image got rid of Chief Executive Steve Lightman after less than a year, and brought in Robert ...read more
This has to be one of the coolest apps we've seen for the iPhone. iAno is a newly released iPhone application that turns your iPHone into a piano. As you can see in the video, iAno provides a multi-touch piano that you can really play (sorta). It has a four-octave keyboard that can play 5 notes at the same time. The keyboard is navigated with arrow keys above the keyboard.
iAno was devloped by a developer going by the name of Mr Aardvark. Very cool!
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Isn't the Google Android operating system supposed to be for mobile phones? Haven't we been teased at the possibility of the Gphone for months now? Apparently some software consultants at eu.edge couldn't resist trying to boot the Google OS on a Sharp Zaurus SL-C7601. The Zaurus is a PDA only with no wireless connectivity. Very cool....read more
Continental Airlines today announced that it has entered into an agreement with LiveTV, L.L.C. (LiveTV) that will allow Continental to offer 36 channels of live,
inflight satellite-based television programming provided by DIRECTV(R), at every seat on Continental's new generation aircraft. The service is expected to be
available to customers on flights operating within the continental United
States beginning in January 2009.
In addition, Continental will be introducing onboard Wi-Fi services
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If you fly Continental airlines in the next three months, and have a connection in Houston, you'll likely be able to take part in a pilot program that allows passengers to board flights using just a cellphone or PDA instead of a paper boarding pass. The three-month pilot program launched Tuesday at Houston's Intercontinental Airport. If the test is successful, the program could expand nationwide.
Instead of using paper boarding passes, the airlines will send a special bar code to the cell phon...read more
Here is a video demonstration of the HTC Shift. The HTC Shift is a UMPC that includes a program called SnapVUE which gives contacts, calendar, email, weather and other nice features in an instant on interface. SnapVUE seems to be a scaled down version of Windows Mobile.
The Shift also runs Vista quite nicely although at this time the battery only lasts 2 hours. ...read more
With all the iPod cases that come along this one is unique. This is an iPod case that looks like a Hymn book. You can protect all of your favorite hymns and carols with this one. It is designed to protect your 30GB or 80GB iPod and sells for about $31 US.
Technical specifications:
Size: Height 4.2 inches x Width 2.3 inches x Depth 1 inch
Black leather book cover
Designed for 30GB and 80GB iPod with video
Also works with other MP3 players of a similar size
Your iPod sits tightly inside ...read more
Until now Verizon had an exclusive agreement to provide YouTube Mobile to its customers. That agreement has now run its course and YouTube Mobile is available for everyone. Just point your mobile browsers to m.youtube.com and you're all set....read more
Best Buy is being sued by a customer who hired the Geek Squad to come to her house to fix her computer. The customer says the Geek Squad employee placed a cell phone in the customer's bathroom and filmed her taking a shower. Luckily the customer noticed the recording light on the phone when she came out of the shower and managed to get the memory card out of the phone. She took it to a local cell phone store and they helped her view the video.
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