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Steampunked Nokia Phone
Oct 7th
This is a steampunk phone by John Mavrovic. It is made of recycled materials such as broken typewriter, parts of old clocks and some rusted screws. While at the inside is a fully functional Nokia phone. More pictures after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
KDDI Barcode Reader Phone
Aug 15th
E06SH is a new cellphone from KDDI for business users that featuring a waterproof body, fingerprint authentication, a barcode scanner, remote locking and unlocking of the phone, WiFi, GPS navigation, and a 2 megapixel camera.
[via dvice.com]
The London Calling Mobile Phone
Jul 20th
It’s a classic K6 Red Telephone Box shaped mobile phone. It features a 65k colour TFT screen, camera, full SMS and MMS functionality, polyphonic ringtones, and GPRS/WAP 2.0. You can set your wallpaper to display one of fifteen different iconic images from old Blighty, plus you can select from Rule Brittania, God Save the Queen, or one of twenty other ringtone melodies.
London Calling measures 102mm by 43mm by 21 mm, and weighs approximately 100 grams. As an unlocked GSM phone, all you have to do is plug in your current Orange, T-Mobile, Virgin or Cingular SIM card and start talking. More information and picture after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Rugged Cell Phones Stress Test
Jul 10th
Popular Mechanics is picking up some rugged cell phone for a test.
“Ruggedized cellphones are typically designed to comply with Military Specification 810F, able to withstand light shocks, short falls and splashes. But just how far can they go? We took three and pushed them way beyond their spec sheet to approximate real-life mishaps—if real life was a demolition derby run by Navy SEALs. For the phones, it proved to be a one-way trip to PMs lab.
The Sonim looked and felt the toughest, but the Verizon G’zOne Boulder was the winner—it continued to work until it was literally a tangle of plastic shards and wires.”
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General Mobile DSTL1 Dual-SIM Android Phone
May 29th
General Mobile is going to launch its latest dual-SIM Android phone starting June. According to Adroid Authority, the phone will be first released in the US and Turkey, follow with Russia and Germany. The phone comes with a 3-inch TFT resistive touchscreen display with 240 x 400 resolution, a 624MHz Marvell PXA 310 processor, a 5MP autofocus camera with flash, an Android 1.5 Cupcake, dual SIM card slots, a 4GB microSDHC card, music and video players, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, A2DP and supports Tri-band GSM connectivity (900/1800/1900MHz). One drawback, there’s no 3G support for this phone. It will be priced somewhere between $550 and $750. Read the rest of this entry »
