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Things that aren’t static

  • Rumoured Samsung i550 Smartphone Packs GPS

    By the looks of a product leak slipping around the web, Samsung look set to make a big break with their traditional mobile phone designs with the release the all-metal i550.

    Running on Symbian OS S60 UI, the phone bears some design similarities with Sony-Ericsson’s W880, and is rumoured to be Samsung’s first Samsung GPS-enabled smartphone – and the company’s first bar shaped phone.

    The 3G and HSDPA (3.6 Mbps) phone also sports a generous 2.6″ display and wedges in a 3.2 megapixel camera (plus a low red front mounted camera for video calls), dedicated keys for GPS, music player and Internet browser.

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  • Match.com Introduces MatchMobile Dating Service

    Match.com Introduces MatchMobile Dating ServiceImpatient lotharios and time-challenged romance hunters should welcome the launch of online dating service, Match.com’s new MatchMobile text application.

    The new service for cell phones sends subscribers text messages when they get a ‘wink’ or e-mail from another Match.com subscriber, and if they don’t like the look of them, they can also search for other potential matches from their mobiles.
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  • Microsoft Zune 2.0 Set For Christmas

    The first version of their Zune media player didn’t exactly set the world on fire or give Steve Jobs much to worry about, but Microsoft has confirmed that its second- generation Zune players will be hitting the shelves in time for the Christmas sales season in the US.
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  • Samsung G600: First Look

    We went to the Global launch of the Samsung G600 in London last night – the first time Samsung has carried out such a launch in the UK.

    The phone is quite a looker and the first for Samsung with a 5 Mpx camera built in. To match this, is a great display capable of displaying 16M colours, which should flatter the films you can play on it at 30fps, in MPEG4, WMV and H.264 formats.

    The black two-tone sliding handset feels great in the hand, with the sort of heft that conveys quality.
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  • BlackBerry 8820 Quadband Smartphone Packs Wi-Fi

    Research In Motion has announced its first ever multi-band phone to pack Wi-Fi, the BlackBerry 8820 Smartphone.

    The slinkiest BlackBerry to date, the 8820 offers a good ol’ fashioned hardware QWERTY keyboard (we like them), a large 320×240 display, trackball controls, onboard GPS (Global Positioning System)and EDGE/GPRS/GSM cellular and Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g) connectivity.
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  • iPhones Take Out WiFi Network

    iPhones Take Out WiFi NetworkiPhone’s appear to be taking out chunks of the wireless network at Duke University in the US.

    We won’t get all technical on you by delving in to the tech-laden reasons as to why it _might_ be happening – they still don’t know how it is happening for sure – but the upshot of it is they think the iPhones are generating up to 18,000 requests per second.

    Barrages like this are crippling the WLAN kit, as it tries to deal with and make sense of each of them.

    Duke have been in touch with Apple about the problem, but so far the communication with Apple has been “one-way.”

    Given the number of tech mad loonies that have bought iPhones in the US, it is a little strange that no other sites have recorded the same problem.

    For the details on the story, trot over to Network World

  • Ofcom: Cut Mobile Number Transfers To 2 Days

    Ofcom: Cut Mobile Number Transfers To 2 DaysOfcom has floated a proposal to simplify the process of moving your mobile phone number to another provider and cutting the transfer time to within two hours, a stark contrast to the five days it takes now.

    With the two hour goal just over two years away, Ofcom has ruled that the mobile industry must reduce the time taken to a getting-close-to-reasonable two working days, starting on 1 April 2008 (why do UK organisations persist in using 1 April? It’s so open for abuse if problems arise).
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  • Mobile Search Business To Hit $2.4 billion by 2011

    Mobile Search Business To Hit $2.4 billion by 2011The Telecom and Internet industries are squaring up for a right old fist fight over who rules the consumer mobile search business.

    According to market research firm eMarketer, the battle looks set to resemble a full on pub brawl, with telecom carriers, handset makers, publishers, directory and yellow pages outfits, Silicon Valley big boys and a load of start-ups all looking to grab a piece of the mobile search action.
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  • 300Mbps ‘Super 3G’ Floated By NTT DoCoMo

    300Mbps 'Super 3G' Floated By NTT DoCoMo3G is a bit old hat in Japan. It’s been available commercially there since 2001 thanks to the dominant mobile provider there, NTT DoCoMo.

    On Friday, NTT DoCoMo started talking to the world about where they see the standard evolving to. Named in an almost 1970s tribute – Super 3G, has a anticipated maximum download speed of 300Mbps.
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  • Pacemaker: Pocket iPod DJ Booth

    Pacemaker: Pocket iPod DJ BoothWe’ve just found out about an amazing gadget – a handheld DJ mixer called Pacemaker by a new Swedish company called Tonium.

    As soon as we heard about it, we were straight on the phone, as we’d been knocking around similar ideas at the Digital-Lifestyles offices.

    Think of it as an iPod, with a built-in DJ mixing booth – and effects box attached.

    It’s miles ahead of the clumsy iPod mixing which has been around since 2003 and, by the look of it, it will also fit into your pocket, being it’s 164mm/70mm/23mm (think PSP-sized) and 200g.
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