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Mobile space is about to enter the world of Pico Projectors which will bring the convenience of projector technology to the mobile phone industry. The advancement on miniaturisation can now allow projectors to be scaled down in size to fit comfortable inside a mobile phone.

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What makes this prospect of mobile Pico Projectors a more solid notion is the senior vice president of Texas Instruments (TI); John Van Scoter, speaking in Taipei at a Texas Instruments forum on May 14th has confirmed that those mobile handset which feature Texas Instrument’s projector tech will hit the market with Pico Projectors onboard sometime later this year which will mirror other Pico projector manufacturers.

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Last week, Sharp has announced that it had achieved the world’s highest power density, 0.3W/cc, for direct methanol fuel cells (DMFC) for mobile equipment. This new technology enables efficient power generation from a small cell volume.

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In this photo you can see a mobile phone powered by Direct Methanol Fuel Cells (DMFC)

Because fuel cells use energy produced by the chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen, they have a small impact on the global environment. Read the rest of this entry

Mobiado has just unveiled their new luxury phone, the Professional 105 ZAF with a thickness of 10.6mm. The entire front and back of the phone has been crafted from large pieces of sapphire crystal, providing a modern minimalist look with a wear resistance second only to diamond.

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The phone frame is precision CNC machined from aircraft aluminum to create a strong yet light body, polished, and then anodized it to produce a ceramic surface for the toughest of uses. The iconic Professional 105 ZAF is available in six designer colors.

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Garmin Mobile for BlackBerry

Garmin announced today a one-time-purchase plan for Garmin Mobile for BlackBerry. This one-time, $99.99 purchase is only available in North America and will give customers who own BlackBerry devices unlimited use of Garmin Mobile’s turn-by-turn, voice prompted directions for the life of their specific BlackBerry. Users will also have unlimited access to Garmin Mobile’s dynamic content such as traffic, weather conditions and forecasts, fuel prices and more.

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Six Apart announced availability of a native mobile blogging application for the Blackberry Curve and Blackberry Pearl smartphones that lets users manage comments, upload photos and draft, edit and post to their TypePad blogs with just a few clicks.

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TypePad customers can now easily capture and upload photos directly from their Blackberry Curve and Blackberry Pearl phones to their blogs wirelessly. TypePad bloggers can also use their device to compose draft blog posts, store them for later editing or publish them from within the device’s trackball and keyboard interface. Read the rest of this entry

LG and Samsung

LG and Samsung will propose their jointly developed technology as the North American technology standard for mobile DTV. Samsung and LG held a signing ceremony at Seoul Plaza Hotel in Seoul, Korea, on 14.06.2008. At the ceremony, the two companies agreed to cooperate in order to assure rapid adoption by the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) of a single common in-band mobile DTV standard.

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Embarq LG phone

While Qwest looks to revamp its wireless offerings in an effort to get ‘em in the black, fellow landline specialist Embarq is contemplating killing its cellphones altogether. The Sprint spinoff’s CFO mentioned last week that it’s going to continue to serve its meager wireless customer base until at least 2009, but after that, it may look to move them to another carrier. How meager are we talking here, exactly? Read the rest of this entry

Christian Dior phone

Look, we’re not Russian oil tycoons with a taste for trophy wives one-third our age. That’s true. Nevertheless, no matter how hard we try, we just can’t understand how spending $5,000 on these new Christian Dior phones will substantially increase our lot in life. Then again, we’re afraid of robots. The new line of boutique phones manufactured in partnership with ModeLabs feature a touchscreen display, camera, and novel, mini-phone extender dubbed My Dior.

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