ELLE’s Glam Phone
It’s not fashion, until a fashion magazine says so.
ELLE is bringing the GlamPhone to American girls starting next month, after setting hearts a-flutter in Europe. Not only do you get to pick between a red or black version (although more colors are available in Europe), but you also get a one-year subscription to ELLE Magazine. (more…)
Samsung plans to release next year a cell phone that includes support for mobile WiMAX networks, a company executive said.
The upcoming dual-mode handset, which will pair WiMax with support for GSM networks, underscores Samsung’s backing for mobile WiMAX technology, said Hwan Woo Chung, vice president of Samsung’s Mobile WiMAX Group, in an interview at the CommunicAsia exhibition in Singapore.
According to the company executive, Chung, the first model will come during the first half of 2007.
WiMAX is a wireless technology that offers the promise of high-speed connections over a greater area than is possible with Wi-Fi. Fixed-wireless and mobile versions of the technology are being developed, with the fixed-wireless version seen as a replacement for wired broadband connections, such as cable and DSL. (more…)
Cell phone emissions excite the part of the brain cortex nearest to the phone, but it is not clear if these effects are harmful, Italian researchers reported. Their study, published in the Annals of Neurology, adds to a growing body of research about mobile phones, their possible effects on the brain, and whether there is a link to cancer.
About 730 million cell phones are expected to be sold this year, according to industry estimates, and nearly two billion people around the world already use them. Of these, more than 500 million use a type that emits electromagnetic field known as Global System for Mobile communications or GSM radio phones.
Their possible effects on the brain are controversial and not well understood. (more…)
The European Commision is poised to force operators to slash the cost of mobile phone calls while abroad, despite a fierce lobbying campaign by the telecoms industry.
Upset that operators have ignored the warning to cut so called “roaming” rates, the European Union’s executive arm is to carry out its threat to introduce measures aimed at cutting prices by half.
Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reading is to unveil on Wednesday controvesial new regulations to push prices lower, which the industry has fought tooth-and-nail to avoid.
With 147 million Europeans using roaming services, the market5 is estimated to be worth about 8.5 billion euros a year.
South Korea’s Samsung said it will sell the slimmest cell phone in the United States, aimming to compete with the US market leader Motorola’s popular Razr line.
Equipped with a color screen for playing videos and an external memory slot, the silver, candy bar-shapped t509 is 9.8mm thick, which make it thinner than the 11.5mm popular Motorola’s Slvr.
The new phone, which is too thin to squeeze in components for photo taking found in most advanced cellphones, will hit the store shelves in the second quarter along with the d807, another skinny phone with a sliding lid.