Motorola Ruby RAZR3 Appears Again

The people at UnwiredView shows to the world, that the once cancelled Motorola Ruby, now appears again in a press shot.

The phone looks exactly similar like Motorola V3xx, the HSDPA phone. Being member of the Razr family, it is very "Motorola", and sticks to the original flavor. It shows nice and sharp display, and seems to have Symbian UIQ.

Here are the thumbnailed pics (click for bigger images) :



Hmm lovely. I think I love this phone, and will definitely check out the detailed specs once it is available. It seems to be a decent and no-frills Motorola. The reincarnation of the legendary V3.


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LG Versa Pictures Unboxed

Apparently, someone has sent a picture to PhoneArena, of an LG Versa, unboxed before March 1st, the official launch day. The phone looks nice and elegant, and the display seems very promising and looks to be one of the best in the market.

From the pics, we can see that thera are not much included in the box. Charger, and perhaps a CD or two for apps, but nothing more. Seems LG also tries cutting cost in this tough economy.

Check more pics at Phone Arena.

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Conduit The Experimental Design Phone

While it is one thing to push innovation, it is quite another to make an idea workable and useful. Designer Tirshathah Hunter surely practiced the out-of-the-box thinking while designing this Pantech Conduit concept phone.

The Conduit consists of three cigar-like shapes. Two of them could be detached from one 'cigar' controller. The other two are holding rollable screen, that can be stretched out like this :

A more detailed exploded view :

While it is quite believable that the device will be able to connect seamlessly using Bluetooth, but one question remains on the rollable screen. What material is it, and is it comercially viable? The built-in keypad also looks miserable. It certainly could be better than that. At least we expect ordinary alphanumeric keypad in this thing, not the jumbled six buttons that hold all characters.

Anyway, we must praise designer Tirshathah Hunter for this bold design, though may be not very much implementable.

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iPhone Contenders, compiled by RBC

So hot iPhone is to the stock market, that even a bank like RBC cares to put up a special comparison chart here.

From the chart, we can see that it's a really fierce and dog-eat-dog competition among smartphones. Samsung OmniaHD, HTC Magic, LG GM730, HTC Touch Diamond2, and Palm Pre are among the strongest competitors of Apple.

The analyst of Royal Bank of Canada, Michael Abramsky wrote :

"Some -- notably Google, Palm, Microsoft, HTC -- appears to offer 'good enough' functional alternatives, including PC-like internet browsing, consumer UI/navigation, touch manipulation, messaging, applications/services, carrier functionality -- with alternative hardware form factors (e.g. keyboards, sliders, etc) that may appeal to some potential iPhone customers,"

Facing the heavy competition, Apple is likely to devise a pricing tactic either on the hardware itself (reduce price), or playing around with cheaper data plan, as stated by Zach Spear of Appleinsider :

Earlier this month, both Kaufman Bros' Shaw Wu and Bernstein's Toni Sacconaghi issued similar comments. Wu cited sources who said Apple and AT&T were discussing the possibility of offering customers more data plan options, including some restrictive but more affordable plans, while Sacconaghi simply cited comments from a one-on-one meeting with Apple's acting chief executive Tim Cook that suggest the company is looking into "different pricing/price points" for the hardware itself.

Sure, we can't wait to get a cheaper iPhone. But price alone won't win our heart. Features do. Perhaps Palm Pre with intuitive and fluid interface, and Samsung OmniaHD with its high-def video recording, they do really have a chance to kill iPhone now.

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Comics For Your Cellphones Will Be Soon Available

With the ubiquity of smartphones or feature phones which have big displays, it is highly desirable if we can read comics in it. Yes, we can manually scan our comics and crop the images, and read it in the phone's picture viewer. But there is smarter alternative.

According to a Trendhunter's post, digital comic is readily available for Android based smartphone, which in this case, for now, is the TMobile G1. The title is "HEXED", and will also be available in the iPhone Apps Store.

Great innovation done by people at BOOM! Studios and iVerse Media, who released this comic. We can't wait the next Superman and Spiderman, too! Save the environment by using less paper, and the most important, immortalizing our comic collection to our lovely gadget : the smartphones.

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Applied Nano Detectors Develop Chip That Can Detect Diseases from Our Breath

It sounds like a science fiction. But a report from TechRadar gives us hope that perhaps within one or two years, we will have a cellphone that can detect whether you have diabetes, high blood pressure, or other diseases, through your breath.

Applied Nano Detectors has finally devised a chip that can be installed into a cellphone. The chip can detect your breath and conclude what kind of diseases you have. There will be an air hole in the phone which you can blow into, and you're done.

Moreover, the chip can send automatic notification to your doctor about the disease you have. Though, there will be privacy issues here, but it is surely helpful for elderly or kids to notify their doctors about this.

Nokia is already on a talk with Applied Nano Detectors. Let's hope this device will materialize and marketed soon!

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