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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Philips Tapster Is Really A Sexy Bluetooth Wireless Headset

Never before I had seen a bluetooth wireless as sexy as this. Meet the cute Philips Tapster. It looks minimalist, and it spells no-nonsense, but it promises hip features : touch control, and also better engineered product to make sure you hear the clearest voice.

You can answer a call just by gentle stroke, and controlling volume with taps. But I still don't get it. How many taps to increase volume, and how many taps to decrease volume. Of course we don't want to be deafened with it.


Shinyshiny said:

The Tapster features a FullSound chip which decompresses your music files by using its smart algorithm to give you full bodied dynamic sound. It's also A2DP compliant which means you can use it to stream music from any Bluetooth device.They've incorporated an angled acoustic design to deliver powerful sound straight down your lugholes, and seal you off from distracting ambient noise. Add to that Ever Clear technology (a fancy way of saying sound isolating properties) and they've created a smart headset which should provide you with super sharp audio,

Though I must confess I don't comprehend what that paragraph really means, but as you read it also, it promises better sound quality and better ergonomics, which means less pain in the ears hopefully.

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Eco Charger From Carphone Warehouse Shuts Down Automatically When Your Battery Is Full

Now this idea is smart, though technically speaking it is simple.

A cellphone charger that shuts itself down when your battery is already full, presented by Carphone Warehouse. Though its physical design is aesthetically rather unpleasing, but the function is said to "save up to 300,000,000 kWh of electricity yearly – the equivalent of £85 million", assuming that all UK residents use this. An unrealistic assumption, however.

So care to buy one? It is £23. But speaking about environmental friendliness, so what will happen with your existing charger? Recycle it or what? It would be even greater for Carphone Warehouse if it provides trade-in with our current charger.

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Cellphone makers are going to use universal charger by 2012

It is common for us to change charger each time we switch to another brand of cellphone. Sometimes even when we switch from older type of cellphones to newer ones within the same, there was a change in charger, example in this case is Nokia and Sony Ericsson, which once changed their plug charger platform. But this is not the case anymore.

The GSM Association and 17 cellphone manufacturers announced today that they had agreed to take the initiative to produce and use single format of charger (universal charger) by 2012.

This universal charger will be in the form of Micro USB, and will have more efficiency (Rated 4 stars). Major brands such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Motorola already join the initiative and start working to make this happen. Should this succeed, it will save 50% of materials, and potentially reduce up to 51,000 tons of wasted used chargers.

This will be great news for average daily users like you and me. Because if this is true micro-USB, then we will be able to just plug in a micro-usb cable to our laptop, or desktop, or any other electronic equipment with USB slot. It will need less energy, and also much more efficient.

Strange that some Chinese brands cellphones already use micro USB charger, and it takes quite a while for the GSM Association and the majority of manufacturers to start adopt it.

Source: UnwiredView, GSMworld

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JBL modu is a hybrid of phone and also mini boombox

While 'traditional' walkman phones or multimedia phones like Nokia sports regular tin-canny speakers, JBL has Modu. Modu is basically a portable speaker with cellphone attached. Yep you are right.

JBL tries to install a cellphone into its portable. The result is Modu. It is very thick, though, but the promise of kicking bass from a JBL speaker might make you drool over it.

There are no details about the phone spec. But it is must for a music phone like this to have an external memory and also big internal memory to store hundreds of song. We just wonder about the battery. How many mAH will it carry. As surely those speakers will need a lot of power to kick the bass and treble nicely.

Source: Endgadet
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Samsung Flower shaped Bluetooth Speaker BSP 600 Revealed

Samsung Flower shaped Bluetooth Speaker BSP 600 Revealed
CellFreakz Blog
by Beta Ismawan

Samsung has got passed its flower-shaped bluetooth speaker through FCC. While commonly phone accessories is cooked into ordinary and easy-to-use shapes, the flower bluetooth definitely has a very artistic and retro look, which easily reminds you of 1960s.

The Samsung flower bluetooth is capable of music streaming from your phone or any other bluetooth enabled device. It can also handle receiving calls just like common bluetooth handsfree, and it works within standard bluetooth range, the radius of 10 m or 30 feet.

This thing surely can spice up your bedroom or living room. It is already approved by FCC and we can expect you can see it in your favorite cellphone stores nearby soon.

Source : Engadget

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Pantech IM-S410 : Blow Recognition Phone

Okay, this may be the most unworthy post I ever written. But hey, this is something unique. Meet Pantech IM-S410, the phone with wind -or I'd rather say blow- recognition. So you blow the microphone, and it can recognize the wind from your holy mouth. It is marketed in Korea only for now by Pantech, and apparently come loaded with apps that make the blow recognition feature as an alternative way to control the apps.

As quoted from Akibahara website :

Apparently it can recognize the sensitivity and wind dynamics to later on be used on internal applications like games, photo galleries, video, and so on.

The girl is pretty, but is the phone? Personally I'd think this feature is quite useless. Perhaps Pantech should try to make a medic phone, the one with pulse sensor for instance, or blood pressure sensor. That is much more handy, then persuading us to blow and play games with our whistle. Come on, Pantech, you can do better than this!

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Sony Ericsson AB-900 : Innovative Car Kit from Sony Ericsson

When you're driving in highway and suddenly your boss calls you, you know how hard it is to concentrate to the call while keeping car's speed and course right. Well that's why car kits created. Nokia has been providing lots of types for these kits, while it's quite a while since we heard of Sony Ericsson car kits.


Sony Ericsson just announced AB-900. Essentially, it is a car kit, plus some more features. It can wirelessly stream music from your phones, so you never run out of songs when you have long driving. AB-900 also equipped with 5 buttons to shortcut call to your 5 favorite numbers. And it can also store radio. The best part, though, it does not need any installation and battery operated. Most likely the sound will come out from the device internal speaker, though there is no confirmation yet about this.

The competition Nokia CK 600 offers bigger color display, and other features of Sony Ericsson AB-900, as well, except that Nokia CK 600 did not have FM radio in it. Aesthetically speaking, Nokia wins. The drawback of Nokia CK 600 though, is inflexible, because it has to be installed into car's electricity system. With Sony Ericsson AB-900, you can take it to any other cars you have without having to uninstall it.

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LG LBA C300, the alternative and controversial bluetooth qwerty card

Okay, have you ever had any trouble texting with your smartphone virtual keyboard? Or you feel it's too slow to type using the standard numeric cell keypad? Then LG offers something here, that might be to your liking, called "LBA-C300", a unique and controversial bluetooth-enabled Qwerty keypad card, for pairing with your cellphone.

Engadget humorously called it "the most interesting calculator-look alike", but it is not a calculator at all. In fact it's quite powerful. Unwiredview said it enables you to type sms and set alarm of your cellphone, provided connected via bluetooth. This means if you are crazy for IM, you can just chat away with the Qwerty card. Interesting. Controlling your sms and IM without even touching or looking at your cellphone, so you can keep your cellphone in your pocket or bag. This is a winning concept. LG should market this aggressively, and ensure compatibilities to all major brands such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, HTC, Samsung, Motorola.

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