A NEW Motorola Kodak deal? A 5 megapixel camera ? that sounds like good news to those camera phone user.

Check out the video and let me know what you think… Doesnt the keypad look like a Motorola ROKR E8 ?

The Samsung P960 Tv phone made a splash at MWC 2008 at Barcelona and is likely to do the same when in launches in Taiwan around Q3 2008.

Suspected to be a mid-high range device, the P360 sports 2.6 inch TFT display, MP3, AAC and AAC+ player, FM radio with RDS, Bluetooth 2.0 and of course the celebrated built-in DVB-H TV broadcast receiver.

Other TV related features include a TV-out and a retractable TV antenna, making the P960 a great mobile television alternative.

The University of Minnesota is setting up the World’s largest 802.11n wireless network set to take the next five years and serve more than 80 000 people.

Apparently the Minnesota big wigs put little stock in yesterday’s assertions by Johan Bergendahl that WiFi was bye bye, the University’s massive project will encompass 9 500 access points, 300 buildings, 22 million indoor square feet and 1 204 acres.

Now Johan, that’s a lot of phone booths.

Kicking up privacy concerns, New Zealand police are seeking legislation to compel mobile operators to store SMS messages for investigations.

If nothing else the idea raises the baffling prospect of blue-blazered crime fighters puzzling over pre-teen abbreviations for possible terrorist activity. While police would require a court order to access the information it would require carriers such as Vodafone Australia, who currently do not store messages, and Telecom, who were planning to phase message storing out, to reconsider their obligations.

New Zealanders send 640 million text messages a year and for its part the Government is hoping the situation can be made agreeable to all parties without the need for legislation.

More l8r.

Sick of all the arguments over who can kick who’s ass at Spore or Super Monkey Ball? Well Apple’s new patent application may end this argument once and for all.

The patent application appears to allow the manufacturer to track high scores and perhaps even allocate prizes to victorious parties on the iPhone’s forthcoming games, great if your actually great at the games, but talkers prepare to grab your tongues.

While the patent ostensibly deals with syncing games between iTunes and iPhones/iPods there are allusions made to a central community game server:

“The media purchase system can also be utilized to facilitate a community of game players. These game players acquire games via a client device and media management application, and then play the games on portable electronic devices. The game play data, including game performance data for specific games, can be transfered from the portable electronic devices to the client devices. The client devices can then transfer such game play data over the data network to a game community server. For example, the game performance data can pertain to a high score that a user achieved while playing the game on the portable electronic device.”

Google have launched ‘Apps For Android’, which is an open source collection of sample Android Applications. The goal of the sample collection is to share sample applications that will demonstrate the features of the Android platform on the cell phones.

The first android application sahred is Wikinotes, “a wiki note pad that uses intents to navigate to wiki words and other rich content stored in the notes.”

The Wikinotes application demonstrates a number of core concepts:

• Multiple Activities in an Application (View, Edit, Search, etc.)
• Default intent filters for View/Edit/Search based on MIME types
• Life Cycle of activities
• Message passing via Bundles in Intents
• Use of Linkify to add Intent-firing links to text data
• Using Intents within an application
• Using Intents to use an Activity within another application
• Writing a custom ContentProvider that implements search by note title
• Registration of ReST-like URIs to match titles, and do contents searches
• SQLite implementations for insert, retrieve, update, delete and search
• UI layout and creation for multiple activities
• Menus and keyboard shortcuts