Cell Phone Evolution

This Short Movie illustrates the evolution of the mobile phone handsets, starts from 1985 and takes us a bit further to our present day

A UK based unlocking service has released technology to unlock your 3G mobile phone by drilling a whole in your SIM card.

While drilling is necessary on some phones, with others you can simply place the Simable fake SIM under your own SIM and it will unlock the phone.

An advantage of such technology is that in avoiding a software unlock there is no impact on the phone or its software, if only the SIM were so lucky.

For a list of compatible handsets including Nokia N95 and Sony Ericsson P990i visit them here.

Just when you thought a manufacturer might come up with something fresh Philips has seen an already crowded touchscreen marketplace and said me too with its Xenium X800.

The Xenium X800, or ‘e2e’ for “full edge-to-edge” touchscreen, is the latest in the iPhone-athon and Apple theft that modern innovation has become.

And they would have gotten away with it too, if not for the those pesky fingerprints gosh darn it.

Combining a fuel cell, Li-polymer secondary battery and control circuit into on fuel-cell system, Sony Corp’s new prototype may usher in a new world of ultra-efficient mobile devices.

The active-fuel system utilizes a pump, methanol and hybrid output to help deal with rising power demands of todays devices.

While details of the output of the device has yet to be revealed it has at least hinted that 3W is possible and suggested efficiency such that a device can enjoy 14 hours of 1seg movie can be played with 10mL of methanol.

Is this the beginning of a new wave of superfast, superpowerful portable devices? Can we say good riddance to the dreaded N95 and iPhone recharging and enjoy our phones? Here’s hoping.

Global Mobile Phones Shipments and Marketshare 2008 Q1:

Nokia is still on top with a constant growth in sales; 91.1 Million handsets in Q1 2007 to 115.5 Million handsets in Q1 2008. The clearest changes are seen in Samsung and Motorola ; Samsung has increased sales by 33% from the last Q1 and Motorola has dropped sales by 39.4%.

Sony Ericsson’s Q1 2008 is not a reliable sales estimate as most of their 2008 releases will only be released around mid of this year.

Bound to excite drug traffickers, the elderly and travelers alike, Hop-on Inc has launched a disposable 13 euro cell phone.

The phone features no LCD screen and operates on 900/1800 Mhz frequencies, optional GPS module and is designed so that it can be thrown away or recycled after use.The phone is available in North America, South America, Latin America, Australia and Asia and is being launched in Europe.

Stonewoodcrew a group who got some AT&T Video Share phones, thought up some really random ideas and came up with this “brilliant” project….Watch and enjoy:

Sponsored by AT&T

TAG’s rumored luxury handset the Meridiist has gone official and anyone with a lazy 5K may just have found their new plaything.

A combination of sumptuous design and luxurious customizations with all-metal casing, scratch-proof sapphire crystal display, 2 megapixel camera, 1.9″ QVGA screen, and Bluetooth connectivity, the Meridiist is 7 hours of talktime to remind us lesser mortals just how rich we are not.

With a range of detailed options available the phone will be priced between $5,420-6216 when it starts a wave of redundancies in Q2.

BASKING RIDGE, NJ, and NEWBURY, UK — Verizon Wireless today announced it has teamed up with Madonna, Timbaland and Justin Timberlake to deliver the mobile underground remix of Madonna’s highly-anticipated debut single “4 Minutes” from her upcoming album “HARD CANDY.” Available exclusively in the U.S. to Verizon Wireless’ V CAST Music customers and internationally to Vodafone customers, “4 Minutes” is the first single from Madonna’s 11th studio album for Warner Bros. Records. “HARD CANDY” is scheduled for international release on April 28, 2008, with the U.S. release the following day.

Have you ever wondered about the origin of an ancient building while your on a solo-tour ? Well with the new mobile technology sponsored by ESA you can get all the answers without the need for a tour-guide.

How does it work? You simply need a camera phone and internet connection, and you would be all set to go. If you see something interesting while out walking for instance, you take a photograph with your mobile phone, select the item of interest with the cursor and in real time preprocessed information on the object selected is sent to your mobile phone.

“It could be a building, a mountain, a tree, plant or a special event such as a local festival,” explain Pechtl. “The amount of information you receive depends on you, if you want to know more you just click the ‘more button’ and you trigger a more detailed search responding to your profile of interest. Applications include tourism, education, remote healthcare, security, science, etc.”

Don’t worry about the angel your taking the picture with , the system has been developed using Apollo technology, an innovative artificial intelligence system. “It’s a unique piece of software that can carry out object recognition within images, a very tricky task. It is self-learning and after a short and very simple training session it can identify any object in the world,” says Pechtl. Apollo technology can identify objects in a digital image regardless of the angle from which it is taken, the lighting conditions or quality of the image. To support object recognition, it uses navigation positioning information.

For more information , you can email ESA directly ttp @ esa.int