Motorola Inc.'s iTunes music phone, developed with Apple Computer Inc. and unveiled last month in front of an audience of more than 500, may have flopped. As many as six times more customers are returning the Rokr phones than is normal for new handsets, according to American Technology Research analyst Albert Lin.Enquanto isso a gente aguarda ansiosamente um telefone celular designed by Apple in California.
Macromedia is to acquire Mobile Innovation, a privately-held design and integration house in the UK with around 50 staff, for an undisclosed sum. What makes this deal noteworthy is that Mobile Innovation designs phones as well as user interfaces.
Introducing iTunes for your mobile phone. With iTunes on your Motorola ROKR, you can listen to music on your mobile phone, wherever, whenever you want.
The Japanese term for mobile phone, keitai (roughly translated as "something you carry with you"), evokes not technical capability or freedom of movement but intimacy and portability, defining a personal accessory that allows constant social connection. Japan's enthusiastic engagement with mobile technology has become -- along with anime, manga, and sushi -- part of its trendsetting popular culture. Personal, Portable, Pedestrian, the first book-length English-language treatment of mobile communication use in Japan, covers the transformation of keitai from business tool to personal device for communication and play.
RSSManager is a J2ME application that allows to read last news on your mobile phone from your preferred site, simple and directly, support RSS/RDF and Atom format.
You can categorize RSS feed and send email with news detail to your friends.
BuddyBuzz is the fastest way to read text on a mobile phone. With BuddyBuzz you get access to thousands of articles.
When I first tried RSVP reading, I felt overwhelmed. The words flashed on the screen to the beat of an unheard drum. I felt out of control. I couldn\'t pause and reflect after reading a sentence. But after five minutes or so, I got used to the ocular assault, and my mind seemed to shift into a different gear. By letting go, the words started flowing smoothly into my head. Because my eyes weren\'t shifting back and forth as they normally do when reading, everything but the words themselves faded away, and I found that I was actually enjoying the experience.
The Nintendo DS is a completely new portable system that features dual screens, built-in wireless connectivity, and a variety of input options that range from the usual directional pad and button control to a brand-new touch screen and voice-recognition features.
This is the either some of the best or some of the worst niche marketing ever: Siemens is doing a new limited Ronaldo (as in Ronaldo the Brazilian soccer player) version of their CX65 cellphone that will reportedly only be sold at a couple of chains in the United Arab Emirates (as in not in Brazil).
Suggestive British nomenclature aside, how can you not appreciate a dude selling his Motorola MPx200 on eBay with nothing but complaints? Choice:
In summary:
* I hate it.
* I detest every atom of it's existence.
* It's creator should be tied down and eaten by ants.
* The factory that makes them should be melted by a big laser from space.
* It doesn't have a camera
* It barely functions as a phone
Do you want it? Bid Now!
As expected, Disney today announced plans for a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) deal with Sprint PCS later today. Disney Mobile will be focused at kids and families.
Shortly after rival Yahoo released a Beta version of their SMS search tools on Thursday, Google yesterday promoted their own SMS search services from the labs to Beta status.
The purpose of this document is to be a comprehensive timeline of the history of PDAs. Specifically, my intention is to clarify which companies premiered each of the primary front-end features that are considered standard in modern devices, as of the mid/late-1990s commoditization trend.