Archive for March, 2008

Anina launches her own mobile game: Anina Dress Up

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March 28, 2008 in News. 0 Comments

For those of you who don’t know who Anina is we are happy to inform you that she is a model, a Nokia Champion and the founder of 360Fashion Network, and now she’s launching her own mobile game, Anina Dress Up.

The idea is to “bring reality into the virtual environment” — real model, real designers, and real fashion — while promoting designer talent on a global level. So, you’re invited to discover local brands and new designers ahead of the curve. Moreover, the latest fashion news from 360Fashion are there to keep you informed and entertained. Some of the designers participating are London-based, ELEYKISHIMOTO, New York’s Chesley McLaren, Holland’s Jolina Jolink, Daryl van Wouw, BLUEBLOOD, Jan Taminiau, DFF’s Conny Groenewegen, China’s Zebra Woods accessories, and Belgian designer Anja Austa.

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Anina Dress Up

The game is quite simple and there are some modes of play. One of them involves playing a memory game where your task is to recreate the outfit shown, under one minute. In the other mode, you can mix and match your own outfits or download existing ones to Anina’s closet. When your new design is ready, you have to upload it to online gallery and let the people vote.

Well, it is quite an easy game, and it is addressed to the female audience, as I can’t imagine seeing men playing with dresses. :))

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Tags: nokia, anina, model, nokia champion, mobile, game, dress, up

Surviving High School mobile game:7.5 million downloads

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March 28, 2008 in News. 0 Comments

Vivendi Games revealed that Surviving High School had a breakout year in 2007 with 7.5 million downloadeds. The volume of game and episode downloads makes the Surviving High School franchise the most successful original IP in mobile gaming history.

The games was originally released in 2005 and it has a successor - Surviving High School ‘07. The sequel built on the commercial success of the first title, “building out the game’s episodic format and refining its story lines.” During 2007, the game was promoted through Web 2.0 campaigns and viral marketing initiatives, and the fans even created a Facebook group.

Having the latest release of the Surviving High School game, players can now enjoy improved graphics, additional characters and new storylines, and can even submit their original story ideas online.

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Surviving High School mobile game:7.5 million downloads

For those of you who are addicted to games, enjoy this interesting and most downloaded mobile game. ;)

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Motorola MING A1800-dual SIM and dual network

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March 28, 2008 in Motorola. 0 Comments

One of the most recent devices that leaked online is Motorola MING A1800. This model can work with two SIM cards, but even more it can work with two networks standards as well - CDMA and quad-band GSM.

Motorola MING A1800 comes as an update of the Linux-based MING lineup. Considering the CDMA functionality, it’s quite sure that the handset will be targeted at the American market, but it will be perfectly usable in Europe too.

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Motorola MING A1800-dual SIM and dual network

The Motorola MING A1800 is also equiped with a 3 megapixel autofocus camera and Bluetooth. Unfortunately, we don’t have other information about this new device, but for the moment you can enjoy some photos of Motorola MING A1800.

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Motorola MING A1800-dual SIM and dual network

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Motorola MING A1800-dual SIM and dual network

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HTC P3470 in Hong Kong

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March 28, 2008 in HTC. 0 Comments

Today, HTC announced the official launch of HTC P3470 in Hong Kong, a phone that combines a nice design, Windows Mobile 6 Professional, a 2.0 Mega-pixel digital camera, long battery life, and other features.

HTC P3470 is equipped with a friendly interface and a large 2.8-inch which ensure the GPS function is easy to use, and the it is really mobile thanks to the long battery life. Moreover, it has a new and unique HTC Home homescreen that offers easy access to text messages, calendar entries, emails and contacts. Besides, the P3470 supports both finger and stylus input which not enables the user to personalize the 9 most frequently used applications on the HTC Home, and to manage the ring tone profiles efficiently.

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The HTC P3470 is equiped with many business applications including Microsoft Office Mobile, calander, Push Mail, voice dialing and more. With such a functionality and a height of just 108mm, the HTC P3470 offers unbeatable value as one of the most compact devices in HTC’s portfolio.

So, here are some of the most important features of HTC P3470: a TI’s OMAP 850 processor, Windows Mobile 6 Professional operating system, a memory of 256MB ROM and 128MB DDR RAM, 2.8″ 65K colour TFT LCD with touch screen (240 x 320) display, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR
and HTC ExtUSB connectivity, a 2 mega-pixel CMOS color camera, ringtone formats such as AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, WMA, WAVE, QCELP,MIDI, MPEG-4 Audio, AMR-NB, AMR-WB,40 polyphonic, 1,100mAh rechargeable Li-ion battery and many others.

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Nokia 6300i with Wi-Fi

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March 27, 2008 in Nokia. 0 Comments

The well known Nokia 6300 has a new successor, the Nokia 6300i which is equiped with Wi-Fi and VoIP support, but having the same look and functions as the previous model.

The new phone is actually identical with Nokia 3601, which also has UMS support, but it never saw the light of day on the general market. This has some means of charging you for the calls made via the Wi-Fi network as if they were normal GSM ones.

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Nokia 6300i with Wi-Fi

The Nokia 6300i is bundled with Wi-Fi support for fast data transfers, VoIP support for making calls via Wi-Fi and also Nokia Maps in order to help you find you way. It is also equiped with a tri-band GSM/EDGE and has a 2-inch QVGA TFT display, a 2 megapixel camera, microSD memory card slot, a 2.5 mm audio connector and stereo Bluetooth.

Nokia 6300i will be available in one colour, Graphite Grey, for about 175 Eur before taxes.

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Nokia 6300i with Wi-Fi

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Motorola splits in two

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March 26, 2008 in News. 0 Comments

Today, Motorola officially announced that the company will split in two, the new companies appearing in 2009. The Board of Directors has already began a process to create two independent, publicly-traded companies.

Greg Brown, Motorola’s president and chief executive officer, said: “Our decision to separate our Mobile Devices and Broadband & Mobility Solutions businesses follows a review process undertaken by our management team and Board of Directors, together with independent advisors”. Motorola also says that creating two independent companies will provide improved flexibility, more tailored capital structures, and increased management focus.

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Motorola splits in two

However, their priorities have not changed with today’s announcement; strongly believing in their brand and people, they will continue the process of improvement and will deliver the products that are needed by the consumers around the world. The Company also said that the separation and the formation of the two individual companies is expected in 2009.

For those of you who are less informed, here are some information on the Motorola Company. Motorola is known around the world for innovation in communications, developing technologies, products and services that make mobile experiences possible. Motorola is about communications infrastructure, enterprise mobility solutions, digital set-tops, cable modems, mobile devices and Bluetooth accessories. You should know as well that Motorola had sales of US $36.6 billion in 2007.

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Motorola splits in two

If you need more information, please visit Motorola’s official Web site: www.motorola.com

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New Motorola MotoZINE ZN5

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March 26, 2008 in Motorola. 0 Comments

Motorola is soon going to offer us a new model, at CTIA Las Vegas: the MotoZINE ZN5. It is said that this new 5 megapixel cameraphone will sport a Kodak CMOS sensor and could possibly be mated to some high-quality Schneider-Kreuznach optics, in this way making it a contender in a space dominated by Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and LG.

We know, thanks to a Chinese web forum, that the ZN5 will be cashing in on the sleek angles that Moto does so well. It also has a dedicated camera button and bulging camera unit which are visible. The camera-bulge could indicate that the ZN5’s optics package will give some serious competition.

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New Motorola MotoZINE ZN5

Here are some of the more important features of Motorola MotoZINE ZN5. It has 2.5G GSM/GPRS connectivity, but no 3G; it runs on Montavista Linux 2.6.1 OS; it also has freescale SCM-A11 CPU; a display of 320×240 QVGA; a 1920×2560 px - 5 megapixel camera; Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR; Mpeg4 playback, and morph keypad.

There are some rumours that it will also have a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, TV-out, and mpeg4 video playback. The phone will be running the same CPU and OS as the Motorola ROKR E8. You can find more information on this new model at CTIA.

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New Motorola MotoZINE ZN5

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India has more mobile users than USA

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March 26, 2008 in News. 0 Comments

After a report of the country’s regulatory body, it has been shown that India has more mobile phone uders that the USA, in April 2008.

According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India report, the wireless segment had seen an addition of 8.53 million subscribers in the month of February 2008 as against 8.77 million subscribers in January 2008. India’s total wireless subscribers (GSM, CDMA and WLL) base stood at 250.93 million at the end of February 2008. In February 2008, Airtel added new users, so it enrolled 2.26 million users followed by Reliance Communications (1.6 million) and Vodafone Essar (1.4 million).

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India has more mobile users than USA

In comparison with USA and China, India has a monthly wireless subscriber addition of 8.5 million users, and it is the highest. TRAI said that India would have the second largest wireless subscriber base after China in the first half of April 2008. It also expects India’s total subscriber base to cross the 300 million mark in April. According to CTIA, the subscriber base of USA is 256 million at the moment.

But despite this growth in numbers, only one out of every four Indians has a telephone connection. It is still interesting that India’s mobile subscriber base surpassed the ones of USA and China.

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India has more mobile users than USA

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Modu: the world’s lightest cell phone!

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March 26, 2008 in News. 1 Comment

Modu, also known as the phone with many coats, was officially named the lightest cell phone in the world, and this was proved by the Guinness World Records’ crew.

This is not really a surprise, as this device weighs 40.1 grams (1.41 oz) and has dimensions of 72.1×37.6×7.8 mm (2.8×1.4×0.3 inches).The Guinness World Record for the world’s lightest mobile phone has been awarded to modu for being a tiny and sophisticated mobile phone. It was awarded after careful considerations made by GWR judges.

Tiny and sleek, modu launched its innovative mobile phone at the Mobile World Congress event, held in Barcelona, in February 2008. Modu is the world’s first modular mobile phone, supported by a variety of ecosystem partners. When being created, an emphasize was put on creating a small, light and compact phone. The result is great: a miniature phone, nicely designed and offering functions and capabilities of a normal-sized handset.

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Modu: the world’s lightest cell phone!

Modu’s VP Marketing, Zack Weisfeld, said: “The Guinness World Record is a great achievement for a team that has worked tirelessly to take modu from the drawing board to producing full working devices in less than a year.”

Modu has already made a great impact since its launch, and mobile operators, consumer electronics manufacturers and other potential partners were all attracted by this minimalist mobile phone.

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LG SH240 with silicone keypad

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March 26, 2008 in LG. 0 Comments

Here we are with another strange Korean handest: the new LG SH240, which may look like an ordinary slider, but it has something special, its keypad. This phone’s keypad is made of silicone, which makes it feels like touching someone else’s skin.

We should get used to these ‘inventions’, as more and more cell phone companies come up with the strangest ideas for its phones. For some of us, the idea of touching a skin-like keypad is not so attractive, but for those text heavy users this might be something very cool and useful.

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LG SH240 with silicone keypad

The LG SH240 is quite a usual phone, it doesn’t have anything else special. It has Bluetooth, a 2 megapixel camera, video telephony, Mp3 player, memory slot for expanded storage and HDSPA 3G connectivity, and of course other common features that we are all used to.

The LG SH240 is currently available in the Korean mobile phone market for about $400. We still don’t know if any US mobile carrier would like to have such an unusual phone as its selling point.

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LG SH240 with silicone keypad

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Tags: LG, SH, 240, silicone, keypad, cell phone, korea

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