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Archive for the ‘Special Features’ Category

September 23rd, 2007

TechFaith Windows Mobile Smartphone

TechFaith’s Peral-H looks so much like a Treo, it hurts. Finally, the true form has been unveiled with this specs list:
Quad-band GSM
Wifi, Bluetooth, 3G
2.8 touch screen
Mini SD port
Front (VGA) and back (1.3MP) cameras
Devices like these are sure to be market trend stoppers, with “old technology” coming in to make the costs a lot cheaper.
Tags: Smartphone, […]

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August 29th, 2007

The Nokia Music Store

Apple has their iTunes Store. Nokia has their Music Store. Using Microsoft DRM for their copy protection via Windows Media Player, Nokia phone owners can now buy songs over the Internet. Here are some features of the new Nokia Music Store:

songs in WMA format at 192 kbps
buy songs either OTA from your mobile […]

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August 29th, 2007

Nokia N-Gage relaunched: From hardware to service

Perhaps one of the most surprising and enlightening announcements today from the Go Play event was the rebranding of the Nokia N-Gage from a hardware product to a service. The once hardware-centric brand is now a software and service that will be available throughout the Nokia phone platform. What this means is that anyone will […]

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August 29th, 2007

Nokia Go Play Overview

I’m in Singapore! Although the Nokia Go Play event ended several hours ago (we took a post event trip to Equinox, a bar located at the highest peak of Singapore), there are a lot more things happening tomorrow. In the meantime let me give an overview of what took place today as Nokia launched several […]

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August 26th, 2007

Kameraflage: More than meets the eye

It works with regular digicams but it works just as well with the camera on your phone. The Kameraflage application allows you to see things that you can’t see with the naked eye. T-shirts, billboards, and other media can use this technology for advertising campaigns especially for those print ads on the street. Take a […]

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August 23rd, 2007

2007 Mobile Phone Throwing Contest

Errmm … I couldn’t even tell what brand the phone was. For sure it wouldn’t have been anything from the luxury line.
Next up, the exploding battery urban assault. Bad joke.
Tags: Special Features, Unwired Oddities

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August 7th, 2007

Is your relationship based on SMS?

SMS is catching up with the west. Back here in the east, couples buy secondary phones to avail of unlimited SMS promos within cellular networks. What does this mean? For the high maintenance couples, it says something about wanting to be in touch 24/7, and have no excuse NOT to text back.
But it also means […]

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July 26th, 2007

Your cellular network is a dating consideration

I’m not sure how your inter-cellular network messaging and calls work but back here, if you send SMS or call a different network, there are some disadvantages. For one, you MAY be charged slightly more especially if you’re on a prepaid payment scheme. I bring this up because of a conversation I had with someone […]

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July 11th, 2007

Do Your Kids Still Know How to Spell?

“We’ve already lost one generation.”
These were the striking words coming from Mr. James Young, Senior Marketing Manager of Tegic Communications. Tegic is more popularly known as the company behind the T9 “predictive text” input that we find in almost all our phones today.
Tags: Cell phone, Smartphone, Special Features, The Unwired Life

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July 4th, 2007

What Else Can Your SIM Card Do?

The definition of a SIM Card from Wikipedia
A Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) is a removable smart card for mobile phones. SIM cards securely store the service-subscriber key used to identify a mobile phone. The SIM card allows users to change phones by simply removing the SIM card from one mobile phone and inserting it into […]

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