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Cellphone9 : Mobile Phones, 3G, Telco Industry, Cellular Networks, Phone Reviews

May 19th, 2008

Contest: Giving away FIVE (5) Vumber Disposable Phone Numbers!

Last week, we had a solar powered Bluetooth headset from Iqua up for grabs (winner announced in a separate post). This week, in keeping with our green theme, though not intentionally, we have FIVE complementary disposable phone numbers up for grabs for use within the USA courtesy of Vumber. Let’s go green - let’s go […]

By Jayvee -- 21 comments

January 19th, 2008

Shape. Shade. Sexy.

You know, I’ve been reviewing gadgets for the past 5 years - it may be considered a long time for some, but highly unlikely to reach veteran review status soon. The thing with reviewing devices is that one tends to get stuck in the game of tech specs where the premise of “mine is bigger […]

By Jayvee -- 6 comments

November 8th, 2007

Karaoke on your mobile phone idea

When i was a lot younger, I had a teacher who always carried a tape deck with minus one songs at the back of his car. He was a good singer and he would tell me that the deck would be a “precaution” just in case people would ask him to sing at parties. Apparently […]

By Jayvee -- 0 comments

October 31st, 2007

Samsung’s Batty Halloween

Well, it’s nothing much. But considering that phone company websites don’t really do this, a huge kudos to Samsung for exerting the extra effort to get batty this Halloween. If you visit their website today, you’ll be rewarded with a screen filled with falling bats and a jack o’ lantern at the bottom right.
Tags: Batty, […]

By Jayvee -- 0 comments

October 17th, 2007

Skype Phone to launch everywhere

First it was Apple. And then Google announced their own. Now Skype is joining the bandwagon too. Yes, Skype is partnering with telcos to release their first cell phone.

Code-named the “white phone,” the Skype handset will be introduced by late October in Britain, Italy, Hong Kong, and Australia, and will reach 3’s other five markets […]

By Jayvee -- 1 comment

October 9th, 2007

Web 3.0 to dwell in mobile phone applications?

With Web 2.0, we explored the depths of social media and user generated content. This was the dawn of web democracy for blogs and social bookmarking. The talk goes that the next step is to take it to the mobile phones. And it’s no secret that these same 2.0 sites are also developing their counterpart […]

By Jayvee -- 2 comments

September 16th, 2007

Living seperate lives: Samsung F300 Ultramusic

They say that there are always two sides of the same coin. The same can be said with mobile phones. The most out of the box yet functional design to grace a phone’s real estate is the two sided Samsung F300, sporting a 2.1 inch multimedia screen on one side for video and music and […]

By Jayvee -- 2 comments

August 2nd, 2007

Nokia “Go Play” Around the Web

The Nokia “Go Play” press invite is around the blogosphere. The “Go Play” is allegedly the iTunes-like service that Nokia has been keeping under its coat for so long. With Apple expanding to phones and Nokia expanding to music, the cross-referencing of business models makes for a rather confusing take on what “core competency” used […]

By Jayvee -- 1 comment

August 1st, 2007

FCC Approves Open Airwave for Bidding

This is big news. Last week on TWiT, John C. Dvorak and the rest of the panel talked about how an open airwave that used to be owned by the big broadcasters is now going to auctioned off for a $15 Billion “public wireless channel.”

The vote was a partial victory for consumer advocacy groups and […]

By Jayvee -- 0 comments

July 15th, 2007

T9 Predictive Text Update

In my interview with James Young, we briefly talked about the new T9 upgrade to be released with new Windows Mobile devices.
Word completion has been a feature embedded in most Windows Mobile devices - and if not, it was an easy download as far as the early days of the Palm OS. What the upgraded […]

By Jayvee -- 0 comments