Fri October 15 2004
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08:11 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones
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05:37 AM by Colin Dunstan in Miscellaneous | Lounge Here's a very cool development in Japan: Japense mobile users will soon move to new frontiers in their passion for mobile telephones and pop music as customers will be able to download full-length, CD-quality songs to their cellphones. The Inquirer reports that KDDI, Japan's second biggest phone outfits, would offer a service of 10,000 songs with sound quality so good the music can be listened to on stereo speakers. Users can also use the tunes as ring tones. The service, which begins next month, is called "Chaku Uta Full," or "Full Ringer Songs." |
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05:23 AM by Colin Dunstan in Miscellaneous | Lounge Larry Garfield from Infosyncworld looks at the different design strategies of palmOne and PPC-based vendors, and muses on what it says about the way they think. This is an excellent read and mirrors exactly what a lot of our members have been discussing lately: Where HP and Dell both think in terms of feature count, palmOne, rather out of necessity, tends to tailor its markets more. That's why, according to palmOne anyway, the T5 doesn't have Wi-Fi[...]That's not to say that palmOne doesn't need a bigger push. Next to the equally-priced non-novel but very flashy X50 Advanced, the T5 just doesn't seem impressive, even if it is one of the most feature-rich Palm OS handhelds to date. So what does the editor of the article suggest? -- That palmOne is better hurrying up to release a Cobalt handheld that could hopefully compete with the latest HP and Dell PPC devices. |
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05:08 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Portable Audio/Video
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04:08 AM by Colin Dunstan in Miscellaneous | Lounge
The risk was confined to the side of the head where the phone was usually held and there were no indications of increased risk for those who have used their mobile for less than 10 years, the Karolinska Institute said in a statement. Nature.com covers the news in more depth. Perhaps the only bright spot: Because only analog mobile phones had been in use for more than 10 years, the Institute's researchers said they were unable to confirm that tumours would also develop more frequently in users of digital (GSM) handsets. |
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Thu October 14 2004
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08:18 AM by Colin Dunstan in Miscellaneous | Lounge Audible offers the 2004 U.S. Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates for free download at http://www.audible.com/debates. Any Audible web visitor can register, download, and transfer audio to any AudibleReady mobile device, burn standard audio CDs for playback away from the computer, or stream audio at the user's computer. |
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Wed October 13 2004
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03:42 PM by ignatz in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones
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