LG will be unveiling a phone watch at CES. The device will have a 1.43-inch colour touchscreen and will offer video conferencing due to its video camera built into the watch’s face. The watch will also have MP3 file support, “Text To Speech”, voice dialing with speech recognition and Bluetooth. Sounds pretty awesome huh? I’m going to have to pick one up just for the novelty factor.
[Via]
LG’s Prada was among the first touch screen devices in Korea. It’s elegant design and expensive branding made it a hit with Seoul’s young and trendy. It’s successor, the Prada 2, will be arriving in Europe along with a Bluetooth-enabled watch called the Prada Link (model LG-LBA-T950) that flashes call notifications and shows SMS messages. The Prada 2 will have all the great specs you would expect from a luxury device such as 3G, GPS, Wi-Fi, 5 megapixel camera, haptic feedback, video calling, slider QWERTY keypad, and a 240 x 400 3″ touchscreen. Oh yeah, and it’s 300 euros.
[Via]
Ohad of Mobile Game Developer Magazine posted a great video of a Bluetooth remote controlled car that uses the accelerometer to steer. If you want to know more about the Symbian Smartphone Show in London, here are some ways of getting updates:
Twitter
http://www.twitter.com/mobilegd
MobileGD-TV
http://mobilegd.com/tv/tag/smartphone-show/
The LG Rhytm is a slider phone that comes complete with FM radio, 1.3MP camera, EVDO and microSD slot. The phone is said to be tuned by Mark Levinson who has over 30 years of experience making quality hardware for audiophiles.
On top of all this, the phone comes with a 2” main display and a PMP-like navigation cluster with small touch display in the middle, showing what its function in the current menu is. Oh and of course it has a 3.5mm headphone jack.
The Rhytm costs $120 after a $50 mail-in rebate and a two-year contract.
[Via PhoneArena]
This looks like the gaudy jewelery that my grandmother wears so I would never buy one, but I see a market for it. Techno savvy grandmothers and crystal loving baby boomers would love this piece. I haven’t tried it out but I was at the local Swarovsky store buying for my girlfriend and they told me this has just come out. I would love to see them trick out my iPhone. Actually, I’m going to call them about that now. Don’t remember the exact price, but I think it retailed for abotu $150.
Near Field Communication technology allows a company to send information such as images, music and movie clips to cellphones over the air, all without having to sit there and wait to discover devices like Bluetooth does. This technology was used in Japan during a test run at Chiba shopping mall. The above poster would allow people to receive promo materials from the poster by holding their mobile within a meter or so. BTW, I think QB is moving to Japan where all the narliest tech seems to be.
[Via Pink Tentacle]
MobiPad gives you control of your Nokia S60 phone using a Nintendo WiiMote. The wireless gamepad gives you a wireless means of connecting the phone and WiiMote so you can play mobile games in a whole new way.
All you have to do is turn on Bluetooth and select “Discover Wiimote” in the mobiPad options menu. Turn on the WiimOte and they both sync up. Easy! Now you can play S60 Quake, Doom Legacy, vBag and more with a sweet WiiMote interface. Connect your phone to a TV and you have a portable console!
Mobile TV has become much more affordable with the launch of the LG Invision, the 3rd phone on AT&T to support mobile TV. The phone has a great look to it, sleek and thin, and offers all the multimedia functionality that we love. For $99 you can’t go wrong.
Click through for specs and details regarding the phone’s multimedia capabilities
Looking for a decent Bluetooth headset? Joby’s 13 gram Zivio Boom Bluetooth 2.1+EDR are now available and they will give you 10 hours of talk time and 300 hours of standby. What could you do with that time? You could probably read The Hobbit out loud to a friend over your new headset, or you could wait 12 and a half days for the battery to die.
This headset also features a special design that puts the mic close to your mouth for more clarity as well as an ergonomic design that grows from a base of 53.5-mm to a delicate 137-mm. It also costs as much as a phone at $130.
[Via Engadget Mobile]
Roving bands of “Bluetooth teams” will be spreading content around at the Vodafone TBA concerts being held in Edinburgh this summer. The concert kicks off on June 1st, and Vodafone will be on the scene, giving mobile phone users access to the latest videos from performing artists, as well a a Java guide showing play times, band biographies, and images. The images will include live pictures taken from other areas of the concert, amongst other things.