A Mobile Made From (Recycled)Scrap

Posted February 13th, 2008 by Marcelo Porpecelli
Filed Under: Gadgets, Mobile, Nokia

No, this isn´t a title for an instructable on how to build your own mobile, it´s actually one of the most valuable moves of a mobile company: building cellphones out of recycled materials!

Nokia is well known for their cool designs and millions of different mobile models launched per year, and it´s also known for their almost disposable phones, wich are cheap and fragile(but that´s just my point of view), now they made a cool move with a cell phone made from recycled aluminum cans, plastic from drink bottles and

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Symbian OS - UOW 77.3 million smartphones shipped in 2007

Posted February 13th, 2008 by Felippe Oliveira
Filed Under: Mobile, Symbian

While Android OS is taking little steps in its development, the giant Mobile OS company Symbian has announced a huge shipments for 2007. There were 77.3 millions smartphones with Symbian operation system  lat year (HOLY GUACAMOLE). It is a 50% increase if compared to previous year sales. Windows Mobile will have a long way to catch up, but it is likely that the new Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 will give a little push.

[via Intomobile]

AMD to fight back Intel launchs new Mobile processor

Posted February 13th, 2008 by Felippe Oliveira
Filed Under: AMD, Mobile

AMD is back, or at least trying. The micro processor company announced at World Mobile Congress 2008 their new processors and mobile graphics technology which leaves Intel in a bad position.

Their new Imageon A250 will deal with video recording/playback and photos images as also many other applications including being programed for high level graphics.

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Google Android is touch screen ready (video)

Posted February 12th, 2008 by Roberto C
Filed Under: Android, Events, Gphone, Mobile, OS

E28

Hey people, today was the second day of the GSM Mobile Congress, and to be honest, I saw a video from Phonemag which they are using the Google Android OS with a touch screen interface over the phone E28, and are far better than the damn boring movie from Gizmodo posted yesterday. Anyway, the interface looks ok. It’s not a great interface yet, but I’m sure this is just a "theme" for now and later on will be changed and i hope it get this interface.

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Samsung is trying…

Posted February 11th, 2008 by Roberto C
Filed Under: Events, Samsung

Samsung Soul

Ok, I’m so desapointed with the GSM Mobile World that I cannot avoid to talk about it. I was really looking for my next mobile but almost anything were interesting enough.

However Samsung are trying to innovate with something quite different.

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