Monday, 31 March 2008

Mini Phone Based Ghetto Blaster - Omni Tech Limited



This mini slider cell phone features a built in MP3 playing boombox that gets surprisingly loud. The best part, you don't have to forsake your existing cell phone (unless you want to). Simply pop the SIM card out of your current cell phone from AT&T/Cingular or T-Mobile and insert it into the back of the Mini Boombox Cell Phone and power it up. Call your existing cell phone number and your Mini Boombox phone starts ringing. Of course you get all the standard cell phone features you would expect including a 1.3 megapixel camera, voice dialing, SMS/MMS messaging and WAP Browser. One nice trick we like is the ability for the phone to read aloud the numbers of incoming calls using voice synthesis. The Mini Boombox GSM Cell Phone comes with 256 MB of built in memory to store your MP3 music files or videos, and the storage is expandable up to 2GB via a Micro SD card slot. Now you can share your musical tastes with everyone around you without making your old phone mad.

IMPORTANT
The Mini Boombox GSM Cell Phone is an unlocked tri-band GSM cell phone with no included SIM card. You will need existing service with either T-Mobile or AT&T/Cingular to use this phone in the USA. It will NOT work with Verizon or Sprint. You can use your existing SIM card from your current cell phone (in which case the Boombox phone will just become your cell phone with the same number and same voicemail while the SIM card is inserted), or buy a pre-paid SIM card from T-Mobile or AT&T/Cingular.

Product Features
Mini cell phone features a sliding keypad and built in boombox for playing MP3 music files tri-band unlocked GSM Phone (850/1800/1900 MHz), GPRS Speed for Data Powerful Amplified Speakers Sends SMS and MMS messages. Supports SMS group sending Can play back MP3 music files and display Movie Files Supports MP3 or MIDI based ringtones WAP Browser Built-In Speakerphone Optionally reads the numbers of incoming calls with voice synthesis Built in 256MB Memory expandable up to 2GB Transfer files via USB

In the Box
Mini Boombox GSM Cell Phone Two Lithium Ion Batteries Travel AC Charger Wired Stereo Headset USB Cable User Manual

Hardware Specifications
Phone Dimensions (Closed) 3.5" x 1.3" x .8" Tri-band unlocked GSM Phone (850/1800/1900 MHz) GPRS Data Powerful Amplified Dual Stereo Speakers 1.3 Mega Pixel CMOS Camera/Camcorder Function 1.5" 65K Color TFT LCD Screen Built-in MP3/MPEG4 Player Functions SMS, MMS, WAP Support 64 Polyphonic Sound Expandable Micro SD card slot Video Recording up to allowable memory space



Mobile Phone Watch - Omni Tech Limited



This mobile phone watch has a built in 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, runs on GSM 900/1800MHz networks (dual channel), has 6 languages that it can function in and comes unlocked.

To interface with the mobile phone watch you can use the 1.3 inch touch screen. This allows you to control the phone and watch features such as taking pictures or scrolling through an address book. As well as being a phone it also can play back MP3 audio files.

It measures 64 x 45 x 18mm and weighs 56g. Currently the mobile phone watch costs $155.30 which isn’t bad at all for.

Wholesale Dual-Band GSM Cell Phone WatchesThese GSM cell phone watches sport a fashionable design, 1.3-inch touch-screen display, 1.3MP digital camera, and operate on GSM 900/1,800MHz frequencies. Additional features include MP3/MP4 playback, 2GB microSD card support, and Bluetooth connectivity. Coming with a Bluetooth headset, this is truly one versatile watch.This item will ship out in 5-7 working days upon payment confirmation.

In mobile phones, dual-band and tri-band refer to functionality that allows a cell phone to support either two or three frequency bands out of the four major GSM (TDMA) bands - 850/900/1800/1900 MHz.

GSM 900/1800 bands work in Europe, Africa, Asia, and BrazilGSM 900/1800/1900 bands will work on at least one network in most countries around the world except for some networks that only support 850MHz.

Specifications:
Network: GSM 900/1800MHzInterface language: Chinese, English, French, Russian, Arabic, VietnameseSIM card: unlockedScreen: 1.3-inch touch screen Camera: 1.3MPMultimedia: MP3/MP4 file playbackGPRS support Bluetooth: A2DPColor: Black/White Product dimension: 64 x 45 x 18mm Product weight: 56gWarranty period: Six monthsIn retail packagingStandard

Certification:
Not availableIndividual Unit Packages Include:
Cell phone x 1 Stylus x 1 Battery x 2 Micro SD card x 1Headset x 1 Data transfer cable x 1 Watch band x 1 User manual x 1 Bluetooth headset x 1 Bluetooth charger cable x 1 Charger x 1 Export


Case Details:
1 unit per cartonSize: 21 x 14 x 11cmWeight: 0.5kgFreight cost estimation:



Star Trek Mark IX Science Tricorder Replica Can't Tell Chroniton from Beresium


Forget the iPhone, real gadgetphiles carry a tricorder. You never know when some damsel in distress is going to need a lighting quick ruling on whether her Miata is made of Duranium or Tritanium. This life-altering, limited-edition diagnostic tool, complete with authentic sounds from the Voyager and DS9 series, can be yours for $349.99—although at second glance, didn't they abolish money in the Star Trek universe? Maybe this thing should be free.


Wiimote, Apple iPhone are New Tools of War


David Bruemmer and Douglas Few, engineers at the US Department of Energy's Idaho National Lab in Idaho Falls, have put together an unlikely use for the Wiimote—they've hacked the remote so it can control a bomb-disposing, landmine-detecting, machine gun-carrying robot.
The Packbot robot, which is manufactured by iRobot in Massachusetts, is 70 cm long, transports itself via inbuilt tracks and is usually controlled via joystick-like device. However, the joystick method is problematic because it separates speed and direction controls, therefore requiring the soldier's undivided attention. The Wiimote hacks works exactly as you would expect; by simply waving the remote around the robot moves accordingly, and when an object of explosive interest is detected, the Wiimote's in-built vibration feedback goes nuts. We're guessing the B-trigger shoots the on-board machine gun, and if it doesn't, it definitely should.
The crazy modding pair plan to get to work on the iPhone next. They reckon soldiers should not need to lug laptops around with them when a modified iPhone could do the task equally well. First stop; iPhone controlled Packbot, complete with streaming footage. Now, there's something you won't get going on WinMob.


iPhone Firmware 2.0 to Have YouTube Plugin for Safari, Says BGR


BGR is claiming iPhone firmware 2.0 will provide a YouTube plugin for MobileSafari.app. They aren't citing their source, but they're pretty confident in their assertion:
"You heard it here first, people! The latest version of the iPhone 2.0 firmware that was just seeded to developers has a YouTube plugin for MobileSafari.app"BGR tends to be a solid source, but we cannot confirm this to be true without some more evidence. Nonetheless, if true, YouTube video playback from within Safari will be possible on the iPhone, without launching a separate application for the content. That sure would make surfing the web and viewing content a helluva lot easier; here's hoping BGR is bang on with this one. Boy Genius also goes onto suggest that this may be indicative of some form of native Flash support, but we just can't raise your hopes like that. It wouldn't be right.

Modu Is The World’s Lightest Mobile Phone: Guinness Says So March 27, 2008

Meet modu, officially named the world’s lightest mobile phone by the keepers of all those sane and, not-so-sane, achievements, the Guinness Book Of Records.
According to the Book: “The lightest mobile phone is the modu, which weighs 40.1 g (1.41 oz). modu’s dimensions are 72.1mm (2.8in) x 37.6mm (1.4in) x 7.8mm (0.3in).”

Saturday, 29 March 2008

Cuba ends restriction on cellular phones


HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba said on Friday it will allow all Cubans to buy and use mobile telephones for the first time in the latest step by new President Raul Castro to improve access to consumer goods.
Cuba has the lowest rate of cellular telephone use in Latin America and the service has been restricted until now to foreigners or government officials and employees.
Cuban telecommunications monopoly ETECSA, a joint venture with Telecom Italia, said it would begin selling the service to the general public within days in hard currency.
"ETECSA is able to offer mobile phone service to the public," it said in a statement published in the Communist Party newspaper Granma.
Many Cubans have for long wanted access to cellular phones and hoped it would be among the first steps taken by Raul Castro, who succeed his ailing brother Fidel Castro as Cuba's first new leader in almost half a century on Feb. 24.
"This shows there is a change in mentality at the top and recognition that Cuba has to move into the 21st century," a young computer technician said, asking not to be named.
Raul Castro has begun lifting some of the many restrictions on the daily life of Cubans as he tries to meet popular demands for better living standards in the socialist state.
Taking office last month, he promised to start lifting "excessive regulations and prohibitions" within weeks.
Some Cubans already have mobile phones registered in the name of foreigners or their work places. They will now be able to put the contracts in their own names, ETECSA said.
Cubans will be able to buy computers and DVD players next month for the first time, if they have the hard currency to pay for them. Just two years ago, banned DVD players were being confiscated by airport customs officials on arrival in Cuba.
Raul Castro, 76, has also launched a restructuring of agriculture to reduce bureaucratic bottlenecks and boost food production.
A major public complaint that his government will have to deal with is that wages paid in Cuban pesos are too low, while consumer goods have to be paid for in convertible pesos, or CUCs, worth 24 times more than pesos.
Cubans will pay for their mobile telephones with prepaid cards bought in CUCs that will allow them to receive and make international calls.
ETECSA, in which Telecom Italia has a 27 percent stake, said the hard currency income would be invested in the expansion of land lines, where Cuba has the sixth lowest density in Latin American.
About 60 percent of Cubans have access to hard currency from cash remittances sent by relatives living abroad, mainly in the United States, or through factory and farm bonuses and tips from foreign tourists.
In the streets of Havana, the freeing of cellular phones services came as welcome news to all.
"It was an obvious measure. There will have to be more like it to get rid of the thousand and one obstacles that make life bitter in Cuba," said university student Jofre Valdes, 23.
"This was an anachronism. They have to end all unnecessary restrictions," said state employee Humberto Vega.