Dress Software Bank Mobile has now got a new Toshiba phone for the Japanese market.The uniqueness of this phone is that it has changeable panels which can match your mood and your style. Called fanfun, this phone will be on sale from 8th August and comes with a 3G terminal. The panel can be changed for the rear as well as for the battery pack side and can be coordinated with the display screen. The phone has a 2.4 inches TFT liquid crystal QVGA display and comes with its own beauty skin camera. The dimensions of the phone are 50x102x16mm and it weighs almost 107 grams. You have a choice of many colors such as pearl pink, baby pink, champagne...

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This interesting piece of news from Argentina has given cell phone usage a whole new meaning. In a city in central Argentina, light from the cell phone screens allowed surgeons to complete an emergency appendix operation during a blackout. Leonardo Molina was on the operating table on July 21, when there was a blackout at the Policlinico Juan D. Peron, the main hospital in Villa Mercedes, a small city in San Luis province. The generator did not work so a family member quickly got some cell phones together from people in the hallway and took them in to provide light for the waiting surgeons. The surgery went on without proper lights for twenty minutes but did through a new light...

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Potter mania has hit mobile phones too with the mobile phone version of the "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" video game. In this game the torches hanging along the dark walls of Hogwarts glow in an eerily realistic fashion. This is a result of a technology called dynamic lighting which has been created by Electronic Arts Inc in Romania. Romania is now emerging as a leader in computing as Romanian programmers are among the most sought-after by international IT companies who are now turning to the east European country to take advantage of its strong computing and language skills and cheap labor. IT has now become one of Romania's fastest growing export sectors with a turnover of...

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Are you lonely and are you seeking a match? Then you don't need to worry anymore as your mobile phone will provide you with all the help you need. An Online dating service called Match.com is launching a new application for cell phones by which users will be able to text messages to their phones when they have an e-mail from another Match.com subscriber and this will enable them to search for potential matches from their cell phones. How easy really. That's not all, with an extra fee of about $5 per month, MatchMobile subscribers can receive and answer e-mails from suitors on their mobile phones which would make things much easier than you had imagined. ...

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It seems like hackers are working over time once again and with success. One hacker or should we call him the gizmo mastermind has managed to hack the iPhone and connect it to his carrier in Australia. But you still cannot get incoming calls or SMS on the phone. To solve that probelm all you need to do is get the required hardware which could be an Infinity USB unlimited SIM reader/writer, a silvercard, a PC/SC compliant USB sim reader, SIM-EMU 6.01, and WoronScan 1.09. Get the required files using the ICCID of the AT&T sim (ICCID-a), IMSI-b and Ki-b. Insert the SMS number that your local carrier uses to send SMS and put this sim into a normal unlocked...

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Look into the mirror and what do you see? A better and beautiful you, no but a SMS waiting for you. Yes, a SMS in the mirror and this is the creation of Robert Stadler of the French design group Radi Designers who had made a mirror with some unique efforts as his mirror is the one that can receive SMS messages from phones. The messages appear as luminous text running on the surface which is visible close up. The big catch is that there are just 20 pieces available worldwide, so you might have to search for the one you want with a whole lot of effort. ...

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Copying is not something new in the world of cell phones. There were lookalikes and there are lookalikes. The latest trend in this being is becoming a lookalike of the iPhione in whatever way you can. A website called whoneedsaniphone.com has just released the Alpha version of their software for touchscreen Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices that provides a very iPhone like experience and is very close to the real thing. It is not an exact copy if you look closely but then the general button layout is a good rip off or as one might say very close. But whatever said, this is one real good upgrade for a pocket PC interface and users are guaranteed good satisfaction....

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Forget about dual SIM slot phones. Here is a phone that is a 2-in-1 phone. Yes, its two phones in one. This 30mm thick clamshell is the iCool G700 and is a combination of two mobiles in the same body. It comes equipped with dual SIM slots and shares the same 1400 mAh battery.Other features of the cool iCool G700 are a 2.0-megapixel camera, 2-inch display screen inside and it a accepts 3G GSM SIM card. You can switch on both the cards simultaneously but they function via their own boards. The phone has its own display screen, Vertu-like keypad for that extra style and supports three Telco logos plus T-mobile to show off some kind of unique branding....

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Now this is something worth looking at. Japanese company Oki has come up with a new and interesting scanner software. It is software that is based on an iris recognizing algorithm. The software itself requires around 200KB of your phone’s memory, with around a further 200KB memory when in operation. Other requirements are a camera ability of at least one megapixel. According to Oki this software will take only take half a second to authenticate the iris. That's really fast and even accurate. This software will be compatible with operating systems such as Windows Mobile 2003, XP and Symbian is which is used by Nokia....

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If you mobile phone gets stolen, then there no need to hit the panic button. The answer to stop mobile phone thefts lies with Apple. Apple may have found a way to deter people from stealing mobile phones and this has come into light after a recent patent application. By this technology there would be a guardian recharge circuit, which would disable any further charging if the computer or any other charger it was paired with was of the unauthorized variety. This limitation would help curbing thefts. At the moment we can assume that this technology would be used for the iPhone and iPod but we hope that later on it will be used for other devices too. A big...

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In a recent move, US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple’s patent application called Multimedia data transfer for a personal communication device. Apple’s patent relates to multimedia devices and a system which provides multimedia data to a mobile personal communication device such as a cell phone or a walkie talkie. The unique aspect of this patent is that it could translate text messages into voice messages while in transit to other devices without using traditional Short Message protocols as defined in GSM. The recent development in SMS has pushed the need for a new invention which will not require Short Service Message Center but will be a point-to-point message service. This service uses a mechanism by which data is passed...

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There is a lot you can get from the Halo3 Website that is if the Halo3 fever has not got you as yet. There a whole lot of mobile goodies on offer such as Finish the Fight, Last Spartan, and the Halo theme which can all be grabbed as ringtones for your MP3 playing handsets. Also available are a collection of pics and avatars which are not specifically for mobiles but little bit of work on Photoshop or Imageshack could make them mobile worthy. Just get onto the site look for more interesting stuff....

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We are now going to show you a video which is an unusual one. It has got something to do with the iPhone but yes it is still a bit strange. One word of advice, don't try this at home unless you are a millionaire. The video shows a step by step guide to take out and replace the iPhone LCD screen. Sounds scary as its the iPhone you are dealing with out here. But in case you really need to do it in the future, here is a good example provided by them. Watch the video and get all the info you need....

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Now getting your house cleaned has become a task that is much easier than you had thought. SK Telecom has developed a Roomba style robot than can be controlled by your cell phone. It sounds very easy as the circular cleaning robot will be able to receive direction from a phone user on where to scrub, buff, and vacuum. The controller can view all floor-sweeping action on his or her cell phone via a built-in camera at the front of the bot. So now this Roomba robot will make your life more easy. ...

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Motorola's RAZR phones continue to become more and more popular and now Motorola is ready to unveil the RAZR 2 series which is not the same old RAZR that you had seen before. The new RAZR 2 has a more slim and sleek body with a new external display. There are also a few touch sensitive areas on the phone which add to the features of the phone. Looks like there is another big hit coming Motorola's way and we also hope that the new RAZR 2 finds the same success as its earlier version did. To know more watch the video....

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