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History Lesson
Time has a great photo essay on the history of the mobile phone, which is worth checking out.
This one shows Martin Cooper, widely regarded as the Father of the Mobile. The photo was taken back in 1983, although the mobile looks much smaller and sleeker than I remember them being in those days.It’s not a […]
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Cameraphones, Hands-free kits and Being Forgetful
A part of Russell’s ongoing separatista vs. convergionist battle is cameraphones vs. standalone digital cameras. You’re familiar with this angle: though most cameraphones aren’t of the same quality as standalone SLRs (or whatever), the best camera at any given time is the camera a person has with them.
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Chinese Man Misses the Point
04.14.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsA Chinese man has invented the world’s largest mobile phone.
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‘Vodafone Staff Upset by Dead Badger on Way to Work’
As you might imagine, I subscribe to plenty of RSS feeds and news searches and whatnot about the mobile industry, and sometimes they pull up some, uh, interesting stuff. Like this one:
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/29766.php?source=rss - cellular-news
The local government which manages the main roads leading to Vodafone’s international headquarters campus in Newbury, UK has been criticized after it […] -
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Where Do The T9 People Get Their Words?
02.29.08 | Permalink | 12 CommentsIndulge me in a little Friday rant. I like predictive text on my handsets, I really do. Makes things a lot easier — most of the time. But I never cease to be amazed at some of the words in the dictionary. It’s something of a rite of passage for a new handset when I […]
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NEWSFLASH: Apple is Hella Evil! (update: or not)
11.19.07 | Permalink | Comments OffEXCLUSIVE: Apple Secretly Tracking iPhone IMEI and Usage (with proof):
As I sit here applying a new layer of Reynolds tin foil to my international hat of conspiracy, its been proven that Apple tracks iPhone usage and tracks IEMI numbers of all their iPhones worldwide. Hidden in the code of the “Stocks” and “Weather” widgets […] -
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Under The Radar Next Week In Silicon Valley
11.09.07 | Permalink | Comments OffNext Thursday, November 15, the Under the Radar Mobility event will be held out in Silicon Valley. 42 startups will present their products and services, and they’ll be judged by a panel of judges including MH pal Rudy de Waele.
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Helen Keegan Gets Grilled By SMS Text News
11.01.07 | Permalink | Comments OffOne of our favorite MH pals, Helen Keegan, agreed to complete the arduous 17-question, erm, questionnaire over at SMS Text News, so go check it out to see what makes her mobile mind tick. (We’re in no way linking to this because of all the nice things she said about us. Honest.)
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Wonder If He’s Available For Work In Movie Theaters…
08.20.07 | Permalink | Comments OffApparently a Japanese macaque monkey at a zoo in Russia isn’t a fan of cameraphones, as it’s taken to grabbing them out of people’s hands (via Picturephoning) when they try to snap pictures of him and his family. He’s already taken a dozen handsets, only some of which have been recovered intact. Could this evolve […]
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The Original Ringtone
07.06.07 | Permalink | 5 CommentsPrompted by our visit to yesteryear with the Notificator, I started browsing last night through some of the other images on Modern Mechanix.
How about the very first ringtone dating back to the 1950’s?And the first video phone from 1956, which became about as popular as person-to-person video calls are today.
In case you thought that Vertu […]
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