Concept Motorola mobile phone has dual cameras



Parisian designer Lysandre Follet drew a prototype Motorola device that has dual cameras, one can assume this is to add some sort of 3D effect, but I'm questioning the usefulness. Hopefully we'll see the much talked about 5 megapixel camera phone that Motorola is said to have cooperated with Kodak on at next months CTIA.

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Japanci bez mobilnog ne idu ni u kadu
Utorak, 18. mart 2008. 02:00

Japanci izgleda ne mogu ni da zamisle život bez mobilnog telefona, tako da više od 40 odsto njih tu malu spravicu koristi i u kadi. Jedan deo ispitanika verovatno i ima neki ozbiljan razlog za to – oni koji obavljaju neodložne telefonske razgovore, ili šalju mailove, ali gotovo polovina anketiranih mobilni u kupatilo nosi radi slušanja muzike.

Velika anketa koju je u decembru prošle godine sproveo japanski proizvođač igrica Sega, čiji su rezultati objavljeni u ponedeljak, pokazala je da je 41,2 odsto od ukupno 16.250 anketiranih svih uzrasta bar jednom koristilo mobilni telefon tokom kupanja.

Ova praksa podjednako je zastupljena među muškarcima i ženama bez obzira na starosnu dob.
Ona je, međutim, dva puta češća kod mladih između 10 i 19 godina (53 odsto) nego kod ostalih starosnih kategorija gde u proseku iznosi 26 odsto. Kod starijih od 50 godina, njih 20 odsto navodi da su koristili mobilni zavaljeni u kadu punu vode, s tim što u tome ipak prednjače žene (25 odsto).

Od ukupnog broja anketiranih, njih 29 odsto navodi da su se u kupatilu služili mobilnim telefonom radi razmenjivanja mailova, 28 odsto radi slušanja muzike, 12 odsto zbog igrica i samo 9 odsto da bi telefonirali.

Imajući u vidu navike kupaca, neki japanski proizvođači već nude vodootporne mobilne telefone koji se bez ikakvog rizika mogu koristiti i tokom kupanja.



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cell phone microscope



We've seen cell phone telescopes in the past, but those certainly can't be used for medical purposes. This 60x cell phone microscope was designed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley which provides an affordable and reliable method to diagnose patients in remote areas over the phone. Dubbed the CellScope, you get 5x magnification for diagnosing skin conditions and 60x which is powerful enough to magnify and diagnose malaria in a blood sample. Heck, you can also use it to count white blood cells in leukemia patients. The initial prototype was constructed from off-the-shelf components with a total cost of $75 thereabouts. Imagine snapping images using the CellScope and sending it via MMS to a medical lab a few hundred miles away. Hopefully a refined version can roll out soon.

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LG LH2300 Touch Web phone to come with 3 inch 800×480 touchscreen; We want one!



Wow! With devices like this one, LG is set to rule! They got our attention for sure.

The upcoming LG LH2300 Touch Web phone promises to be the next big thing. The huge 3 inch 800×480 pixels touchscreen is there and so is the new "Hello" user interface. We're not sure how the mentioned UI works, but considering this baby is jam-packed with thing like 3G, T-DMB mobile TV receiver, Bluetooth 2.0, microSD slot and who knows what else - we would expect an easy way to get around all the features listed. Plus, let's not a jog wheel that should make our web browsing even more convenient, and a 3 megapixel camera with face recognition and anti-shake technology. The sad thing is that we're not sure when LG will release the LH2300, and when they'll push it outside of Korean shores afterwards. Hopefully we won't have to wait too long… CTIA is around the corner, I'll keep my fingers crossed.



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Motorola ZN5 5 megapixel phone, Moto Q10 and Motoming 2 A1600 confirmed. Almost

When Motorola promo video has leaked to the net, there were quite a few new phone models displayed there.

The trouble with some of them, like 5 megapixel Kodak phone, was getting the right model number. Especially with the leaks and mix-ups of the previous year, about the new Zine/Zoom phone line.

Well, today Digitimes gives us news about about new 5 mpxcameraphone, including the model number -Motorola ZN5, and confirms the upcoming Motoming 2 A1600 phone and Motorola Q10 Windows Mobile smartphone.



According to DigiTimes sources, in the second half of this year Motorola will launch 5 megapixel cameraphone MOTO ZN5 (Zine, I guess), Motorola Q10 smartphone and Motorola Ming 2 A1600; alongside already known Motorola Z9, Z10 and Rokr E8 handsets.

And to get them to Taiwan by 2H 2008, they should be announcing these phones real soon. CTIA Las Vegas, I bet.

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MotoMing 2 Motorola A1600 on sale in China already

The first information about the upcoming Motorola A1600 Motoming 2 Linux smartphone turned up on the Net already last year.

Not much has been heard about this phone since then, though I thought that Ming2 might be one of the phones featured in the leaked Motorola promo video, and might be announced at CTIA in April.

Well, today a prototype of A1600 MotoMing 2 turned up on sale in a market in Shenzen, China and we can bring you some live pictures of it:



Motorola A1600 Ming 2 phone is a touchscreen Linux smartphone with 3.2 mpx camera, Wi-Fi connectivity and built-in GPS, and is a successor of a very popular in China MotoMing handset.

Oh, and I was wrong identifying a phone in a leaked promo video as MotoMing 2. That phone is more likely another version of RAZR2 handset. (RAZR2 V10, anyone?)

And, when I think more about it, it’s only logical. If, as I believe, the leaked video was for Latin American region, there’s no point putting a phone destined for Asia in there.


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radujem se k'o mali majmun, nikad nisam prežalio što nisam pazario a1200
a1600 mora biti moj 

Motorola's 5 megapixel camera phone is now known as ZN5, launching 2H08



The infamous 5 megapixel camera phone we've been waiting for Motorola to launch for what feels like nearly half a year finally has a name: ZN5. According to people in the know the device will be out by the end of this year along with a slew of other high end devices. It is highly likely that it will run UIQ and have some sort of Kodak related components inside.

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Asus P750 hacked to run at VGA resolution

A few days ago some enterprising Russian Asus fans discovered that instead of official QVGA 240×320 px screen, Asus P750 communicator actually has a full blown VGA display.

Turns out that earlier this year, due to a rare quirk in a global supply chain, Asus got the shipment of 2.6″ VGA displays for P750 delivered, instead of expected QVGAs, and at a better price.

But since the Asus P750 and all the software on it was already specc’ed for QVGA, they just disabled VGA resolution and made it run at QVGA quality.

So the hackers (Sorg and GreateVK) among Russian Asus fans decided to do what they do best. Hack into Asus P750 WM 6 firmware and let the phone show off all it’s powers.

And, after a few sleepless nights, they succeeded:



What you see in the picture is Asus P750 running at a full blown 640×480px VGA resolution.

So far the display is working only at 96 DPI, instead of the usual WM 6 192 DPI VGA display resolution, and there are some bugs in the hack, so no public download is available yet.

But, Sorg says that as soon as he and GreatVK get some sleep, they are getting back to work, and should have the downloadable patch for happy Asus P750 owners ready in a week

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Mitsubishi se povlači sa tržišta mobilnih telefona

Teška vremena za razne kompanije, ali ne na istim poljima. Za razliku od nekih koji izuzetno dobro posluju na tržištu mobilnih telefona, to nije slučaj sa industrijskim gigantom Mitsubishi Electric, koji je procenio da mu poslovanje sa mobilnim telefonima nije isplativo, te da nepotrebno odvlači resurse na drugu stranu. Stoga je ova kompanija odlučika da se do kraja marta povuče sa tržišta mobilnih telefona. Ovakav potez nije iznenađenje, pošto se proizvodi ove kompanije gotovo nisu mogli naći ni u matičnom Japanu, pošto je telefone kompanije Mitsubishi bilo moguće pronaći jedino kod provajdera DoCoMo. Iako će prestati da proizvodi mobilne telefone, Mitsubishi će nastaviti da razvija svoje telekomunikacione tehnologije i nudi rešenja za mobilne mreže.

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Sony Ericsson očekuje manju zaradu od prvobitno prognozirane

Sony Ericsson je upozorio partnere i investitore da neće uspeti da ostvari profita koliko je očekivano. Očekuje se da će tokom prvog kvartala ove godine biti prodato nešto manje mobilnih telefona u odnosu na prvobitne projekcije, a tu su se nadovezali i dodatni troškovi. Puno je uloženo u istraživanja i razvoj, a bilo je i problema u vezi sa snabdevanjem i nabavkom komponenti. Kompanija očekuje da će tokom prvog ovogodišnjeg kvartala prodati oko 22 miliona mobilnih telefona, po prosečnoj ceni od oko 120 evra. Očekuje se da će neto prihodi iznositi između 150 i 200 miliona evra, što je dosta manje u odnosu na prošlogodišnjih 362 miliona.


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