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The 6236’s phone book holds 1,000 contacts with room in each entry for five phone numbers, an e-mail address, a URL, a formal name, a company name and job title, a nickname, a street address, a birthday, and notes (the SIM card holds an additional 250 names). You can save callers to groups and pair them with any of eight, 64-chord polyphonic tones. That’s a rather small selection of tones, but oh well. You can assign your contacts a photo or video, either of which will show up on the external display. Read more…

T-Mobile on Tuesday began offering the Nokia 6263, a classic clamshell cell phone with enhancements, such as e-mail capability and a XHTML browser.

The Nokia 6263 is not a costly multimedia device like the ones recently launched by Nokia as part of its Nseries, but it does fulfill most basic functions required by mobile users.

For example, the phone is capable of receiving e-mail with attachments and it can be used for Internet browsing via a built-in XHTML browser. It also supports Java and Flash Lite, and can be synched to a desktop through Nokia’s PC Suite software, available as a free download.

“Many customers are looking to own a device that offers the latest conveniences, and want all of those features in a stylish — but classically-styled — phone. The Nokia 6263 is designed expressly for those people,” said Frank Vium, Nokia’s vice president of sales, in a statement.
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One of the little known secrets of cell phones is that many models can act as modems, and connect your computer to the Internet through a cell carrier. In some cases, you can use a USB cable; in others, a laptop with Bluetooth can be tethered wirelessly with the device. You don’t need a special data card.

Costs are another matter. Providers are more than happy to charge you a special rate to connect to their data networks, an additional $30 to $60 per month for unlimited use depending on the carrier and speed. Or you can get a data plan a la carte that charges by the amount of information you use, which works if your only usage is the occasionally download of a few e-mails.
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Sony Ericsson has expanded the company’s P-series smartphone range with the release of the P1i. Building on the feature set of earlier models, the Sony Ericsson P1i supports a range of push corporate and consumer email, is WLAN and VoIP enabled and supports connectivity via hi-speed 3G and WiFi. Designed as a complete mobile office solution with its compact size and multimedia capabilities, the P1i is powered by the Symbian operating system (v9.1) and UIQ 3.1, an open platform based on Symbian OS v9.2.

Offering support for a broad range of push email services including Exchange ActiveSync and Blackberry Connect the P1i allows for remote wiping of email and PIM data in case the phone is stolen or misplaced. Email and data downloads are via 3G and integrated WiFi with web surfing handled by the included Opera Web Browser that displays pages in horizontal or vertical, wide screen aspect.
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The Transportation Security Administration and Continental Airlines announced Tuesday that they will launch a pilot program for paperless boarding passes.

Passengers will now be allowed to receive boarding passes electronically on their cell phones or PDAs, which will then be scanned by TSA security officers at the checkpoint, eliminating the need for a paper boarding pass, according to a press release put out by the airline and the TSA.

Continental becomes the first U.S. carrier to test paperless boarding passes.

Domestic travelers in Germany and Spain have been using the paperless boarding passes and Japan Airlines has been checking in and boarding passengers by scanning their mobile phones for nearly three years. Airlines in Canada began using paperless boarding passes over the summer.

The barcode that passengers will receive on their mobile devices is different from the familiar vertical bars that are used to encode information on groceries and other products. Because the image needs to communicate much more information to the airlines’ scanning devices, paperless boarding passes use a more complex pattern of squares, called “2D” barcode technology, according to the press release. Read more…

Just days after being slammed by Greenpeace for slacking in its environmental practices, Nokia today took the wraps off a new phone that’s primed for green.

Unveiled at Nokia World 2007, the 3110 Evolve — an upgrade to the Nokia 3110 Classic — boasts bio-covers made from more than 50 percent renewable material, according to Nokia. Morever, the phone comes in a small package made from 60 percent recycled content.

Finally, the phone includes Nokia’s most energy-efficient charger to date, using 94 percent less energy than the Energy Star requirements, Nokia says.

As noted by Unwired View, the Evolve’s specs aren’t all too impressive. They include:
* Tri-band GSM 900/1800/1900 connectivity, GPRS/EGPRS
* 1.3 mpx camera with 8x digital zoom
* 128×160, 262K color display
* FM stereo radio
* MP3 Player
* MicroSD memory card slot
* USB, Bluetooth stereo and EDR
* Up to 16 days stand-by and 3.5 hrs talk time
* Dimensions: 108.5×45.715/6 mm
* Weight: 87 g

The Nokia World event rocked today with the unveiling of new accessories to jazz up your music selections. These two new stereo headsets command superb stereo sound without compromising on comfort and style - meet the Nokia Stereo Headset WH-700 and Nokia Stereo Headset WH-600.

Designed for your life on the move, these headsets give you the enjoyment of premium audio quality in the choice of two ergonomically different forms. The seamless changeover between calls and music means using these headsets is a hassle-free pleasure. Your music will stop when a call comes through, and pick up right where you left off when you’re done talking.
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Whether it’s talking while you walk or talking while you shop, there isn’t much that keeps us from answering a cell phone call.

“I think the etiquette has gone down a little bit just because, you know, people will bust them out whenever and it does get kind of annoying once in a while,” says cell phone owner Aaron Nelson.

But now cell phone jammers promise to put an end to conversations at the dinner table or even the entire restaurant.

“The biggest (problem) I would say is when you do come up to a table to take an order, you need to wait for them to finish their conversation,” Says Jill Hunter, assistant manager at the Phillips Ave. Diner. Read more…

This story might want to make you think twice about keeping your cell phone in your shirt pocket. A quarry worker was found next to an electric shovel with blood coming from his nose and a cellular phone that appeared to be melted in his front pocket. A professor from Chungbuk National University that examined the body of the dead 33-year-old man hypothesized that the cause of death was none other than an exploding cellular phone battery. The phone in question was an unspecified model from LG and there is no word on which battery maker was responsible for the phone in the accident. The explosion caused extensive internal injuries to the man’s heart and lungs; furthermore he also sustained broken ribs and a broken spine. Hard to believe that a little cell phone battery is capable of causing such incredible damage. Read more…

It didn’t take long for camera phones to grow up. Only a few years ago, the best ones took pictures with 1 megapixel of resolution. Now Nokia is coming out with the N82, a phone that takes 5-megapixel photos, higher quality than some point-and-shoot cameras.

The diminutive N82, weighing about four ounces, is a successor to the N80 and includes a flash and Carl Zeiss optics. It has 2 gigabytes of storage space for photos and can display pictures and video on a television using an optional TV-out dock. It will be available early next year for about $630 at nseries.com.
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