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Bluetooth 3.0, and new Bada OS, 3.3-inch Super AMOLED

How's about a little smartphone love on Valentine's Day? Samsung's press conference just got underway in Barcelona, and one of Mobile World Congress' first smartphones to debut this year is a real doozy. The Wave (S8500) that we've heard so much about lately is finally official, and it's the first handset to ship with Bluetooth 3.0. It's also packing 802.11n WiFi, TouchWiz 3.0 and the company's own Bada mobile platform. You'll also get a 3.3-inch “Super AMOLE……

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impressions!!! Dell Mini 5 prototype

Dell's puzzled the world for quite some time with its outlandish Mini 5 — at first glance it's just another Android-based MID, but a quick fiddle with it reveals the full-fledged 3G phone inside. So will it fit in a pocket? Can we carry it around like a normal phone? Is this the future form factor that will bring the ultimate balance between portability and practicality? With such heavy dose of curiosity, we eventually traveled all the way to Shenzhen literally just to grab this protot……

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New Walkman phones confirmed for 2010, Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson may look like its steaming its way into smartphone territory this year, but music phone fans can be reassured its not forgetting its roots with Walkman brand.Nathan Vautier, Sony Ericsson's UK and Ireland manager, told Mobile Today that while the company is planning on streamlining its range down to 26 handsets, it would not be dropping Walkman phones from its line up.In fact, we can expect a number of Walk……

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handset outed. LG Cookie Fresh budget touchscreen

A new addition to the LG Cookie range has been pulled out fresh from the oven today under the rather fitting moniker of the LG Cookie Fresh, also known as the GS290 to its mum.From the spec sheet, it seems the Cookie Fresh will be aimed at the budget end of the market, while still offering the consumer favourites like a touchscreen and social networking integration.The Cookie Fresh packs a 3-inch resistive touchscreen displa……

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Samsung's Stunt

Looking for a rightful successor to your now-aging SCH-R211? Samsung and Cricket would like you to look no further than the SCH-R100 Stunt, a dead ringer for the candybar of the same name that launched on MetroPCS back in December of last year. It turns out this is a little bit more than your average ultra-basic phone, though: Cricket says this device is introducing Bluetooth to the lowest tier of its lineup, a particularly useful feature now that using the handset while driving is a no-no in m……

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review: Motorola Devour

While Motorola's vanilla-Android Droid has become the most recognizable Android device on the market — thanks in part to a bombastic ad campaign — Motorola's primary focus has been on its own custom Blur UI. At least, if quantity of devices are any indication. Hitting Verizon just as the Blur-powered Backflip heads to AT&T, the new Motorola Devour is an odd cross section of the “consumery” Backflip and Cliq, and the high-end Droid slider. We've been playing with the phone for ……

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does 3D gaming for Windows Phone, Microsoft bringing XNA Game Studio 4.0 to GDC this week

We've all had a feeling that Microsoft is holding back some pretty big surprises (or at least completely reasonable revelations) when it comes to Windows Phone 7 Series and gaming, and here at GDC this week it sounds like we're going to get a little glimpse into that. Microsoft is unveiling its new XNA Game Studio 4.0, which lets developers work on games for Windows Phone 7 Series, Xbox 360 and Windows PC. The integration with Visual Studio 2010 that we saw the other day allows develope……

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in the classroom Cell phones

Cell phones in the classroom

Guest blogger Marie Bjerede examines field projects that are studying the educational use of cell phones. In one limited example, 50 percent of students doing lessons……

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cable knitting DIY – eTextile

Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson beamed up at ‘How to get what you want‘ a nice technique on how to create eTextile cables that provide a new way of designing cable connections for a wearable electronic design.
The cable are knitted using a tube knitting technique with many names like ‘French knitting’, ‘Spool knitting’, ‘Corking’ and a couple of more names.
These are very simple tools, sold at needle craft stores or sometimes can be found at the toy se……

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shape changing Living Dress – Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga is not only famous for her hit songs like ‘Poker Face‘ or ‘Paparazzi‘ she is equally famous for her love to fashion experiments so it was only a matter of time until the Lady showed one of the most sophisticated stage outfits, the ‘Living Dress‘, while performing ‘So Happy I Could Die‘ at the Liverpool Echo Arena last week.
The ‘Living Dress’ magically parts at the front, revealing Lady Gaga’s legs.
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