Off Beat

Wristwatches for the blind have been in existence since past few decades and now, we have cell phones set to join the bandwagon with the first ever ‘Braille cellphone’ being developed in Japan. Sadao Hasegawa, a former teacher at a blind school has…

Samsung Electronics has just unveiled the world’s first HSUPA phone in it’s SCH-M470 handset. This phone has a slider form which makes the phone look more like a contender for the executive user segment rather than the teeny-weeny crowd. The main…

Love your hip-hop? Then you gotta get this limited edition Def Jam W910i Walkman mobile phone from Sony Ericsson. The very exclusive and the very limited edition phone brings to you all that is so good and treasured about the music label including…

The unpleasant purple would make way for a fiery read tinge on the T-Mobile Motorola Sidekick Slide phone. Whether it is a rumour or definite news would be clear by next month for the speculators have fixed May as the deadline for this change. Well I…

It is easy to say that this is a New Kids Phone from Nokia but it is equally difficult to understand why the kids would like something this big. It would have to be a real tot who would go for this one for the touch grown up ones are smart enough to..

Imitation is the best form of flattery and KNC’s M-700 PMP has almost done that by copying half of Nokia’s 5310. Half because the M-700 PMP looks very much like a Nokia 5310 minus it’s keypad. So, the KNC must be one wide device. No, not really, it…

There is every possibility of gaining economic stability in Kenya, following the contributions made by Safaricom. The mobile phone service provider Safaricom, is rated as the East Africa’s most profitable company. Safaricom has profited considerably…

Talking about the slim phones, another one is ready to hit the league. LG adds another phone to its bucket with the ‘Black Label’ series which promises to feature the slimmest phone that has a 5 mega pixel camera and a width that is less than 14.9mm….

Here’s an innovation for this year. This dude named Razec apparently found the existing line up of Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot phones way too boring for his liking. Which is why he went ahead and designed his own version of it called the Sony Ericsson…

Talking internationally or for that matter even locally, for a fraction of the actual cost got real with VoIP. But, without mobile phones supporting service providers like Skype, this technology was a little inconvenient to use. But now, all that is..