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RIM has just filed a patent for a Hybrid Portrait-Landscape Device With Trackball Navigation and Qwerty Hideaway Keyboard which makes us wonder whether the whole hideaway keypad hadn’t already been done before. I guess the patents office thought…

Personally I find the ringing cellphones and PMPs playing music out loud rather distasteful and intrusive for other people’s personal space. But I guess some people really like it when their ringtone goes off and everybody within 100 yards gets to..

I have yet to hear about one customer who found HTC’s proprietary headphones even remotely satisfactory. A spirited music lover took his quest to extract quality audio from the rather lame HTC headphone up another level by developing this amazing new.

Remember the times of you wanting to game on your mobile phone and giving up out of sheer frustration at the lack of good game titles available. Nokia has just come to your rescue by launching an all new ngage gaming platform. The ngage mobile…

Chinese seem to be really fond of making devices that double up to do something above their original use. Take Leader International’s GPS tracking device for instance. A normal GPS tracker at usual times, the device is equally adept to function as..

At no point in the evolutionary stage, Bamboo plant would have gone, ‘yeah I’d use a mobile phone to disperse seeds.’ Gert-Jan van Breugel from The Netherlands believes that we ought to lend a hand in the natural processes and his concept…

Chinese Mobile phones are always in news either for their cheap prices with huge list of features or for being a rip-off of some latest main-stream phone. But this time it’s about a handset which is a typical Chinese one (with touch screen and all).

Designer Seungchan Lee has perfectly sensed this nerve of the masses vis-à-vis this and amalgamated both retro styling and a bit of nature in his latest mobile device. He has mish mashed a little natural and a little scientific designs to prepare..

Indian Mobile Company Spice is back in news as they are now first Indian handset manufacturer to offer PC-like full web browsing experience with Opera Mini. Opera is quite famous in India as it’s in rest of the world, when it comes to web browsing,.

Toshiba & Softbank have launched a new cellphone in Japan that has been inspired by the ‘Transformers’. The PB Transformer Cell Phone is currently available in silver and black though there is as yet no word on the pricing and availability. The…