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The “Death by Cellphone” series is heartbreaking. Accidents caused by driving while using a cellphone is a no brainer yet people still do it. I guess the emotional trauma is abstract to those who do not understand the loss of a loved one due to bring a victim of mobile phone carelessness. The Distracted Driving site aims to spread the awareness of cellphone hazards while driving, showcasing stories from the family members of car accident victims due to mobile phone distraction.

The fact sheet actually says it all. Here is an excerpt:

# Using cell phones while driving is a very high …read more

Thanks to the power of GPS and IP addresses, developers are able to determine where in the world are you. But at the same time, this information can be used to offer location based items for purchase. Nokia Conversations makes an interesting point: the contextual buying of apps in relation to your location, hence a truly “mobile store.” When you travel to France, will your music store on your phone offer you French-inspired music?

I want to believe that this is how it should work, but in practice, it could offer hassles. Let me give you an example.

Back here in our little island, we have a “rule of thumb” that was spread many years ago when texting started. The “rule” was, Since phone calls cost P8.00 per minute and text messages cost P1.00 per message, you should use SMS if you can get your message or end the conversation in less than 8 sends (i.e. “where are you?”). If not, you should call.
This rule was broken by teens and love bugs. And today, in a recent study, SMS for teeens in America is gaining ground to be jsut as, if not more popular than calls. No …read more

Remember how Nokia revamped their user interface at the Go Play event? Well Sony Ericsson is doing the same thing with their experimental XPERIA X1. Using an iPhone-like touch screen interface, the XPERIA series is SE’s answer to the Nseries multimedia phones of Nokia. The main underlying difference is that the XPERIA, at least with the X1 is running on a modded version of Windows Mobile 6 (the same way the HTC Touch has a different home screen interface).
The home screen uses custom widgets on a grid so you can view all your personalized data on the fly in …read more

There are two types of phone users: those that buy phones based on pure aesthetics alone and those that buy based on features and benefits. The Samsung-Armani Phone is an affordable piece of elegant technology that was recently launched in Asia. The phone retails for PHP 26,000.00 or roughly US$600 to $700 (the dollar has recently weakened against Peso currency. The “old” price would have been $500.00). Still not bad for a luxury / fashion phone. The Armani P520 is a credit card sized touch screen phone that hails of iPhone inspiration. It is one of Samsung’s few touchscreen phones …read more

So you’ve always wanted to be Darth Vader. You’ve probably done this several times – walk up to a motion sensitive door and flick your hand as the glass door slides open. Well, Windows Mobile 7 does exactly that. No, not open doors – but the built in camera does more than take your photos. The camera is motion sensitive, allowing you to make simple hand gestures to execute a few basic commands.
This is rather interesting as the iPhone as well as other phone manufacturers are slowly taking the accelerometer route ala Nintendo Wii. Windows Mobile is begging to …read more

With gaming becoming a core model in mobile phones (just look at the repackaged Nokia N-Gage platform), there is still an unadmitted obtrusion to the entire gaming experience turned miniature: phones aren’t really made to play games.

Zeeto’s Zeemote concept might change that as the Bluetooth enabled controller that resembles the Wii nunchuck finally received funding worth $6.9 million.

I wrote about how Nokia now has a page with plugins for iSync. The list of phones is rather comprehensive but not complete. I happened to chance upon the Mactomster – a site that has released a series of iSync plugins for several phone brands and models. Here is the list from their website taken December 2007. These are brands ranging from Sony Ericsson, Samsung and Nokia. The site is a must visit for Mac users who need to make their phones work with iSync.
Here is the list:

Nowadays, a touch screen phone like the LG Viewty would necessitate certain features like wireless Internet. Unfortunately the nice big screen of this Viewty KU990 model is laid to waste as it doesn’t support WiFi.

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