Nokia Corp. is suing two Chinese companies for producing mobile phones that allegedly copy the design of a popular Nokia handset.

The worlds largest cell phone manufacturer wants a court in Beijing to order the companies to pay damages and cease making and selling the phones. The court accepted the lawsuit June 12.

Nokia named the two companies as Shenzhen Telsda Mobile Communication Industry Developing Co. Ltd. and Song Xun Da Zhong Ke Electronic (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. It also named two co-defendants as distributors.
Nokia said the allegedly copied handset was the Nokia 7260, a phone it unveiled in Shanghai in 2004 as part of a collection inspired by 1920s styling. The 7260 features tri-band capabilities and a camera.

Last year, China became Nokias largest market, overtaking the United States, with sales growing 28 percent to $4 billion.
Source The Associated Press

tags: 1920s styling, 7260, Nokia, Nokia 7260

Qool Labs, the Singapore-based company unveiled new smartphone QDA Icon at the CommunicAsia tradeshow. QDA Icon is Windows Mobile 5.0-based, 4-megapixel camera phone and it is the first PDA-phone with CCD sensor which promises better image quality than the standard CMOS offerings.

tags: CommunicAsia, QDA Icon, qool labs

Samsung Electronics will soon release the new Windows based smartphone Samsung SGH-I700. The MITs SGH-I700 has touchscreeen, 2 MP camera, microSD and supports IrDA, Bluetooth и Wi-Fi technologies. MITs (Mobile Intelligent Terminal by Samsung) also features GPRS и EDGE.

tags: mits, sgh-i700, samsung electronics, samsung sgh-i700, wi-fi, windows, i700

LG is going to release VX8500 CDMA phone designed for Verizon Wireless. It is stylish thin slider with microSD card slot, 1.3 MP digital camera and support of EV-DO technology.

tags: lg vx8500, verizon, vx8500, wireless

CEC Corp made this wrist watch phone for one of China’s most famous ping pong players, the GSM F88 Watch. It is available to the market at the price of 1,111 USD. F88 is a watch with built-in mobile phone capabilities which have 26K colors CSTN display. It boasts a built-in microphone, speakerphone for conferencing, voice dialing, 4 minutes of voice recording, IrDA connectivity and organization tools such as schedule, alarm clock and reminder note. You can even play the pre-installed world cup games on the phone. The keypad number is located on the strap. Video conferencing could be done by the watch because it has a built-in 3 megapixel 180-degree rotating camera. It weights 100gram with the size of 38.3 × 76.7 × 17cm.
Source mobilewhack

tags: CEC F88 Watch

LONDON (Reuters) - People should not use mobile phones outdoors during thunderstorms because of the risk of being struck by lightning, doctors said on Friday.

They reported the case of a 15-year-old girl who was using her phone in a park when she was hit during a storm. Although she was revived, she suffered persistent health problems and was using a wheelchair a year after the accident.

“This rare phenomenon is a public health issue, and education is necessary to highlight the risk of using mobile phones outdoors during stormy weather to prevent future fatal consequences from lighting strike injuries,” said Swinda Esprit, a doctor at Northwick Park Hospital in England.

Esprit and other doctors at the hospital added in a letter to the British Medical Journal that usually when someone is struck by lightning, the high resistance of the skin conducts the flash over the body in what is known as a flashover.

But if a metal object, such as a phone, is in contact with the skin it disrupts the flashover and increases the odds of internal injuries and death.

The doctors added that three fatal cases of lightning striking people while using mobile phones have been reported in newspapers in China, South Korea and Malaysia.

“The Australian Lightning Protection Standard recommends that metallic objects, including cordless or mobile phones, should not be used (or carried) outdoors during a thunderstorm,” Esprit added.

tags: health hazard, lightning, mobile phones

The new CDMA phone from Motorola the W210 is low-end handset for people who are definitely not interested in techie gadgets. Simple W210 is expected to be available in Q4 2006.
Specs:
CDMA 800 MHz
32 Polyphonic
FM Radio
5-way navigation key
iTAP
108 x 44 x 25mm
75 grams
Up to 210 hours standby time
128 x 128 CSTN
Speakerphone

tags: Motorola W210, cdma, w210

Motorola has launched two very basic clamshell and bar phones the W375 and the W208. These phones are small and light weigh only 3 ounces and the W375 includes a VGA camera and FM radio, and the W208 has the FM radio, but no camera and both should be coming later this year.

tags: Motorola, basic, light, small, w208, w375

Singapore, 19 June 2006 - Sony Ericsson today announces its latest addition to the Walkman family of mobile phones, the sophisticated W810i in Fusion White. Similar to its predecessor in Satin Black, the Sony Ericsson W810i in Fusion White is a quad-band EDGE phone (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) that enables users to transfer their favourite music from the PC or access operator music download services, while staying connected to friends, family and business colleagues anywhere in the world.

tags: Sony Ericsson W810i, w810i, walkman, white

We fly but we are friendly to other insects too. Not only Flys can buzz but Mosquitos as well.

It started as an ingenious idea to scare off teenagers from places like cornershops or street corners were they tend to hang about annoying respectable adults. UK engineering thought was on the case - a company called compoundsecurity quickly invented a device they named Mosquito dubbed as teenager repellant. Based on the idea that with age people tend to lose sensitivity to high-frequency sounds (medically known as presbycusis or age related hearing loss) it produced a very loud noise but audiable only to teenagers (and younger individuals :-)). The only problem is that that trying to disperse unwanted gatherings of youths and teenagers in shopping malls and around shops you may also scare off all mums that came shopping with their little kiddies.
Quickly enough all realised that this business idea is somehow unworkable so the buzz turned the other way and now teenagers are fighting back. New Mosquito ringtones are made up of a frequency (between 18 to 20 kHz) that adults can’t hear. Teenagers can and they use it at schools or everywhere where adults don’t want them to. Genious!

Although it is claimed to be completely harmless the only problem seems that some adults are reporting headache and some already suggested that Mosquito Ringtone if used correctly, it can also be used to torture children you don t like. Not without its problems, you see…

tags: mosquito, mosquito ringtone, mosquito ringtones, buzz, insects, ringtone, teenager