Sumsung SPH-m620

A phone you can dance to; the Samsung UpStage™ is so unique, you have to see it (and hear it) to believe it. On one side, it's a slim, stylish Samsung phone with Stereo Bluetooth® Wireless Technology and a 1.3 megapixel camera. On the other side, it's a slim, stylish Samsung music player with touch-sensitive media controls and a stereo speaker. Either way, it's a phone you'll flip over.

Sync your lift with your music

Voice your opinion - share a story - make a date. The UpStage(tm) is an audio plyer that's also a phine.It features an ultra-thin design and intuitive touch navigation. With its 1.3 MP camera and camcorder, there's no reason to be camera shy.

Product specifications:

• dual-band: EVDO; CDMA 1 xEVDO: 800, 1900MHz
• dimensions: 4.07 x 1.73 x 0.37 (Standard battery)
• weight: 2.57 ounces (Standard battery)
• main display: 176 x 220 Pixel, 262K TFT Color
• sub display: 176 x 65 Pixek, 65K TFT Color
• battery: 3.7 volt lithium ion, 620 mAh
• talk time: Up to 2.5 hrs (Standard battery)

Memory:

• external memory card slot- internal phone book
• up to 500 alphanumeric entries- store one picture with each entry
• 98 speed dial locations- last 20 incoming, outgoing and missed call logs
• mass storage (45MB available for users, plud 64MB memory card)

Call Management and Services:

• picture caller ID
• voice mail
• caller ID
• call forwording
• call waiting
• three-way calling

Motorola Planning Phone to Show Feature Films

A "media monster" is coming out of the Motorola closet.That from Chief Executive Ed Zander, who talked about a new multimedia mobile phone at the Software 2007 conference. The phone, to be released next week, will be able to display full-motion video, to the extent of feature films at up to 30 frames-a-second, Zander said.The phone won't have movies stored in its hard drive, of course. It will be up to you the user to insert SD cards with your favorite films on them. If you're a digital imager, you probably already carry around a handful of these at various times.One thing we don't know yet—but we likely will know on Tuesday, when the phone is unveiled—is how big the viewscreen is and whether it will be widescreen-capable. Motorola also plans to release several other 3G and Java-based products in the coming months.

By: Dave White

Highest mobile call climb begins

A British climber is in the closing stages of an attempt to set a world record for the highest mobile call.

Rod Baber is making final preparations to scale Mount Everest and make the call from its north ridge.
Following weeks of acclimatisation, Mr Baber is now at base camp recuperating and checking equipment prior to beginning the actual ascent.
The expedition will begin its final push on 15 May and aims to reach the summit about eight days later.

Call charge

Mr Baber reached base camp at the foot of Everest in mid-April and since then has been trekking up the mountain to get used to living at high altitude.

"It took us three days before we could walk more than 50 steps without running out of breath," he told the BBC News website from base camp in the Himalayas.

In the last few weeks the members of the expedition climbing Everest with Mr Baber have reached altitudes of 7,500 metres - the height at which most people start to need oxygen to continue.

"We've done some of the most physically demanding sections of the route," he said.

The trekking has meant that four members of the expedition have been forced to quit as altitude sickness has left them unable to cope.

Now the remaining members of the team, organised by the HimEx climbing group, is recuperating prior to the attempt on the summit. Mr Baber said he had already lost 11kg in weight and was likely to lose five more by the time the attempt was done.

Making a mobile call from the top of Everest has become possible as a base station installed in nearby China has line-of-sight to the north ridge of the mountain.

Phone reception in the Himalayas has improved as the Chinese army is also at the Everest base camp making preparations to take the Olympic torch to the summit.

Mr Baber said the expedition had a "very good" chance of reaching the summit if the weather stayed calm.

"But," he said, "it's when Everest lets you climb it, not the other way around."

ref : http://news.bbc.co.uk

Battery Full Warning from your Mobile

You can admit that you do it. We all do it. It's OK. You're one of those people who plug in your mobile to recharge and then let it charge all night long. The phone needs just 4 hours or so to charge, but you don't get around to it until nighttime and then you think "just let it go all night."Well, that's a waste of electricity. It's also a battery drain, as some studies have shown. Nokia, ever looking for an angle in the hot-and-heavy mobile phone wars, is about to trot out a reminder system so you don't waste electricity charging a phone that's already fully charged.Starting with the 1200, 1208, and 1650 models, Nokia phones will be equipped with this special monitoring system, which will beep and display an LCD alert instructing you to unplug the charger. No word on whether you can change the wording on that alert, but we suspect it could be done. No word, either, on whether the monitor will beep incessantly until you attend to it. Still, it's a novel idea, one whose time has come.

By: Dave White