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Culture Buzz Some men wear their Bluetooths like they are surgically attached to their ears. Going out to dinner, the movies, your local Starbucks – these are all places deemed acceptable by the Bluetooth douchebag. Sometimes you have to wonder if they are even talking to anyone on the other end.
British archivists have found footage of what is supposedly the world's first mobile phone, from 1922, and it even comes with music! The best part is the reporter's reaction to two women being almost a century ahead of their time: “Bless us, they're never still - always up to something new …. won't hubby have a time when he has to carry one!”
Cracklin' Rosie. On a guitar, made out of phones. Android, iPhone and Windows Mobile, playing (well) together! More about the setup, the apps used etc at blog.stef.be/phoneguitar.
The Australian government has a very important message for you. Note: This is actually a real ad. Way to go, Australia!
Tech Buzz Remember when you used to text with your number pad? Then it got smart with T9 that guessed your words. Now we have on-screen touchscreen keyboards that you peck away with some vibrating feedback. The new frontier in texting and sexting: Swype!
Here's a new plan for dealing with people who talk on their cell phones while driving.
Tech Buzz The next iPhone comes out in a week; here is what the current rumor landscape look like. It will be thinner (or thicker); it will support video (or have a 3 mega-pixel camera); it will have GPS (or Bluetooth stereo). Start measuring your own expectations now!
Style Buzz Christian Dior unveiled a line of luxury mobile phones that start at $5000. Form: The Black Diamond model is covered in real diamonds. Function: Each phone comes with a mini-phone that connects to the main handset via Bluetooth. Clip the mini-phone to your shirt and you can answer calls without digging through your purse/murse.
The first full video demo of Google’s mobile platform, Android. It’s much like the iPhone interface, but more useful and much easier to customize — plus it has Pacman and an awesome compass feature!
Tech Buzz Photos of the first RIM clamshell flip phone have been unveiled. It will be out by the end of 2008. A novel flip phone seems kind of oxymoronic, but that’s what this phone is being touted as.
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