Tag Archives: handhelds

Those of you into hacking your mobile devices will be pretty amazed by this. Second Life resident Wrestling Hulka has hacked his Nokia n800 device to run a limited version of the Second Life platform. How limited is the software when running on a mobile device? Let’s put it this way. Hulka says that he can pretty much only IM ...

Hey, here’s a good idea. Supposedly there was a time when machines didn’t do all of our trivial work or hobbies for us. Pff, as if. Working off of the inspiration of the Hipster PDA and of course, the slickness of Apple (though the logo looks more like a pear) products, meet the iDea. All you have to do is ...

While Atari might have been even a little before our time in gaming glory, we appreciate it as much as other geeks. The prototype for the Atari Flashback Portable, which is now a confirmed product rather than a conceptual piece, looks like one really functional handheld console. The handheld itself looks not much bigger than the game cartridges themselves, and ...

Apple has gone ahead and released a video detailing the use of the iPhone keyboard, and many of you might be disappointed by the previews the video offers. The preview vid is more of a demonstration of the iPhone’s rarely seen magnification feature, which will aid in the cursor position and editing of already input type. Many people might be ...

Compenion concept design by Felix Schmidberger is a portable PC which has a pair of sliding OLED touch screens which can be worked on directly. The slide design was influenced by UMPC and PDA designs, yet stands alone as a complete mobile PC. When the top screen slides up, an OLED keyboard is illuminated underneath, displaying a very sleek and ...

Here’s yet another accessory to go along with your Cigarette cellphone. The Cigarette Cigarette Lighter is exactly what its title might suggest. It’s a lighter that looks like a cigarette, made to light cigarettes. The lighter seems to look pretty realistic. Just watch out that you don’t try doing this with a real cigarette. That would be especially bad if ...

Chinese cellphone manufacturer GIONEE has released two new gaming phones in Taiwan, the S20 and the V9. The phones come stocked with a Nintendo emulator, allowing classic Nintendo games to be played in landscape mode. The S20 comes with a slide out keypad, a 2 megapixel camera, and plays almost any media file, which is good for all of you ...

When you develop a product with a large group of companies, sometimes it is hard to keep everybody’s mouth shut. During the WM6 Japanese Edition press conference this morning, Microsoft was a bit too excited with what they’ve been working on with Sharp and Willcom. So here it goes, up on the screen for the gasping fans, people who have ...

Sources from an Apple affiliate are reporting that Steve Jobs might of kept some secrets up his sleeve during his keynote speech at MacWorld for the big release of the iPhone, including features never mentioned and improved hardware. These rumored secrets include: – More memory than 4GB and 8GB – User Replaceable Battery – Wireless N Support – Software – ...

There have been rumors of a PSP phone around for a while and while we might not be seeing that anytime soon, a UK company is working on bringing phone capability to the PSP. British Telecom is working on a PSP phone system that would be released to over 100 countries and would allow wireless telephony between other PSPs and ...