This is a phone designed by Cyrene Quiamco, and it is called Aeolus.
It is designed to be powered by solar energy, and it also uses wind power. Apparently, if you blow into it, or catch a breeze, this can power it. You can get it in a single color, and an energy-efficient LCD display.
This is a concept just now, but let’s see where this one goes.
Bell has announced a new LG cellphone that will become available for purchase on the 3rd of June, more specifically the LG 231 which can be considered a basic flip-phone.
The LG 231 boasts a small 1.77-inch display screen and a basic 0.3-megapixel camera with 2x zoom. Other features include bluetooth, a speakerphone, and to listen to music there is a 2.5mm audio jack.
This is the Loop, a mobile phone concept in development by Autodesk and LG, and made for the blind.
Apparently, you wear it on a clip to be put on your clothing, and get info on the OLED display that apparently works via Braille, somehow.
I’m not certain why the visually impaired would need something like this, except perhaps to dial a number. I know that the buttons on my phone don’t have Braille, but they have a standard order on the phone.
AT&T has officially announced the Samsung Rugby II, a new rugged phone that comes to replace the old Rugby, introduced almost two years ago.
The Rugby II is a “next generation Push to Talk device”, coming in a clamshell form factor and featuring HSPA (7.2 Mbps), A-GPS, AT&T Navigator, TeleNav Track, Xora GPS Timetrack, noise suppression technology, Bluetooth, Music player, Web browser, 2MP camera with video recording, large external speakers, and MicroSD card support.
The handset is certified to military standard MIL-STD-810G, thus being able to withstand dust, shock, vibration, humidity, rain and solar radiation.The Samsung Rugby II should be available at AT&T on June 6.
Samsung’s Wave S8500 is already available in some European markets – but only with GSM / UMTS support.
Well, a CDMA / EV-DO Rev A version of the Bada-based handset also exists, and will be launched soon in China, as Samsung SCH-F859. The Wave F859 looks exactly like the GSM edition, and it should be available through China Telecom (the only Chinese carrier that currently has a CDMA network).
Feature-wise, the F859 is not different from the S8500, so it comes with a 3.3 inch WVGA Super AMOLED touchscreen display, TouchWiz UI 3.0, GPS, 3.5mm headset jack, Bluetooth 3.0, 5MP autofocus camera, HD video recording, and 1GHz processor.
Previously known as Dell Mini 5, Dell’s first Android tablet, now called Dell Streak, has just been officially announced in the UK – where O2 will exclusively offer it via its own channels, as well as via Carphone Warehouse. The new tablet will be available starting early June – not long after Apple will launch the iPad in the UK.
According to Carphone Warehouse, the Dell Streak runs Android 1.6 – but don’t worry, Dell is officially promising an Android 2.2 update for latter this year.
The tablet’s other official features include: 5 inch WVGA multi-touch display, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, Google Maps, Twitter and Facebook integration, 5MP autofocus camera, 2GB of internal memory, and MicroSD card support.
Motorola has announced the first Android handset with iDEN with push-to-talk.
This is the i1, announced at CTIA 2010, and will be carried by sprint. Boost Mobile will also get the i1 as well, with retail exclusivity at Best Buy. This is one of those standard $50 unlimited data/web/text plan.
