A new patent was filed by Samsung that shows a new, kind of odd looking, QWERTY style keyboard that sweeps out from the sides of the phone.

The keyboard is split in half with each half being on the left or right of the phone. When the keyboard is needed you simple open up both sides making a QWERTY keyboard. [Read more…]

LG are soon to launch a new Chocolate phone. The original chocolate was a big hit with selling 21 million units worldwide.

The new LG Chocolate will fall in to LG’s Black Label series will be announced next month in August. Perhaps the most striking feature will be that the screen will have an aspect ratio of 21:9 with a resolution of 800 x 345 and measure just over 3 inches diagonally. A 5 megapixel camera will also be used in the phone. [Read more…]

The Sync Blocker is a device which allows you to choose the option of either synching and charging your iPhone, or just charging your iPhone. [Read more…]

This device is a bluetooth speakerphone that attaches to the steering wheel of your car. It has two built in 2 watt speakers, a microphone and echo cancellation to make more clear communication while driving.

On the front of the device is a small LCD display that measures 9/16″ that has caller ID. Calls can be accepted or rejected by the press of a button. [Read more…]

For the last few years the GSM Association has been trying to get a charging standard across all mobile phones. Finally, the new standard has emerged with microUSB being the new way to connect a charger to your mobile phone. The roll out will start in Europe over the next few years where the large manufacturers which includes LG, Motorola, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Research in Motion, NEX, Qualcomm and TI. Strangely enough, there is no mention of HTC who have become big in the smart phone race. However, I believe that most, if not all, of their phones already use the microUSB standard to charge. [Read more…]

The iPhone 3G S has been cracked now by the Dev Team. However, they have decided not to release it just yet. There is a good reason for this though which is they are expecting Apple to release a 3G S update sooner rather then later to fix a few bugs. If the Dev Team let the hack out in to the open then Apple will use it to fix this upcoming update, thus blocking all new iPhone 3G S users from having their iPhone 3G S jailbreak capable. [Read more…]

For us lot in the UK it seems like the 15th July could be the release date for the new HTC Hero Android phone that was mentioned here recently. The information comes from Amazon.co.uk. [Read more…]

Less then a week after the iPhone 3G S launch we have heard that the phone has now been exploited. This means that the phone will be able to be jailbreaked and unlocked in the very near future.

The 24Kpwn exploit used on the iPod Touch 2G is still in the bootrom of the iPhone 3G S which means the same technique can be used to jailbreak the 3G S as well as unlock it. [Read more…]

The HTC Hero is an Android based phone (the 3rd one from HTC) and is the first that supports flash. It has the same familiar trackball that the G1 has and is shaped very similar to the G1. It has a 480 x 320 pixel screen measuring 3.2 inches in a HVGA format. [Read more…]

The GreenBox is a home-made project that allows you to waste no energy at all when charging your mobile phone. It’s designed to look old fashioned on the outside but inside the box is some basic stuff which automatically disconnects power to the phone once the lid of the case is shut down. [Read more…]

LG have announced a new phone to arrive soon to the market named the LG GM730. The GM730 is LG’s first smartphone that will run the Windows Mobile OS. WM 6.1 will be used that is also integrated with the 3D S-Class UI that sits on top of Windows Mobile making a very nice smartphone to work with. [Read more…]

Apple have announced that they sold an incredible 1 million iPhone 3G S models in 3 days of launch. As well as selling a million new phones Apple also mention that 6 million iPhone users have also downloaded the latest OS 3.0 firmware for the phone. [Read more…]