If Only I Had It

 This is surely the gadget for the fitness concious people. The healthy diets and 1 hour jogging trip in itself wont work. But with this phone in hand you would know what is actually happening. 

As far as I know Adidas is well known in producing sport wear or fitness products. What does Adidas have to do with mobile phone? Of course, these days, it wouldn’t be a surprise those specializing in fashion or sport wear products are venturing into cell phone business too. So, now Adidas and Samsung somehow have teamed up to produce cell phones. And their first product is known as miCoach (F110), which is a fitness-centered cell phone.

The miCoach is a quad-band slider phone that features a dedicated fitness button that furnishes you with the details of your heart beat, distance covered, and running time, when hooked up with a heart monitor or a step counter. You can view the running information by tapping the cellphone’s screen without needing to hook it up to a PC. It’s loaded with over 220 fitness programmes which you can choose from. And the cellphone will feedback to you with your heart beat rate whether you’re going too fast or too slow according to the chosen programme.

 Have you ever wanted a handphone that does not run out of batteries. No way you are going to get one unless it is solar powered and even so I am not so sure when it will be made available. But here is one that runs on normal AAA batteries. So when your power is low just go to the nearest 7/11 and get yourself that needed power.

Philips’ latest handset - Xenium 9@9j, which they have demoed at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is also another mobile phone that has excellent battery life, which can last more than a month on standby, similar to other Philips cellphones in the 9@9j series. Besides, the long battery life, the cellphone can use standard AAA battery as the alternative power source. This is a great idea, as AAA batteries can be easily obtained from any grocery shops while your phone is running dry of battery during emergency.

Actually, the Philips Xenium 9@9j does not operate on the AAA battery. It uses advanced power management technology that makes use of the standard AAA battery as a backup only to lengthen the life of its Li-Ion battery, which is the battery used for its operation. Once the Li-Ion battery is running out of juice, the standard backup AAA battery will start kicking in and feeding the Li-Ion with power so your phone operation will not be interrupted.

The single AAA battery can boost the talk time and standby time from 2 hours to 8 hours and one week to a month respectively.

My heart cries out but my wallet cries even louder. Is this handphone in anyway beautiful? The simplicity kills me. It is beautiful. Because it will leave a mark in my wallet when I get it. This handphone costs about 1500 Pounds Sterling.

Mobiado has produced an overly expensive cellphone with average features for average men, which carries a whopping price tag of £1,500. The only uniqueness of this cellphone is its body is made of the same materials that make up airplanes. Other than this it comes with pretty average features that you can find on any other cellphone. The phone is called “Stealth”. The phone has a pretty old fashion body and the keypad seems to be not so friendly for your fingers.

The Stealth runs on Symbian Series 40 technology. It’s got a 2.0-megapixel camera that is capable of 8x digital zoom, a QVGA 262,144 colour screen with 320×240 pixels, Bluetooth, is tri-band GSM network enabled and features the usual music and media player. The internal memory is poorly low, which is 6MB and it comes with an included microSD card of 64MB. Of course, since it’s equipped with microSD slot, you can then purchase card with much higher capacity to store your media.

What a cool GPS device but it is also a phone. When you think of Garmin, definitely you’ll relate it with GPS devices. But now, Garmin has a role to play in the cellphone or smart phone market. Their newly announced smart phone, nüvifone, is a phone equipped well with all the GPS functions that you will surely need in a big city in order not to go missing. Some people claim this Garmin’s new smart phone looks like iPhone because of the touch screen UI resembles what iPhone has.

The nüvifone smartphone supports full-fledged GSM HSDPA, runs on its own properitary OS and of course loaded with GPS navigation as the core. Besides, it’s also equipped with email and web browsing functionalities and also a built-in camera (Does it support geo-tagging?). It sports a 3.5-inch LCD display. And equipped with wireless capabilities including WiFi and Bluetooth.

Other eatures at a glance

• Google local search
• Garmin Online services - traffic, weather, fuel prices, hotel discounts, etc.
• nuvi-like navigation on the road or in pedestrian mode
• Email, text, IM functions
• Camera, video camera, MP3 and MPEG4/AAC

No info on the pricing and carrier. But Garmin promises to deliver it in the 3rd quarter and says the PND market is not dying yet and the phone sure will have a role to play.

DoCoMo is far ahead in the race of setting up a better lifestyle for the future generation. This time they have worked on a child friendly mobile phone that has lots of in-built security features.

The new F801i is an improved version of the popular FOMA SA800i model that DoCoMo released in March 2006. This new model can be easily held by kids in their palms. The waterproof phone never restricts the kids from playing in water fountains or beach.

You will surely be surprised to know the security features of this cute little phone. The F801i has an emergency alarm that yells out a big “HELP” (approx 100 dB). The LED blinks up with a bright light once the alarm is activated. This helps anybody nearby to identify the kid’s position.

Moreover the alarm ON state (means your kid is in danger)can be automatically notified to loved ones. By pre-setting this, it can even send the current position of phone to them. Just by clicking the button on the side, the phone will send the location message to the registered i-mode subscribers as well.

When the mobile gets switched off due to zero power, a pre-setting can bring the power back atleast to message a registered DoCoMo phone about the incident and location.

The bracelet that comes along will help you to find out the phone in case it is misplaced. A presetting can even switch off the phone from a distance as well as send a lost phone message to registered DoCoMo phone user.

The design of F801i mobile phone symbolizes safety, peace of mind, creativity and the future. This phone is all set to go on sale by December 20th. Surely if you care very much for your kid, can you find a better Christmas gift for your little one?

This is the first early prototype of Google Android spotted, which looks like carrying an HTC form factor. The guy who found this Google phone, has some pretty positive comments for it. After using for a day, he found the phone is generally light and fast, even though this gadget is still in its early prototype. And it’s deemed much faster than the desktop emulator at times.

According to the guy, who is a long-time programmer, the OS that this gadget runs is much better than Windows Mobile 5. Things can change right? Something in its early prototype could be disabled with certain functionalities. Once everything is put together would be a different a story!

How annoying is it to write down hundreds of contact details in your mobile to your phone book? Well, you will realise it once your phone goes missing. For those who are looking for a smarter back up system here is a USB Sim Card Reader. Thanks a bunch for the inventors of this Sim Card Reader.

This simple USB Sim Card Reader can transfer all data on your mobile to your pc instantly. With this gadget you can easily edit or add contacts to the sim through the pc itself.

This ultra modern sim card reader allows you to back up several sim cards to one location. The back up process saves all information on the sim including passwords, address book and SMS messages.

This useful USB sim card reader comes along with a PC phonebook that helps you keep all the contact details perfectly. This amazing gadget works with any computer running on Windows 98, ME, 2000 and XP that supports a USB 1.1 interface.

The CD that comes along contains all required software. The sim card reader spreads out to a dimension of 6 x 2.5 x 1.2cm and hence is quite handy. You can get this useful gadget by spending just $23.31.

My view has always been it is not worth buying the iPhone until they bring out a 3G model. Anyone who has got used to 3G speeds and browsing the net on something like the Nokia N95 would find going back to 2G on the iPhone the same as dropping broadband in favour of dial up.

Now iPhone fans will always respond, “yeah but its got Wifi for fast surfing” which is all well and good when you are sitting on an unsecured Wifi network but in reality these days more and more are locked down so you end up paying more money to use an ISPs cloud. Or more often than not, you give up and go back to using your telecoms internet.

So, in my case, I use a Nokia N95 on T-Mobile with their “unlimited” Web ‘n’ Walk package. It works well, I’m nearly always on 3G and just don’t need to search for Wifi connections. If I went to a 2G iPhone it would kill me… even though the iPhone does really appeal to me.

I’m relieved then that the CEO of AT&T Randall Stephenson says, “You’ll have it next year”. He wouldn’t be drawn on prices, saying that this would be set by Apple but I doubt it would be anymore expensive than the original iPhone at launch, which was $599.

So that is something to look forward to then although by the time we get it in Europe will Nokia have superseeded the N95 with something even better?