A Panasonic Android phone could be on the way to blow all other camera phones out of the water in 2012. That’s according to a posting on PR Week to announce that the company is looking for an agency to help it launch handsets in Europe.
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This morning, a new line of LG phones popped up on a Korean site. The series was called the LG Wink, but didn’t look like they would be available here in the UK. Now though, LG UK has announced new phones for the UK under the LG Cookie line, which look suspiciously like the Wink line up leaked this morning…
There has been much speculation about whether Google’s Android mobile OS is going to end up in a desktop machine or if it will just be suitable for mobile phones. The NIMble proposes a halfway house – a desktop, decidedly non-mobile phone.
Even in the land of the £10,000 TV pennies are being pinched, as Danish audiophiles Bang & Olufsen announce they are to stop making handsets and gadgets.
Finnish phone maker Nokia is on the hunt for mobile games. Correction: Nokia is on the hunt for mobile games that don’t suck. It’s got the dosh to pay for them too. It’s offering €70,000 (around £55,000) to the winners of its new Mobile Games Innovation Challenge.
Most concept phones never amount to anything, but we’ve heard word that tucked away deep inside Nokia’s research labs there’s a real live Aeon – a fuel cell powered touchscreen that can split itself in two.
Bettering the iPhone by dropping the button count to zero, this chameleon-like celly can change its appearance at the drop of a hat. When you get bored of its current get up you can just download a different skin and hey presto – a new phone without wearing out the carpets down at Carphone Warehouse.
The onwards march of technology is great, but sometimes you’ve got to think of the people that get left behind. German designer Matthias Pinkert is doing his bit to help the aged with the EMC (Easy Mobile Calling) – a phone so simple that even Peter Andre shouldn’t have trouble using it unsupervised.