Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech - Razr takes fat wallet, but cell phone's slim, sharp
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Come clean: Ever splurge on luxury goods just to one-up envious friends and neighbors? There's no shame admitting it; we're all human, after all. And surely you must take some pleasure from what folks might be whispering behind your back. "Wow, that son-of-a-gun must be doing really well. Did you see the gorgeous wristwatch he was wearing? Or the snazzy new sports car he was driving?"
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Verizon Wireless subscribers will soon be able to access "mobile money" using their cell phones, the cellular operator says.
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The next big thing in cell phones has arrived. Now you'll just have to figure out what to do with a 1.5-gigabyte handheld.
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Our wallets feel slim these days -- not because we are destitute but because all of our money is encoded into the black strip on the back of 2-by-3 1/4 -inch plastic cards.
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Motorola Inc. started selling the next generation model of its popular, ultra-slim Razr cell phone in South Korea Friday, ahead of a global launch scheduled for July.
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Big touchscreens, multiple-megapixel cameras, maps, and more: Cell phones unveiled in Barcelona this week will soon make whatever's in your pocket or purse seem dated. Here are some of the most interesting.
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The race is on to come up with the world&#39;s thinnest cell phone screen. On Tuesday, both Japan&#39;s Sharp and Taiwan&#39;s AU Optronics Corp. (AUO) said they had developed prototype displays that are less than a millimeter thick.The Sharp LCD (liquid crystal display) measures 2.2-inches across the diagonal and is just 0.68 millimeters thick making it the thinnest cell phone screen in the world, the company said Tuesday. Coming in just behind in the AUO screen, which is a 1.9-inch model that&#39;s just 0.69 millimeters thick.The screens used in most of today&#39;s phones are on-average between 1.5 millimeters and 2.5 millimeters thick so the new Sharp screen is significantly thinner, said Miyuki Nakayama, a spokeswoman for Sharp in Tokyo.Sharp is coy about just how it managed to reduce the thickness but said innovations lay in two major areas: improvements in production technology that enable the use of thinner glass sheet and a reduction in the thickness of the backlight that sits behind the screen.Thinner cell phone screens are good news for consumers because they allow phone makers to either produce slimmer phones or to pack more technology into the same size space. Some recent models of cell phone have been getting larger in-part because of the addition of new features like digital TV tuners and smartcards.However there&#39;s no word from Sharp on when the screen might start appearing in cell phones. The company is currently in talks with cell phone makers and hasn&#39;t decided when it will start production, said Nakayama.The svelte screens will get their unveiling at FPD Expo, which runs from Wednesday to Friday in Yokohama, Japan.
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Maybe smartphones are the Next Big Thing.
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Taking a page â albeit a tinier one â from the iPhoneâs design is a new test version of the Opera Mini browser for cellphones.
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In a blink of mere months, the mobile "smart" phone has been transformed from pricey corporate gadget to an affordable alternative for ordinary folk.
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Motorola rode high for a while on sales of its slim, stylish Razr phone. When its competitive edge started to dull, the company set its hopes on the Q, a BlackBerry-like e-mail phone, which it initially thought would sell as well as the Razr.
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Mobile processor is designed for use in thin and light notebooks.
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The quad-band Motorola (NYSE: MOT) RAZR V3 from Cingular Wireless is an ultra-slim, GSM/GPRS messaging phone with an internal antenna that features a 2.2-inch, high-resolution color screen, a 3D graphics engine, a push-to-talk radio and global roaming capabilities courtesy of the onboard SIM card.
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Pornography may be the thing that turns cell phones into cheap, fast content-delivery systems. But porn fans want more from their mobile adult content -- and size ain't the only thing that matters. Commentary by Gina Lynn.
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Google has come to cellphones -- the cheap ones, not just the fancy color-screen models with Web access.
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Those who don't mind carrying a paperweight already have plenty of options for "smart" phones that do more than just make calls. The rest of us are stuck with a sad compromise between size and function.
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A removable SIM card is a good sign for hackers, because it indicates the phone is locked using firmware, which can likely be cracked.