mobile stuff

  • The best music you’ll ever hear on your mobile

    And no, we’re not talking about some weird fusion of Silverchair and Bon Jovi. Instead, we’re talking about SLS, or Scalable To Lossless (we assume that there’s something lost in translation here), a music format that lets you buy a track at a certain bitrate, and then “add-on” all the missing sound at a later…


  • UFO Mobile Transformer

    Transformers has come and gone. We made a fuss, cried over its mutilation and are now truly over it. Honest. It’s just that this clippet of a UFO transforming into the U700 is rather impressive. Samsung and Michael Bay should be talking to this guy. -Anna King UFO Mobile Transformer [Metacafe]


  • Vodafone’s new home brand 3G email handset

    Vodafone has launched a home brand – sorry, ‘own label’ – mobile email handset, the Vodafone 1210 VDA IV. It’s a $399 smartphone, so it comes in cheaper than many beefier smartphones. It’s running Windows Mobile 5.0, has 64MB memory built-in, and uses MicroSD with an included 1GB card and Media Player software on board…


  • M500 Wristwatch Phone Shipping

    A variant of the wristwatch cellphone that we told you about last year is now shipping in Australia. The M500 by SMS Technology is now shipping in the land down under for an extremely high $1,000 (that’s Australian money). We learned last month that this same phone is trying to get approval Stateside, so one…