Normally a phone like the Motorola Backflip wouldn’t get much fanfare when it appears on a retail web site, but this is AT&T’s first Android phone (of many), so let’s give it, say, 40 words or so, shall we? [ AT&T ]
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Android-Powered Motorola Backflip Now Available at AT&T [Motorola Backflip]
German researchers are working on mobile phone technology that would convert silent mouth movements into speech. It’s an ingenious way to have a noiseless conversation, but if they don’t get it right there could be some unfortunate mix-ups. The tech—developed at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology—involved uses electromyography, and measures the electrical potentials generated by muscle activity in the face to translate mouth movements into speech.
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Lip-Reading Cell Phones Will Be Great For Phone Six [Science]
At first blush, you might look at this $381,000 gold coffin that comes with a cellphone and think: what a hopelessly tacky waste of money. You’d be so wrong . Here’s just a few benefits: • Get back at ne’er-do-well next of kin by blowing $381,000 of their inheritance money on a coffin
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The Many Advantages of a $400,000 Cellphone-Equipped Gold Coffin [Wealth]
Remember Nokia? They make cellphones (still!), and at CeBIT they’re hinting hard that two more, possibly the C5 and C6, are about to join their ranks. The hint was packaged in the Nokia Conversations newsletter.
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Nokia Teases, Heavily, That C-Series Phones Are Launching at CeBIT [Nokia]
Why’d Nokia give away Ovi Maps for free to other OS users? Unless they’re…planning an Android phone themselves? We’ve already heard whispers they’re to release just one Maemo device this year—and they can’t possibly survive on Symbian alone.
Hey there, Mini GD880 — we’ve seen plenty of you around here lately — but we were beginning to wonder if you’d ever get totally, completely, 100 percent official. Well, here we are, day two of MWC, and it was definitely worth the wait
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LG Mini GD880 finally gets a full on announcement at MWC
Inspired by the Nexus One (which HTC made), the Desire—or Bravo , if you prefer—has a 3.7-inch AMOLED screen with multitouch, with 480 x 800 pixels. It’s the best display I’ve seen on a phone for a while.
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HTC Desire Android Phone Inspired By The Nexus One, With Top-Notch Specs [Android]
This is OmniVision’s newest 1/4-inch, 5 megapixel RAW sensor. It’s tiny, has low light sensitivity, captures 720p video at 60 fps or 1080p at 30 fps, and shoots in RAW.
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Say Hello to OmniVision’s 5-Megapixel Sensor and RAW Shooting on Cellphones [Parts]
This is OmniVision’s newest 1/4-inch, 5 megapixel RAW sensor. It’s tiny, has low light sensitivity, captures 720p video at 60 fps or 1080p at 30 fps, and shoots in RAW.
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OmniVision’s 5-Megapixel Sensor Shoots RAW on Cellphones [Parts]
Have you ever heard of Lumigon?
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Ultra-Stylish T1, S1 and E1 Phones From Lumigon Promise European Class and Android 2.1 [Android]
