A human-powered energy source can help you charge your phone battery in emergency situation. This unique cell phone charger does not require batteries nor does it need to be plugged into an electrical outlet. It also includes a handy built-in rechargeable flashlight that requires no batteries. The work of this gadget is that the manual rotary hand crank will charge a NiH battery for your cellphone. One minute of turning the mini crank handle will charge the flashlight for one hour while three minutes of cranking will provide you with 1-8 minutes of talk time or one hour of standby time. There are four adapters and a high quality cable included in this package to connect this gadget to Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, and LG phone handsets. You can see product details and buy this for US$ 17.99 here.

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The Israeli company has developed a new concept where a modular cell phone can be placed into its changeable shell. This is an evolution to change a phone cover on its appearance and functionality of the handset. The module weighs only 1.5 grams and has 2.8 by 1.4 by 0.3 inches in size, smaller than a credit card. There is only a tiny display, a couple of controls, a mini-USB port, and a charger jack on the module. After inserted into its jacket, functions on the phone are activated such a color screen, a keyboard, and a full set of navigation controls and other functions even though actually this module can be used without its jacket.

This module supports in quadband networks GSM (850/900/1800/1900) with gprs feature. Equipped with bluetooth technology and music player, this phone module has 1 GB memory where you can save data and songs. Unfortunately this module is not equipped with camera feature but several design concepts of this module could be inserted into a car stereo to play music, or combined to make a gaming, or GPS device.

~via cnet.com~

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LG will offer their latest LG LH2300 touch-based multimedia handsets in Korea market. This phone offer great web browsing experience like Apple iPhone. With its 3 inch, displaying 26 million colors and having 800 x 480 pixels WVGA LCD display made by Sharp, the LG LH2300 is targeting the Internet phone market. The LG LH2300 has a unique, drag-and-drop user interface that uses icons in order to use them such drag and drop contact’s icon to the call button on the same screen.

The LG LH2300 is also equipped with a 3 megapixel camera with auto focus, image stabilization, and face detection. This is a good feature that user can use to take pictures you can display on its screen or save on its memory. There is also a DMB tuner to enjoy mobile TV on the go, Bluetooth 2.0 and a microSD card slot to store pictures and other data. This phone also support 3G connection for high speed access data connection. This phone will be available in Korea market in April 2008.

~via koreatimes.co.kr~

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Emirates airline has announced the first commercial airline policy on allowing passengers to make cellular phone calls during flights. Emirates said that the policy was decided after experiencing high demand for the phones already installed in aircraft seats. With the approval to adopt the system from international air safety organisations, Emirates has implemented the policy on Airbus A340 aircraft during a flight between Dubai and Casablanca. The system was developed by the AeroMobile company which stops mobiles from interfering with a plane’s electronics.

Passengers will be able to access mobile service only when the aircraft is at cruising altitude and the cabin crew will monitor and control the use of the system. Not only for calls, Emirates plans to extend the system to allow data service and blackberry service on the fleet. Passengers are requested to keep their phones in “silent mode” so other passengers will not be disturbed.

Australian carrier Qantas also have announced plans to permit passengers to use their cell phones in flight. They has tried out its plan for nine months on one airplane to collect passenger’s reaction as well as the reaction of the aircraft systems. Later this year, Qantas will expand the program to other Boeing 767s and Airbus 330s in its fleet. Qantas so far allow to use mobile service for text messages and email but not voice calls, during flights.

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