Monthly Archive: July 2007

AppleInsider reports that Apple has been developing a second handset, dubbed the Apple iPhone nano, ever since it started producing the first Apple iPhone . The Apple iPhone nano may even go on sale in time for this year’s Christmas season.

The second Apple iPhone is said to be of a smaller form factor and combine Apple iPod functionalities, such as the click-wheel interface, with basic mobile phone features.

The Apple iPhone nano is expected to be much cheaper than the current handset, which is currently available in the US for $499 (£244) to $599 (£292), depending on model.

Interesting!

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Another mobile phone aimed at the over-50s and the disabled has been launched.

The Emporia Life phone, which is being distributed by telecommunications company Communic8, has a range of “simple and easy-to-use features”, according to its makers.

These include a large screen with an orange backlight – which, it is claimed, helps those with visual impairments – oversized buttons and a louder-than-average ring volume.

There is also a powerful vibration alert to ensure the owner knows when someone is calling and a large red emergency button that can be programmed to call or send a pre-written text to up to five designated numbers for help in an emergency. It is also said to be compatible with digital hearing aids.

The phone is supplied with a Vodafone pay-as-you-go Sim card. However Communic8 said this doesn’t tie the phone to this mobile provider. The phone is unlocked so it can be used on any network.

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LG Electronics’ mobile phones are beating their rivals from Samsung Electronics. LG Electronics earned its largest-ever quarterly operating profit of W313.2 billion (US$1=W915) in the cell phone sector, while Samsung Electronics suffered from a decrease in sales and operating profit in the filed. LG Electronics says its phone sector earned W2.7 trillion in sales in the second quarter of the year, up 15.1 percent on-quarter and 26.9 percent from the same period last year.

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From this Saturday millions of people around the world will finally discover the secrets of the seventh and last Harry Potter book, marking the final chapter in an extraordinary publishing phenomenon.

Extra barbed wire was installed around the Suffolk printworks and guards have been put on the doors, as speculation mounts about how the Harry Potter series will end.

Security arrangements have been stepped up at the Clay’s in Bungay, printers of the final instalment in the series; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which will be published at one minute past midnight on July 21 – it is already the most ordered book in history.

Staff have also had to face restrictions – most are not allowed to take mobile phones into work in case they use a camera phone to take pictures. They can only take a small bag into work, which has to be searched. They also need identification to get into the building, and have signed a contract banning them from talking about the book. And workers who normally scan-read the books for errors as they are being printed have been banned from doing so in case the secrets leak out.

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