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“Please switch off all electronic equipment such as your mobile phone”. It’s a warning that may well become obsolete very soon.

It is known that OnAir, a joint-venture between Airbus and Sita, has developed an in-flight mobile technology.

The European Union is expected to give go-ahead to airline companies before the end of 2006 for the use of mobile phones on short flights. Air France could be the first to do so in February 2007.

This is your cap’tain calling…

(source: Mobile cowboys)

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Sponsoring the best football team ever (according to FIFA) arouses hopes. So, when BenQ-Siemens comes up with three new devices, we only expect perfection. The Register reviews the E71, E81 and SL91. Available in Europe in Q4.

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Fa-fa-fa-fa fashion phones the sequel. Seems like Versace’s betting on two horses. Last year, they made a special version of the Nokia 7270. But now, they’ve teamed up with Samsung too.

The Samsung E500 Versus offers three colour options: white and gold, white and antique pink, and black and silver.

Samsung adds in its press release this clamshell mobile phone sports a 1.3 megapixel camera, Music Player and Bluetooth. We doubt fashionistas even care…

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Nokia, the world’s top mobile phone maker, said quarterly profit rose 43%. The second-quarter net income increased to €1.14 billion from €799 million a year earlier.
The chief executive, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, is increasing sales by introducing cheaper phones for China and India, while selling pricier phones with music players and cameras in Europe and the United States. (source: International Herald Tribune)

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Phones that aim more at fashionistas rather than technology lovers, it’s getting quite common. Donatella Versace added style to the Nokia 7270. The Siemens SL65 had Escada. LG teamed up with Roberto Cavalli, etc.

Now, Samsung has launched its X820 for the Dutch market. As for now, it’s only available in an exclusive Oger-version. The tailor-made suit brand designed a crocodile cover with suede lining. Prices start at 359 euro. Tiny little detail: it’s the thinnest mobile available in Holland (0,69cm). Plus, it’s got a 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and a music player.

(source: Bright.nl)

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LG Electronics proudly announces that it has won the prestigious Reddot Design Award for ‘Design Team of the Year 2006′.

As Jae Jin Shim, President of the LG Corporate Design Center put it: “(…) we have to set a good example for the development and availability of innovative, distinctive design – creative design, numbering among the best throughout the world consumers can find.”

On the same night, prizes were handed out in different categories. A small selection from the category Media and Home Electronics:

• The Nokia 8800 mobile phone by Nokia

• The SA-FT7ED speaker system by Sony

• The Spheros R 37 LCD TV by Loewe

More eye candy to be found at Reddot.

And now that we are getting the hang of it, just one more: Samsung’s Braille Mobile Phone has won at the IDEA 2006 Awards.

(source: LG Electronics newsletter)

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Yes, they’re doing it: Microsoft is launching the ultimate iPod killer! And it has Wi-Fi too! Ooh… no… just wait a minute… they’re denying everything.

The gossip factory is doing overtime, these days. And just in case this rumour is drying up, we still have the Apple iPhone to chew on.

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eBay as a catchall for your rubbish? Consider those times gone. LG set up an auction for a limited edition of the Fusic, their “new sleek, trendsetting mobile device.”

Phone meets music player. Sounds a bit like the Nokia N91. Although the latter device wasn’t pimped by Jermaine Dupri, the famous producer. This particular Fusic sports all the bling bling one might expect from a rapper. Important to know: the entire proceeds go to charity. Going once… going twice…

(source: LG Electronics)

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