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Archive for June, 2006

Martin Fields Overlay Plus Screen Protector Review (Battle of the Screen Protectors Part 1)

Friday, June 30th, 2006

Today marks a long overdue and hopefully long awaited review of two high-quality screen protectors: the Martin Fields Overlay Plus and the invisibleShield. Instead of doing a gigantic review that ended up including something like 20 pictures, I’m splitting it up into two posts. Trust me, it’ll be easier on the eyes.

The first section covers the Martin Fields Overlay Plus. Read the entire review in the full entry.

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Phone Preview: Nokia E70

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

Nokia now has the E70 listed as “Coming Soon” on their US site. There’s still no actual release date, but at least we know it’s coming. Soon.

The Nokia E70 is part of the Eseries business line of cell phones. While most of these are focused on personal productivity more than leisurely features (most don’t even have integrated cameras), they all run Symbian and in general are pretty high-powered phones.

More about the E70 in the extended entry.

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Nokia Sues Chinese Companies Over Phone Copies

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

The 100 pound gorilla that is known as Nokia is up and on the move. Today, Nokia filed suit against several Chinese conglomerates – “Shenzhen Mobile Communication Industry Developing Co, Ltd” and “Song Xun Da Zhong Ke Electronic (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd” were the two main companies involved. Nokia also named two other Chinese companioes as distributors. (for the record, the distributors were “Beijing Tongwanbao Commerce & Trade Co. Ltd An Wai Avenue No. 2 Branch” and “Beijing Xin Tongwanbao Commerce & Trade Co.”)

Read more in the extended entry.

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Accessory: Nokia CC-70D GPS XPress-on Shell Preview

Monday, June 26th, 2006

I love looking through Nokia’s various regional websites, because you find so many different products offered to different countries. Take the Nokia CC-70D GPS XPress-on GPS shell for example. It’s being marketed and sold on Nokia’s USA site, but it’s nowhere to be found on Nokia UK or Nokia HK (United Kingdom and Hong Kong). Yet we DO see a very nice GPS device for Series 60 Nokia phones on the UK site. What gives?

Find out more in the full entry.

Nokia CC-70D GPS Xpress-on GPS shell

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Deal: Motorola Bluetooth Headset HS820 for $29.99

Monday, June 26th, 2006

Radio Shack is selling the Motorola HS820 bluetooth headset for $29.99, in-store only. Check out the specs on the Radio Shack site. The online price is $69.99 however.

Motorola HS820 Bluetooth Headset

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Accessories: Nokia Phone Carrying Case Roundup

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

Nokia sells lots of cell phones. And of course, they sell lots of accessories to go along with them. And since accessories are a ton more profitable than cell phones, Nokia goes pretty much all out with stuff. Today we’ll be looking at a bunch of new and not-so-new phone carrying cases.

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Accessory: Nokia Remote Camera PT-6 Preview

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

I have to admit: Nokia makes some odd products. Like the wearable picture necklace. Or the “digital pen.” And now Nokia is getting into the security business with the PT-6 Remote Camera.

As usual, more in the full entry.

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News: Nokia Week in Review

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

A lot has happened this week on the Nokia storm front. In this issue: Nokia Connections 2006, the new Nokia Flagship Store, a partnership beginning between Nokia and Siemens, and another one ending with Sanyo.

Check out the juicy (and not so juicy) news of the week in the full entry.

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Phone Previews: Nokia 6151 and Nokia 6080 Phones

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

So now we’re getting the down low on the Nokia 6151 and 6080 set of phones. These are the two GSM superstars released at Nokia Connections 2006 currently going on in Singapore. The third GSM phone, the Nokia 1110i, is such garbage that I will never mention it again.

Read all about ‘em in the full entry.

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Phone Previews: Nokia 6275i and Nokia 2875i Phones

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

So finally we’ve got a little bit more to work with in terms of the new Nokia phones released at Nokia Connections 2006. We’ll be looking deeper into the two CDMA phones released: the Nokia 6275i and the Nokia 2875i phones.

Check them out in the extended entry (after the picture).

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